Susan Page's 'Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power' unearths newsy nuggets and candid thoughts from the country's most powerful woman.

Lawmakers in California and other states are rethinking how they set and enforce speed limits, giving local authorities more power to slow drivers.

With supreme confidence and politically incorrect bluster, businessman Dan Pena made a fortune. He prods and pokes his students to do the same.

Solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars are not enough to beat climate change. California is also looking at giant carbon-sucking vacuums.

For many in Minneapolis, the space outside Cup Foods where Floyd died is sacred ground that should remain closed off — or a meaningful site that shouldn't become an eyesore.

Keep warheads mobile, at sea or in the air, not in underground silos whose location hasn't changed in decades.

Attorneys in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd make their closing arguments Monday.

Video of Chicago police officer shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo fuels peaceful protests.

After Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright and Caron Nazario, I'd like to think something has changed. But the many calls for police reform sound just as hollow.

The battle for Afghanistan began long before American troops arrived in 2001, and won't end when the last U.S. soldier is gone.

It's a club no one wants to join. These Black families have lost loved ones to police brutality. The Chauvin trial could bring justice.

The national security state is cheering for a new Cold War with China. Americans should be deeply worried.

The shocking rupture between King Abdullah and his half-brother Prince Hamzah has caused many Jordanians to reappraise their country's monarchy.

Experts said that while the pause on Johnson & Johnson's vaccine may make sense for the U.S., stoppages in poorer countries would end up costing lives.

Philip, who died April 9 at the age of 99, was laid to rest in the Royal Vault at Windsor Castle after a funeral service steeped in tradition.

El Salvador is known to jail women for miscarriages, stillbirths and other obstetric emergencies. An international lawsuit could bring about important change.

A CDC advisory panel is grappling with the best way to "do no harm" regarding Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and its risk of blood clots.

Widespread support for background checks and smart gun technology could push enough GOP senators out of lockstep on gun control.

Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland rescinded Friday restrictions on Justice Department's use of consent decrees to force police departments to reform.

Prince Philip's funeral will be streamed and televised on most major networks Saturday. But you'll have to wake up early to see it.

While China pushes a complacent population toward vaccination, a health official's suggestion to mix vaccines broaches sensitive political territory.

Biden signs emergency determination that leaves the annual cap of 15,000 refugees in place, but outrage from Democrats brings a White House reversal.

It's unlikely Bernie Madoff ever got into cryptocurrency from his prison cell, but he might have appreciated the logic.

Nicaraguan American Nora Sandigo helps children who have crossed the border on their own to join families in the U.S.

Republicans capped state and local tax deductions in 2017. California Democrats aren't joining their East Coast colleagues in insisting on a fix now.

Why might some COVID-19 vaccines pose a small risk of blood clots while others don't? Scientists suspect it's related to their use of adenoviruses.

In their rush to help unaccompanied immigrant children, some critics question whether Long Beach leaders understand what they are getting themselves into.

Climate change means Jordanians may soon not have enough water to drink. Others will face a similar scarcity.

Biden announces sanctions on Russia for hacking federal agencies and interfering to help Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

In latest chapter of British royal rift, estranged princes William and Harry to cross paths at family funeral.

White supremacists failed to turn out big crowds in Huntington Beach and elsewhere but have more coming, say experts on extremist groups.

Biden announces U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that drew America into its longest war.

Bernie Madoff, who came to epitomize Wall Street corruption with his epic $65-billion Ponzi scheme, has died in prison of natural causes at age 82.

White supremacists failed to turn out big crowds in Huntington Beach and elsewhere but have more coming, say experts on extremist groups.

Minnesota prosecutors charged Kim Potter, who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, with second-degree manslaughter. She was released on $100,000 bail.

The world's failure to deliver vaccines to needier countries is more than a scandal; it's a crisis. And it could come to haunt us all soon.

Jordan's tribes have long been the kingdom's bedrock and a source of support for the monarchy. But accusations of seditious scheming may change that.

Protesters gathered in downtown Sacramento on Tuesday night to decry the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black man shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb.

Reports of blood clots among those who got Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine may make some recipients anxious. Here's how to handle those feelings.

Two COVID-19 vaccines have now been linked to a risk of developing blood clots. Scientists don't know whether the vaccines are to blame.

A bill under consideration would try to make it easier to report and prosecute hate crimes against Asian Americans.

President Biden will miss the May 1 deadline of the Trump-Taliban deal and withdraw remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11.

Protests in Brooklyn Center, Minn., continue days after a 20-year-old Black man was shot to death by a police officer.

We explain what vaccine passports are, how they work, where they've been implemented, and why some people object to them.

A flourishing subgenre of YouTube channels features North Korean refugees telling how they fled the authoritarian government and how they've adjusted.

U.S. officials called for a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine after serious blood clots were reported in six recipients.

The shooting of Daunte Wright yet again ignited tensions in the Minneapolis area.

A grand jury returned an indictment against Harvey Weinstein in L.A. County in connection with the sexual assaults of five women between 2004 and 2013.

Biden nominated Chris Magnus, a onetime Richmond, Calif., police chief, to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Ur Jaddou to head U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

A past coronavirus infection may eliminate the need for a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, a growing body of evidence suggests.

Do cities defund departments and invest elsewhere, or should the status quo remain? The outcome of the Derek Chauvin trial could be decisive.

Amid a new push to vaccinate Homeland Security employees, the wife of a hospitalized Border Patrol agent urges others not to delay COVID-19 shots.

'Shadow' conflict takes to the spotlight as Iran accuses Israel of attacking key nuclear site

Mexico once embraced renewable energy. Now President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is doubling down on dirty fossil fuels such as coal.

Residents and community activists of Brooklyn Center, a suburb north of Minneapolis, call for justice in the shooting death of Daunte Wright.

En la primera entrega de su presupuesto, Biden propone un aumento del 16% en el gasto doméstico, afirmando que programas vitales han sido privados de fondos durante años.

The drive for vaccine certificates isn't a matter of government overreach by out-of-control Democrats; it's a product of the free-enterprise system.

After serving in Johnson's Cabinet, Clark set up a private law practice in New York in which he championed civil rights and fought the death penalty.

Voters go to the polls in Ecuador and Peru on Sunday in contentious elections shaped by fallout from the pandemic.

Citing religious freedom, Santa Clara County residents objected to state restrictions on Bible study gatherings in homes. The Supreme Court agreed.

President Biden's border coordinator Roberta Jacobson will step down at the end of the month, as the administration struggles to deal with an increase in migrants at the southern border.

A forensic pathologist says George Floyd died of a lack of oxygen that damaged his brain and caused his heart to stop, bolstering prior testimony.

The palace insists that Jordan's royal house and the country are in order after the detention of Prince Hamzah. Many are skeptical.

Britain's Prince Philip passed away peacefully at age 99 at Windsor Castle. Here are some images from over the years.

In the first installment of his budget, Biden proposes a 16% increase in domestic spending, saying vital programs have been starved for years.

Linath Lim fled the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and became a doctor in Fresno. Amid the pandemic, she treated farmworkers and the poor, until the virus caught up with her.

The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, was the undisputed master of the British royal household for more than seven decades.

Anti-coup demonstrators are abandoning peaceful protest for armed resistance as the deposed civilian government appeals to ethnic rebels to join the fight. The United Nations warns of a 'bloodbath.'

Reports of the state's decline and fall are a cyclical staple. Blame it on envy and partisanship

One-third of COVID-19 survivors were diagnosed with a psychiatric or neurological condition within six months of being infected with the coronavirus.

The Los Angeles Air Force Base's Space and Missile Systems Center in El Segundo will become the headquarters of the Space Force's Space Systems Command.

Biden's proposals would require background checks for 'ghost guns,' encourage state red-flag laws and more. Yet they stop short of what advocates seek.

Members of the #KHive respond with venom when they think someone has dismissed or insulted the vice president.

Two COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be protective against a rapidly spreading variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus that arose in California, a study finds.

With gun limits facing opposition in Congress, President Biden will take executive actions after mass killings in his first weeks in office.

The prosecutors in the Chauvin trial have broken out of the paradigm that so often results in not-guilty verdicts where police are concerned.

President Biden touted his $2.3-trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday, hoping to summon public support to push past the Republicans lining up against the massive effort.

The president's son emerged from 'non-stop depravity' to sobriety and a new life, and he still insists his tie to a Ukrainian firm was not wrong.

As April 15 draws near, let's focus our collective anger on the millions of tax cheats who don't pay what they owe.

Who is Queen Noor? Royal drama emerges, nearly 43 years after an American's marriage to Jordan's King Hussein.

Officials from five world powers are trying to bring the United States back into the foundering nuclear deal they signed with Iran in 2015.

Just a few months ago, the swaggering candidate was a soft-spoken family man running in Nevada.

Long a minority in American Christianity, Asian American Christians have found a new voice after the Atlanta spa shootings. They are a bridge between those who blame an evangelical 'purity culture' for the deaths and activists who say the growth of anti-Asian hatred cannot be ignored.

The Minneapolis police chief was less emotional than many other witnesses in the George Floyd trial. But his point was the same: Derek Chauvin used excessive force.

Jordan's Prince Hamzah signed a statement saying he was loyal to his half brother.

Here's what Hunter Biden, President Biden's son whose controversies often make headlines, told CBS in interviews that aired Sunday and Monday.

The idea of vaccine passports isn't new, as international travelers and families with school-age children will tell you.

President Biden's dilemma on the Iran nuclear deal: Go slow and risk war, or move fast even if it means an imperfect pact that hurts his domestic agenda.

Denver decriminalized magic mushrooms in 2019. Now advocates are pushing to legalize psilocybin — the active ingredient — as a treatment for various mental health problems.

Jordan accused the prince of colluding with outside parties in a plot aimed at the country's stability, a day after placing him under house arrest.

When it comes to ambitious legislation, the Biden administration is likely to have only a two-year window.

We have to remember, as Derek Chauvin's trial unfolds, that courtrooms are another place where too many cases of murder of Black people go to die.

A member of Jordan's royal family and a government official are said to be held for 'security' reasons, reportedly along with the former crown prince.

Demonizing the victim, as Chauvin's lawyers have done, works particularly well when the victim is Black, because it activates unconscious racial biases.

A car slammed into a security barricade near the Capitol, killing one police officer and injuring another. The knife-wielding driver was fatally shot.

Vaccinating children is the critical next step in the U.S. campaign against COVID-19 — and one that public health officials worry could prove difficult.

Hunter Biden says an abandoned laptop "certainly" could belong to him. In CBS interviews, he also shares details of his family's drug intervention.

Corporations, especially Georgia-based businesses like Delta and Coca-Cola, respond by ramping up criticism of new voting restrictions in the state.

Piers Morgan, who left his "Good Morning Britain" job after doubting claims by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, talks Monday to Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

With challenges mounting at home and abroad, Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah Sisi tries to capitalize on the freeing of the ship stuck in the Suez Canal.