Bob Dole, Longtime Senator, Republican Leader, Dies at 98  —  The Kansas native who was grievously wounded in battle during World War II fought his way back to health and eventually served 36 years in Congress  —  Bob Dole went from the plains of Kansas to the battlefields of Italy …

CNN Fires Chris Cuomo After New Details on Help He Gave His Brother  —  The cable news network said it had “terminated him, effective immediately,” a move that came four months after Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York.  —  The star anchor Chris Cuomo was fired by CNN on Saturday amid …

Mississippi Gov. Reeves: ‘No guaranteed right to an abortion’ in Constitution  —  ‘This has been a watershed moment in American history,’ GOP governor says, as decades of abortion rights precedence under review  —  Gov. Tate Reeves reacts to Biden's solution to high gas prices

Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation  —  An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the country's population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening food insecurity this winter.  Many are already on the brink of catastrophe.

Don't Denigrate Adoption to Defend Roe  —  America's adoptive families are instruments of love.  —  From the moment I listened to the oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, I had a sinking feeling that we were about to have a cultural argument about adoption.

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates.  Misinformation is to blame  —  Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden.

Trump social media group raises $1 billion from undisclosed investors  —  Donald Trump's social media startup on Saturday announced that it secured $1 billion in new investment as part of its ongoing efforts to become publicly traded via a blank check company.

White Supremacists Stage Bizarro Rally in Downtown D.C., Find Themselves Stranded  —  Though they intended to “reclaim America,” members of Patriot Front had more than enough trouble reclaiming their own ride.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.—A group of white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington …

Fact check: Biden tells inaccurate story about his 1973 meeting with Israeli prime minister  —  Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden has a favorite story about his long relationship with Israel.  For decades, he has been publicly recounting his 1973 meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir …

U.S. congressman posts family Christmas picture with guns, days after school shooting … A U.S. congressman on Saturday posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appeared to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a shooting at a Michigan high school.

Briefing With Senior State Department Official On the Seventh Round of the JCPOA Talks  —  MODERATOR: Good morning, everyone, and thanks very much for joining us, and especially so on a Saturday morning.  We thought it important to have a timely opportunity to hear - for you to hear …

Sunday morning talking heads  —  It's a full-court press for the White House's public health brain trust on this morning's Sunday shows as Team Biden tries to calm the public about the new COVID variant tearing through South Africa.  Each show will feature a top science bureaucrat sharing the latest data on the Omicron strain.

Biden and Putin to hold video call on Tuesday, will discuss Ukraine … U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a video call on Tuesday to deal with military tensions over Ukraine other topics.  —  Biden wants to discuss U.S. concerns about Russia's military buildup …