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…
Four United States citizens were among the at least 69 people who were killed when a high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train in central Spain last week, officials said Sunday. The Center for Integrated Data, the legal body in Spain in charge of identifying victims of events with a high death toll,…
Washington — Sen. Bernie Sanders decried some of the rhetoric from Republicans in the Michigan Senate race, as the GOP has leaned in heavily on attacks on Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s ethnicity and religion. “That level of racism, overt absolute racism, is frankly disgusting and should appall every decent American,” Sanders said on “Face the…
On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont Rep. Mike Lawler, Republican of New York Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat David Becker, CBS News election law contributor and the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research Anthony Salvanto, CBS News…
The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Nov. 1, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning, and welcome to Face the Nation. We are just hours away from voters in 50 states going to the polls for an election…
The following is the full transcript of the interview with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Nov. 1, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. So, Governor, you’re campaigning for re-election, and you’re also trying to help some of these Democrats get elected to…
Just outside of London sits Maidstone, a quiet country town in a peaceful corner of southern England. But around 400 years ago, Maidstone was the scene of witch hunts in the literal sense of the phrase. Records show that more than 20 women convicted of witchcraft were hanged in Maidstone. Witch hunts reached their peak…
Christa Pike’s failed execution in September has raised fresh questions about Tennessee’s lethal injection execution protocol, which is in its fourth iteration in the past two decades. Pike’s was the second botched execution by Tennessee this year. She had been sentenced to death for her role in the 1995 torture and murder of her 19-year-old…
Anchorage, Alaska — The Justice Department’s top prosecutor in Alaska called new reporting about the origins of an independent candidate’s Senate campaign “troubling,” and said the new information “has resulted in a significant surge of law enforcement assets” to the state. But Michael Heyman, the U.S. attorney for the District of Alaska, declined to detail…
Daniel J. Sullivan, the independent candidate running for Senate in Alaska whose name is almost identical to the Republican senator running for reelection, left his hometown of Petersburg earlier this week, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News. One resident and former student of Sullivan’s said she saw Sullivan on a flight to Anchorage on Monday…
