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Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin Weekly Newspaper, OakPark.com and Sportskeeda. At least one person is dead and three others were injured in weekend shootings across Chicago as of Saturday. The ages of the victims range from 20 to 58, according to Chicago police. The first shooting of the weekend happened around 8 p.m. in the...

For months, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been stuck in a hostile stand-off over taxes. Mamdani ran on further taxing Gotham's already well-soaked rich, but he's struggled to deliver. His efforts to hike taxes on high earners and corporations fell flat, and his fallback -- a proposed property-tax increase across the five boroughs -- found few backers in the Legislature and City Council. Last month, though, Gov. Kathy Hochul stepped in to provide some respite, reviving a long-standing ...

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., says May Day protests are celebrating some of the worst ideas of humanity on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.' Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., warned against what he called a "small communist takeover" within his own party during an appearance on "Jesse Watters Primetime." Criticizing far-left groups involved in May Day protests, Fetterman described the current state of activism as an "orgy of socialism." "It's like a marriage of the Palestinian, the anti-ICE, the abolish...

"We ... land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It's a very profitable business," Trump told his supporters, adding that the U.S. Navy is acting "like pirates" to enforce the blockade. In that time, U.S. forces have redirected 48 vessels back to port "to ensure compliance with the blockade," U.S. Central Command (CENTCOMM) announced on Saturday in a post on X - an increase of three from just one day earlier. But the real value is in how much the...

Newsweek has mapped U.S. military installations across Germany, after a plan from the Trump administration to withdraw roughly 5,000 personnel was announced, amid tensions over the Iran war. A statement from the Pentagon obtained by Newsweek said about 5,000 personnel would be pulled from bases in Germany due to the country's lack of support for the U.S. war in Iran and "follows a thorough review of the Department's force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and ...

Maher said on Friday that the California governor "imitates" Trump in some ways. California Gov. Gavin Newsom defended his relentless social media trolling of President Donald Trump while refusing to take "Real Time" host Bill Maher's bait to definitively say he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2028. During Friday night's "Real Time" show, Newsom made his case for his occasionally garish, Trump-mocking social media presence after Maher accused him of copying Trump by suing...

President Trump said Thursday that U.S. gas prices will 'drop like a rock' as soon as the war with Iran is over. President Donald Trump's effort to broadly pull U.S. troops from key NATO allies over resistance to the Iran war could run into new limits imposed by Congress, but the administration may have a way around them. Trump ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany Friday, a drawdown which will happen over the next six to 12 months, according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin Weekly Newspaper, OakPark.com and Sportskeeda. A 28-year-old man is recovering after being stabbed during an argument turned fight on the city's West Side Friday night. Chicago police said the victim was in the 600 block of South Pulaski Road just before 9:30 p.m. when an unknown person ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States will withdraw about 5,000 troops from Germany in the next six to 12 months, the Pentagon said Friday, fulfilling President Donald Trump's threat as he clashes with the German leader over the U.S. war with Iran. Trump had threatened to withdraw some troops from the NATO ally earlier this week after Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was being "humiliated" by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington's lack of strategy in the war. Pentagon ...

A May Day protester in Minneapolis affiliated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization says the group supports replacing the current system with socialism, describing it as one Communist and socialist groups called for a "revolution" at a May Day rally in Minneapolis Friday, highlighting the growing influence of far-left organizations at an event traditionally centered on workers' rights. Some of those demonstrators denounced capitalism and pushed for the seizure of private property and...

The Mamdani Administration staffer who prominently wore a keffiyeh in a slick video urging New Yorkers to go to the Rent Guidelines Board, may have sending a message with his symbolic attire, insiders told The Post. Mohamed Alharbi, the deputy borough director for Queens in the mayor's Office of Mass Engagement, has not been spotted wearing a keffiyeh in public photos, interviews and videos, observers note. Colleagues were also surprised to see him in a keffiyeh, which many Jews equate with...

Democrats are pushing back on a recent court ruling that blocked doctors' ability to prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth and dispense the drug through the mail, arguing it will significantly restrict reproductive care nationwide. "A court packed with Trump-appointed extremists decided to make medication abortion harder to access," Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said in a statement on the social platform X. "Let's be clear: mifepristone is safe, effective & FDA ...

The White House has been buzzing -- and not just because of this week's high-profile state visit from Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla. The royal couple wrapped up their four-day U.S. visit Thursday with a formal farewell from President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, and an unexpected highlight of the week centered on a distinctly sweet tradition: the White House honey program. The first lady expanded the program just days before the monarchs' visit, unveiling a new ...

Leticia Mariscal seemed to have hit on a nearly foolproof scam. She worked for the social services department of Madera County in California, where she handled food stamp cases. For three years, starting in 2022, she would scour the county's databases looking for people who were elderly or dead, and would approve a benefit claim for them -- and siphon the money to her own account. She found noncitizens to be particularly enticing targets, calling to pointedly ask about immigration records, ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Mississippi Vietnam War veteran who challenged a ban on political slogans at a military retirement home, ruling that the restriction does not violate the First Amendment. Johnny Fuselier filed a class action lawsuit against John S. RisCassi, the Chief Operating Officer of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, claiming that rules preventing residents from wearing or displaying political messages in shared spaces infringed on his ...

Jesse Zanger is the managing editor of CBSNewYork.com. Jesse has previously worked for the Fox News Channel and Spectrum News NY1. He covers regional news around the Tri-State Area, with a particular focus on breaking news and extreme weather. We're expecting to learn more today about the suspect accused of stabbing two women to death in separate incidents in Nassau County. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder are expected to hold a briefing on the ...

Comedian Bill Maher on Friday quipped that the Trump administration is "going a little crazy" with its second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey over an alleged threat to President Trump's life. Maher used his "Real Time" monologue to segue from the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner to the Comey indictment by joking that the alleged shooter "was activated by James Comey's sea shells." The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted Comey in ...

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher pulled no punches in an interview with Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), grilling him about his recent Trump-like behavior and the billion-dollar black hole that is California's proposed high-speed rail system. Maher spoke to the California politician -- who is term-limited out of his current office and widely expected to run for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination -- and pressed him on his record in The Golden State. WATCH: Maher began by warning Newsom...

California Governor Gavin Newsom told Jimmy Kimmel that "unpopular" President Donald Trump would be the reason the GOP loses in the November elections. California Gov. Gavin Newsom was grilled by "Real Time" host Bill Maher Friday over his leadership of the Golden State and the many problems facing the state. Maher clashed with the Democrat over surging gas prices in his state and other economic complaints critics say define Newsom's legacy, including his long-troubled high-speed rail ...

It's gerrymandering season. Tim Constantine and David Bozell of For America sort through the chaos of redistricting coast to coast, and ask the big question: will any of it actually matter come November? We basically concluded that this was going to continue. This blood sport of gerrymandering was going to continue. ... We're going to have just divided government, but we're going to have ruby red states and ruby red congressional delegations, and very royal blue states and very royal blue ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has long prided himself on a singular skill -- picking winners. His recruitment coups in North Carolina, Alaska and Ohio this cycle were hailed as masterstrokes. But in a series of high-stakes primaries unfolding across Maine, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota, his once-formidable machinery is colliding headlong with a Democratic base increasingly hostile to Washington leadership and increasingly indifferent to electability calculations. The result is a ...

Aaron Boxerman reported from Jerusalem, and Edward Wong from Washington. The Trump administration has announced more than $8.6 billion in emergency arms sales to partners in the Middle East as negotiations to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran remained at an impasse. The State Department announced the sales in a series of statements on Friday night. The sales authorize the transfer of rockets to Israel, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and air-defense equipment to Qatar and Kuwait. The ...

Vice President JD Vance needs to prioritize one policy change above all others as he leads the Trump administration's crackdown on fraud in California and elsehwere: closing a loophole that is allowing thousands of illegal aliens to receive Medicaid. Here's the loophole: Federal law requires states to verify the citizenship or immigration status of people who apply for Medicaid (which is Medi-Cal in California), but gives them a "reasonable opportunity period" to provide documentation. The...

The Cuban government denounced new sanctions leveled against the island nation on Friday as "collective punishment," as the economic situation grows increasingly dire. President Donald Trump implemented the new sanctions in an executive order on Friday, coinciding with the International Workers' Day, or May Day, holiday. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez was quick to respond, denouncing the actions as "unilateral coercive measures" amounting to "collective punishment on the Cuban ...

BEIRUT -- The United States is warning shipping companies they could face sanctions for making payments to Iran to safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control alert posted Friday adds pressure in the standoff between the U.S. and Iran over control of the strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, where about a fifth of the world's trade in oil and natural gas typically passes. Iran effectively closed the strait by attacking and threatening ships after the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Dr. Amy Acton, a Democrat running unopposed in her party's primary for Ohio governor, faces some steep challenges in the coming general election. She is trying to be the first Democrat in 20 years to win the office in a state that has become dominated by Republicans. Her presumed opponent, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, has national name recognition and a personal fortune that he is plowing into his campaign. But Acton's most formidable obstacle may be a ghost from her recent...

Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) dropped out of the race on April 30, which allowed Platner to come forward as the Democratic nominee. Concha criticized Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Hasan Piker for supporting Platner. Concha argued that Sanders, who is Jewish, shouldn't support Platner. "I would think he wouldn't endorse the guy with a Nazi tattoo," Concha said. In October 2025, Platner came under fire after a photo circulated of him with a tattoo of a famous Nazi symbol, the Totenkopf. Platner...

NATO said it was "working with the U.S. to understand the details" of the Pentagon's decision to pull the troops. The move by the Trump administration "underscores the need for Europe to invest more in defense," NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said in a statement. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened a drawdown in U.S. troops amid a public row with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said the U.S. was being "humiliated" by Iran. The Pentagon's announcement would still leave around ...

Addressing the cameras following reports of spiralling youth violence, including the killing of the 21-year-old former Israeli soldier Yemanu Binyamin Zalka last week, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was clear. "This will be a total war," he said, announcing a national operation to target a surge in youth violence. "We will restore security to the streets and calm to parents. Anyone who harms Israeli civilians will face the strong hand of the Israel Police and pay a heavy...

Nowhere is that more apparent than Nevada, the battleground state where Latino and working class voters are largely the same people -- the hospitality workers, dishwashers and bellmen who keep Las Vegas humming and who were among the most coveted demographics of the 2024 election. "They're the new soccer mom. We are literally the new persuadable voter," said Democratic strategist and former union organizer Chuck Rocha, who served as an adviser to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 and 2016 ...