Trump pushes to suspend federal gas tax as prices soar – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump told CBS News’ Nancy Cordes that he intends to suspend the federal gas tax amid higher prices.
The Americans who were possibly exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship are back in the U.S. in quarantine. Sixteen passengers are at University of Nebraska Medical Center, while two others are at Emory University in Atlanta. Ian Lee reports.
CBS News’ Jonathan Vigliotti, who covered the devastating California wildfires, is debuting his new book, “Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.” Vigliotti has been reporting on what Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass knew before the catastrophic fires.
President Trump is headed to China to meet with Xi Jinping as the Iran war continues and Taiwan’s future remains at stake. Isaac Stone Fish, the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, joins with more.
The family of Sam Nelson, a California teen who died from a drug overdose after allegedly taking advice from ChatGPT, is suing OpenAI. Jo Ling Kent reports.
By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG, May 12 (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces impeachment proceedings over a scandal dubbed “Farmgate” in which thieves stole bundles of foreign cash from a sofa on his ranch. Ramaphosa, who has been head of state since 2018, has always denied wrongdoing and on Monday faced …
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Cuba was asking for help and “we are going to talk,” without providing any more detail. “No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction – down! Cuba is asking for help, …
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices climbed sharply again last month as the 10-week war with Iran pushed energy prices higher. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its consumer price index rose 3.8% from April 2025. On a month-to-month basis, April prices rose 0.6% from March as gasoline prices rose 5.4%. Excluding volatile food and …
A Texas couple whose son died of an overdose in 2025 after using OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool to get information about drugs sued the technology company on Tuesday, blaming the AI platform for his death. Leila Turner-Scott and her husband, Angus Scott, are seeking to hold OpenAI and its creators accountable after their son, Sam Nelson, …
MOSCOW, May 12 (Reuters) – The Kremlin repeated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertion that the war in Ukraine was almost over on Tuesday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow had no intention of ending it. “I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters on Saturday of the war, now …