Politics

The key DSA item to know as midterm elections approach

In their 1968 hit song “Revolution,” the Beatles’ John Lennon sang, “You say you got a real solution. Well, you know, we’d all love to see the plan.” This year, the Democratic Socialists of America published a plan. Much of its plan reads like it was lifted from Lennon’s most famous solo hit, “Imagine,” which is little more than melodic Marxism.

Kagan says supreme court conservatives have made US political system ‘a nightmare’

Liberal justice says recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined democracy and polarized US even more

Live Updates: U.S. reducing troop footprint in Middle East, sources say, as indirect talks on ceasefire proposal with Iran continue

Updated on: October 22, 2026 / 1:37 AM EDT / CBS News

UK greenlights previously banned North Sea gas project sought by Trump

The United Kingdom is allowing a proposed gas drilling project in the North Sea to move forward, a major reversal in the country’s climate change policy, which previously banned new fossil fuel drilling in the region.

Australian politician struck by car in violent attack loses both legs

Australian lawmaker Helen Haines had both legs amputated after a driver allegedly struck her with an SUV twice in what authorities are investigating as a serious act of violence against a federal official.

Thousands of California public employees set to strike over contract

SEIU Local 1000, representing nurses and teachers, pushing for higher wages, telework and affordable healthcare

Clean California's voter rolls, and show the work

Critics of voter-roll enforcement love one line: This never happens. Federal prosecutors answered on Monday with 28 defendants. Operation Protect the Vote charges 28 green-card holders with allegedly registering or voting as citizens, and agents arrested 11. They’re presumed innocent, and they deserve their day in court. The rest of us deserve two things too: a state that cleans its rolls promptly and accurately, and a Justice Department that proves its numbers before it asks a judge to freeze ballots.

California has no real safeguards for voting and voter registration

Several immigrants in California are being charged by the Justice Department with voter fraud because California has no real safeguards in its election and voter registration processes.

'Invasive and extreme': doctors fight anti-trans measure requiring genital exams for student athletes

A Washington referendum has drawn broad opposition from adults who work with queer and trans teens

Trump must hunt ISIS's Somali ghost caliph before Africa’s jihad consolidates

On Feb. 4, 1920, Royal Air Force planes struck the fortified wells and stone forts of Taleh, decisively ending Mohammed Abdullah Hassan’s twenty-year Dervish resistance in British Somaliland. By deploying obsolete bombers alongside a small local levy, Britain accomplished what successive ground columns had repeatedly failed to achieve against a highly resilient jihadi movement. This historical victory offers a stark, enduring lesson for modern strategists.

Putin orders release of jailed American as he meets Trump envoy for Ukraine talks

Russia unilaterally frees Stephen Hubbard after US request while Steve Witkoff praises Putin as a ‘humanitarian’

Russia releases American prisoner Stephen Hubbard

Russia released Stephen Hubbard, a U.S. citizen allegedly fighting on behalf of Ukraine, captured in the opening phase of its invasion of Ukraine, President Donald Trump announced.