
Elon Musk suggested as investor for Warner-Paramount merger that would put him in group running CNN and CBS News
The $111 billion merger moved closer to completion this week
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The $111 billion merger moved closer to completion this week
Sources tell CBS News that Ukraine is ready to sign a landmark drone defense deal with the U.S., as new details of Ukrainian technology helping defend U.S. bases in the Middle East come to light.

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” shed some of the viewers it snared during its much-anticipated Season 59 debut as it grappled with the effects of CBS’ football programming on its audience, even as it notched a gain in audience compared to its year-earlier performance. The audience for the second telecast of the venerable newsmagazine rose 5% […]

President Donald Trump has banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House coverage, and the three outlets are suing him, alleging it abridges their First Amendment rights. In response to Trump’s ban of the news outlets, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and Fox News — which along with CNN provide the White House […]

Paramount has reached a settlement with California and 11 other states that clears a major legal hurdle to its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, with the deal imposing commitments on film production, jobs and editorial independence at CNN and CBS News.

As part of the settlement between Paramount and the state AGs, the news organizations will have a board of journalists monitoring their work, and disputes with management.

The potential ownership of CBS News and CNN under one corporate owner has generated months of fear, anxiety and loathing at both networks, but the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery settlement tries to resolve some of the issues with the establishment of an editorial independence board. Per the terms of the consent decree, the board will establish […]

The WGA has confirmed that its own lawsuit over the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger also has been settled, following the same move by the state attorneys general announced Monday morning by California AG Rob Bonta. In a statement, the guild acknowledged that it could not go it alone. “We continue to believe the merger will […]
"I want my pictures to hurt," British war photographer Sir Don McCullin told CBS News ahead of the publication of his final book: "Vietnam."

Major TV networks that rotate covering the president for wider media distribution say they will not do so moving forward after President Trump banned three media outlets from the White House last week. Fox News Media, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and CNN, responded to the ban in a rare joint statement, saying “the public…
The scale and duration of Iran's response appeared to take the U.S. goverenment by surprise, three sources who were in Bahrain at the time told CBS News, in part because families hadn't yet been required to evacuate.

The husband of the US mother who strangled her three young children discusses his grief in an interview with CBS News.

Lindsay Clancy 's former husband said he forgave her for killing their three young children in his first televised interview Sunday on CBS News' 60 Minutes since a jury deadlocked in her trial for the children's deaths.

Credit is merited when it’s due: CBS News’ newly-minted “60 Minutes” correspondent Ross Douthat landed a thoughtful, emotional interview with the person who may have elicited more speculation than anyone else this year. Patrick Clancy is the grieving father of three children killed in January 2023 by his then-wife, Lindsay Clancy. (Lindsay testified to killing […]

Patrick Clancy will give his first televised interview on "60 Minutes" on CBS News

With about six weeks until the midterms, CBS News 24/7’s The Takeout with Major Garrett is adding new recurring reporting segments, while the network is partnering with VoteHub. The Takeout, which airs at 5 p.m. ET, is the signature politics show on the streaming channel. The new segments include the features State by State, focusing […]

A wrecked air force plane and destroyed buildings are among the images obtained by the BBC's partner CBS News.
Analysts tell CBS News that as the U.S. and China race for AI supremacy, they risk driving all of humanity "off a cliff."

On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging tech leaders to slow the pace of AI development. On a Sunday CBS News interview, he added that it “could be a good idea” to have an AI kill switch — not unlike what Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) have proposed. “Some…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke exclusively with CBS News' Aidan Stretch, where he discussed his country's ongoing war with Russia.