• Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026

    Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026

    Jul 18, 2025 01:39 PM EST

    ... a bill approving Trump's request to cut funding to public broadcasters NPR and PBS. “They’re trying to silence people, but that won’t work. Won’t work. We will just get louder," said Curtis, who has previously criticized Trump and is set to visit Colbert's show in ...

  • WATCH: Vance pitches Trump's tax and spending law to supporters in Pennsylvania

    WATCH: Vance pitches Trump's tax and spending law to supporters in Pennsylvania

    Jul 16, 2025 03:44 PM EST

    West Pittston, which sits in Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan's district in northeastern Pennsylvania, is a place where Trump's populist brand of politics has found a foothold. Trump's popularity with the white working class has accelerated the political shift in nearby areas, including around Wilkes-Barre and Scranton ...

  • Focus on first responders' mental health grows as death toll passes 100 in flood-ravaged Texas

    Focus on first responders' mental health grows as death toll passes 100 in flood-ravaged Texas

    Jul 09, 2025 03:51 PM EST

    A growing emphasis on first responders' mental health There's been a marked shift toward acknowledging the mental health challenges of the job, said Ian Stanley, a University of Colorado emergency medicine professor. Much of the change has occurred in the last decade, pushed along by the growing focus on ...

  • Texas region devastated by flooding shifts focus to recovery as death toll tops 109

    Texas region devastated by flooding shifts focus to recovery as death toll tops 109

    Jul 08, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    And so I walked over to him and I hugged him and I said: "Do you work here?" And he said: "No, my little girl was in that cabin." And he said: "And I just found her best friend about an hour-and-a-half ago." She had passed away ...

  • Skilled scientists at these government agencies are quietly being let go, union reps say

    Skilled scientists at these government agencies are quietly being let go, union reps say

    Jul 03, 2025 11:00 AM EST

    ... myositis. And so, although many of these people have been able to hold onto their positions for now, it has caused severe disruption to the work that they do,” said Matthew Brown, recording secretary for NIH Fellows United, which represents more than 5,000 early-career researchers, including at least ...

  • How Trump's big bill could affect women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans

    How Trump's big bill could affect women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans

    Jul 02, 2025 08:05 PM EST

    ... state funding formula. SNAP Like the package passed by House Republicans, the Senate version would require more SNAP recipients in their 50s and 60s to work and provide fewer exemptions for parents. The proposal would lower the age at which work requirements end by a decade, to 54. Right now ...

  • What Americans think about Trump’s deportations right now

    What Americans think about Trump’s deportations right now

    Jul 01, 2025 09:00 AM EST

    ... status who have been convicted of a violent crime. That includes more than 90% of Republicans, 81% of independents and 75% of Democrats. The numbers shift when Americans are asked about deporting immigrants under different circumstances: Immigrants without permanent legal status in the U.S. who have been convicted of ...

  • Fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire holds as Trump lashes out at both sides

    Fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire holds as Trump lashes out at both sides

    Jun 24, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    All that said, Geoff, the assumptions that would support an assessment that the program is set back by only a few months don't take into account, I'm told, multiple variables, including, does Iran have enough scientists after Israel killed many of them? Does Iran choose to work at ...

  • News Wrap: Court considers Trump’s California National Guard deployment

    News Wrap: Court considers Trump’s California National Guard deployment

    Jun 17, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... Food giant Kraft Heinz announced today that it will remove all chemical dyes from its products by the end of 2027. The company says the shift will affect about 10 percent of its brands. That includes Kool-Aid and Crystal Light, plus Jell-O and other desserts and beverages that ...

  • Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration alleging racial discrimination against white farmers

    Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration alleging racial discrimination against white farmers

    Jun 16, 2025 06:21 PM EST

    ... of loans to white farmers, but 95% to women and racial minorities. That puts Faust at a disadvantage, the lawsuit alleges. Faust has also begun work on a new manure storage system that could qualify for reimbursement under a USDA environmental conservation program, but 75% of his costs are eligible ...