What are the essential American songs? Ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday, we asked that question to Sunday Morning’s familiar faces, from performers to artists and writers to community leaders.
Updated 16m ago Oil prices near pre-war level Brent crude, the international standard, fell 3.8% to $73.87 a barrel. It has been trading below $80 in recent days but is still above the roughly $70 per barrel it was trading at in late February before the war began. U.S. crude prices fell 3.9% to $70.34 …
Sen. Ron Wyden and 14 Democratic co-sponsors plan to introduce legislation today to cap consumers’ potential out-of-pocket costs in traditional Medicare, resurfacing a long-running debate over why the program doesn’t limit beneficiary spending. Even the bill’s backers say securing passage this year is a long shot. But the effort is one more opportunity for Democrats …
Two earthquakes hit Venezuela on Wednesday, the first measuring a magnitude of 7.2 and the second 7.5. The country’s acting President, Delcy Rodriguez, declared a state of emergency. Videos show the heavy damage in the capital of Caracas as rescue crews look for survivors.
Washington — The Trump administration on Wednesday sent Congress a long-awaited supplemental funding package to help cover the cost of the Iran war. The administration is asking for about $87.6 billion to address “urgent needs” related to the Iran war, as well as other funding to respond to the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa and …
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck Mendocino County on Wednesday morning, triggering ShakeAlert notifications across Northern California. The quake hit at 8:10 a.m. Pacific Time, centered about seven miles north of Redwood Valley, a lightly populated area in inland Mendocino County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Residents received push alert notifications from ShakeAlert, which is …
A massive fire in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has forced nearby residents to evacuate their homes Wednesday night. According to Lehigh County Dispatch, the six-alarm fire started burning at an old commercial building in Allentown around 8:40 p.m. The blaze has also spread to nearby homes. Officials are asking people in Allentown to shelter in place as …
President Trump’s meeting with Republican senators on Wednesday turned testy, and at one point, he sternly told Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy to sit down, after questions arose about the War Powers Resolution, according to sources directly familiar with the meeting. Cassidy had been trying to respond to the president, telling the president he should sit …
The Senate late Wednesday rejected a measure aimed at restricting President Trump’s power to wage war against Iran, in a victory for the president and Senate GOP leadership as they seek to quell congressional discontent with the Trump administration’s Iran strategy. The procedural motion failed in a 50 to 47 vote, with two Republicans — …
All branches of the U.S. military began once again requiring their recruits to get flu vaccines earlier this month, an exception to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to lift the military’s vaccine mandate, a Pentagon official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. The news comes as Lackland Air Force Base in Texas — home to …