NEW YORK (AP) — In a strongly worded filing, ABC accuses the Trump administration of trying to chill its constitutionally protected free speech and hinder open political discussion. The point of contention: The popular show “The View,” and whether it’s subject to equal time rules. ABC’s filing to the Federal Communications Commission, made public Friday, …
Becoming a new public school teacher in California means facing an impossible choice: work for a high-need school, making a full-time salary but with little support or training; or get the proper education and training but lose a year or more of wages. For decades those were often the only options. But in recent years, …
May 8 (Reuters) – Washington has revised its proposed U.N. resolution demanding Iran halt attacks and mining in the Strait of Hormuz but the changes are unlikely to avert Chinese and Russian vetoes, diplomats said on Friday. A Chinese veto would be awkward ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to China next week, where …
Republicans see political wins ahead of midterm elections – CBS News Watch CBS News Virginia’s Supreme Court tossed out a new voter-passed Congressional map that favored Democrats on Friday. CBS News’ Fin Gómez breaks it all down.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) – Alabama Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for the state to pursue a congressional voting map more favorable to their party ahead of November’s midterm elections in the latest fallout from the justices’ recent seismic voting rights ruling. (Reporting by John Kruzel, Editing by …
The Pentagon is releasing and declassifying files on UFOs. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, joins CBS News with analysis.
BOGOTA, May 8 (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Friday suspended arrest and extradition warrants against 29 leaders of the Clan del Golfo crime gang, the country’s largest illegal armed group, as part of peace talks the government has been holding with the gang, a government official told Reuters. Among those benefiting from the suspension of …
The Texas Department of State Health Services is lifting a new requirement for youth camps to install “end-to-end fiber optic facilities” in order to allow them to operate this summer, following a lawsuit from 19 camps that called the measure too challenging. The state health agency announced on Thursday that it reached an agreement with …
NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s best-known campaign promise was tentatively advanced in a cacophonous college auditorium as a city housing board agreed in a provisional vote to consider freezing the rent for about a million regulated apartments. In a weeks-long annual ritual culminating in a final vote in …
On a bright March day, Mary Maggiore led a group of mostly out-of-state tourists through the cypress swamp at Wetland Trace in Jean Lafitte, offering up facts about the town’s pirate namesake and the newly-blooming blue irises. The trail begins by a levee, which exists to protect nearby residents from extreme weather, including hurricanes and …