President Biden, 81, and former President Donald Trump, 78, have been the two oldest candidates to run for president, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re outliers. A look back at the list of former presidents shows the majority entered office much earlier in their political careers. Data assembled by CBS shows that most
Thirty-five is the minimum age requirement for the presidency, but there’s no upward limit. The two last presidential elections, which brought President Biden, now 81, and former President Donald Trump, now 78, to the White House, are proof of this political reality. The Founding Fathers excluded a maximum age limit from Constitution, giving those in
St. Louis — Voters in Missouri, Nebraska and Alaska will soon decide whether workers there should be entitled to paid sick leave. If approved, the ballot measures would allow many workers to accrue paid time off, a benefit supporters say means workers — especially those with low-paying jobs — would no longer have to fear
From the archives: House Speaker Newt Gingrich discusses the “Contract with America” – CBS News Watch CBS News House Speaker Newt Gingrich joined Face the Nation in 1995 to discuss his plans for the “Contract with America,” a series of legislative measures meant to shrink the size of the federal government. View CBS News In
Howard University is where Vice President Kamala Harris spent some of the most formative years of her life, and it will now serve as the location where she spends what could arguably be the most important night of her life: election night. Her campaign announced this week that Harris will spend election night at her
Flagstaff, Arizona — Laura Huenneke, secretary of the Coconino County Democratic Party in Arizona, remembers what used to pass for an election day problem. “A rattlesnake came into the facility one day and they had to shut down counting and evacuate people,” Huenneke told CBS News. “No election official today would tell you that they’re
The pilot of an F-35 fighter jet that briefly went missing in September 2023 before crashing made an “inappropriate” decision in ejecting from the aircraft, a Marine Corps investigation concluded. The report released Thursday blamed the crash of the roughly $100 million aircraft on pilot error because “the pilot incorrectly diagnosed an out-of-controlled flight emergency