An election-year roast of President Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war, with protests outside the event condemning both Mr. Biden’s handling of the conflict and the Western news’ media coverage of it. Mr. Biden, like most of his predecessors, used the …
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Dueling demonstrations on the UCLA campus by pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups turned physical Sunday after demonstrators breached the physical barrier the school said it established to separate the groups. In a statement by UCLA, Mary Osako, vice chancellor for Strategic Communications, said that a group of demonstrators had breached a barrier intended to separate the two groups of protesters. Osako …
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Nvidia’s groundbreaking innovation — the graphics processing unit — is powering humanoid robots, the design of virtual movie sets and the creation of protein-based drugs to fight diseases. Insatiable demand for Nvidia’s GPU-powered technology, used for artificial intelligence, pushed the company into the stock market stratosphere, where it joined Microsoft, Apple, and Alphabet – the parent company of Google – …
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he stands by comments he made in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that former presidents, including Donald Trump, are “not immune” from criminal prosecution. “Face the Nation” moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan asked McConnell if he still believes former presidents are not completely immune from …
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Embattled Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell will be removed from her committee assignments and caucus meetings while burglary allegations against her play out in both a Senate and legal investigation, the Senate majority leader announced Sunday. “This is a tragic situation, and there are still questions that need to be answered,” Sen. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, …
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Two years after a fuel leak at a Navy storage complex contaminated drinking water at Pearl Harbor, the city of Honolulu is guarding against contamination to its own water supply. For decades at Pearl Harbor, an underground facility called Red Hill stored millions of gallons of fuel for the U.S. military. Red Hill, which was quickly built ahead of the …
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As reports of Israel’s new cease-fire proposal renew hopes for the release of hostages still being held by Hamas, the niece of a U.S.-Israeli captive said that while she believes a deal can be reached, her family is concerned that finalizing any sort of peace agreement may not serve Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political agenda. President Biden spoke with …
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A mother of four fought for her family after her husband, who’d served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, came home with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Marine veteran Chuck Rotenberry’s trauma from war impacted his family. The couple’s oldest, Kristopher, tried to help his dad and shield his sisters. As his responsibilities grew, so too, did …
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It’s been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off from the anchor desk here at CBS News. Of the so-called “Big Three” TV anchormen back in the day, watched by some 50 million people a night, Rather was there the longest, almost a quarter-century. In his 44 years with CBS, Rather held every post a network reporter could: bureau …
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For years, they’ve been three of the handful of states that decided presidential elections. In the summer of 2020, amid the COVID pandemic and lockdown debates, sizable majorities in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania rated state economies badly. Incumbent President Donald Trump trailed in polls, and ultimately, the three close contests were won by challenger Joe Biden. Four years on, some …
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