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WatchThe company's board announced Thursday that its co-founder is out, days after it opened a probe into his ties to a woman accused of helping divert restricted AI chips to China.
The agency says it removed more people in fiscal 2026 than in any year in its history, even as the president tells 60 Minutes he is open to immigration legislation with Democrats.
A yearlong KFF Health News review of about 17,500 expenditures found that local officials are spending part of the $60 billion fund on items with tenuous ties to addiction.
The Israeli military says it targeted a senior Hamas militant using the hospital as a command center, without providing evidence; Gaza's Health Ministry says the surgery department was hit.
Reps. Mike Levin and Jason Crow say the bill targets a "pardon industrial complex"; constitutional scholars say Congress cannot regulate the pardon power by statute.
Penn State researchers found one carbon atom in a single molecule wildly out of balance with its neighbors, evidence of chemistry that may predate Earth.
Yale and Columbia researchers read a heavy carbon signature in volcanic droplets as the first observational estimate of carbon leaking from Earth's core.
A Southwest Research Institute study finds that gas inherited from the early solar system would swamp any signal from rock, changing how future probes should use the measurement.
WatchMore than 250 firefighters and medics are digging through the rubble by hand, and officials say they do not yet know how many people are still trapped.
The win gives Democrats an eighth Senate flip of the cycle and makes Colom the first Black senator from the state since Reconstruction.
The USDA plan would end a policy used by more than 40 states that lets households receiving certain TANF benefits qualify for food stamps.
The national average hit $3.94 as crude oil slid to about $90 a barrel on a seasonal shift and hopes for U.S.-Iran talks, but analysts warn the relief could reverse.
The Chicago-born pontiff, a Peruvian citizen since 2015, began the emotional final leg of his South America tour with a singalong of the national anthem.
Germany's ALPS II experiment shot a laser through a wall of magnets to look for the hypothetical particle, and its first results set robust new limits.
CSIRO researchers rebuilt the M87 black hole's ring from raw Event Horizon Telescope data without being shown what a black hole looks like.
A Caltech-led study of 257 black hole mergers finds a spike at 10 solar masses and a gap at 12 to 16, matching what 'failed supernova' theories predict.
WatchShares fell more than 8% after hours on a Wall Street Journal report, and the Trump administration is aware of the board's plans, sources told CBS News.
Will Scharf's letter to Rep. Robert Garcia previews a brewing fight as Democrats prepare to launch investigations into the Trump administration once they take control of Congress.
An indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado, known as 'El General,' supplied code words for passing checkpoints and bribed officials on behalf of the former snowboarder's drug network.
With Democrats poised to hold at least 54 Senate seats, the Judiciary Committee is speeding up hearings, and Dick Durbin says Republicans are violating 'numerous longstanding standards.'
Sen. Ron Johnson led a last-minute effort to postpone leadership elections, saying a 'stunning defeat' demands change, but conceded there was no clear alternative to Thune.
The upgraded experiment at CERN saw a beauty particle decay into two muons at 3.2 sigma, matching the Standard Model but opening a narrow window onto the 'Zeptoverse.'
University of Ottawa researchers tested a 'tired light' model with changing physical constants against galaxy rotation, cosmic expansion and early-element formation.
WatchThe discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II crossed the threshold Wednesday with four Republicans and every Democrat signing on.
The Treasury secretary left his Washington-area home after a photo let his Georgetown address be pinpointed. Separately, the U.S. moved refueling jets out of an English base over an Iran threat.
A little-known short seller flagged Jensen Huang's ties to Alice Huang and a Singapore chip buyer in May. Nvidia's stock is now down 25% since.
The troops were tried for 12 days in Walikale after fleeing fighting with rebels. Amnesty International called the decision "heartless."
After a wreath-laying, someone in the defense secretary's party laughed after a photo and a guard demanded silence. The Pentagon says the soldier was right.
A 2023 expedition to Bikar and Bokak in the Marshall Islands found large sharks, seabird colonies and possibly two new species, and the area is now a marine sanctuary.
Monash University researchers turned 'moisture modes,' a theory, into weather systems they can follow in satellite data, and found they drive up to 75% of extreme rainfall in some regions.
A Würzburg team reproduced the Event Horizon Telescope image by modeling electrons spiraling along twisted magnetic fields in the jet of the nearest active galaxy.
The 1,000-astronomical-unit dust structure, previously seen only by Webb in infrared, is so dark and carbon-rich that it hid from visible-light telescopes.
The ASTRA system, funded by DARPA, has spent six months in orbit building a 1.4-meter antenna reflector from tubes and joints without astronauts.
A study of 100,000 simulated impacts suggests the fragile chemistry in comets usually did not survive arrival, challenging a popular theory of life's origin.
A 41-year-old soldier based at the NATO corps headquarters at Imjin Barracks was detained near Gloucester; the Kremlin says it had nothing to do with the arrest.
A federal judge in Florida let the case over an edited Jan. 6 speech move forward, even as Trump faces a Dec. 11 deadline to sit for a deposition.
Nine relatives of John F. Kennedy joined the federal case against the Arlington Memorial Circle monument, while a judge's two-week construction freeze remains in place.
The Bundibugyo virus has reached eight of Congo's 26 provinces and spread to Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria, with fighting in Ituri and North Kivu blocking health workers.
WatchMass evacuations followed in Italy as officials weigh whether Russia or Iran is behind the emails, the third school wave there in a month and one that follows fake threats against 20-plus flights.
WatchThe Freedom Caucus co-founder won a secret-ballot rematch with Steve Scalise as Republicans regroup from losing more than 40 seats; Senate Republicans kept John Thune.
Legal experts say the unopposed bid is part of a pattern of the DOJ wiping the slate clean for Trump allies; a judge may still appoint an outside lawyer to argue the other side.
Jared Kushner says numbers will be finalized Thursday as he and Steve Witkoff head to Moscow to see Putin, then on to Dublin to meet Zelenskyy.
Unions say walkouts hit 90% of auto and port work as millions demand rent relief, less than three weeks before an election that could put the far right in power.
After the president said on Election Day he was cutting $4 billion, analysts say the money is being repackaged under the defense bill, with less congressional oversight.
NASA and NOAA say an unusually strong polar vortex stretched the 2026 hole to 10.5 million square miles; without the Montreal Protocol it would have been far larger.
Yakamys sirindhornae, about twice the size of its known rivals, suggests giant rodents evolved earlier, and in Southeast Asia, than scientists believed.
The CHAPEA volunteers grew crops, rationed supplies, rehearsed spacewalks and worked through communication delays; NASA says the lessons will shape Moon and Mars planning.
Three years of data from the detector 480 meters from ATLAS found no sign of heavy, slow-moving pairs that could explain why gravity is so much weaker than the other forces.
An orbiter spotted the gas rising from fresh-looking fractures on Alba Mons in early summer, suggesting magma may still sit beneath the Red Planet's surface.
A Caltech and Northwestern team built a physics-based model of Webb's camera that boosts planet-detection sensitivity two to 15 times and uncovered a world sitting unnoticed in archived data.
Strikes on Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions followed a massive overnight attack that blacked out five regions; Zelenskyy says Moscow is applying pressure ahead of U.S.-brokered talks.
Four children and a woman died when an embankment buried a tent in Deir el-Balah; aid groups say Israel is blocking the caravans and shelter materials that could have kept families out of the water.
John Whitmire signed the order days after Democrats swept Texas statewide offices, telling reporters 'elections matter' and reversing a policy he adopted in April under pressure from Gov. Greg Abbott.
Saudi officials call it an 'attempted attack' with minor damage, but witnesses saw shattered glass across several floors of the 34-storey skyscraper, a sharp escalation in the renewed Yemen war.
WatchThe party took the Texas chamber for the first time since 2002, flipped both Wisconsin chambers and added governorships in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and Texas, the biggest single-election shift in state power since 2010.
WatchThe surprise vote spares the Defense Secretary a floor vote this week, but incoming Democratic leaders promise investigations when they take the majority in January.
Zelenskyy says Washington floated Ukraine ceding the Donbas for security guarantees short of NATO membership; Moscow's Lavrov rejects a European-backed ceasefire.
A superseding indictment says Mohammad Al-Saadi, now in federal custody in New York, directed fuel-filled vans toward the British base that houses U.S. troops.
The State Department says it gives the Geneva council 'no credibility'; the ACLU says the walkout tells the world Washington does not care about scrutiny.
A case over a New Jersey orchard's $500,000 penalty could upend how Medicare, Medicaid and student-loan rules are enforced, the government warned.
Weizmann and Copenhagen researchers held one spiral molecule between two gold tips and found it rotates, and reverses, with the voltage, and conducts 100 times better while spinning.
The European XFEL experiment made copper atoms amplify their own X-ray light, a sign of intensities above 10^20 watts per square centimeter.
Instead of rigid molecular links, the Nature Materials study uses bendy ones that rearrange as particles meet, limiting how many neighbors each particle can grab.
WatchVermont's independent senator becomes the most prominent progressive to oppose Chuck Schumer, calling the midterms a mandate for change as Democrats prepare to hold at least 54 Senate seats.
Core inflation held at 0.3% for a third straight month, and Fed Governor Christopher Waller said policymakers should consider a half-point increase when they meet Dec. 8-9.
In a 60 Minutes interview with Ross Douthat, the president defended the war, blamed 'bad messaging' on the economy and hinted at more firings, an hour before Susie Wiles' exit was announced.
Jeffries is a 'hard yes' while GOP leaders vow to defeat the resolution, which charges the Defense Secretary over the Iran war, the Caribbean boat strikes and the Maduro raid.
The Oversight Committee's 15-month investigation cites a 'sweetheart deal' and willful ignorance among Epstein's circle, while Rep. Robert Garcia vows public hearings once Democrats take over.
A Leiden-led team used LOFAR to image one patch of sky 20 times more sharply than before, and processed 400 terabytes of data in just a few months.
Physicists in the U.S. and Germany show that intense classical waves in a nonlinear optical system can mediate effective interactions between photons that normally pass through each other.
Mueller-matrix ellipsometry on single crystals gives chip designers reliable numbers for a promising material used in optical modulators.
WatchUtah Judge Tony Graf picked a date between the widow's request for a 2027 start and the defense's push for 2029, and Kirk's family called the delay "deeply disappointing."
In an unsigned order, the justices lifted a Texas judge's injunction covering more than 500 miles of the border, including land around Big Bend National Park. Justice Jackson would have denied the request.
Mexico's navy took the alleged head of "Los Rs" in Zapopan, Jalisco, after a shootout. The U.S. wants him on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges.
The Paris prosecutor says an IRGC cyber unit seized control of supermarket refrigeration on Oct. 11, spoiling food and sparking about twenty fires.
Means told CBS's "Face the Nation" that Susie Wiles and allies took money from industries the MAHA movement ran against, days after Wiles submitted her resignation.
A Japanese physicist says a sharp infrared signal long read as molecular change can come from optics alone, and proposes a dilution test to tell the two apart.
University at Buffalo researchers simulated 10 defect types in hexagonal boron nitride and found some boost light at double or triple the laser frequency, which could help pick out sources of quantum light.
A 3.5-meter chamber filled with sulfur hexafluoride at up to 19 bar can produce several storm-like convection rolls at once, structures too complex to simulate even on supercomputers.
Tokyo researchers found that adding a charge to an exciton on a single-walled nanotube preserves its chirality, so voltage could tune how the tube treats circularly polarized light.
German physicists observed a long-predicted "bound state in the continuum" in ultracold lithium, where quantum interference blocks the molecule from decaying.
A 30-micrometer magnet floating in a superconducting trap reached 138 million revolutions per minute and set preliminary limits on axion-like dark matter.
Residents set off firecrackers despite court restrictions, adding to crop-fire smoke and stagnant winter air in a metropolitan region of more than 30 million.
The data firm, accused by Democrats of enabling surveillance, is adding a former Montana senator as an adviser ahead of expected oversight fights in January.
A Hawaii prisoner's lawsuit could decide whether people can seek damages from federal agents, including immigration officers accused of beating migrants.
Santiago Peña, a close Trump ally, was removed from office Friday and charged Saturday after the fintech lender froze accounts for millions of Paraguayans.
WatchA London judge called the comedian "a sexual predator" and ordered him to the cells after four women read victim impact statements in court.
WatchHuang admitted an affair in an email to staff Sunday after reports that a woman accused of spying for Beijing ran a firm that bought nearly $5 billion in Nvidia chip technology.
The 24-year-old attacker, who died Monday, also appears to have killed his parents and sister, and investigators recovered 11 firearms from two scenes.
The two-week U.N. climate summit in Antalya begins as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz pushes governments toward electrification and fossil-fuel phase-out talks.
The state started enforcing the requirement May 1, eight months before most states, and call-center waits have doubled as some 1,100 people were denied by August.
The lame-duck session opens with House Republicans picking new leaders after their midterm losses, a stalled spending package, and Massie's push to force an impeachment vote on Hegseth.
A Southeast University team reports the first genuine quantum 'strong Mpemba effect' in a single qubit, and says removing coherence is what speeds relaxation.
The ASTRA experiment, riding on a small satellite, has added a third truss bay to a planned 1.4-meter reflector antenna in a step toward kilometer-scale structures in space.
A reformulation of Einstein's equations that resembles plasma physics hints at a 'gravitational reconnection' that could release energy in black hole mergers, though it remains theory.
WatchU.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a 14-day restraining order on Thursday, saying Virginia and the District of Columbia had shown that construction would cause certain harm.
Johnson won't run for minority leader after Republicans lost the House, setting up a second contest between Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan.
Dhillon, who oversaw the departure of more than three quarters of the division's workforce, says she is returning to private practice after the midterms.
A federal judge in Seattle issued a 14-day order stopping the Justice Department from demanding officials segregate the ballots or threatening prosecution for counting them.
The proclamation puts the Interior secretary in charge and requires review before any major alteration, but it still lets future presidents redecorate.