4 h. ago Michigan family speaks out after 2 charged in death of London Thomas

Michigan family speaks out after 2 charged in death of London Thomas  CBS News

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10 h. ago 2 charged in London Thomas case, Network outage reported at Mich. district school, other top stories

2 charged in London Thomas case, Network outage reported at Mich. district school, other top stories  CBS News

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12 h. ago CBS News head of standards quits just a week after Bari Weiss is named editor

During an editorial call Thursday morning, Claudia Milne announced she was leaving as the head of standards at CBS News. She did not give a reason for her departure.

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14 h. ago London Thomas' boyfriend and his mother charged in connection with her murder

London Thomas' boyfriend and his mother charged in connection with her murder  CBS News

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20 h. ago Grand Sumo Tournament comes to London for the second time outside Japan in the sport's 1,500

Grand Sumo Tournament comes to London for the second time outside Japan in the sport's 1,500-year history  CBS News

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58 h. ago Fox News host claims there’s an ‘antisemitic thread’ behind backlash over CBS News hiring Bari Weiss

Fox News’ Emily Compagno referenced an article from The Independent while suggesting that antisemitism could be behind some of the criticism of Bari Weiss

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3 d. ago John Oliver skewers Paramount for hiring ‘irresponsible’ Bari Weiss to run CBS News

‘It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading,” John Oliver declared on Sunday night.

Politics

4 d. ago Hillary Clinton offers unexpected compliment to Trump over Gaza peace deal

Hillary Clinton stunned Washington by praising Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan, telling CBS News she 'commends' his administration for seeing a 'path forward.'

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4 d. ago Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermine accountability journalismIf you only just started paying attention to the inner workings of the media industry, you might think America’s information environment transformed overnight.In the past few months, a president extracted settlements from media giants as his apparatchiks vowed state retribution against his opponents – all as they defunded public media at a time when the president’s biggest boosters own the algorithms that decide what information is amplified and suppressed. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago British army horse who ran through the streets of London gets well

British army horse who ran through the streets of London gets well-deserved retirement  CBS News

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6 d. ago Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing way

Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing way  CBS News

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6 d. ago Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing ways

Jets fans hopeful trip to London will cure the team's losing ways  CBS News

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6 d. ago Bari Weiss goes full Elon Musk, demands CBS News staffers tell her ‘how you spend your working hours’

‘We’re all being DOGE’d,’ a CBS News journalist told The Independent. ‘And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.’

Economics

7 d. ago Traffic to Bari Weiss’ The Free Press soared in the month before she was named CBS News editor

Besides its 44 percent bump last month compared to September 2024, the Weiss-founded site was up 134 percent compared to the same month in 2023.

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8 d. ago Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its rootsIf you’re old enough to have admired CBS in its heyday, watching its decline has been painful.Decades ago, it was dubbed the Tiffany Network – home of the great journalist Walter Cronkite (“the most trusted man in America”), and innovator of the top-flight magazine program, 60 Minutes. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Katie Porter nearly storms out of CBS interview: ‘I don’t want all this on camera’

Former congresswoman running to replace term-limited Gavin Newsom angered by question about how she plans to win over Golden State’s Donald Trump voters

Events

8 d. ago Timothee Chalamet finally shows off shaved head as fans react to bold transformation

The Dune actor unveiled a buzzcut during an outing in New York, sparking fan frenzy online

Sport

9 d. ago ‘Let’s do the f***ing news’: New top editor Bari Weiss causes ‘eye rolls’ during CBS News editorial call

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers told The Independent that Bari Weiss’ ‘cringey’ comments on the editorial call literally caused eyes to roll.

Politics

1 week ago Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Bari Weiss becomes CBS News chief as Paramount buys her start

Acquisition of The Free Press is first major deal since David Ellison’s Skydance took control of media group

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