The Democratic nominee for Senate in Arkansas challenging two-term incumbent Tom Cotton says her “campaign is about fairness” for “everyone who works hard.” At the same time, the candidate, Hallie Shoffner, says the government should make race-based hiring and admissions decisions. Months before launching her campaign in July of last year, Shoffner testified before a
The U.S. military said it killed six men Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers. Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small
The U.S. may be responsible for the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran that killed 168 people, many of them children, on Feb. 28, sources told CBS News. The preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the United States is “likely” responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have
Airline passengers faced long security lines that took hours to get through in New Orleans and Houston on Sunday, as the Transportation Security Administration deals with continued absences amid the ongoing partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security. TSA agents have been working without pay since the start of the partial shutdown, which
Trump not ruling out ground troops as Iran war enters second week – CBS News Watch CBS News The White House says there are no current plans to put boots on the ground in Iran, but cautions President Trump is keeping his options on the table as the fighting enters a second week. Nikole Killion
The tower of the Eastside Cannery Casino and Hotel is demolished by implosion in Las Vegas early on March 5, 2026. The property, which opened in 2008, closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and never reopened. Owner Boyd Gaming Corp. plans to sell the land for residential development. Ethan Miller/Getty Images Original
National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman, who was the NTSB’s initial on scene spokesman at the deadly midair collision over Washington, D.C., last January, has abruptly departed the agency two years into what is typically a five-year term. Days after the NTSB added its fifth board member, Inman was fired by the White House Presidential Personnel