Month: December 2024

Feds find 11 kids illegally employed for at least 4 years at Seaboard Triumph Foods facility in Sioux Falls, Iowa.

CBS News tracked plastic cups meant to be recycled by Starbucks and found that most of those did not end up at recycling facilities. CBS News’ David Schechter breaks down the investigation’s findings.

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of a number of House Republicans to fill top posts in his administration is pulling from an already shallow bench.

Oxford University Press said the phrase “brain rot” gained “new prominence in 2024,” with its frequency of use increasing 230% from the year before.

A presidential pardon expert at America University compared the sweeping Hunter Biden pardon issued by President Biden to the pardon for former president Richard Nixon. CBS News’ Natalie Brand breaks down the history of presidents pardoning family members.

The Israel and Hezbollah ceasefire conditions appear shaky. This comes as news emerges of the death of Israeli-American hostage Omer Neutra in Gaza, and as a dramatic shift in Syria’s civil war appears to take shape. CBS News’ Debora Patta reports.

Art Cashin was UBS’ director of floor operations at the NYSE and a man The Washington Post called “Wall Street’s version of Walter Cronkite.”

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, the would-be secretary of Defense for President-elect Donald Trump, was eyed in 2017 for an alleged sexual assault.

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller cited recent data indicating that progress on inflation may be “stalling.”