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Tonight (Sunday August 24 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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Gov. Wes Moore (D-Md.); Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-n.H.); Rep. Mike Lawler (R- N.Y.); Unicef Executive Director Catherine Russell; Mohamed El-Erian, President of Queens’ College, Cambridge University.

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How much will it cost to renovate the Boeing 747-8 gifted by Qatar into the next Air Force One? That’s classified information. But a recent $934 million transfer of funds to a Pentagon budget may hold a clue.

The New York Times reported that this “transfer” to an unnamed classified project described in a Pentagon document sent to Capitol Hill likely includes the cost of renovating the gifted plane into a lavish gold-accented flying palace for President Trump. The funds were moved to a budget dedicated to updating America’s ground-based nuclear missiles,...

Multiple Democratic senators have shared concerns regarding Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pennsylvania) unstable behavior.

The senators are having private discussions about how to help Fetterman after a New York magazine report revealed that he behaves erratically and in a way that might pose a danger to himself or others.

Two Democratic senators told The Hill that they are speaking with colleagues about how to help Fetterman, who they fear is struggling to cope with the emotional tension of serving in Congress.

“Every time I see him, I’m worried about him,” one Democratic senator who requested anonymity stated.

The senator cited the report, which noted that Fetterman’s ex-chief of staff alerted his doctor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that he was “on a bad trajectory” and may not live “for much longer” unless something changes.

“I know we’re all in touch with each other, having conversations about how to intervene,...

Updated, with additional details: Donald Trump said that his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, would be departing that post and will be his nominee to serve as ambassador to the United Nations.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as national security adviser in the interim, Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The president wrote, “I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role.”

Trump’s announcement is the first major shakeup of his second term.

Waltz was at the center of so-called Signal Gate, in which he inadvertently added The Atlantic‘s editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a...

Tonight (Sunday April 27 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-n.H.); Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister; Gary Cohn, Ibm vice chairman; Anthony Salvanto, CBS News executive director of elections and surveys.

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Updated with Senate passage: The Senate on Friday passed a bill to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year and avoid a shutdown. The Republican-written bill passed 54-46, with Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and independent Angus King voting with Republicans for it. Republican Rand Paul was the sole GOP vote against it.

The process has exposed a major fissure between Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and other members and activists irate that the party isn’t doing more to try to stop Donald Trump.

The initial vote to proceed was 62-38, triggering a process that led to passage of the funding bill late today and avoid a shutdown. Lawmakers had a deadline of midnight Et Saturday.

Schumer angered many Democrats when he announced on Thursday that he would vote to proceed with the legislation, and he reiterated his position on the floor this afternoon. He said that although the...

Tonight (Sunday February 16 2025), CBS broadcasts an episode of the series Face the Nation!

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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-n.H.); Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas); Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.); Kevin Hassett, White House National Economic Council director.

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Former White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield has joined CNN as an on-air political commentator.

Bedingfield, who will be based in Washington, D.C., is the latest official from President Joe Biden’s administration to take an on-air role following a White House tenure. Former Press Secretary Jen Psaki hosts a weekend show for MSNBC, as does Symone Sanders-Townsend, who was chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Bedingfield served in his communications role at the White House since the start of Biden’s term to earlier this year, when she was succeeded by Ben Labolt. During the 2020 presidential campaign, she was deputy campaign manager and communications director, and served as Biden’s communications director when he was vice president. She also has worked for Jeanne Shaheen on her 2008 Senate campaign, and for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Bedingfield also held top communications posts at the Motion Picture Association and Monumental Sports and Entertainment.

Bret Baier will interview former President Donald Trump for Fox News’ Special Report on June 19.

The interview is potentially significant for Fox News’ plans to host the first GOP presidential debate on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, and Baier would be an obvious choice to moderate the event.

Although Trump recently participated in a Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity, The New York Times reported last month that Trump was resistant to having Baier question him, given the Fox News anchor’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election.

This will be his first interview with Baier since 2018. Trump also participated in a Fox News town hall in 2020 that was moderated by Baier and Martha MacCallum and held at the Lincoln Memorial.

Trump’s participation in the first debate likely would boost ratings, especially if it means his first face-off with his closest challenger, Ron DeSantis, or his former vice president, Mike Pence,...

Naomi Seligman, the former communications director to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, has filed a complaint with prosecutors claiming that Garcetti committed perjury when he denied under oath that he did not know about allegations of misconduct by a top aide and adviser.

The complaint comes as Garcetti is awaiting a confirmation vote by the U.S. Senate to be ambassador to India after his nomination cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The complaint — read it here — was filed by attorneys for Whistleblower Aid. The complaint also alleges that the mayor conspired to cover up complaints of sexual harassment against Rick Jacobs, who served as Garcetti’s deputy chief of staff and then worked on non profits connected to the mayor. He stepped down in October, 2020, but has denied the allegations.

Seligman contends that Garcetti lied in a deposition that was brought by Los Angeles police officer Matthew Garza, a...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti faced a relatively brisk confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for his nomination as U.S. ambassador to India, and responded to one question over allegations that he was aware that one of his top advisers engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment but did not take action to stop it.

Last year, a Los Angeles Police Department officer sued the city, alleging that the mayor witnessed the harassment on the part of Rick Jacobs, yet did not take action. New York magazine ran an extensive piece earlier this month in which four people who worked with Garcetti and Jacobs alleged that the mayor was aware of his adviser’s behavior.

Jacobs has denied the claims, and Garcetti has previously denied that he witnessed harassment.

At Tuesday’s hearing, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-nh) said that she had “some concern” over the allegations, and “I...

More than 100 Democrats in the House and Senate and independent Bernie Sanders have signed a letter urging the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to negotiate a fair contract with IATSE, saying, “We are united in our belief in the importance of livable wages, sustainable benefits, and reasonable rest periods between shifts and during the workday” – three of the union’s core demands.

The letter was signed by 31 senators and 87 representatives and sent to AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.

The union’s members begin voting on strike authorization Friday in advance of what could be the last round of bargaining before a strike that would shut down film and TV productions across the country.

The politicians also reminded Lombardini that industry workers “risked their health and safety” during the pandemic, and that “the entertainment you jointly produce is helping to heal our nation.”

Here is their letter:

Dear Ms. Lombardini:...

As Congress and the White House seem poised to adopt some sort of Covid-19 relief bill, the National Association of Theater Owners on Tuesday pushed for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to provide much-needed aid to struggling movie theaters.

The Heroes Small Business Lifeline Act, co-written by Schumer with fellow Democratic senators Chris Coons, Jeanne Shaheen and Ben Cardin, extends the Paycheck Protection Plan created in the first round of relief legislation through March 2021 and expands the Small Business Administration’s debt relief program for up to a year.

For arts and entertainment, the bill also provides dedicated assistance to businesses that rely on large gatherings, including movie theaters, live theaters, concert venues and restaurants — though the exact amount of relief available was not immediately clear.

“The movie theater operators of America are desperate for help from Congress. Without such help, 70% of the theaters in the country could...

The WGA West’s political action committee has endorsed Joe Biden for president and Kamala Harris for vice president. The guild’s Pac joins entertainment industry unions IATSE, the American Federation of Musicians, and Actors’ Equity in endorsing the Democratic challengers to President Donald Trump and VP Mike Pence.

The WGA West Pac is also supporting the re-election of seven incumbent Democratic U.S. Senators: Cory Booker (NJ), Dick Durbin (Il), Doug Jones (Al), Ed Markey (Ma), Jeanne Shaheen (Nh), Tina Smith (Mn), and Gary Peters (Mi). The Pac is also supporting the election of nine Senate challengers — all Democrats –including Jaime Harrison (Sc), Steve Bullock (Mt), Cal Cunningham (Nc), Mike Espy (Ms), Sara Gideon (Me), Theresa Greenfield (Ia), Mj Hegar (TX), Jon Ossoff (Ga) and Raphael Warnock (Ga).

The Pac says its senatorial endorsements were made “with the goal of flipping the Senate to a pro-writer and pro-union majority.

Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place and Parks and Recreation, is urging his fellow writers to donate to the WGA West’s political action committee to help “flip the Senate and bring in bold leaders who will check the power of the Supreme Court.”

“You undoubtedly already know how far Mitch McConnell and the party of Trump will go to enshrine their far-right agenda,” he said in a message sent out today to the guild’s members. “Now is the time to counter power with power.”

He added: “Your Wgaw Pac is putting its might behind candidates like Theresa Greenfield in Iowa, Steve Bullock in Montana, Cal Cunningham in North Carolina, and Jon Ossoff in Georgia – candidates looking to unseat the same Senators intent on replacing Justice Ginsburg before the November election. These are very close races, where our Wgaw Pac contribution travels far. These candidates, like established allies Cory Booker and Pramila Jayapal,...

Washington — Viktor Orbán couldn’t have scripted it any better if he’d tried.

Seated next to President Trump in a gold-colored chair in the Oval Office, the Hungarian prime minister listened intently as the leader of the free world sang his praises to a throng of journalists, photographers and TV cameramen. “Highly respected. Respected all over Europe,” Trump said of Orbán. “Probably, like me, a little bit controversial, but that’s Ok.”

Orbán broke into a smile, and the two heads of state traded admiring glances, each looking perfectly chummy,...

The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court battle has turned into one of the most contentious nominations in our nation’s history. President Trump’s nominee has been accused of past sexual assaults and of being dishonest before the Senate.

Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.

On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...

A bipartisan senate group introduced new legislation to reform the processes by which sexual harassment investigations involving members of Congress are conducted. The Congressional Harassment Reform Act — backed by 20 senators both Republican and Democrat — would change the reporting process for victims, end the process’s strict secrecy rules and require lawmakers to pay settlements out of their own pocket rather than taxpayer money. The bill was supported by U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-ny), Ted Cruz (R-tx), Joni Ernst (R-ia), Dianne Feinstein (D-ca), Lisa Murkowski (R-ak), Lindsey Graham (R-sc), John Cornyn (R-tx), Claire McCaskill (D-mo), Jeanne Shaheen (D-nh), Rob Portman...

On a phone call to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, President Donald Trump said he won the primary election in New Hampshire because the state is a “drug-infested den,” according to released transcripts from The Washington Post. Needless to say, that didn’t go down well with everyone. Senator and former Governor Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire responded to the remark on Twitter Thursday, shortly after the Post released the transcripts. “@realDonaldTrump owes Nh an apology & then should follow through on his promise to Granite Staters to help end this crisis,” she said in a series of two tweets. “It’s absolutely unacceptable for.

Last week, 24-year-old Amanda Nguyen changed the way the government handles sexual assault and rape.

On Friday, President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights — also known as H.R. 5578 — into law.

The bill received bipartisan support, passing unanimously through both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The bill was written and championed by Nguyen — a rape survivor — and the advocacy organization she created, Rise.

The @Potus just signed our bill of rights into law. Today, 25 million survivors now have fundamental rights. pic.twitter.com/4lehdIbxIG

— Rise (@RiseNowUS) October 7, 2016

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A rape kit is often seen as the first step in bringing a rapist or assailant to justice. But for Amanda Nguyen, it's something she has to contend with twice a year - every six months, she must fight to keep her rape kit in the system. In some states, there are decades-long backlogs, with thousands of kits waiting to be tested. But in other states, they're never tested - because if the crime isn't reported, they're destroyed within a certain amount of time. In Massachusetts - the location of Nguyen's 2013 rape - it's six months. The additional layer of...

A rape kit is often seen as the first step in bringing a rapist or assailant to justice. But for Amanda Nguyen, it's something she has to contend with twice a year - every six months, she must fight to keep her rape kit in the system. In some states, there are decades-long backlogs, with thousands of kits waiting to be tested. But in other states, they're never tested - because if the crime isn't reported, they're destroyed within a certain amount of time. In Massachusetts - the location of Nguyen's 2013 rape - it's six months. The additional layer of...