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President Javier Milei set a two-week deadline for the Sea Lion oilfield project to be scrapped.

This week's Senate Judiciary hearing comes after a key Republican lawmaker said in July he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have lied to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him.

The bill's supporters, which include the NCAA, say it will tame what they call a "Wild West" era of college sports as litigation chips away at long-held rules around eligibility, transfers and pay.

The measures include a proposed ban on evictions until 2030 and the automatic renewal of tenant contracts.

It is the latest escalation in the Canada-US trade war after negotiations collapsed in late August, with no word on when talks may resume.

Some of country music's biggest stars are speaking out against the surge in development of massive data centers, saying the centers have negative impact on the environment and threaten a quieter way of country living. Brad Paisley, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson and Gavin Adcock have all said they're against data center development. Adcock joined "CBS Mornings" to share why he's speaking out now.

Human rights groups say some 5,000 returnees could face violence, persecution and forced conscription.

Iran has long been accused of links with the Houthis in Yemen, but how far do these links go?

Swingeing sanctions against City for breaching financial fair play rules would send shockwaves through English football.

There appear to be discussions among mediators from the U.S. and Iran on the war as Tehran awaits news about a proposal regarding the Strait of Hormuz. CBS News' Aaron MacLean has more insight.

Russia has been accused of launching sabotage attacks across a number of European Nato countries which have been helping Ukraine.

Rubio claims a possible terror plot against a U.K. air base used by U.S. forces "clearly involved" a foreign actor, but there are few facts to support that.

Average five-year fixed mortgage interest rate has hit 5.94%, its highest since October 2023, says Moneyfacts Business live – latest updates Demand for UK mortgages slumped to a 32-month low in August as buyers were deterred by rising costs linked to the war in Iran. Just 54,918 mortgages for new home purchases were approved in August, the Bank of England reported on Tuesday, the lowest monthly total since December 2023. Continue reading...

The housing secretary used her Labour conference speech to announce protections for leaseholders facing 'injustice'.

From mass walkouts and heated exchanges to protests, this year’s UNGA produced no shortage of memorable moments.

President Trump is set to meet with the AI leaders shaping the new technology, as concerns about safety mount and China competes to dominate the market. CBS News' Aaron Navarro reports.

Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared to July 2024, data shows A record hot summer collided unhappily with rising energy costs for households across the US that struggled to the point where many were disconnected from their electricity supply, even as dangerous heat baked their communities. In July, the hottest month ever recorded in the US , 173,598 households were shut off from their electric supply by utilities across 10 states, figures provided to the Guardian show. This snapshot of American life points to a worsening problem, with the rate of electricity disconnections surging 28% compared to July 2024. Continue reading...

OpenAI halted its rollout of a new model, GPT-6.1 Astra, over safety concerns. Jo Ling Kent reports.

President Trump is set to host the heads of several AI companies at the White House on Tuesday amid heightened concerns over the power and potential misuse of AI. Ed O'Keefe reports.

Iran is struggling with shortages as sanctions and blockade strain food and medicine supply chains.

Ministers from Viktor Orbán’s former far-right government arrested after MPs vote to lift their immunity Two ministers in Viktor Orbán’s former far-right government suspected separately of misusing millions of euros of public funds and taking millions more in bribes have been detained, hours after Hungarian MPs voted to lift their immunity. Prosecutors said on Tuesday that Balázs Hankó, Orbán’s culture minister and still an MP in the former prime minister’s nationalist Fidesz party, was ​taken into custody late on Monday. Hankó is suspected of misappropriation of funds. He has denied any wrongdoing. Continue reading...

First Native American woman to serve as US cabinet secretary candid about history with alcohol as she seeks to tackle billowing public health crisis “It clouds your mind,” recalls Deb Haaland , the trailblazing US cabinet secretary now running to be New Mexico’s next governor. “They say that, after the first drink, you lose your judgment.” Haaland developed a drinking problem after leaving high school and was twice arrested for driving under the influence. But in her 20s she decided to get sober, a battle that required personal commitment and critical external support. She went on to become a member of Congress, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the House, and then to become the first Native American to serve as a US cabinet secretary. Continue reading...

The industry is engaged in a perverse quest to replace humans. We cannot cede the best tools available to the other side I don’t need to tell you that people hate AI. The list of grievances is long: slop, cheating, bias, enfeeblement, electricity bills, environmental destruction, exploitation, theft, cybercrime, doom. But resistance to the technology has often taken the form of shaming people for personally using it, with precious little organizing against the companies building the machines. This is perplexing, given that those companies are attempting to render us obsolete. The executives may contest this framing, offering some bromides about how AI will augment human work or how we’ll simply find new jobs to do. But their clear goals are to create systems that so clearly surpass our abilities that we will have little hope of competing. Continue reading...

Iran is using Hormuz to seek US concessions, relief for the Houthis and greater control over Gulf shipping.

Rapid growth masks Tajikistan’s reliance on remittances and risky state debt.

Patients and doctors are eager for a noninvasive way to diagnose the disease, and several start-ups are offering new options. Here’s what to know about them.

Families are flexing their free-range bona fides by letting kids loose with hammers and secondhand wheelchairs.

Robert Kolker’s latest book, The Vanishing Family , tracks the effects of inherited dementia and the many transformations that follow.

With a distinctly American vision of communal life and entertainment, these theaters have survived fires and floods because they were always about more than classical music.

The TV series, our critic writes, gave us a slew of talented stage performers and used pop songs to help turn musical theater into mass entertainment.

Fewer new models are hitting the market than at any time in recent history—a direct hangover from the industry’s massive shift to EVs and its abrupt pullback.

The online marketplace is using detailed shopper profiles to know its customers better.

A generation exhausted by dating apps is embracing a corporate reinvention of traditional matchmaking, fueling an industry that promises a fast track to marriage.

Cracked trays, high costs and a dice dilemma bogged down a quest to produce a version of the classic game in the U.S.

Loudoun County is seeking input from residents regarding the future of data center development across the region.