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CBS News sees ratings drop, staff departures and labor dispute under Bari Weiss

CBS News is contending with falling ratings, a series of high-profile departures, a staff walkout and potential layoffs as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss continues to reshape the network.

March 19, 2026

Joseph Duggar, ‘19 Kids and Counting’ star, arrested on child sex abuse charges

Joseph Duggar, a former star of the TLC reality series "19 Kids and Counting," was arrested Wednesday on charges that he molested a 9-year-old girl during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida, authorities said.

March 19, 2026

Oregon principal put on leave over Charlie Kirk remarks sentenced to prison in child sex images case

A former Oregon high school principal who was placed on administrative leave following controversial remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material.

March 18, 2026

From viral fame to tragedy: Deaths linked to social media challenges, algorithms and creator culture

The death of Rachel Tussey, an Ohio mother of three who documented her cosmetic surgery journey on TikTok, has drawn renewed attention to the complicated and, at times, troubling intersection between social media and real-world harm.

March 18, 2026

D.C. man with manslaughter record gets life for road rage killing of Uber Eats driver

A Washington, D.C., man with a prior manslaughter conviction was sentenced Monday to life in prison for a road rage killing that left an Uber Eats driver paralyzed and ultimately dead.

March 18, 2026

Trump DOJ seeks to denaturalize fraud convict whose sentence Biden commuted

The Justice Department has moved to strip U.S. citizenship from a Nigerian-born man convicted of fraud whose sentence was commuted by President Biden.

March 18, 2026

No one has ever had a perfect March Madness bracket — and the math shows why no one ever will

Every March, millions of Americans fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets convinced -- just maybe -- that this is the year. It never is. And the math explains why it never will be.

March 18, 2026

The perfect March Madness bracket? The odds are basically zero

Every March, tens of millions of Americans fill out NCAA Tournament brackets with a quiet, familiar belief: This could be the year.

March 18, 2026

Oscars ratings slide 9% to four-year low as awards season struggles

Hollywood's biggest night drew its smallest audience in four years Sunday, as viewership for the 98th Academy Awards fell to 17.9 million -- a 9% decline from last year's post-pandemic high -- according to Nielsen data released Tuesday.

March 18, 2026

Former ‘Price Is Right’ model says she was fired for refusing to defend Bob Barker

A former model on "The Price Is Right" is breaking her silence, alleging she was pushed off the long-running game show in 1995 because she refused to publicly defend host Bob Barker amid a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a fellow model.

March 18, 2026

Kohl’s CEO rules out further store closures, says most locations remain profitable

Kohl's Corp. CEO Michael Bender said the department store chain has no plans to shutter additional locations this year, offering a measure of reassurance to shoppers and employees after the retailer closed 27 stores in 2025.

March 18, 2026

Culture Wire: ‘Dune: Part Three’ trailer releases, Kiki Shepard dead at 74 and more

The first teaser for "Dune: Part Three" drops, new "Spider-Man" movie starts its marketing campaign, and more.

March 17, 2026

Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI over ‘Massive Copyright Infringement’

Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary filed suit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the artificial intelligence giant of unlawfully copying nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its GPT large language models.

March 17, 2026

N.Y. attorney charged with hiring enforcer to extort former client’s son for $500K

A New York attorney has been federally charged with attempted extortion after allegedly hiring an individual to threaten and assault a former client's son in an effort to collect a $500,000 debt he claimed he was owed.

March 17, 2026

FDA probes multistate E. coli outbreak tied to RAW FARM raw cheddar cheese

Federal health officials are investigating a multistate E. coli outbreak tied to RAW FARM-brand raw cheddar cheese -- and the company has declined a federal recommendation to remove its products from the market.

March 17, 2026

SpaceX crosses 10,000-satellite threshold, owning two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit

SpaceX hit a landmark milestone in the early hours of Tuesday morning, pushing its Starlink internet constellation past 10,000 simultaneously active satellites, a figure that would have seemed fantastical just a decade ago.

March 17, 2026

Ex-LASD deputy sentenced to 63 months for extortion, sham arrest plot

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy and helicopter pilot was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for helping a self-styled cryptocurrency businessman extort a rival and arrange the sham drug-possession arrest of another adversary in 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

March 17, 2026

Meteor rattles northeast Ohio on St. Patrick’s Day: What to know

A loud boom that rattled homes across northeast Ohio on Tuesday morning was likely caused by a meteor, according to the National Weather Service, though some details about the event remain under investigation.

March 17, 2026

Kid Rock fires back at Conan O’Brien over Oscars joke, touts ‘Freedom 250’ tour

Kid Rock pushed back against a jab Conan O'Brien made at his expense during the 98th Academy Awards, calling the comedian's quip subpar while using the moment to promote his upcoming summer tour.

March 17, 2026

Which ex-president told Trump he wished he’d struck Iran?

A mystery is swirling around the Oval Office: Which former president secretly told Donald Trump he wished he'd launched military strikes against Iran?

March 17, 2026