Author: Alex Smith

President Trump says he plans to issue “a complete PARDON of Pete Rose,” baseball’s late career hits leader who was banned from MLB and the Hall of Fame for sports betting.Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday night to say Rose, who died in September at age 83, “shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING.”Mr. Trump did not specifically mention Rose’s tax case in which Rose pleaded guilty in 1990 to two counts of filing false tax returns and served a five-month prison sentence.The president said he would sign a pardon for Rose…

Washington, D.C. — The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally in President Trump’s first full month in office plunged to a level not seen in at least 25 years, according to preliminary government data obtained by CBS News.Last month, Border Patrol recorded about 8,450 apprehensions of migrants who crossed into the country unlawfully between official entry points along the U.S.-Mexico border, the statistics show.On some days during a record spike in illegal crossings under the Biden administration, Border Patrol recorded more than 8,000 apprehensions in a single day.February’s total, which could be adjusted when the government officially…

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho — Your birthday is the one time of year when it’s OK to be selfish. It’s all about you, and kids have been basking in that blessing for as long as we’ve had candles.But for 9-year-old Grant Mullen of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, his last birthday party struck a different tone entirely.Last year, Grant’s father Mark began volunteering at SNR, a recreation center for people with special needs. Not long after he started, he got Grant to volunteer as well.”It’s so important to get your children involved at a young age,” Mark told CBS News. “It really makes…

Pentagon firings expand to top military lawyers – CBS News/ Watch CBS News A bipartisan group of former U.S. defense secretaries are now asking Congress to investigate the Trump administration’s firing of top brass at the Pentagon, according to a letter obtained by the Associated Press. Charlie D’Agata reports on another Pentagon purge that could be even more alarming. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended a longstanding transparency rule on Friday, supercharging his authority to change policies in areas ranging from Medicaid to the National Institutes of Health without advance notice to the public.Dubbed the “Richardson Waiver” after the former health secretary who issued the rule in 1971, the policy Kennedy repealed had required regulations related to property, loans, grants, benefits or contracts to go through the federal “rulemaking” process.The law governing rulemaking usually exempts such regulations, but in response to calls at the time to close the exemption, officials voluntarily waived it. This meant…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting President Trump at the White House Friday, where the two leaders are expected to sign an agreement regarding U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. The two leaders, who are holding a joint press conference in the afternoon, shook hands upon Zelenskyy’s arrival. Mr. Trump mentioned earlier this week that the U.S. had reached a deal with Zelenskyy on a broad framework for sharing Ukraine’s mineral resources, and that the Ukrainian leader was coming to the White House because he “would like to sign it together with me.” Negotiations over the minerals continued despite public tension between…

Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors’ stories, has died. She was 113.Girone spent the last decade of her life in an assisted living facility in North Bellmore, on Long Island, New York, according to Patch, a local news outlet. Rose Girone in an undated photo Claims Conference (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Claims Conference, a New York-based organization whose full name is the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, said she died Monday in New York.”Rose was an example of fortitude, but now we are obligated to…

DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena disappeared in 1985, shortly after he helped bust a billion-dollar marijuana operation in Mexico. Headed to a luncheon with his wife, Mika, on Feb. 7, 1985, Camarena, then 37 years old, was surrounded by five armed men who threw him into a car and sped away, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. He had been due to transfer back to the U.S. just three weeks later, the DEA said. About a month after he disappeared, his body was found on a ranch about 60 miles away, according to the DEA. He had been tortured.  DEA agent Enrique…

It’s not only the surging cost of eggs that is making breakfast pricier these days — the price of coffee is also spiking because of a confluence of factors.The cost of wholesale arabica beans — the most popular on the planet — surpassed $4 a pound for the first time this month and have doubled over the past year, running up from less than two bucks a pound in January 2024 to a record $4.30 a pound on February 13, 2025, according to futures contracts traded in New York. For consumers still grappling with high food costs, that means soaring prices in the…

What possible compounded semaglutide ban means for patients – CBS News/ Watch CBS News The FDA declared the shortage of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drugs over, giving compounders until May to stop making alternatives. An industry group representing compounders is suing. Dr. Angela Fitch discusses what this means for patients. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On