McDonald’s plans to offer more lower-priced menu items next year as it tries to lure inflation-weary customers struggling with the cost of living. McDonald’s CEO Christopher Kempczinski said Wednesday during a call with Wall Street analysts that the fast-food chain recently launched an eight-week pilot program to test new affordable menu options at 1,900 U.S….
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected the Justice Department’s request for California to set aside disputed ballots received in the midterm election. The panel’s 2-1 ruling is the latest setback for the Trump administration’s efforts to assert control over state-run elections. The administration has alleged California sent ballots to some 20,000 people…
Washington — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating a women’s health division within the National Institutes of Health and a White House Women’s Health Task Force. First lady Melania Trump joined him for a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden and said the executive order will make progress on five objectives: Directing…
Geneva — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Russia to be more “transparent” about the recent death of a plague research center scientist and any risks associated with the incident, which Russian authorities have offered conflicting information about this week. “I think it’s incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the…
Piddington, England — A tiny English village has voted overwhelmingly to leave the United Kingdom in a symbolic referendum triggered by government plans to house more than 1,200 male asylum seekers at a former military site nearby. Residents of Piddington, a rural village in Oxfordshire, voted 285 to 26 to “secede from the UK and pursue…
At least 20 generals, admirals and civilian defense leaders have been fired or have departed their jobs since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary at the beginning of the second Trump administration. Some of the military’s most decorated leaders have either been fired by Hegseth and President Trump or have retired with little explanation, including the…
On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk’s family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears. The land, on the border with Tennessee in the city of Southaven, was her family’s survival, Polk said. “We lived a very simplistic life,” she…
At Chain of Lakes Elementary School in Winter Haven, Florida, Josette Smith’s 9-year-old son, Ethan, gets to do what he loves most: crafts, math, and science. That is, when he isn’t being pulled out of class. Ethan has autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. He was diagnosed with autism in kindergarten after displaying behavior that concerned his…
Taking weight-loss drugs could help unemployed women get a job, according to new research. Unemployed women taking GLP-1 medications to lose weight saw a 27 percentage-point increase in employment after 18 months of use, compared with women who want to use the drugs but haven’t done so, Harvard economist Rebecca Diamond said in a recent paper published…
In this web exclusive, Dr. Stephen Patrick, a newborn ICU doctor and researcher on how the opioid crisis affects pregnant women and infants, talks with CBS News’ Erin Moriarty about what happens after a mother tests positive for a substance during pregnancy. Patrick argues that automatically referring mothers to child welfare or law enforcement over…
