Veteran anchor Scott Pelley reportedly attacked CBS editor Bari Weiss at a closed door meeting with new executive producer Nick Bilton on Monday, claiming that the network head was "murdering 60 Minutes." Pelley, a long time correspondent for 60 Minutes, sat down with Bilton and another executive on Monday, calling out the company for a slew of firings last week, according to The Guardian's Jeremy Barr. "Scott Pelley called out Bari Weiss, saying in the meeting: She's murdering 60 mins. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that,'" Barr wrote on X.
Multiple performers booked for a festival celebrating America's 250th birthday have dropped out, many saying they were misled about the political affiliation of the event. read more
President Donald Trump's $4.7 billion war on cocaine smugglers has claimed the lives of nearly 200 people yet hasn't made the drug meaningfully harder to buy in the United States, according to experts. read more
Led by President Trump, the Republican Party has disgracefully embraced white Christian nationalists and is working to turn back the clock on progress America has made in the struggle against racism and other bigotry. Some 83 percent of Black voters are Democrats or lean Democratic, according to the Pew Research Center. Because of this, Trump has demanded Republican officials make it harder for African Americans to vote and elect candidates of their choosing. Trump has repeatedly insulted Black people who criticize him by calling them "low-IQ" and with other slurs about their intelligence, such as referring to then-Vice President Kamala Harris as "dumb," "mentally unfit," "slow" and "stupid" when she ran against him in 2024. Trump even outrageously posted an AI-generated racist video on the social media site he owns that portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama " America's only Black president and first lady " as apes.
Iranian strikes have caused greater damage to U.S. military assets in the Middle East than the Trump administration is willing to admit. Analysis by the BBC, published Monday, reveals that attacks by the Islamic Republic have cost millions of dollars in damage to at least 20, and possibly as many as 28, American military sites across eight countries in the region since Donald Trump launched his war on Iran at the end of February. Trump has repeatedly claimed that U.S. forces have "destroyed," "obliterated," and "shattered" the regime's military capabilities. The Pentagon has meanwhile tried to limit assessments of the impact on U.S. assets by pressuring Planet, a major satellite-imaging provider, to restrict public access to new images of the region. read more
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