How rude! The disappearance of civility

How rude! The disappearance of civility – CBS News Watch CBS News Does it sometimes feel as if our politics has us all backed into ideological corners? Does it seem as if insults and name-calling have taken the place of civil dialogue – that incivility has gone viral? It may not just be manners that

Sen. Tim Scott on politics, race and Trump

Sen. Tim Scott on politics, race and Trump – CBS News Watch CBS News Fifty-two-year-old South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is the only African-American elected to the U.S. Senate from the Deep South in more than a century, and the only African-American Senator who is a Republican. Martha Teichner visits the North Charleston neighborhood where

A very special lobbyist

A very special lobbyist – CBS News Watch CBS News Thirty-one-year-old Kayla McKeon may be Washington’s most unlikely powerbroker. As a lobbyist – the only registered lobbyist with Down Syndrome – Kayla roams the Capitol, advocating for the National Down Syndrome Society. Steve Hartman reports. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get

Layoffs loom at DoD-funded think tank after Hegseth slashes weapons-testing office

Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent personnel cuts in the Pentagon office responsible for weapons testing has halted all work and cleared the way for potential layoffs at the Pentagon-funded think tank that supports it, the Institute for Defense Analyses, or IDA.  In a letter obtained by CBS News, the institute’s president, retired Air