Politics

Saudi Arabia urged to reconcile with UAE to drive back Houthi separatists in Yemen

Relations between the two countries soured in January when a UAE-backed force was defeated by Saudi Arabia in Yemen

Netanyahu met with eight Muslim nations during secret UAE visit: Report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with representatives from nine Middle Eastern and North African countries during a secret visit to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, last week, according to Israeli media.

Eiffel Tower chief to quit after female staff told to stay hidden during Hindu group visit

Patrick Branco Ruivo to leave post after decision contrary to France’s ‘value of equality’ sparked outrage and strike

Eric Schmitt’s Jack Smith grilling runs into basketball mix-up

Sen. Eric Schmitt’s (R-MO) effort to place former special counsel Jack Smith in Atlanta amid the Fani Willis controversy hit a snag on Tuesday when Smith said the basketball game he remembered attending featured Caitlin Clark in Maryland, not a supposed NBA game in the Peach State.

Lindsay Clancy returns to court after Massachusetts murder case mistrial

Clancy’s attorneys say a mistrial shouldn’t have been declared and a retrial would result in double jeopardy

What fascination with Lindsay Clancy case says about society

It’s easy to see the still-unfolding case of Lindsay Clancy as unique. It’s horribly unusual for a mother to admit to murdering her own children and novel to use “postpartum psychosis” as a rationale for acquittal. But the national attention bordering on fixation that the case has attracted puts it in an American media tradition: what can be called a “crime of the century” — crimes so dramatic that they captivate the public, owing to both their horror and their novelty. Their attention can be dismissed as press sensationalism, but they serve an important purpose as revealing snapshots of a changing society.

Feds charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer

Updated on: September 29, 2026 / 12:21 PM EDT / CBS News

Donald Trump's Maga cult is finally crumbling

With the midterms looming, and after the Epstein files and the war on Iran, Trump superfans are losing faith in their lame duck president

National Rally’s Jordan Bardella rails at ‘war’ on party after antisemitism claims

President of Marine Le Pen’s far-right party faces calls to resign over comments he allegedly wrote as a teenager

US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval

Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates

Jon Stewart on Trump offering to sell weapons to China: ‘How does America even stay on the map sometimes?’

Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s private ballroom tour for China’s Xi Jinping and his ‘great interest’ in granite

Artist whose song is featured in Trump taxpayer-funded ad sends cease-and-desist order to White House

September 29, 2026 / 10:31 AM EDT / CBS News