President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just...

President Donald Trump last week declined to renew the existing U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement. The consequence of this decision is that while the term of the agreement runs to June 30, 2036, its individual provisions are subject to annual review and renegotiation in each year for the re...

Local News By Jack Fink Jack Fink covers politics for KTVT-TV CBS 11 and has been with the station since September 2003.Read Full BioJack FinkUpdated on: July 7, 2026 / 9:17 AM CDT / CBS Texas Add CBS News on Google With five recent independent polls showing Democrat James Talarico is locked...

Image by: Canva TL;DRUtah has become the first US state to let an AI chatbot, Doctronic, renew prescriptions without a doctor, via a regulatory sandbox that waives licensing laws. The state’s medical licensing board, blindsided by the January launch, called in April for the pilot to be halted ...

Jump seats are extra seats that are located in the cabin and cockpit onboard aircraft. While they can’t be accessed by regular passengers, they usually can be used by certain airline employees.  Baran Ozdemir/Getty Southwest Airlines is facing more scrutiny after a major policy change, but it...

By Paula Span, KFF Health NewsJules Netherland traveled from her home in the Bronx to the New York state Capitol in Albany several times in the past few years, hoping to persuade the legislature to pass a medical aid in dying bill, allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with a lethal...

For years, Brett Bond thought he had a relatively low risk for heart disease. He managed his mildly elevated blood sugar and cholesterol with medication, and he was eating healthy, exercising regularly, and shedding stress.Then three years ago Bond, a 60-year-old investment banker from Charlotte,...

Photo Illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy of Jordan Hirsch. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.The morning before Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005, I helped my parents batten down their house in up...

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was in the Virginia National Guard when he became hooked on speeches by Anwar al-Aulaqi in about 2014.The U.S.-born cleric was already dead by the time his words moved Jalloh: He had been killed in Yemen in a drone strike ordered by President Obama in September 2011.The Amer...