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CBS News insiders fear Bari Weiss will soon enact 'massive changes' to 60 Minutes

Sat 16 May 2026 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 07.01 EDT At a time when viewers are fleeing traditional television shows, the CBS Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes remains in a class of its own. The 12 April episode, which featured Pope Leo and a story on great white sharks, drew an astounding 10.1 million total viewers. The show is trending as the most-watched news program for the current broadcast season. So, as the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? That’s what some CBS N ...

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Farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices

9h Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as the Iran conflict drives up diesel and fertilizer prices — deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 1980s. Why it matters: Rising fuel and fertilizer costs threaten to push more family farms out of business, drive up food prices and further strain rural economies already battered by trade disruptions, inflation and extreme weather. The big picture: Mar ...

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Trump doubles down on his remark about not thinking about Americans' financial situation: 'That's a perfect statement'

Saturday 16 May 2026 06:43 EDT Donald Trump has doubled down on his remark about not considering the financial plight of everyday Americans when considering foreign policy, saying that what he had said was a “perfect statement.”. “I’d make it again,” the president replied, when asked about the comments by Fox News’ Bret Baier, in an interview that aired Friday evening following his two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Shortly before his departure for Beijing, Trump was asked to w ...

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SCOTUS Justice Refuses to Recuse Himself Over 'Conflict of Interest'

Updated May 16 2026 4:10AM EDT Published May 15 2026 6:20PM EDT Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has rebuffed calls to recuse himself from a major looming decision. A coalition of liberal groups asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to look into Alito’s involvement in the case, which involves energy companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy as they look to throw out a Colorado lawsuit seeking damages for harms related to climate change. The left-leaning groups cite Alito’s stock h ...

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Trump appears 'resigned to losing' midterms after insiders reveal private comments: report

May 16, 2026 7:49AM ET House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the leader of the GOP – President Donald Trump – appears to have already “resigned to losing,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday night. “At times, the president has seemed resigned to losing, pointing out that the party in control almost always s ...

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White House Reveals Secret New Hospital for Trump, 79

Updated May 16 2026 2:57AM EDT / Published May 16 2026 12:50AM EDT The White House has unleashed a frantic new push to move ahead with construction on President Donald Trump’s ballroom, which they now say is also needed to give the aging president a “state-of-the-art hospital and medical facilities.” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche delivered the latest startling revelation in a court filing late Thursday that sounded as if much of it had been pulled straight from one of the 79-year-old ...

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Comer says he's planning on running for governor

05/15/26 5:03 PM ET Kentucky Rep. James Comer (R) signaled this week that he intends to run for governor in the Bluegrass State next year. “I plan on running for governor in 2027,” he told local outlet The Daily Independent on Thursday. “It’s not official yet; it will probably be official somewhere around December,” he continued. The GOP lawmaker was first elected to Congress in 2016, and he has chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee since 2023. As Oversight chair, ...

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German Chancellor Won't Advise His Own Children To Come To America For School Or Work

May 15, 2026, 05:00 PM EDT | Updated 11 hours ago German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had some harsh commentary for the United States amid President Donald Trump’s second term on Friday, stating that he wouldn’t recommend his own children to travel to the U.S. “I would not advise my children today to go to the U.S., get educated there or work there, simply because a certain social climate has suddenly developed there,” Merz said during a discussion at a Catholic gathering in Würzburg, The Guar ...

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Make-A-Wish Kash took girlfriend to $50,000 suite for concert

6h Kash Patel has reportedly turned another FBI work trip into a luxury date-night excursion. The embattled FBI director, 46, allegedly flew with girlfriend Alexis Wilkins, 27, aboard the bureau’s Gulfstream V jet to a country music concert in May last year before returning later that same night. The lavish outing was revealed in a sweeping New York Times investigation into Patel’s increasingly controversial use of FBI resources for apparently personal travel and leisure activities, often i ...

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Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley's Roots under 2022 state law

Fri 15 May 2026 17.01 EDT Last modified on Fri 15 May 2026 17.51 EDT A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression. First published in 1976, Roots: The Saga of an American Family tells t ...

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Live results: Cassidy loses Louisiana Senate GOP primary as Letlow, Fleming advance to runoff

34 min ago - Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) was projected to fail to advance to the runoff in the state’s GOP Senate primary Saturday, according to Decision Desk HQ. Trump has endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow (R) in her challenge against Cassidy. Polling from ... (The Hill)

Ballroom security money nixed by Senate parliamentarian

59 min ago - Ballroom security money nixed by Senate parliamentarian Republicans proposed sending $1 billion to the Secret Service, with some to be used on the controversial White House project. Artist renderings of the new White House East Wing and Ballroom are ... (Politico)

'Like we've changed sides': Ex-chief appalled by Trump response to China cyberattacks

2 hrs ago - Travis Gettys May 16, 2026 4:11PM ET ............... Sue Gordon, who resigned as deputy director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace she was concerned with the president's indifferent attitude to Chinese ... (raw story)

Lauren Boebert suggests Trump withheld funds to Colorado over prosecution of election denier

3 hrs ago - Sat 16 May 2026 09.02 EDT Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 09.19 EDT Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier Tina Peters ... (The Guardian)

Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical

3 hrs ago - Updated 7:49 AM EDT, May 16, 2026 VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence, the Vatican said Saturday, as he gears up to release his first encyclical that is expected to emphasize the need for an ethi ... (AP)

US allows Russia oil sales waiver to expire despite tight market

4 hrs ago - 6h (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration allowed a waiver that encouraged more Russian crude sales to lapse, even as the Iran war stokes concerns about global oil supplies and higher fuel costs. The expiration effectively ends for now a brief per ... (msn/Bloomberg)

Trump doubles down on his remark about not thinking about Americans' financial situation: 'That's a perfect statement'

5 hrs ago - Saturday 16 May 2026 06:43 EDT Donald Trump has doubled down on his remark about not considering the financial plight of everyday Americans when considering foreign policy, saying that what he had said was a “perfect statement.”. “I ... (The Independent)

Butler Memorial Hospital workers ratify first union contract, averting strike

5 hrs ago - By Garrett Behanna May 16, 2026 / 6:16 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh Frontline healthcare workers at Butler Memorial Hospital overwhelmingly approved their first union contract on Friday, avoiding a planned strike that was scheduled to begin. The three-yea ... (CBS News)

Judges to decide if Pete Hegseth's retreat from 'demonstrably false premise' should doom textbook retaliation campaign

5 hrs ago - May 16th, 2026, 8:22 am Pete Hegseth has drawn the right D.C. Circuit panel for seeking deference to his "considered national-security judgment" in the coming week, but the so-called "WOKE" AI developer he designated a "supply-chain risk" says the d ... (Law & Crime)

Protesters at Edmund Pettus Bridge say voting rights are under attack

5 hrs ago - Sarah Clifton, Sarah D. Wire and Jeanine Santucci, Updated Sat, May 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM CDT SELMA, AL ‒ Over 60 years ago, on the March 1965 day dubbed "Bloody Sunday," the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was filled with a crescendo of ... (yahoo.com)

Farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices

6 hrs ago - 9h Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as the Iran conflict drives up diesel and fertilizer prices — deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 198 ... (msn/Axios)

Timmy the humpback whale found dead off Danish coast

6 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 11:12 AM ET By The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly bec ... (npr)

Trump appears 'resigned to losing' midterms after insiders reveal private comments: report

6 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 7:49AM ET House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the l ... (Raw Story)

Taiwan insists it is independent after Trump warning

7 hrs ago - Taiwan has insisted it is a sovereign, independent nation, after US President Donald Trump cautioned it against formally declaring independence from China. Trump's remarks came after a two-day summit in Beijing, after which he said he had "made no co ... (BBC)

CBS News insiders fear Bari Weiss will soon enact 'massive changes' to 60 Minutes

7 hrs ago - Sat 16 May 2026 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 07.01 EDT At a time when viewers are fleeing traditional television shows, the CBS Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes remains in a class of its own. The 12 April episode, which featured Pope Leo ... (The Guardian)

Inside the emergency meeting of Black leaders after the voting rights ruling

8 hrs ago - May. 16, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT The Supreme Court ruling came down on a Tuesday. One day later, more than 50 of the most prominent Black leaders in the country gathered at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, with nearly 100 more joining by video for w ... (MS NOW News)

SCOTUS Justice Refuses to Recuse Himself Over 'Conflict of Interest'

9 hrs ago - Updated May 16 2026 4:10AM EDT Published May 15 2026 6:20PM EDT Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has rebuffed calls to recuse himself from a major looming decision. A coalition of liberal groups asked the Senate Judiciary Committee t ... (Daily Beast)

Sierra Leone to Take in Hundreds of West Africans Deported by US, Minister Says

9 hrs ago - May 16, 2026, at 5:07 a.m FREETOWN, May 16 (Reuters) - Sierra ⁠Leone ⁠has agreed to take in hundreds ⁠of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States, its ​foreign minister told Reuters, the latest such de ... (US News & World Report/Reuters)

DACA recipients are losing protections and work permits as renewal delays surge

10 hrs ago - PUBLISHED May 16, 2026, 5:00 AM ET Marco, 26, graduated from one of the country’s top medical schools last week. He found his calling after witnessing his grandmother battle cancer, and he sometimes worked up to 40 to 60 hours a week to afford h ... (CNN Business)

Iraq exported 10 million barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz in April

12 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 3:53 AM EDT Updated 6 hours ago BAGHDAD, May 16 (Reuters) - Iraq exported 10 million barrels of oil via the Strait of Hormuz in April, down from about 93 million ​barrels monthly before the Iran war, the country's new oil minister, ... (Reuters)

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