The year 1950 was perilous for what then, unabashedly, called itself the Free World. In January Britain’s Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to Mao Zedong’s Communist China. The same month a New York jury convicted State Department luminary Alger Hiss of perjury, the statute of limitations for espionage having expired. Days later Wisconsin senator Joseph
A fence set by Israeli authorities, in Sinjil, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on May 5, 2025. Mohammed Torokman/Reuters A group of 29 Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), signed onto a letter on July 24, calling on the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of State to lead an
Zohran Mamdani, New York City's Democratic mayoral nominee, held an elaborate three-day wedding celebration in Uganda complete with military security and cellphone signal jammers.
President Trump played golf Saturday at his course on Scotland’s coast while protesters around the country took to the streets to decry his visit and accuse United Kingdom leaders of pandering to the American. Mr. Trump and his son Eric played with the U.S. ambassador to Britain, Warren Stephens, near Turnberry, a historic course that
The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend, and you won’t have to check your mailbox for the invite. The agency’s semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, two and a half centuries since its founding. Two newly announced commemorative stamps
Parents rush to buy school supplies before tariff deadline – CBS News Watch CBS News The National Retail Federation says more parents than ever are bracing for price hikes and are trying to get ahead of the Aug. 1 tariff deadline by shopping for school supplies in the middle of summer. Ali Bauman has more.
The Israeli military said Saturday that it will resume aid airdrops into Gaza and open humanitarian corridors for United Nations convoys amid increased international pressure and accounts of starvation-related deaths in the territory. Haley Ott reports. Original CBS News Link</a