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Case update:  Barry Morphew was arrested in Arizona on June 20, 2025, two days after he was indicted on first-degree murder charges in the case of his wife’s death. This was the second time Barry Morphew has been arrested and charged in Suzanne Morphew’s death.In a high-profile case that has already seen numerous and sometimes odd twists and turns over the past three years, including crucial judicial sanctions, a judge agreed to dismiss all charges against Barry Morphew, without prejudice, just nine days before he was to stand trial for the first-degree murder of his wife and mother of their two…

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil exited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana on Friday night, after a federal judge ordered his release while his immigration proceedings play out.Khalil — who spent months in custody as the Trump administration attempted to deport him due to “foreign policy” concerns — addressed reporters after leaving the facility, ahead of his return to New York.”Trump and his administration, they chose the wrong person for this,” Khalil said.During a hearing hours earlier before U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, Khalil’s attorneys asked him to free Khalil from detention or transfer him to New Jersey. The…

Speaking to The Nation, the senator hails the “grassroots movement supporting Zohran” as a vital alternative to “the billionaire establishment supporting Cuomo.” Ad Policy (Chet Strange / Getty Images; Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Senator Bernie Sanders has a vision for a new American politics—one that meets the needs of working families instead of the billionaire class that uses its immense wealth to warp elections and governance. And where better to begin than in the nation’s largest city? If this new politics takes hold in New York City, Sanders says, it could inspire people across the country. That’s…

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President Trump suggested Friday he may try to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling the central bank leader a “Total and Complete Moron” for leaving interest rates steady.The president has been lashing out against Powell for months, criticizing the central banker — whom Mr. Trump appointed in his first term — for not lowering interest rates at a faster pace. It’s unclear whether the president is legally allowed to fire Powell before his term ends in May 2026, and Mr. Trump said in April he has “no intention” of doing so.But in a post criticizing Powell on Friday, Mr.…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 10. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a preliminary injunction ordering top national security officials who discussed military operations on the encrypted messaging service Signal to notify the acting archivist of the United States of any messages they have that may be at risk of being deleted. But in calling for those records to be preserved, the ruling stopped short…

After years of teasing a new line of self-driving vehicles, billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk is finally making good on his promise with the rollout of Tesla’s robotaxi service. When is the robotaxi event?This Sunday, June 22, Tesla will give a select group of people the chance to ride in its Model Y Robotaxis  in Austin, Texas, where the EV maker moved its headquarters from California in 2021. Tesla did not respond to CBS MoneyWatch’s email seeking information about the launch. However, details shared on social media and past comments from Musk offer some clues as to what it will look like.Where…

Every day, The Nation exposes the administration’s unchecked and reckless abuses of power through clear-eyed, uncompromising independent journalism—the kind of journalism that holds the powerful to account and helps build alternatives to the world we live in now.  We have just the right people to confront this moment. Speaking on Democracy Now!, Nation DC Bureau chief Chris Lehmann translated the complex terms of the budget bill into the plain truth, describing it as “the single largest upward redistribution of wealth effectuated by any piece of legislation in our history.” In the pages of the June print issue and on The…

Washington — Vice President JD Vance arrived in Los Angeles on Friday to tour a federal law enforcement operations center and meet with Marines on the ground, making him the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit the area since protests broke out over Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. The vice president’s office said he will tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center and a federal mobile command center, as well as meet with leadership and Marines on the ground. He’ll also deliver brief remarks.President Trump federalized thousands of troops from the California National Guard in response to the Los Angeles-area protests…

A brutal heat wave is in the forecast across the eastern United States, and it’s expected to bring several days of record high temperatures at the start of the weekend and into next week. The National Weather Service has called it “the first significant heat wave this season.”Temperatures are expected to soar more than 25-35 degrees above average in the Plains on Friday, CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said. Potential daily record highs are also forecast for parts of the Rockies and Plains on Friday and Saturday, then temperatures well into the 90s will reach the mid-Atlantic and Northeast and…