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U.S. applications for jobless aid fell again last week to their lowest level since April, further evidence that the job market has withstood aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve as it attempts to cool the economy and bring down inflation.

"A cryptocurrency is not a currency, not a commodity, and not a security," the 99-year-eld Munger said in an op-ed published in the WSJ Wednesday evening.

Expect Donald Trump to blame his own party if the Republicans’ debt-ceiling gambit goes wrong.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has welcomed the former head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command who warned in 2021 that the island could face an invasion from China this decade.

Asian stock markets have gained after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy is moving toward lower inflation but more interest rate hikes are planned.

The storm has caused at least eight weather-related deaths in Texas, according to numbers obtained by CBS News.

The United Ukrainian Ballet company is making its U.S. debut at the Kennedy Center.

A deadly winter storm that swept through the southern United States this week left at least 350,000 people without power in Texas on Wednesday.

A Nevada woman was killed and a man was burned in a camper fire northeast of Elko. The man was locked inside a burning camper when police arrived at the scene.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee blamed Biden administration policies for the record number of migrant apprehensions. Democrats accused them of fear-mongering and spreading misinformation.

U.S. Central Command on Jan. 15 seized thousands of rifles, nearly 600,000 rounds of ammunition and nearly two dozen anti-tank missiles en route from Iran to Yemen.

Because inflation is easing, Fed is increasing rates at slower pace. But borrowing will still be more expensive.

Russia on Wednesday took aim at Israel and warned it not to get involved in the war in Ukraine by providing defense weaponry.

A top American health official is pressuring the World Health Organization to address allegations that one of its doctors sexually assaulted a woman at a Berlin conference.

A rights group says the pair were "violently" arrested soon after sharing the seemingly innocuous clip with their millions of Instagram followers.

The CEO of EV maker Rivian told employees that the company will make the layoffs as the company refocuses to conserve cash.

A Russian arms dealer, his son and a group of front companies across Asia, Europe and the Middle East and their leadership have been targeted for U.S. sanctions in an effort to quell Russia’s access to weapons to continue its invasion of Ukraine.

As the U.S. faces the threat of a looming recession, Anthony Klotz says quits have slowed to the point where “it’s like the pandemic never happened.”

The premises of a billionaire oligarch and a former interior minister were searched while several high ranking officials in the Defense Ministry were put under investigation.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will take a 25% base pay cut days after the company reported weak earnings, with executives down the line facing pay cuts as well.

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake has struck just south of the Dominican Republic and jolted people from their beds

A top U.S. health official has urged the World Health Organization to address allegations that one of its doctors repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct

Markets have priced in a near-100% certainty that the Fed will announce a rate hike of 0.25 percentage point when its meeting wraps up Wednesday.

U.S. firm reportedly offers Ukraine 2 Reaper drones for $1, plus $10 million in shipping and handling

Andrew Tate, the divisive influencer and former professional kickboxer who is detained in Romania on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, appeared at a court in Bucharest Wednesday to appeal against a second 30-day extension of his detention

Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets and and put navy ships and missile systems on alert in response to nearby operations of 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships

Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets and put navy ships and missile systems on alert in response to nearby operations by 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships.

Taiwan scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems in response to nearby operations by 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part Beijing's strategy to unsettle and intimidate the self-governing island democracy. The large-scale Chinese deployment came as Beijing increases preparations for a potential blockade or military action against Taiwan that have stirred increasing concern among military leaders, diplomats and elected officials in the U.S., Taiwan's key ally. In a memo last month, U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan instructed officers to be prepared for a U.S. -China conflict over Taiwan in 2025.

The State Department said Moscow refuses to facilitate inspections as required by New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the powers.

More than 19 million Americans have a felony conviction on their permanent record.

Environmentalists are suing U.S. wildlife officials saying say their plan isn’t helping the fish species in Montana's upper Missouri River Basin. The grayling is related to the salmon.

Human Rights Watch said Russian use of the mines doesn't absolve Ukraine of its responsibilities under international law.

School districts in the Rio Grande Valley and across Texas’ 34th Congressional District will receive $159.1 million in Title I U.S. Department of Education grants during fiscal year 2023, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez announced Tuesday.

U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar, with bipartisan help, introduced a bill Monday that seeks to help small businesses in rural areas.

Congress is going to take another look at legislation covering the rights of airline passengers.

Sens. Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal reintroduced legislation that would strengthen airline passengers' rights.

DARPA announced the end of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program with a final successful test flight that reached speeds over Mach 5.

On Monday, President Biden appeared to rule out delivering F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, but Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov tells NPR he's optimistic Western allies will eventually supply them.

Airlines have canceled hundreds of flights in Texas due to bad winter weather.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration has announced an overhaul of the agency's food safety and nutrition division.

Sales of Paxlovid surged to $18.9 billion in 2022 which was the first full-year that the antiviral pill was available.

Texas so far has built 1.7 miles of 30-foot-tall steel bollards along the border, along with one-third of a mile currently being built in Los Indios.

The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating complaints that windshield trim panels can fly off of Ford Explorers while they're traveling at highway speeds. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has 164 complaints about the trim pieces detaching on 2011 through 2019 Explorer SUVs. The parts could hit the windshield of following vehicles or even a motorcycle rider, possibly causing loss of control and a crash, the agency said.

Two authors demanded the US government issue $14 trillion in reparations, over the course of 10 years, for its 'culpable role' in slavery and voter suppression

President Biden says "no" to sending Ukraine warplanes even as allied nations consider sending Kyiv fight jets ahead of a looming Russian offensive.

Adult Happy Meals and other limited-time promotions boosted traffic at McDonald’s restaurants during the fourth quarter despite higher prices.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank with no visible signs of progress toward halting one of the deadliest outbreaks of Israeli-Palestinian violence in years.

Rising factory output led to strong U.S. sales at the end of last year, pushing General Motors’ fourth-quarter net income up 16% over the same period a year ago.

Two trailblazing former NASA astronauts will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Tuesday (Jan. 31), and you can watch the ceremony live.

Asian stock markets are higher after Wall Street rose ahead of what traders hope will be the last Federal Reserve interest rate hike for some time.

A 56-year-old woman who illegally lived in Houston has pleaded guilty to several sex trafficking crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani on Monday.

New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner Patrick O'Connell voluntarily recused himself from decisions on a major energy merger over past conflicts of interest.

President Biden says he won't send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, despite reports that some Pentagon officials are pushing for it. Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, now president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, joins CBS News' John Dickerson to discuss the factors Mr. Biden must weigh what it could mean for the future of the war in Ukraine.

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Migrants protested in the streets of Hell's Kitchen after the city tried to move them to a new center at the Red Hook cruise terminal in Brooklyn, reports say.

A Detroit doctor has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison for organizing a vast opioid scheme. The doctor would bill Medicare and insurers for unnecessary prescriptions for opioids.

The Trump administration first issued the Covid emergency declarations in 2020.

In 45 of the 50 largest cities, buyers pay far more for the privilege to own a home than they do to rent.

A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to suspend all U.S. security assistance to Peru.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office, with assistance from ERO Mexico and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force in Mexico, removed a foreign fugitive from the U.S. who is wanted for homicide in his home country of Mexico.

Describing meetings at a car wash and a smuggler's country house, a onetime drug trafficker testified Monday that he paid a former cabinet-level Mexican security official millions of dollars for help that included U.S. government information about a huge cocaine shipment in Mexico. Óscar Nava Valencia, known as “El Lobo,” said the payments to former security secretary Genaro García Luna also were intended to assure protection at a time when a schism in the notorious Sinaloa cartel was heading toward a drug-world war. García Luna and a high-ranking police official “said they were going to stand with us,” Nava Valencia told jurors at García Luna's U.S. federal drug trafficking trial.

In its annual energy outlook report, BP said security, affordability, and sustainability make up the "energy trilemma" which will drive global energy demand.

The new findings from the nation’s top pandemic watchdog come as House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing this week on covid fraud.

Long Covid has kept some people out of work for over a year, a new report finds, offering yet more evidence of the illness' labor impact.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israel and the Palestinians to exercise restraint amid a spike in violence that has put the region on edge.

Europe is cutting more energy ties with Russia.

Asian shares are mostly lower in muted trading as investors await decisions on interest rates and on earnings reports from around the world.

Ilia Malinin won his first national men’s title, delivering a 177.38 free skate for a total score of 287.74 on the final day of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Japan and the Netherlands have agreed to a deal with the U.S. to restrict China's access to materials used to make advanced semiconductors.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates have defended their ice dancing title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, scoring 137.85 in the free dance for a top score of 229.75.

The U.S. population center is on track this decade to take a southern swerve for the first time in history.

“A Thousand and One,” a drama about an impoverished single mother and her son in New York City, won the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition, while “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” was awarded the top prize in the U.S. documentary category.

The U.S. plans to make it easier for gay and bisexual men to give blood.

Officials say a Palestinian gunman killed seven people and wounded three others near a synagogue in east Jerusalem in the deadliest attack on Israelis in years.

The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot.

Stroke is the number five cause of death in the U.S. - but did you know that 80-percent of strokes are preventable? The acronym "B.E. F.A.S.T." can help you remember the warning signs.

A Middle Eastern and North African category would be added to U.S. federal surveys and censuses, and changes would be made to how Hispanics are able to self-identify.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell to its lowest level in more than four months, giving some relief to homebuyers faced with higher prices for just about everything, including homes.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend amid a sharp spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence that has alarmed the Biden administration.

In Texas, the number of homeless veterans has dropped 65% between 2007 and 2020, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Asian shares have advanced, boosted by a rally on Wall Street following reports suggesting the economy and corporate profits may be doing better than feared.

Homeowners who held off on selling their home in 2022 as the housing market slowed missed out on a windfall and may have to settle for slimmer profits if they opt to sell this year.

A Colombian man who was once one of the world’s most-wanted drug lords has pleaded guilty to U.S. smuggling charges and admitted that he led a violent cocaine cartel and paramilitary group.

Victoria Azarenka continues her quest for a third Australian Open title a decade after her last championship at Melbourne Park when she plays Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in one of two night women’s semifinals.

Last month, the administration said the U.S. will let up to 360,000 people per year enter the country from four countries. A lawsuit filed Tuesday claims the policy is illegal.

After months of publicity and a bipartisan congressional effort to request a pardon from the president, Abdul Wasi Safi could be set free.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has visited sites in rural and urban Zambia to showcase Africa's potential to help solve the world's problems with food shortages.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran's office says someone scammed the Kansas Republican's reelection campaign out of $690,000 by getting his accounting firm to wire the money to fraudulent bank accounts.

An anonymous jury has gotten its first look at a rare U.S. trial of a former cabinet-level Mexican official charged with taking bribes to aid drug traffickers he was supposed to be neutralizing.

A U.S. government study aimed at helping Puerto Rico shift to clean energy has found there’s not enough available land for large-scale solar farms and installation of wind generators.

The daughter of Massachusetts Democratic congresswoman Katherine Clark was arrested during a protest on Boston Common and later charged with assault after a police officer was injured.

A U.S. congressman from Florida who was seriously injured in a tree-trimming accident in Sarasota says he has been discharged from the hospital and is recovering at home.

Authorities say a surge in Cuban and Nicaraguan arrivals at the U.S. border with Mexico in December led to the highest number of illegal border crossings recorded during any month of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Brian McBride is out as general manager of the U.S. men's soccer team.

The judge presiding over the bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has approved the company’s choice of a law firm to represent it in the bankruptcy.

In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Washington correspondent Matthew Choi and immigration reporter Uriel J. García about U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s trip to the border and the odds of Congress passing a major immigration bill.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Senegal with a message about the future of U.S.-Africa relations.

Western defense leaders meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany have failed to resolve divisions over possibly providing battle tanks and other military aid to Ukraine.