12/16: CBS Evening News

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At Hearing, Lawmakers Debate SPLC’s ‘Hate Map’

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) listens during a hearing in Washington on Dec. 5, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—Lawmakers at a Dec. 16 subcommittee hearing debated the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map” and other research it has produced. While Democrats defended the group’s civil rights record and its right to free speech, Republicans questioned

Capitol replaces statue of Robert E. Lee with civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed several years ago. An unveiling ceremony of the statue representing Virginia in the Capitol

Former top vaccine official sues Trump administration over her firing

A former top official at the National Institutes of Health sued the Trump administration Tuesday, alleging she was illegally fired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after she blew the whistle on internal clashes over vaccine research at the agency.  Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo ran the NIH division responsible for vaccine research until late March,

Trump Promises New Evidence Showing 2020 Election Fraud

People vote in the mayoral election in New York City on Nov. 4, 2025. Adhiraj Chakrabarti for The Epoch Times President Donald Trump has in recent interviews repeatedly foreshadowed new revelations about improprieties in the 2020 election. He has suggested the evidence to be both voluminous and clear. “The election was rigged in 2020. We

Judge denies request to temporarily block construction of White House ballroom

Washington — U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied a motion by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that would have temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s construction of a new ballroom at the White House, but he set out some requirements for the Trump administration moving forward.  Leon said in a hearing Tuesday in Washington,