Politics

Putin is desperate, cornered

Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing. Not just the war he launched on Ukraine in 2022, but any credibility or respect from other world leaders. His invasion of Russia’s former Soviet state should have been over quickly. He failed to grasp that after experiencing independence, Ukraine had no desire to again be controlled by a murderous thug dictatorship in Moscow.

Boston pays DEI bureaucrats six-figure salaries despite budgeting struggles

The city of Boston pays dozens of diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats six-figure salaries totaling more than $3.6 million, despite its all-Democrat City Council recently dipping into emergency reserves to resolve a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.

Trump regrets his Supreme Court picks. The Constitution doesn't

President Donald Trump says he regrets nominating Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Here’s Who Democrats Want to Impeach Next

There’s little desire to go after President Trump again—but lawmakers want to investigate his administration and family.

Here's what's in the bipartisan megabill meant to allow the US to build again

Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are hopeful that a 417-page bill introduced this week will be exactly what the country needs to build power lines, pipelines, highways, and other essential infrastructure faster than ever before.

Are Trump’s TV Ads Legal?

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‘Starchitects go home’: what’s the truth behind Albania’s astonishing building boom?

Sixty top architecture firms from around the world have mooted 500 eye-catching projects across Albania, sparking fury and protests. Now they’re being celebrated in an 800-page tome that some are calling ‘a smoking gun’

In Cornell investigation, Gov. Hochul says special prosecutor Letitia James will find out "how was this woman denied justice"

Updated on: October 2, 2026 / 6:13 PM EDT / CBS New York

Always be selling, but it will only get Trump and GOP so far

President Donald Trump is an expert at branding and marketing, but right now, he gives himself low marks for sales.

Live Updates: Trump vows Iran war will end "right after the election" or sooner, as 9,000 troops head to Mideast

Updated on: October 2, 2026 / 11:43 PM EDT / CBS News

The State Department's replacement of flags should only be the start

Some past and present diplomats are upset that the State Department has removed the flags of all the countries and territories in which the United States has diplomatic relations, replacing them with American flags. “It’s so much worse than ‘America First,’” former peace processer Aaron David Miller quipped.

Horror films like Obsession are shut out of the Golden Globes

Obsession is a terrifying, violent nightmare of lovestruck madness – but the Globes’ rigid awards categories have forced it into an absurd choice