Mass shooting survivors seek assault weapons ban
Survivors of some of the most high-profile mass shootings in recent years are calling to reintroduce a federal assault weapons ban after the first one expired 20 years ago. Nicole Sganga has more.
Survivors of some of the most high-profile mass shootings in recent years are calling to reintroduce a federal assault weapons ban after the first one expired 20 years ago. Nicole Sganga has more.
The National Rifle Association's longtime leader will step down on the eve of a legal showdown with New York's attorney general over allegations of corruption.
Deja Taylor was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison for using marijuana while owning a firearm.
The city of San Jose in California and the state of New Jersey have passed laws requiring gun owners to purchase liability insurance but have yet to be able to enforce them due to ongoing lawsuits.
The girl's father was arrested after he left a loaded gun on the floor of their home, police said.
Washington becomes the 10th state to ban assault weapons.
About 35 states have enacted some form of "stand your ground" laws — or expanded "castle doctrine" laws — in the decade following Trayvon Martin's shooting death.
After the Nashville school shooting, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) expressed his anger about laws contributing to gun violence in the U.S. while in the U.S. Capitol hallway. Here's what happened when Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) suggested to Bowman that teachers should be allowed to carry guns.
CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane joins Errol Barnett and Lana Zak to discuss House Democrats' latest push to take action on reducing gun violence on the heels of a mass shooting in Nashville. He also discusses the latest on a bill that would ban TikTok.
CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang joins us to discuss the second Summit for Democracy, which is being co-hosted by President Biden. She also reflects on the president's recent statements about gun violence and his push to pass an assault weapons ban on the heels of a mass shooting in Nashville.
Gun rights advocates have filed at least three lawsuits challenging the state law.
The bill had been debated for years, but found renewed support following the July 4 Highland Park parade massacre last year, which left seven people dead and dozens more wounded.
New York lawmakers want to restrict who can carry a handgun in public and where firearms can be brought.
A U.S. law banning those under felony indictments from buying guns is unconstitutional, a federal judge in West Texas ruled.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court reversed New York's 108-year-old gun law regarding who can obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun in public.
The dispute involves a century-old law from New York that limits who can carry a concealed handgun in public.
Fifteen Republicans joined Democrats to pass the bipartisan-negotiated bill.
Speaker after speaker in Washington, D.C., called on senators to act or face being voted out of office.
CEOs of Ben & Jerry's, J.Crew, Lyft and over 200 others sign letter urging Senate "to avoid more death and injury."
The legislation passed mainly along party lines 223-204, with five Republicans joining all but two of the Democrats.
He and his wife visited Uvalde families after the shooting and showed mementos of the victims, as he told their stories to the White House press corps.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he's hoping for a framework by the end of the week.
That would be enough to overcome any filibuster and send a bill to the floor. The Texas Republican is in a bipartisan group of senators negotiating a gun reform package.
CBS News looks at the major hoops private citizens in Japan must jump through to own a gun, and the surprising origins of the country's firearms restrictions.
The president called for banning assault weapons, national red flag laws, expanded background checks and raising the age to buy a semi-automatic weapon.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would respond with 25% tariffs "against $155 billion worth of American goods."
The 2025 Grammy Awards are honoring the standouts in music from last year. Here's the list of artists who won big awards.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, who's had a contentious relationship with President Trump, says that he plans to speak out for what he believes in, but will likely support most of the administration's goals.
USAID Director for Security John Vorhees and Deputy Director for Security Brian McGill were put on leave last night, two sources confirmed to CBS News.
The Temporary Protected Status designation has been used by Republican and Democratic administrations to grant temporary immigration protections to migrants.
The questionnaires are to be completed and submitted by supervisors by Tuesday afternoon.
Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that "the conspiracy theories" that Robert F. Kennedy has entertained are "not unlike what we're hearing all over the Trump administration."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino Sunday amid his first overseas trip, as the Trump administration makes a push for control of the Panama Canal.
A growing number of U.S veterans, desperate to treat PTSD, are turning to psychedelics. They're headed to other countries, where the drugs are more accessible for help.
The 2025 Grammy Awards are honoring the standouts in music from last year. Here's the list of artists who won big awards.
The 67th annual Grammy Awards return to Los Angeles, with some of entertainment's biggest names arriving in style. Check out the highlights and fashion from Music's Biggest Night.
The questionnaires are to be completed and submitted by supervisors by Tuesday afternoon.
Sen. Mark Warner said President Trump's decision to remove security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is "all about retribution."
Vincent had undergone radiation and chemotherapy for bladder cancer and he asked that treatment be stopped.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would respond with 25% tariffs "against $155 billion worth of American goods."
Blue Ridge Beef recalled dog food due to a contamination of salmonella, the FDA said.
Details of the agreement between Costco and the Teamsters union weren't immediately available.
Rohit Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since President Trump took office on Jan. 20.
The White House levied new import duties on its three closest trading partners.
The questionnaires are to be completed and submitted by supervisors by Tuesday afternoon.
The Temporary Protected Status designation has been used by Republican and Democratic administrations to grant temporary immigration protections to migrants.
Sen. Mark Warner said President Trump's decision to remove security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is "all about retribution."
USAID Director for Security John Vorhees and Deputy Director for Security Brian McGill were put on leave last night, two sources confirmed to CBS News.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino Sunday amid his first overseas trip, as the Trump administration makes a push for control of the Panama Canal.
After H5N1, the current strain of bird flu, reached the United States in 2022, more than 148 million chickens, turkeys and other farm birds have been euthanized. Since last year, when the virus jumped from poultry and wild birds to mammals, the number of human cases rose to 67, with one death. Correspondent Martha Teichner looks at the outbreak's potential impacts on humans, the poultry industry, egg prices, and U.S. exports.
Allison Ciaccio had a respiratory illness that wouldn't go away. Repeated follow-ups found Stage I lung cancer.
Health experts say the website purge could result in deaths.
A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in a state with one of the strictest abortion bans.
Federal officials approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin.
USAID Director for Security John Vorhees and Deputy Director for Security Brian McGill were put on leave last night, two sources confirmed to CBS News.
The strongest earthquake recorded was magnitude 4.6 at 3:55 p.m. Sunday, at a depth of 14 kilometers (9 miles), the Athens Geodynamic Institute said.
Mediators begin the daunting work of brokering the next phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas this week.
The young woman is believed to have been part of the Manteño people, who lived along the Ecuadorian coast and survived by agriculture and seafaring.
The air strikes mark the first attack in Somalia during President Trump's new term.
The 2025 Grammy Awards are honoring the standouts in music from last year. Here's the list of artists who won big awards.
The 67th annual Grammy Awards return to Los Angeles, with some of entertainment's biggest names arriving in style. Check out the highlights and fashion from Music's Biggest Night.
The actor-writer-director's latest film, a poignant comic-drama costarring Kieran Culkin, earned him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. But Jesse Eisenberg finds it difficult to not feel miserable.
In this extended conversation, actor-writer-director Jesse Eisenberg, nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay for "A Real Pain," talks about his journey as a writer; developing his acclaimed comic-drama about cousins visiting the homeland of their late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor; how acting helped him outgrow being a "miserable kid"; and living a life with one foot (or more) outside the entertainment industry.
Beyoncé will take her hit record "Cowboy Carter" on tour in 2025. She shared the news in a pair of social media posts that dropped ahead of the Grammy Awards.
In his new autobiography, the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his origins, and about how, in eighth grade, he discovered BASIC, which introduced him to the elegance and exacting demands of computer code.
Meta Platforms will pay $25 million to resolve a lawsuit President Trump brought in 2021 over the suspension of his social media accounts after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
From labor shortages to environmental impacts, farmers are looking to AI to help revolutionize the agriculture industry. One California startup, Farm-ng, is tapping into the power of AI and robotics to perform a wide range of tasks, including seeding, weeding and harvesting.
Tesla has been losing market share in several countries as growing competitors offer customers alternatives.
Tensions rise as Chinese startup DeepSeek announces a breakthrough in AI technology, while President Trump considers new tariffs on Chinese imports. Anna Coren reports from Hong Kong.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.
To take photos of the Mount Lyell shrew, three students laid out over 100 traps last November in the Eastern Sierra Nevada region and checked them every two hours.
The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting the area.
A paleontologist hailed the discovery as "truly an unusual find," adding it helped explain the relationships in the prehistoric food chain.
Experts discuss the increased intensity we can expect from destructive weather events due to climate change, while an amateur meteorologist explains how he helped sound the alarm as wildfires spread towards the L.A. County community of Altadena.
Ashley White, 29, was found guilty of second-degree murder and other charges in connection with the 2020 death of her boyfriend, Cody DeLisa.
After Dee Warner, a Michigan businesswoman and mother, disappeared from her home, her family believed she has been murdered and suspected her husband Dale Warner. But without physical evidence, they knew it would be hard to prove.
After a deceased woman's toxicology report showed an abnormality — a chemical compound found in several brands of over-the-counter eye drops — suspicions grow over her caregiver's story.
The FBI said 42-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez was arrested in Monterrey, Mexico, on Thursday, and is awaiting extradition to the U.S.
Dee Warner's brother, Gregg Hardy, says he was being sarcastic when he wrote the billboard in Lenawee County, Michigan, that read "Help Dale Find Dee." Dale Warner denies he ever harmed his wife.
Starliner co-pilot Sunita Williams is now the world's most experienced female spacewalker, moving up to number four overall.
Scientists reported this week that asteroid samples taken from a distant asteroid known as Bennu were found to contain key organic molecules necessary to sustain life. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has more.
Samples of rock and dirt which were returned to Earth in 2023 from the asteroid Bennu have been analyzed and found to contain some of the key building blocks of life, including ammino acids, scientists said Wednesday.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.
Posts by President Trump and Elon Musk roiled the space community, raising the prospect of an earlier-than-planned return for the Starliner crew.
A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
Peterson's death sentence for the murder of his pregnant wife Laci has been overturned. Now his supporters are pushing for a complete retrial.
The seesaw marriage between the former ballerina and her much older husband only lasted four years, until she shot him on Sept. 27, 2020.
Cayley Mandadi's mother and stepfather go to extreme lengths to prove her death was no accident.
See some of convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala's photographs that were discovered by detectives in a Seattle storage locker.
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McConnell's biographer: The former Senate leader's 2016 move to block Merrick Garland's nomination was a "total concoction to give the gloss of authority."
Navy veteran Michael Giardina told Anderson Cooper he was able to "let go" of trauma from his childhood during a psychedelic experience.
60 Minutes joined U.S. veterans with PTSD as they attend a week-long psychedelic retreat in Mexico. Nearly a year later, most of the vets say the experience with psilocybin was life-changing.
Sen. Mitch McConnell answers questions about the Supreme Court, the Jan. 6 pardons, his relationship with President Trump, and more during a wide-ranging conversation with Lesley Stahl.