Washington — President Trump has been asking advisers around him and on the phone whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should stay in his job, following Republicans’ catastrophic losses Tuesday night, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. Some White House aides have predicted some of the blame for GOP midterm losses will be…
Marvell Technology announced Monday that it would acquire Lumentum Holdings in a deal valued at $115 billion, one of the biggest tech industry deals ever. Marvell said the purchase of Lumentum, which manufactures lasers, circuit switches and other products used for data centers, would make the enlarged company a “category leader in AI connectivity.” Marvell…
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded…
Michael Mann, a filmmaker known for the classic crime drama “Heat,” was injured at a gun range in Los Angeles on Saturday, his representative told CBS News. The representative said on Sunday that Mann had received treatment at a hospital for “a superficial injury” and was being released. “On Saturday, at a gun range, a…
Washington — President Trump will meet with Stephen Hubbard, the American recently released from a Russian prison, at the White House Friday, sources familiar with the meeting tell CBS News. Hubbard was jailed in Russia for more than four years after being accused of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine. He was released and returned home to the…
Washington — President Trump’s second administration has overseen a steep decline in the number of women serving in senior U.S. diplomatic and national security posts and dismantled programs supporting women overseas, including initiatives the president championed during his first term, according to a new report by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Commissioned by…
Anthropic filed for an initial public offering on Monday, bringing the maker of artificial intelligence platform Claude a step closer to its highly anticipated public market debut and providing a key test for the rapidly emerging AI sector. In the filing, Anthropic outlined its vision for a future profoundly shaped by AI, touting the technology’s…
Washington — The Justice Department has charged two former FBI officials with lying to Congress over questions about Hunter Biden’s laptop, according to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro. She said in a post on X that the two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Floris, 46, and Bradley Benavides, 56, were…
First lady Melania Trump’s office on Friday said she — not President Trump or another top official — has secured a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky for humanitarian reasons. In an unusual announcement for a first lady’s office, it said both nations agreed to temporarily halt all…
More than a dozen people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit China’s Tibet region on Thursday evening local time, according to local officials. The United States Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 10:33 p.m. local time, with its epicenter 119 miles east-northeast of Nagqu, in a sparsely…
