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The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) monitoring agency said at least ten vessels have been attacked in or near the Strait of Hormuz since last Sunday, a weekly high since war broke out in February, and 23 attacks were recorded since the start of the month, almost double the average.

In Ohio rally, Obama blasts Ramaswamy, GOP over controversial Acton ad: "No low he will not sink to"

A German climber fell about 1,500 meters (nearly 5,000 feet) to his death on Monday, a day after reaching the summit of Ama Dablam mountain in Nepal, according to a trekking company operator. Wolfgang Waschiczek, 57, was reported missing from Camp 3, which lies at around 6,200 meters. He had been resting after reaching the 6,812-meter summit on Sunday, before his planned descent. Waschiczek's personal trekking guide, Sonam Lama, had left him in the tent for a few minutes to return borrowed equipment, telling him to stay inside. When he returned, Waschiczek was missing. Read more:

Ukraine is still unable to use its interceptor systems against Russian drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, because of speed restrictions imposed on Starshield, an upgraded military version of Elon Musk's Starlink, amid an ongoing row with President Trump.

A fire ripped through the Quaker Oats facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday. Authorities say all plant workers have been accounted for. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

President Trump's pardon economy has cost crime victims at least $119 million in restitution.

Pope Leo XIV smiled and waved to cheering crowds as he left Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung. The pope stopped to shake hands with well-wishers outside the hospital before departing for the Vatican. He is expected to recite the Angelus prayer from the window of the papal apartment on Sunday.

First Lady Melania Trump said on Saturday that the ceasefire she helped secure between Russia and Ukraine will begin on Tuesday, October 27. The first lady's office announced on Friday that she secured a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky for humanitarian reasons. The first lady also said she spoke to both Russia's President Putin and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy. “I think she’s doing better than the professionals right now,” President Trump added.

Thanksgiving airfares are soaring, driving down flight bookings for the holiday.

A 71-year-old man fishing at a pond in Winter Garden, Florida, on Friday was dragged into the water and killed by a nearly 12-foot alligator, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Ukraine says Starlink speeds restored as Elon Musk admits SpaceX throttled service over drone strikes

Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad have flown in just to cast their ballots in an election many voters see as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Former President Barack Obama criticized President Trump’s ongoing White House renovations, saying that it looks “like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” as he returned to the campaign trail in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday to back the state’s Democratic candidates ahead of November’s midterm election. “He should be on HGTV,” Obama said. “Guy’s building a ballroom that’s bigger than the White House.” The ballroom construction project was announced officially in July 2025, and is expected to be finished before the end of Trump’s second term.

Federal prosecutors filed new criminal charges on Tuesday against two ex-FBI counterintelligence officials, accusing them of obstructing a congressional proceeding and lying to lawmakers about their roles in the bureau's investigations of Hunter Biden. The unsigned and unsworn superseding complaint, filed early Tuesday morning, comes just hours before the defendants Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides are due to appear in federal court in Washington, D.C. for a preliminary hearing. Read more:

RT @CBSMornings: In response to a question from a woman who says her small business is struggling in today's economy, Vice President JD Vance said it will take time to turn things around. "It's going to take more than 18 months to fix things and turn 'em around," Vance said in a @CBSNews "Things that Matter" town hall with @TonyDokoupil. Watch more Saturday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on @CBS and @paramountplus.

President Trump, first lady vote early in person in Florida

RT @CBSEveningNews: “We should have been saying refund the police.” In his new book, The American Way of Killing, Malcolm @Gladwell argues that more cops, not fewer, could make American policing less violent. Watch episode one of Great Question with @TonyDokoupil on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts:

Scuffles broke out Saturday in Paris between police and small groups of protesters joining a march as part of nationwide demonstrations against rising living costs and in support of high school students' grievances.

President Trump voted early on Saturday in West Palm Beach, Florida, before heading to Georgia to rally with Republican candidates. When asked whether he voted Republican down the ballot, he replied, "Very much so."

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Alex Pretti’s father, Michael, is calling on the Department of Justice to share evidence and hold the federal agents involved in his son’s fatal shooting in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 accountable. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday for the first time, Michael said the family has received no communication from the federal government about the investigation in the 275 days since his son’s death. "What we have been treated to is cruelty ... Share the evidence now, so prosecutors can follow the facts and hold these men accountable," he said.

As Americans express frustration with the country's economic outlook, Vice President JD Vance told CBS News this week it could take some time to see improvement.

Trump admin. sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses

DOJ files new charges accusing ex-FBI officials of obstructing, lying to Congress over roles in Hunter Biden probe

Court documents are revealing new details about Dale Smith Jr., the man recently arrested in connection with the disappearance of his ex-fiancée Michelle Parker in 2011, including newly recovered text messages and a history of domestic violence and injuries that police never asked about during their initial investigation.

Pope Leo XIV was released from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung. The pope exited via the hospital's main entrance, where a large crowd was waiting outside began cheering for him. The Vatican also confirmed that Leo will recite the Angelus prayer from the window of the papal apartment on Sunday. Read more:

Nearly 1,000 people were arrested in nationwide protests in France, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said Saturday, adding that the number of arrests is expected to rise significantly.

RT @aidan_stretch: On Oct. 19, a Russian strike on a Kharkiv park killed five people, including a 1-year-old girl. @CBSNews obtained photos showing air-defense radars offline that day due to SpaceX’s Starlink restrictions. Alina Spichak walked me through the last steps of her sister Yulia, who died there.

President Trump said that Obama "wouldn't understand" the renovations he's undertaken at the White House after the former president said Mr. Trump "has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory."

Pope Leo XIV was released from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung.

Ex-Pistons star Malik Beasley is negotiating a plea deal over sports betting charges, lawyer says.

Bodycam footage shows Florida deputies arresting a mother at an airport after authorities say she left her four children, ages 9, 11, 12 and 14, home alone while traveling to Las Vegas for work. Irene Miller, 50, was taken into custody Friday as she stepped off a plane. Two days earlier, one of her children had called 911 after a dumbbell fell on her 9-year-old brother's head. When deputies arrived at the family's Kissimmee home, they found the children without adult supervision and had the injured boy taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released. Miller now faces four counts of child neglect.

As President Trump travels to Texas Tuesday to campaign ahead of the midterm elections, he says he would work with Democrats if they win control of the House or Senate. Asked whether he would respect the election results regardless of the outcome, Trump says, "I will, if they're honest elections, yeah."

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has been discharged from Rome's Gemelli Hospital after recovering from lung surgery.

Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday to back the state's Democratic candidates ahead of November's midterm election. The 44th president will head to Michigan for another rally tonight as President Trump campaigns in Georgia.

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A man with a knife was arrested at an Israeli election event for left-wing leader Yair Golan as Israelis vote in a crucial election.

RT @CBSNews: Vice President JD Vance acknowledged that some ICE agents have made mistakes and said the agency has investigated cases involving misconduct, with some agents receiving additional training or disciplinary action. In a “Things That Matter” town hall with @TonyDokoupil, Vance said those cases are not always advertised because people should be judged "in a court of law and through a normal investigatory process." Watch more Saturday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+.

Palestinian farmers and Israeli peace activists joined together Friday to harvest olives in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, despite ongoing tensions and threats of violence from Israeli settlers. Volunteers from the Israeli-Palestinian peace group Combatants for Peace helped local farmers gather olives on land surrounded by Israeli settlements, while Israeli soldiers patrolled the area. Chen Alon, an Israeli co-founder of the organization and former Israel Defense Forces soldier, said the joint harvest was intended to show solidarity with Palestinian farmers amid settler attacks and accused Israeli forces of supporting the violence. The United Nations has documented nearly 200 settler attacks linked to the olive harvest since September.

RT @CBSSunday: During a November 2025 interview with CBS Sunday Morning’s @BenMank77, actress Amanda Seyfried revisited her portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes in #TheDropout and showed off her impression of the former Theranos CEO. When Mankiewicz asked her to improvise a line as Holmes, Seyfried casually revealed, “I’ve had some practice lately,” possibly hinting that she had been revisiting the voice. Now, with the release of the documentary #YouCanSeeEverything, Seyfried's comment may have been an early hint at what was to come.

Federal prosecutors said they sent a letter to the Washington secretary of state with a list of 400 people they claimed are not U.S. citizens.

RT @CBSNews: From gas prices and the war with Iran to healthcare, college costs and data centers, CBS News’ @tonydokoupil asked voters in Michigan what’s on their minds as the midterm elections approach. Hear more from voters as they ask their questions to Vice President JD Vance in “Things That Matter: A Town Hall with Vice President JD Vance,” Saturday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+.

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has still not been seen in public since the beginning of the war, met with Hujjat al-Islam Mohseni Ejei, the head of Iran's judiciary, to discuss a range of issues on Saturday.

A new employee was left startled after a glass sliding door at the salon where she worked shattered, leaving her client and other staff stunned in Katy, Texas. The salon said the employee was closing the door as she prepared to bring products to the client. No one was hurt in the incident.

Vice President JD Vance called Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a “psychopath” on Tuesday while speaking to reporters before departing for a campaign event in Michigan. Vance was traveling to the state to campaign for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers when he launched into a series of attacks against El-Sayed, accusing him of promoting racial hatred and associating with people who justify violence against the United States. Asked whether he agreed with President Trump’s characterization of El-Sayed as a “jihadist,” Vance stopped short of repeating the accusation, saying he didn’t know what was in the candidate’s heart but claimed he had “a lot of weird friends.”

RT @CBSEveningNews: "As a lifelong Democrat, I have a very hard time finding myself at home in the Democratic Party right now," Michigan voter Eddie Rubin tells @tonydokoupil. Rubin, whose two youngest children survived the March 12 attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield when a man rammed a truck into the building, says antisemitism is one of the most important issues in the midterm elections and he wants to see leaders from both parties address it. "This should be an issue that is on everyone's mind and a human issue," Rubin says. "It's not a party issue." Tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT, watch voters like Rubin take their questions directly to Vice President JD Vance in "Things That Matter: A Town Hall with Vice President JD Vance," on CBS and @paramountplus.

"Stay right there, girl. Fight it through, girl," a woman told her car as floodwaters inundated it during severe flooding in Hurricane, Utah, on Thursday. The destructive flood sent cars and mobile storage units floating down the neighborhood streets.

A great white shark lunged toward a woman's hand as she reached out to touch it off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia, in a video posted Sunday by Knot Lucky Fishing. The encounter happened during a white shark tagging expedition, where researchers catch, tag and release sharks to collect data for scientific research. Knot Lucky Fishing said the woman was never in danger and that the crew had the shark under control but called the animal's reaction a reminder of the importance of respecting wildlife.

With the midterm elections just a week away, CBS News reporter @Rileymcallanan asked Americans a simple question: Does voting matter? From a Kansas farmer who’s unsure whether she’ll vote to a poll worker whose uncle was killed trying to cast a ballot, here’s what people told her.

A Mexican judge on Friday sentenced three men to more than 158 years of imprisonment for the murder of two Australian surfers and their American friend during an attempted robbery in 2024.

German police, acting on an FBI tip-off, arrested an alleged online sadist accused of driving a 14-year-old U.S. girl to hang herself, prosecutors said Friday.

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centuries, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

FIRST ON CBS: Text messages help lead to man's arrest for murder in ex-fiancée's 2011 disappearance, affidavit says

A 26-year-old felt her concerns were being dismissed. Then, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

President Trump said Friday that the U.S. would turn its attention to Cuba "on our way back from Iran," saying that American warships could make a "little stopover" near the island before sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to "finish up the deal." Cuba's government has pushed back, with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla responding on X, saying: "We reject any threats stemming from U.S. ambitions toward Cuba."

A man serving a life sentence for killing his co-worker four years ago has escaped from a prison in northwest Tennessee by slipping through a fence, authorities said. Investigators have since released surveillance footage that showed him stealing a truck in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Oregon state Rep. Jason Kropf (D) became visibly emotional Monday while discussing the deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, where three students and a teacher were killed on Oct. 15. Kropf spoke at a news conference led by Gov. Tina Kotek at the Oregon State Capitol, where officials outlined emergency resources and support for the community, including mental health services, staffing assistance and funding for school recovery efforts.

When tourists visit Philadelphia, they like to see the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and the Rocky Steps. Now, there's a new attraction that can be added to the list: pigeons.

Clashes broke out in Paris, France, late Saturday after demonstrations over the high cost of living and the country's education system earlier in the day remained largely peaceful. Paris had prepared for unrest, with shops boarded up and events including those related to the NFL's first French football game canceled, but authorities described the atmosphere in the city as "calm." As the evening went on, clashes were reported between police and demonstrators, the Agence France-Presse reported. Police used batons and tear gas, and officials said a water cannon was also used. Some protesters threw projectiles at police.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast his ballot in Jerusalem on Tuesday as Israelis headed to the polls for the country's first general election since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks. Netanyahu and his governing coalition face a divided opposition amid growing public frustration over his leadership and the wars that followed the attacks, including Israel's military campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. The election comes as Israelis remain deeply divided over the country's security, the handling of the wars and Netanyahu's political future, with voter turnout surging at its fastest pace in 45 years.

A protester interrupted President Trump's rally in Corinth, Mississippi, on Monday, shouting an insult about the president's White House ballroom project before being escorted out by security. The heckler shouted, "Shove that ballroom up your fat a**" as Trump praised Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Trump told the man to "go home," as he was removed from the arena, before claiming without evidence that protesters are paid by billionaire George Soros.

The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) monitoring agency said at least ten vessels have been attacked in or near the Strait of Hormuz since last Sunday, a weekly high since war broke out in February, and 23 attacks were recorded since the start of the month, almost double the average.

A suspect has been arrested in Germany following a fire at Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat, known as Eagle's Nest, German police said. Authorities were alerted to a fire at the Nazi leader's mountain residence on the peak of Obersalzberg at approximately 9:15 p.m. local time on Friday, Upper Bavaria South police said in a statement. The building, also known as Kehlsteinhaus, was "completely engulfed in flames" when firefighters arrived, police said, but no one was found inside and no injuries were reported.

London’s Oxford Street has banned vehicles from part of the famous shopping street, giving pedestrians more room to walk. The move aims to bring shoppers back as businesses face declining sales and store closures. Some people tell CBS News' Emmet Lyons that they welcome the extra space, while others said they’ll miss the buzz of traffic.

RT @CBSMATTGUTMAN: Record voter turnout is being reported in Israel, with the highest number of voters since 1977. Analysts tell me this likely favors the opposition, but they caution Netanyahu is Israel's political mastermind and can never be counted out.

The 71-year-old pope had a portion of his right lung removed and received a diagnosis of lung cancer earlier this week.

Singer John Legend urged voters in Dayton, Ohio, on Monday to support Democrat Amy Acton for governor and reelect Sherrod Brown to the Senate in the November 3 midterm elections.

RT @gekaminsky: NEW on the pardon economy: We found Trump's clemency orders erased at least $119M in restitution owed to victims, w/ 18 recipients left off the hook who had White House ties. We spoke to several victims, from small business owners to retirees @CBSNews

The law gives the president the authority to waive portions of the law if he certifies to Congress that halting the sanctions is "in the national interests of the United States," a provision President Trump invoked in an executive order Friday.

Two men have been charged with serious security offenses in Britain after being arrested in connection with the incident last month near RAF Fairford, the air base in England that had been used by the U.S. military to launch strikes on Iran, the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Tuesday.

Yulia Spichak, a 34 year-old makeup artist in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, dropped her son off at an English-language lesson on Oct. 19 and sat down in a nearby park to send a selfie to her sister, Alina. Seconds later, a Russian drone slammed into the park, killing Spichak and four others, including a 1-year-old girl.