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Gross domestic product grew 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, indicating some small economic growth despite concerns over tariffs and inflation. CBS News contributor Javier David has more details.
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The Powerball jackpot grew to more than $1.7 billion after no winning tickets from Monday’s drawing. CBS News’ Tom Hanson has more details.
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Maintenance workers secured metal bars over the window thieves used to break into the Louvre in October.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill version of the weight-loss drug Wegovy.
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Republican Ben Sasse represented Nebraska in the U.S. Senate from 2015 to 2023, then became president of the University of Florida.
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An elite unit of the Coast Guard seized control of a second tanker the U.S. said was carrying sanctioned oil in the waters off the coast of Venezuela. President Trump said he will not back down from his pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Willie James Inman reports.
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Santa might have a gigantic present in his bag on Christmas Eve, when the estimated jackpot for that night’s drawing will be an estimated $1.7 billion.
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President Trump announced plans to build a new “Trump class” of battleships, part of the Pentagon’s new “Golden Fleet.”
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CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” report about the Trump administration’s decision to send Venezuelans and others it says entered the U.S. illegally to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said in an internal email to colleagues that the story was “factually correct,” but CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss said in a statement that holding stories that “lack sufficient context” or are “missing critical voices happens every day in every newsroom,” and she looks “forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready.”
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Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimler AG agreed to settle allegations the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests.
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