Most say they either will, or at least might, get a COVID-19 vaccine when they’re eligible — or else have gotten one already — but there are plenty who are still on the fence about it. Many of those say “maybe” they’ll get one, and then there are others who say outright that they won’t….
AI data centers were a major factor for over half of voters in the 2026 midterm elections. While they were not the most crucial issue, voters made their opinions on data centers clear. Big majorities nationally and in all the Senate battlegrounds opposed having one built in their community, according to CBS News exit polls. …
Kyiv – Ukrainian and Russian humanitarian delegations began evacuating residents from Russian-occupied Oleshky on Friday, with plans to move the evacuees through Russia and Belarus before arriving back in Ukraine on Saturday. Oleshky, a city in Ukraine’s southeastern Kherson region occupied by Russia since the first days of the Ukraine-Russia war, has seen one of…
Lewiston, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins is campaigning on a simple idea: She can sit across the table from anyone. On Wednesday, she did it literally, sharing breakfast sandwiches with Democrat-turned-independent Joe Manchin and a roomful of Maine voters as she makes her case to people of every political stripe. “She’s not a Trump…
Who has oversight of a car that flies, hovers or otherwise defies gravity? We asked Department of Transportation officials, and the answer isn’t readily clear. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s new Roadster Rocket, which he called a “flying car” equipped with “ultra high-pressure air tanks” — describing it as “what happens when…
Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, received two doses of a lethal drug in a Nashville execution chamber Wednesday night. But she didn’t die. Although her survival was “unparalleled,” as one expert said, it was the latest example of a botched execution attempt involving lethal injections in Tennessee and elsewhere around the…
Washington — The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee advanced President Trump’s pick for the next surgeon general on Wednesday, sending Nicole Saphier’s nomination to the full Senate. Saphier’s nomination advanced as part of a group of nominees in a party-line vote. Mr. Trump nominated Saphier in April. A radiologist and director of breast…
Washington — Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is making a play for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” supporters with the release Tuesday of a new health policy platform. “I think we have an opportunity to remind folks that we’ve always been the people who want people to be healthier, rather than…
President Trump is slated to speak on Tuesday in Washington at an event that he has billed as an “extraordinary gathering of America’s greatest leaders, builders, innovators, and citizens,” according to invitation materials obtained by CBS News. The event will showcase the “people, ideas and innovations building America’s Golden Age,” according to the invitation materials,…
Washington — Steve Bannon, one of President Trump’s earliest advisers, and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders may stand on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but both will be speaking at a gathering Tuesday to press for guardrails for AI. The two — along with a bipartisan group of members of Congress — will be appearing…
