Audio recordings reveal that the pilot of a plane that crashed in Florida on Sunday said “we’re managing the ice” shortly before declaring “Mayday.” The jet crashed into a neighborhood along a busy road, killing all nine people on board the aircraft as it burst into a massive fireball and left a huge crater in…
This year’s midterm elections in Texas are on track to cost a billion dollars, with more than half of it spent on the U.S. Senate campaign – what could be the most expensive non-presidential race in American history. But whatever the price tag, it’s certainly one of the most combative. Republican State Attorney General Ken…
On a May evening back in 1950, Evelyn Trent had just finished feeding her rabbits when, she claims, she looked up and saw a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object hovering above her farm. Though some dismissed it as a hoax, her account was added to a growing list of unexplained events that sparked America’s first UFO…
The new Netflix film “The Mosquito Bowl” recounts the true story of All-American football stars who volunteered for the Marines following Pearl Harbor – and fought in the Battle of Okinawa, the last and costliest World War II battle in the Pacific. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with director Peter Berg (“Friday…
Okinawa proved to be the last and costliest battle of World War II in the Pacific – and it’s a name director Peter Berg wants us all to remember. His new movie, “The Mosquito Bowl,” captures that battle. “It is a film that I hope asks us all to look at what we ask of…
The following is the transcript of the interview with Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Oct. 25, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the Texas governor’s race and Democratic candidate Gina Hinojosa. She joins us from Austin. Good to have you here. TEXAS STATE…
Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist who ever lived, has been the subject of hundreds of books and movies. A pop icon, even today. He died 100 years ago this week, on Halloween – a coincidence that did nothing to diminish his mystique. But we’ll get to that. Erik Weisz was born in Hungary, in…
The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Hosted by Jane Pauley Escape artist and illusionist Harry Houdini, pictured in handcuffs, elbow irons and thumbscrews, courtesy of the Berlin police, Germany,…
Washington — Federal agents in the western U.S. this year encountered a large, triangular aircraft that zoomed through the sky from a standstill while making no noise or giving off any exhaust, according to new documents released by the Pentagon. The agents’ recollections were included in the Defense Department’s latest release of files related to…
A quick-thinking man who came to the rescue of the students and driver aboard a runaway school bus in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Monday afternoon credited the television series “Grey’s Anatomy” for inspiring his actions. Ebro Ahmed, 27, told CBS News that he leaped into action after noticing the Battle Creek Middle School bus rolling down…
