Alpine, Texas — Months after Congress approved billions for infrastructure across one of the least-trafficked stretches of the southern border, bulldozers arrived at Big Bend National Park, West Texas’s wild crown jewel.  What followed was an unlikely revolt against President Trump’s decade-old promise to build a wall. Cattle ranchers, environmentalists, sheriffs, Republican senators and country singers …

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This story originally aired on Oct. 4, 2025.   Detectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rigo of the Hillsboro, Oregon, Police Department had never encountered a crime scene like the one they encountered in January 2023.  Natalie Morales: How would you two characterize this case when you first got it? What did you think?  Det. Stephanie …

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Polls are beginning to close in six states on Tuesday, with the unpredictable Democratic primaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota coming to a close as South Carolina Republicans choose a successor for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s seat.  In Wisconsin, the democratic socialist Francesca Hong and the more moderate David Crowley are duking it out for …

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  4:16 PM / August 10, 2026 “We control the strait 100%,” Trump says, but Iran “can make trouble” President Trump told reporters Monday that the U.S. controlled the Strait of Hormuz but admitted that Iran “can make trouble” in the key waterway. “We control the strait 100%,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval …

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On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:  Sen. Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Nicole Sganga, CBS News homeland security and justice correspondent Click here to browse full transcripts from 2026 of “Face the Nation with …

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In a back room behind a colorful facade in northern Manhattan, drug users are smoking crack while nearby cubicles stand ready for heroin users to wrap tourniquets around their arms and inject themselves with new, sterilized needles.  It’s all part of a 5-year-old experiment sanctioned by the city of New York, but not by the …

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  1m ago “It’s very difficult to communicate” with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s president says Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that communication with the country’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was very “difficult at the moment.” Khamenei, who was wounded in the U.S.-Israeli strikes that launched the Middle East war, has not appeared in …

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This story previously aired on July 16, 2016.. It was summer in Miami — two years before her death — and Sylvie Cachay was on top of the world. From all over the country, top bathing suit designers were vying for attention. But it seemed all eyes were on Sylvie and her swimwear line, Syla. …

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The nation’s gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, weaker than economists expected and a sign the Iran was is hurting growth. Economists polled by Reuters predicted GDP would rise at an annualized rate of 2.1% for April to June. GDP measures the …

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Kyiv, Ukraine — Russian attacks across Ukraine overnight into Thursday killed at least eight people and wounded dozens of others, officials said, with the heaviest casualties reported in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk and western Lviv regions. The attacks were the latest in a series of large-scale Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities that Russia has intensified over …

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