Attorney Stanley Woodward will serve as assistant to the president and senior counselor. President-elect Donald Trump announced a number of additions to his incoming White House team on Saturday. Trump’s transition team said in a statement that attorney Stanley Woodward, Robert Gabriel Jr., Nicholas Luna, and William “Beau” Harrison will join the White House, to
Full interview: Senate Majority Leader John Thune – CBS News Watch CBS News Margaret Brennan spoke with Sen. John Thune (SD-R) in his first sit down interview as Senate Majority Leader. Watch Margaret Brennan’s full interview with Sen. Thune here, a portion of which aired on January 5, 2025, on “Face the Nation with Margaret
The following is the full transcript of an interview with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 5, 2025. MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you for making time for us— SEN. JOHN THUNE: Great to be with you. MARGARET BRENNAN: —on a big day
Washington — The House and Senate will convene Monday to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election. It comes four years after a violent mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol to prevent Congress from affirming President Biden’s win. There appear to be no plans by Democrats to stand in the way of
The American Civil War was a war of dualities—North and South, Union and Confederate, slave and free—and never less so than when it comes to dual biographies. Pairing personalities—Lee and Grant, Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman, McClellan and Lincoln—has been one of the most unusual features of the limitless literature of the Civil War.
Humans born in 1900 witnessed a startling stream of technologies that transformed their everyday lives and their understanding of the universe. Cars, telephones, and the internet overturned where we lived, how we worked, and whom we knew. Other scientific feats took the breath away by their sheer might—most of all, the atom bomb and a
Matt Parker is a mathematician who does comedy. Or a comedian who does math. It’s as eccentric a combination as you’re likely to find, but the amazing thing about his new book, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World, is that he managed to find over 50 other people to join him in the math.