Politics

Brazil’s Lula says only he can stop rise of fascism under Bolsonaro’s son

President leads huge rally in Rio before election on Sunday seen as most important for decades

Jane Doe's attorney says 'she was incapable of consent,' accuses Cornell of 'cover-up'

Updated on: October 2, 2026 / 6:29 PM EDT / CBS News

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Disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar removed from Michigan sex offender registry

Convicted offender among 20,000 people removed from list after state supreme court ruling on Sora registration law

CBS News poll finds voters split on state v. national focus in tied Maine Senate race

Updated on: October 2, 2026 / 10:10 PM EDT / CBS News

Trump says 'Cornell Seven' won't get fair shake under Letitia James

President Donald Trump denounced New York Attorney General Letitia James‘s ability to serve as special prosecutor for the reopened case surrounding gang rape allegations at Cornell University on Friday.

Christa Pike remains on ventilator after failed execution in Tennessee

Attorneys say hospital staff are working to clear pentobarbital she was administered from her system

Taylor Swift’s radical act of liking her husband

Apparently, being really excited about your husband is a problem.

Hundreds gather in Mississippi to protest Republican redistricting: ‘This fight is familiar territory’

Dozens of residents testify to legislature’s redistricting committee in heated hearing, the last of eight

For Trump and Vance, Iran isn't a forever war

President Donald Trump and JD Vance spent years promising that the era of American “forever wars” was over. Seven months after the United States and Israel launched military operations against Iran, the administration has found a unique way to keep that promise: Don’t call it a war.

Venezuelan man shot by ICE has bullet removed 11 days later

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, the Venezuelan man who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in Austin, Texas, had a bullet removed from his back Thursday, nearly two weeks after the shooting.

Mamdani antisemitism plan boosts program tied to anti-Israel group

A New York City program that Mayor Zohran Mamdani says will combat antisemitism involves a partnership with aggressively anti-Israel activists.