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Government shutdown clock ticking as House speakership remains vacant
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio have announced runs for the speakership following the historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy. Whoever gets the job will immediately be under pressure…
The US is the ONLY country sentencing children to life without parole. A movement is fighting back.
Sonia Kumar, senior attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, explains the movement to restore the parole option to people sentenced for serious crimes in childhood. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis…
Former cop became cop watcher after this fraught encounter with police
What would cause a former cop to cross the thin blue line and use his camera to monitor law enforcement and hold police accountable? For well-known police auditor James Madison, it was a fraught encounter…
Russia backs Hamas terrorists, calls Israel ‘occupying power’ that ‘does not’ have right to self-defense
Russia this week declared that Israel has no right to self-defense and labeled its would-be ally an “occupying power” in a move that undermines years of work from Jerusalem to improve its relationship with Moscow.”The…
North Korean, Iranian weapons enter Ukraine war
A U.S. official tells CBS News North Korea has started sending artillery to Russia, while the Biden administration says the U.S. is sending Ukraine ammunition taken from Iran. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio has…
Missing Juvenile Asante Paige from the 5th District – Blotter
The Philadelphia Police Department needs the public’s assistance in locating 15-year-old Asante Paige. He was last seen October 31, 2023, at 8:10 pm on the 72xx block of Shalkop St. He is 5’9, 125 lbs., brown…
Big Agriculture’s bleak future for all of us
A proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Burnett County, Wisconsin, is slated to house 26,000 hogs and produce millions of gallons of liquid manure every year. Residents fear the irreparable damage an operation of…
Kaiser Permanente strike enters 2nd day with negotiations at a standstill
More than 75,000 workers with Kaiser Permanente went on strike Wednesday at hospitals and medical centers across six states and Washington, D.C., the largest walkout by health care employees in U.S. history. CBS News senior…
Cops illegally took his camera … but they weren’t ready for what happened next!
Holding police accountable requires defending the First Amendment right to put them on camera. This is why Philip Turner, known on YouTube as The Battousai, fought to solidify that right in Turner v. Driver, a…
Hezbollah leader praises ‘heroic’ Hamas terror attack, threatens to expand fight against Israel
Terrorist group Hezbollah is threatening to expand its fight against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), praising the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack against Israel as “heroic.”Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech that…
At least 48 killed in Russian missile strike on Ukrainian grocery store, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that at least 48 people were killed in a Russian strike that hit a grocery store in the country’s northeast Kharkiv region. James Waterhouse, a Ukraine correspondent with BBC…
Remembering George Jackson, revolutionary author and activist
To celebrate Black August, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway talks with Claude Marks about the life and legacy of revolutionary author and activist George Jackson 50 years after his assassination. Help…
Who won the War in Afghanistan? The Taliban and defense contractors
After tens of thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars wasted, the US departure from Afghanistan has left the Taliban in total control. How can we begin to measure the human and financial cost…
GOP lawmaker blames Democrats for McCarthy’s ouster, endorses Jim Jordan as replacement
Republican Congressman Darrell Issa of California voted to keep Kevin McCarthy as speaker and has endorsed Congressman Jim Jordan as his replacement. Issa joined CBS News to discuss the situation on Capitol Hill. #congress #politics…
2 Men Arrested After 46 Packages Of Stolen Oxtail Meat Was Found In Vehicle During Traffic Stop
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The Mediterranean is on fire
After experiencing the most severe heatwave in decades, Mediterranean countries like Greece, Turkey, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain have been in the midst of a wave of destructive and deadly wildfires that have displaced thousands…
Striking health care workers asking for better pay, staffing
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers launched a strike on Wednesday at hospitals and medical centers across five states and Washington, D.C., the largest walkout by health care workers in U.S. history. Justin Adams with…
The moratorium extension won’t end evictions
Progressives celebrated as Biden extended the eviction moratorium. But three housing advocates in a city with one of the nation’s highest eviction rates warn that renters were never really protected during the pandemic. Help us…
Cops want him to plead guilty to see his kids, but he’s fighting back instead
Just how far will the criminal justice system go to quash dissent? The case of popular police auditor Otto the Watchdog is a cautionary tale of how far prosecutors and cops will go to pursue…
Financial sextortion scams targeting teen boys
The U.S. is seeing a rise in financial sextortion cases targeting thousands of minors and officials say teenage boys are being targeted specifically. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2022 says it…
Slavery still exists in the US, but these CA organizers are working to end it
Thanks to the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in the US in the form of low- or no-wage prison labor. But organizers like Jeronimo Aguilar and John Cannon are working to end this practice for…
Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense in fraud trial: Risk wasn’t managed properly
Witness testimony resumes Thursday in the criminal fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried after the prosecution and defense laid out their opening statements Wednesday. The former CEO of crypto exchange FTX is accused of stealing billions…
We are running out of time to stop runaway climate change
Deadly heat waves, wildfires, melting ice sheets, and devastating floods around the world are just a small taste of what humanity will continue to face if it fails to dramatically reduce carbon emissions, according to…
Connecticut made prison phone calls free. Other states should do the same
After Gov. Ned Lamont signed a new bill into law in June, Connecticut became the first state in the US to make phone calls free for incarcerated people, including those in juvenile detention facilities. Studies…
Will Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan get enough votes to become House speaker?
Republican House Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan have both announced their intention to run for the vacant speaker seat after Kevin McCarthy’s ousting Tuesday. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports on who is…
Striking Alabama coal miners protest corporate greed at NYC BlackRock headquarters
Striking Alabama coal miner Mike Wright says workers at Warrior Met Coal are taking their calls for fair pay and benefits to the NYC headquarters of their company’s biggest investor: BlackRock Help us continue producing…
VP Harris blasted for ‘tone deaf’ post announcing anti-Islamophobia plan amid Israel-Hamas war
Vice President Kamala Harris was blasted on social media over a video “announcing the country’s first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia” with most users taking issue with the timing of the post just weeks after…
