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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to announce a plan as soon as Tuesday to bail out U.S. farmers stung by trade disputes and big harvests, with the initial outlay potentially totaling up to $15 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The plan, however, could be difficult...

WASHINGTON — A new poll found that more Americans blame President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans for the federal government shutdown than congressional Democrats. The CBS News/YouGov poll, conducted between Oct. 1 and Oct. 3 among 2,441 adults, found that 39% of respondents believe Trump and congressional Republicans deserve the...

A top U.S. health official on Monday called for the combined measles-mumps-rubella shot to be broken up, drawing a quick rebuke from vaccine maker Merck, which said there is no scientific evidence that shows any benefit to doing so. The U.S. CDC earlier on Monday pulled broad support for covid-19...

Meet President Donald Trump’s reaper. His name is Russell Thurlow Vought (pronounced “vote”) and he’s in his second stint as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. The job allows him to exert executive branch control over the nation’s purse strings. Trump is touting Vought’s role as...

LOS ANGELES - Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, as part of a deal to acquire the online news site she founded, The Free Press. The companies did not disclose the deal value in Monday’s announcement. A source familiar with the matter said...

JERUSALEM — When Tal Shoham walks through Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel where he and his family were abducted by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, he says it feels like a graveyard filled with the horrors of the attack. While remembering the calmer days before the assault, he has...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Hamas officials were in Egypt on Monday for talks with Israel that the U.S. hopes will bring a halt to the war in Gaza and a release of hostages despite contentious issues like disarmament of the Palestinian militant group under President Donald Trump’s plan. Talks were...

PARIS — France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, in a major deepening of France’s political crisis that drove stocks and the euro sharply lower. The swift, unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday, with President Donald Trump’s Republicans and congressional Democrats still at an impasse and the White House threatening to ramp up pressure by ordering mass layoffs of federal workers. The Republican-led Senate was slated to vote again on dueling...

STOCKHOLM — American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments. This year’s prize “relates to how we keep our...

A pair of shootings on the campus of South Carolina State University left one person dead and another wounded as the institution was hosting homecoming celebrations over the weekend, according to state officials. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) said both shootings occurred on Saturday evening, triggering a campus-wide...

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’s suing President Donald Trump, claiming the commander in chief deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon. “After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Multiple gunmen opened fire in a large crowd in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, leaving at two people dead, including a teenage boy, and wounding a dozen others, authorities said. Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys said gunfire erupted around 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the city’s nightlife district. Police believe...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has reassigned about 200 members of the California National Guard from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., in an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s plan. “At the direction of the President, approximately 200 federalized members of the California National Guard are being reassigned from duty...

CHICAGO — U.S. Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city’s southwest side. No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group that...

LONDON — London police arrested dozens of protesters for supporting a banned pro-Palestinian group at a demonstration on Saturday that went ahead despite requests to call it off after a deadly attack at a synagogue in Manchester. Two people were killed in the attack in the northwestern English city on...

KYIV — Two Russian drones struck trains at a station in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, killing one person and injuring about 30 others, officials said on Saturday, with Ukraine’s foreign minister accusing Moscow of deliberately hitting passenger trains. “A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,”...

CHICAGO — U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families. The show of force highlighted President Donald...

CAIRO/GAZA — Israel slowed its Gaza offensive on Saturday after President Donald Trump demanded it stop bombing in response to a declaration by Hamas that it was ready to free hostages under his plan to end the two-year-old war. Despite a relatively quieter start to the day compared to recent weeks,...

MUNICH — Drones have been spotted at airports and military installations across Germany over the past two days, Bild newspaper quoted a confidential police report as saying, suggesting sightings this week at Munich Airport were the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of flights were diverted or canceled at Munich Airport...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury on Friday released a draft design for a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump to commemorate 250 years since the declaration of American independence in 2026. The front of the potential design showed Trump in profile with the word “liberty” above him and “1776-2026” below, according...