Thursday’s vote by a Senate panel on whether to recommend holding Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress builds on more than five years of tension between the federal government’s former top infectious disease expert and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky — much of it hinging on the origins of the coronavirus and a…
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are looking into why airport traffic wasn’t halted when Marine One departed the White House Tuesday afternoon with President Trump on board. After the fatal midair collision at Washington’s Reagan National Airport between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet in January 2025,…
The massive food warehouse fire that blanketed parts of Los Angeles in smoke in June was not an isolated event, but one in a long run of fires at properties tied to one of the world’s largest cold storage companies, a CBS News investigation has found. Federal records show that in the past decade there…
Thomas Smith won Michigan’s 8th District GOP primary with just over 50% of the vote Tuesday, CBS News projected — even though he had suspended his campaign in mid-July. Perhaps even more surprisingly: Smith defeated Amir Hassan, who had received President Trump’s endorsement. Mr. Trump even appeared at a campaign rally with Hassan and other…
A cybersecurity report from the U.K. government has exposed new examples of popular AI models taking autonomous action on the live internet in ways that raise experts’ concerns. The AI Security Institute’s report, released Tuesday, said Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol were found to have created fake identities and attempted to persuade real people to…
On Day 7 of testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, the last nanny hired by the family testified that the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother was “a wonderful mom who loved her kids.” Clancy is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. She’s admitted to…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of four new flavored nicotine pouch products this week, bringing to 30 the number of such products the FDA has recently greenlit after considering the public health impact. Tuesday’s decision on pouches from the brand “on!” is the latest in a series of steps by the Trump…
Kendall Schrohe remembers the moment she swapped her smartphone for a flip phone. “For me, like the second that my iPhone was gone, it was just like heaven on earth,” the 23-year-old Washington, D.C., resident told CBS News. Schrohe is among the growing number of young people who are ditching their smartphones in favor of…
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, giving the CDC its first official director in nearly a year. Schwartz was confirmed Wednesday by a vote of 51 to 44. The CDC has been without a Senate-confirmed director since late August 2025, when former director…
Authorities in northwestern Colombia said they rescued a newborn hippopotamus found alone by fishermen on the banks of a river and showing signs of malnutrition. Colombia has around 200 so-called “cocaine hippos” living in the wild, according to the Environment Ministry, all of which descended from a colony brought to South America by slain cocaine kingpin…
