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Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch

A stretch of big news revealed growing pains for CBS’s new evening anchor and problems with its Bari Weiss-era philosophy.

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Tony Dokoupil, the new anchor of “CBS Evening News,” interviewed President Trump in a factory near Detroit on Tuesday night. Dokoupil has been broadcasting from different cities since his debut last week.
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Supreme Court Sides With Conservative Congressman in Illinois Election Rules Challenge

The question in the case was not a mail-in ballot rule itself but whether political candidates have the right to challenge the rules governing the vote count in their election.

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A vote-by-mail ballot drop box in Chicago. The Illinois case is one of several lawsuits brought by allies of President Trump challenging rules around mail-in ballots after his 2020 election loss.
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Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South in Letters to a Friend

In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.

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Harper Lee in a photograph taken by her friend Truman Capote. Taken in 1960, it was used on the dust jacket of the first edition of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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Lung Cancer Stigma Keeps People From Care

The disease is the rare cancer met with accusations, not sympathy.

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After Jim Pantelas was diagnosed with lung cancer, he recalled friends and colleagues saying, “‘Well, you knew this was coming; you smoked a lot.’” It deepened his belief that he didn’t deserve care.
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Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World

The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.

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A frozen sea inlet outside Nuuk, Greenland, last year. In the 12 months ending on Aug. 31, 2025, Greenland lost 105 billion metric tons of ice, scientists say.
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist in a Leak Investigation

It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.

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The Washington Post’s headquarters. Its reporter had spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers.
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An Emboldened Trump Makes Big Bets in Venezuela, Iran and Beyond

President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention. But there are a host of potential wild cards, each with risks for the president.

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President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention, in Tehran, Caracas and elsewhere.
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A Top Fed Official Says the Trump Administration’s Threats Are ‘About Monetary Policy’

Neel T. Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, defended Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, in an interview. He also said interest rates should be held steady this month.

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Neel T. Kashkari of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said the central bank had an opportunity “to explain to our constituents and the American people why Fed independence is so important to the health and the vibrancy of the American economy.”
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Venezuela Envoy to Visit U.S. for First Official Trip in Years

Félix Plasencia, an envoy of the interim government, will travel to the United States on the day the opposition leader María Corina Machado is to meet President Trump.

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Félix Plasencia, then Venezuela’s foreign minister, in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2022.
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Banks Ready Battle Plans to Save Their Credit Card Businesses

“Everything’s on the table,” an executive at JPMorgan Chase said, as the industry seeks to head off President Trump’s effort to cap interest rates.

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America’s biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, appear set to fight any effort by the White House to impose a cap on the credit card interest rates they charge.
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Minneapolis’s Limit

We look at how the actions of federal agents in Minneapolis are impacting life in the city.

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In Minneapolis yesterday.
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Playing Catch on an L.A. Sidewalk? You May (Technically) Risk Jail Time.

A little-known and rarely enforced law prohibits ball games on some Los Angeles streets and sidewalks. The local council has begun the process of repealing it.

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A rarely enforced provision in the Los Angeles Municipal Code prohibits ball games on most streets or sidewalks in the city.
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A Week Without Heat in New York City

Some renters are constantly left without heat or hot water during the winter, leading them to bundle up in layers of clothing or risk fires by using space heaters.

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Mercedes Escoto, 67, said it is sometimes so cold in her Bronx apartment that she can see her breath indoors.
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‘We’re Not Stupid’: What Greenlanders Would Say to Trump

A visit to Greenland reveals a swirl of feelings as people nervously await talks with the Trump administration about the island’s future.

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Nuuk’s old harbor, Greenland, on Tuesday. People on the island have reacted with shock, anger, confusion and fear to President Trump’s interest in buying or taking over the territory.
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