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How Steve Scalise became GOP House speaker nominee, and why the vote is still an uphill road – CBS News Watch CBS News Republican lawmakers on Wednesday selected Majority Leader Steve Scalise as their nominee for speaker of the House, setting up an election on the chamber’s floor after the […]

Former President Donald Trump did not request a jury for his New York civil fraud trial, but even if he had asked for one, the answer would’ve been “no,” a judge said Wednesday. Judge Arthur Engoron addressed an issue that had been the subject of speculation on social media and […]

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it has evidence that a White House employee inspected President Biden’s papers stored at the Penn Biden Center in March 2021, far earlier than previously known. The panel wants to interview several current and former senior White House officials in connection with its widening […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a stunning weekend attack by Hamas militants. In the sealed-off Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas, Palestinian suffering mounted as Israeli bombardment demolished neighborhoods and the only power plant ran […]

The mother of a 23-year-old Israeli-American told CBS News that she believes her son may among those have been taken captive in Gaza after Saturday’s unprecedented attack inside Israel by Hamas militants.  Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was born in Chicago, was attending the dance music festival in the southern Israeli kibbutz […]

Steve Scalise wins Republican nomination for House speaker – CBS News Watch CBS News House Republicans on Wednesday selected Majority Leader Steve Scalise as their nominee for speaker, setting up an election on the chamber’s floor to fill the seat left vacant after the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy. CBS […]

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Israeli woman says militant killed her grandmother and uploaded video to Facebook – CBS News Watch CBS News Israeli woman Mor Bayder says her grandmother was killed by a militant amid the ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict – and that her family found out after the militant allegedly uploaded a video of […]

The Israel-Hamas war continued to claim the lives of thousands early Wednesday as Israel conducted relentless airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and bombarded the Palestinian territory.  Hamas kept launching rockets into Israel, some of which broke through the nation’s Iron Dome air defense system, and aid it will not negotiate for […]

More than 90% of those killed in a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan were women and children, UNICEF said Wednesday, as fresh tremors terrorized residents of villages flattened by the disaster. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit at dawn around 19 miles north of Herat city — the latest in […]