Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants last March. Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece -- planned for Sunday night's show -- could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. That's according to two people with knowledge of events at the network who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing job security. The correspondent on the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, condemned the decision in an email to 60 Minutes colleagues on Sunday evening, saying she believed it was "not an editorial decision, it is a political one." (The email was obtained by NPR and other news organizations.) Read more
Staffers in the Heritage Foundation's economic and legal centers resigned over the weekend, National Review has learned, adding to the list of employees who have departed in recent weeks over disagreements with the conservative think tank's leadership.
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Russian Army Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov was rendered ineffective after an explosive device detonated in his car while he was driving in Moscow.
A genetically drifted influenza A(H3N2) subclade K has spread to more than 34 countries since August 2025, causing hospitalizations to surge and setting records in the UK with 2,660 daily admissions. The US has recorded at least 4.6 million illnesses, 49,000 hospitalizations, and 1,900 deaths this season, with young children and older adults hit hardest.
At point blank range, an IDF soldier shot and killed Rayan Muhammad Abdul Qader Abu Mualla (16) who was unarmed as he walked to his home in the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya.
PHOENIX (AP) -- When Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest convention reached its halfway point, Erika Kirk tried to put a smiling face on things. "Say what you want about AmFest, but it's definitely not boring," said Kirk, who has led the influential conservative organization since her husband Charlie was assassinated in September. "Feels like a Thanksgiving dinner where your family's hashing out the family business." That's one way to put it. Some of the biggest names in conservative media took turns torching each other on the main stage, spending more time targeting right-wing rivals than their left-wing opponents. The feuds could ultimately define the boundaries of the Republican Party and determine the future of President Donald Trump's fractious coalition, which appears primed for more schisms in the months and years ahead. Here are some of the most notable moments from the four-day conference.
Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, has been fired from his position as a ranger with the Snowshoe Resort Community District in West Virginia. The district's board of directors released the below statement on Friday: "Ranger Tim Loehmann is no longer employed by the SRCD. The Board of the SRCD met on December 19, 2025, to discuss personnel matters, and then voted unanimously to terminate the employment of Tim Loehmann effective immediately. Tamir Rice was playing with an airsoft pellet gun outside the Cudell Recreation Center in November 2014 when Loehmann shot him. The boy died the next day. The Cleveland Division of Police fired Loehmann in 2017 " not for the shooting, but for lying on his job application and failing to disclose that Independence police had previously deemed him unfit for duty.
At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency's acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed. The Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation into whether the staff provided "false information" about the need for the test " which was scheduled after Gottumukkala sought access to certain highly sensitive cyber intelligence shared with the agency. This article is based on interviews with eight current and four former U.S. cybersecurity officials, including multiple Trump administration appointees, who have either worked closely with Gottumukkala or have knowledge of the polygraph examination and the chain of events that followed. They were granted anonymity for fear of retribution.
CBS News cut an upcoming "60 Minutes" report at the last minute on the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador, setting off an outcry on social media. The network's flagship news magazine had been scheduled to broadcast a report Sunday on a group of Venezuelan men thought they were being deported back to their country of origin, but instead, they were delivered to CECOT, until the plans were scrapped about two hours before the program was set to air. "The broadcast lineup for tonight's edition of 60 minutes has been updated," the program posted on its social media accounts. "Our report 'Inside CECOT' will air in a future broadcast."
Popular Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam plans to pause production at its main distillery on January 1, according to the James B. Beam Distilling Co. The decision comes as Kentucky faces an increasing supply of aging barrels and uncertainty over President Donald Trump's trade wars. Read more
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) predicted Sunday that an extension of subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will pass the House with backing from both sides of the aisle.
"House Democrats are going to continue to fight to get this extension through the Congress on our side. It will pass with a bipartisan majority," Jeffries told host Jonathan Karl on ABC News's "This Week."
Erika Kirk stunned the internet with an apparent slip of the tongue in which she implied her deceased husband Charlie was a "grifter." Honoring a student at a Turning Point USA event, Erika Kirk said, "Despite the devastating loss of Charlie Kirk, my incredible husband... Caleb has persisted with the same grift - gift - grit... it has been a long day." "Trust me you're not a grifter, honey," she said to the student. "It's all good."
Picnics are a fun way to catch up with your favourite people, but did you know there is a picnic table where folks from three different countries can have lunch together -- without crossing any borders?
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Anything goes on this thread. So post whatever y'all want. But I'll try to stay with media theme songs (emphasis on "try"). The cited link is A Swingin' Safari by Bert Kaempfert (1962). A theme of the TV show, The Match Game back in the day. Read more
