Navanethem (Navi) Pillay of South Africa, a former United Nations high commissioner for human rights and judge on the International Court of Justice, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Friday.
Federal prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson may have lied to Congress in her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, drew the ire of President Trump's base when she testified in 2022 before the House committee tasked with investigating the 2021 Capitol attack.
President Donald Trump raised eyebrows Wednesday when he told reporters he "could've done very bad things" to Hillary Clinton and former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Trump made the off-the-wall claim during an Oval Office announcement touting his "Trump Accounts" for children after returning to Washington, D.C. from a series of campaign events across the country ahead of the midterms. The top Democratic figures are often targets of Trump's tirades. "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton," Trump began. "I could've done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama. I ... thought it was inappropriate to do so because you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect. "Then I found out that they impeached me twice and I certainly, to this moment, I can do whatever I want, if I want," the president continued. "They've done some very bad things." Read more
SHAMELESS BRANDING ASIDE, "Trump Accounts," the new program that gives every baby in America access to some savings, is generally benign, and maybe even useful. But Donald Trump being Donald Trump, he can't help but taint an otherwise inoffensive concept with a bit of good old-fashioned corruption. Or at least, corruption-adjacent activity. Read more
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be "public." "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things," Hegseth told far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec in an interview aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday. Read more
The authentic Kelly was on full display on her podcast Monday, when she offered a cruel and catty assessment of the body of a young woman she believes is the "Jane Doe" who said she was gang raped by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house in the fall of 2024. "I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal," said the star MAGA media personality. "She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs. She has a whole video online talking about her cankles." But Kelly believes she has found the real Jane Doe, and rather than focus on the substance of the then-20-year-old female student's allegations " that she met a friend at a fraternity house amid a night of partying, was plied with alcohol and ketamine, and was sexually assaulted by seven of the frat brothers after her friend invited 57 of his frat brothers via Snapchat group chat to join in " Kelly attacked her physical appearance. Read more
Mortgage rates rose for the seventh straight week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 7.4% from last week's reading of 7.28%. The average rate on a 30-year loan was 6.3% a year ago.
Is (Jane Doe) for me': DOJ, FBI urged to investigate Leon Botstein as potential Epstein co-conspirator
A House committee alleges newly reviewed Epstein files raise questions about the former Bard College president's interactions with a young woman Epstein trafficked. Botstein resigned all Bard-affiliated positions in response.
In what feels like a horrible case of deja vu, Donald Trump is once again trying to make everyone believe he deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize. It was October of last year when US president Trump learned he had lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize despite months of claiming he deserved it for having "ended seven wars" in his second term. Talking to press in the Oval Office, Trump said: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I did, I settled eight wars. And I've stopped maybe the total obliteration of the world because Iran will never have a nuclear weapon."
At least 30 people have been killed in a Russian glide bomb attack on two civilian buses in the eastern front line city of Kramatorsk, rescue officials say. Authorities said three people were also killed in the village of Bilenke, part of the Kramatorsk community. Another 18 people were wounded, said Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin, accusing Russia of targeting buses carrying passengers to kill as many civilians as possible. Kramatorsk and neighbouring Slovyansk are part of a so-called fortress belt that Moscow is trying to seize as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim to the entire Ukrainian industrial region of Donbas.
To hear President Trump and his aides describe it, the rush to withdraw 12 B-1 bombers from an air base in Britain over the weekend was a prudent precaution, in response to a threat they refused to describe," the New York Times reports. "It was no big deal, Mr. Trump insisted, and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, tried to wave it away by noting that the Pentagon is constantly reallocating resources where they need to be.'" "But to anyone watching the deployment of American power around the globe in the seven months since Mr. Trump decided to attack Iran, it was another glaring example of how, time after time, Mr. Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have been forced into retreat, pulling back military forces that had been deployed to the Middle East and Britain as a deterrent."
The cost of many everyday items would have declined without President Donald Trump's legally fraught tariff policy, according to a report from the New York Federal Reserve. Shoppers saw a 2.9 percentage point increase in inflation on a sample of 67 types of goods as of February due to tariffs imposed in 2025 and early 2026. Without the tariffs, the team found that prices for goods would have pulled back in that period.
... It is hard"no, it's impossible"to remember a President who has done more to hurt his own party than Donald Trump. Not even Hillary's Health Care Plan came close in 1994. Not even George W. Bush's Iraq war in 2006. Trump has done two things Americans just don't like: he's gone into yet another unnecessary war in the Middle East and he has raised gas prices"well, lots of prices. When was the last time you bought a lamb chop? And home heating bills are about to spike 30% in the north country
Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.
Under Sean Duffy, the Transportation Department has worked to roll back consumer protections. Passenger advocates say the changes favor airlines.
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
