Washington — Some of the highest-ranking officials in the U.S. military were subjected to polygraph tests as part of a sweeping leak probe after highly sensitive classified details about the nation’s stockpiles of sophisticated weapons were reported in the media, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CBS News. President Trump was furious about the leaks,…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, says now is the time for Democrats to work together ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The former Wayne County health director, who is in the middle of a contentious battle for the U.S. Senate seat against Republican Mike Rogers, caught up with CBS News…
A Trump administration effort aimed at discouraging Americans on food stamps from using the government nutritional aid to buy soda is having an impact, a new study shows. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits cut their sugary drink purchases by more than 12% from January to June of this year after new state-level restrictions…
It was just after 1 a.m. on May 7, 2023, when authorities responded to a reported road accident on a secluded dead-end street in Greenwood, South Carolina. At the edge of the nearby woods, they would find 46-year-old Davis McClendon‘s body. But what they saw at first was on the road itself: a shirt, a…
Polling is currently underway at 23 stations in two constituencies of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Bagh district. Polling began at 8am and will continue till 5pm. The AJK Election Commission said polling was ongoing without any reports of violence, but the turnout in both constituencies was negligible. In the third phase of polling on Monday,…
The father of a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln said he’s worried for his son and the rest of the ship’s crew as the aircraft carrier’s deployment to the Middle East stretches on. The ship has been at sea for nine months, much longer than the typical deployment of six months. Combat aircraft have…
President Trump’s outside advisers — individuals who are not employed by the federal government — may now be protected from future congressional and legal investigations, according to a new opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. In a 21-page opinion published Monday evening, the Office of Legal Counsel told the White House that…
This story originally aired on Oct. 18, 2025. The investigation of Joe Shymanski‘s murder began as a missing persons case. It was Sept. 4, 2023, at 7:47 p.m. when sheriff’s deputies in Calvert County, Maryland, were called to the home of the well-known photographer. His ex-wife, Heather Snyder, met them in the driveway. She would…
Washington — Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan said Thursday she’s moving on from the contentious Senate primary, which she lost to Abdul El-Sayed, saying their “differences were aired out.” “Everything that needed to be said in the primary was said,” Stevens said in an interview with “The Takeout with Major Garrett.” “It’s a big…
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…
