Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, is being remembered as “a role model for a generation” in the words of Marc Morial, the president of National Urban League, the civil rights organization that Jackson founded. “I’m remembering him as a role model for a generation of us who ran for office in
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the famed civil rights leader who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ran for president, has died, his family says. He was 84. He died peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family, they said in a statement. Jackson was hospitalized for observation in November, and doctors said he’d
Obama reacts to Trump’s repost of racist video on podcast – CBS News Watch CBS News Former President Obama has broken his silence nearly two weeks after President Trump posted a video that included an animation of the Obamas’ faces transposed on to the bodies of dancing cartoon apes. Weijia Jiang has details. link.lazyload {
For decades, California lawmakers requested state audits, Californians have paid for those audits, and the State Auditor provided detailed recommendations on how to fix waste, fraud, and oversight failures across state government. In most cases, CBS News California found lawmakers did not act on those recommendations. CLICK TO EXPLORE: California Lawmaker Audit Accountability Tracker When they
The United States and Hungary signed a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement on Monday, as the Trump administration deepened bilateral ties with a controversial ally at a politically sensitive moment for Budapest. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Budapest for meetings with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and senior members of his government, during
Washington — The Department of Homeland Security remains officially shut down since funding ran out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, after Congress failed to pass a bill to fund its operations before a stopgap measure lapsed. Without funding, some DHS functions will cease, although the impact will likely be more widely felt after President’s Day
After setting social media abuzz by saying on a podcast over the weekend that aliens were real, former President Barack Obama said he didn’t see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us.” During a lightning round of questions with podcast host Brian Tylor Cohen, Obama was asked, “Are aliens real?” “They’re real,” he answered,