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Book excerpt: "When Caesar Was King" by David Margolick
David Margolick's biography of Sid Caesar explores how the 1950s comic reinvented the art of comedy in the new medium of television.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 2:18 pm
War escalates, energy prices spike after Israeli strike on Iran gas field
As Iran retaliates for an Israeli strike on the South Pars gas field, one analyst warns the war is "now hitting the plumbing of the global energy system."
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 2:13 pm
Joe Kent speaks out as Trump administration attempts to justify Iran war
Joe Kent, the former National Counterterrorism Center director, is speaking out after he left his post and blasted the Trump administration over its war in Iran. CBS News' Nancy Cordes reports.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 2:07 pm
Epstein's longtime lawyer testifying before House Oversight Committee
A lawyer who worked closely with Jeffrey Epstein for decades before becoming an executor of his estate is being questioned Thursday by the House Oversight Committee.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 2:03 pm
Family of college student who disappeared on trip to Spain speaks out: "We're very worried"
An urgent search is underway for James Gracey, a University of Alabama student who went missing on a spring break trip to Europe. The 20-year-old's family says he was visiting friends in Barcelona when he disappeared outside a popular nightclub early Tuesday.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 2:03 pm
ICE reacts after Afghan refugee who helped U.S. forces dies in custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, a refugee who helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan, died in ICE custody after he complained about his health, his brother said. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 2:03 pm
Watch Live: Gabbard, intel officials testify at House hearing on threats to U.S.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and other top officials are appearing before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:58 pm
Demi Lovato reveals how she found joy in cooking after recovering from eating disorders
Grammy-nominated singer and actor Demi Lovato speaks with "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King about her healing journey and how she found joy in cooking after her recovery from anorexia and bulimia. Lovato says food used to bring her "discomfort and fear" but she has since learned to find "freedom with food." Her new cookbook is called "One Plate at a Time."
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:54 pm
Dolores Huerta says Cesar Chavez "manipulated and pressured" her as abuse allegations emerge
Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers movement with Cesar Chavez, alleges that Chavez "manipulated and pressured" and later forced her against her will to have sex with him in the 1960s, fathering two children. She spoke out after two other women alleged to The New York Times that they were sexually abused by Chavez in the 1970s when they were 12 and 13 years old.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:50 pm
Senate committee advances Markwayne Mullin's nomination for DHS secretary
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced Sen. Markwayne Mullin's nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:48 pm
Trump faces expanded war as Israel and Iran trade attacks at gas fields
President Trump is threatening an Iranian gas field as Israel and Tehran trade strikes that could impact the world's oil supply. CBS News' Charlie D'Agata reports.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:48 pm
What are today's mortgage interest rates: March 19, 2026?
Looking to buy a home or refinance your current one? These are the mortgage interest rates you'll need to know now.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:37 pm
Over a third of TSA officers call out at 3 major U.S. airports in single day
"The morale is getting worse by the day because no one knows when this is gonna end," said Cameron Cochems, a lead TSA officer in Boise, Idaho.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:37 pm
Overheated hikers rescued as dangerous heat wave shatters records in West
The last week of winter is ushering in extreme temperatures in the western U.S. Fire crews in Phoenix have already rescued multiple overheated hikers since Monday. Kris Van Cleave has the latest.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:36 pm
Over a third of TSA officers called out at 3 major airports Tuesday amid partial shutdown
Travelers continue to face long lines at airports with no end to the partial government shutdown in sight. Atlanta was one of three major U.S. airports on Tuesday where more than one-third of TSA officers called out of work. In Philadelphia, flyers found three of six TSA checkpoints closed on Wednesday. Skyler Henry reports.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:30 pm
We visited an LA building with 89 registered hospices. Here's what we found.
Advocates said the Van Nuys building looked like an example of "clustering" — a red flag for hospice fraud.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:27 pm
How did 89 hospices end up linked to a 3-story LA building? We went to investigate.
State records show 89 hospice companies licensed in a single three-story Los Angeles office building. CBS News visited the building, which advocates call one of the most extreme examples of "clustering"— a pattern that state auditors consider a major red flag for potential fraud.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:26 pm
Pete Hegseth says "largest strike package yet" coming today in Iran war
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. has struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran since the war began.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:24 pm
Government shutdown affecting DHS causes travel nightmares
Airports across the U.S. continue to face staffing issues as the partial government shutdown impacts funding for the Department of Homeland Security. CBS News' Skyler Henry reports.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:24 pm
Top intelligence officials spar with senators at hearing on threats to U.S.
Top intelligence officials testified Wednesday at a Senate hearing on national security threats. Leaders, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, were pressed on some of the conflicting claims that continue to come from the Trump administration about the nuclear threat Iran did or did not pose before the war. Nancy Cordes reports.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:23 pm
Key takeaways from Tulsi Gabbard's Iran testimony that appeared to shield Trump administration
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is testifying on Capitol Hill for a second day on Thursday after a contentious hearing before senators, where she appeared to hold back on information about the Iran war's objectives. Andrew Boyd, former chief of operations for the CIA Counterterrorism Mission Center, joins with more insight.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:20 pm
Trump warns Israel and Iran after strikes on energy facilities
New strikes in the Iran war are impacting the oil and gas markets. Qatar's Ras Laffan gas facility was in flames after Iranian strikes, which followed an Israeli strike on Iran's vast South Pars natural gas field. President Trump issued warnings to both Israel and Iran. Charlie D'Agata reports.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:19 pm
California spot ties U.S. temperature record for March amid heat wave
A California desert community tied the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S., amid a record-breaking winter heat wave in the Southwest.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:17 pm
Iran war escalates as Trump threatens to "massively blow up" Iranian gas field
President Trump is grappling with an expansion in the war against Iran after Israeli strikes targeted Tehran's South Pars natural gas field, and as the regime targeted a key natural gas facility in Qatar. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio and Natalie Brand report.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:10 pm
Satellite companies curb access to Mideast imagery amid Iran war
Satellite companies restrict access to images of the Middle East as the Iran war rages, with one citing concern data could be exploited "by adversarial actors."
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 1:06 pm
Web extra: Anthony Mason and The Last Dinner Party
The band The Last Dinner Party tell Anthony Mason how they met, their rapid rise to fame and the support they've had along the way.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 12:51 pm
ICE detainee deaths on record pace, with Afghan refugee latest to die
Even after accounting for record-high detention populations, the rate of deaths per 10,000 ICE detainees was the highest in 2025 than in any year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 12:42 pm
Rapper wins lawsuit against police over mocking their raid: "It's for Americans"
Afroman spoke to CBS News after he won the case, which tested the limits of parody and the license artists can take in social commentary directed at public figures.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 12:11 pm
Surging U.S. gas prices could erase bigger tax refunds, analysis finds
Stanford economists estimate that the typical U.S. household will spend an additional $740 on gas this year because of the jump in global oil prices.
📢 Published on 📅 19 March 2026 🕒 11:40 am
Florida man stripped of U.S. citizenship after $3.8M COVID-19 fraud, judge rules
A Haitian-born man from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was stripped of his U.S. citizenship after defrauding COVID-19 relief programs of millions and lying during the naturalization process, federal prosecutors said.
📢 Published on 📅 18 March 2026 🕒 4:00 pm
