Historic winter storm along the Gulf Coast. The Trump Administration takes action on diversity. Fallout from those January 6th pardons. CBS's Steve Kathan has these stories and much more in today's World News Roundup.
On his first day of his second term, President Trump signed 10 executive orders in an attempt to crack down on immigration. Reset sits down with executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center Mary Meg McCarthy and executive director of Refugee One Melineh Kano to hear how these orders could affect immigrants and refugees in the Chicago area.
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Immigration enforcement will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches ; new misconduct allegations emerge against Pentagon chief nominee Pete Hegseth; and Israel launches a military operation on the occupied West Bank.
Today's episode of Up First was edited by Roberta Rampton, Anna Yukhananov, Robert Little, Olivia Hampton and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Chris Thomas, Milton Guevara and Claire Murashima. We get engineering support from Robert Rodriguez, and our technical director is Carleigh Strange.
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the cutting edge of AI and where the research is heading. In this conversation, we cover the path to artificial general intelligence, how long it will take to get there, how to build world models, whether AIs can be creative, and how AIs are trying to deceive researchers. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss Google's plan for smart glasses and Hassabis's vision for a virtual cell. Hit play for a fascinating discussion with an AI pioneer that will both break news and leave you deeply informed about the state of AI and its promising future.
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Travel times and transit delays are part of the daily commute. There's a lot of chaos and information to sift through to bring you those traffic reports.
Rob celebrates pop icon Rihanna while looking back at her smash hit “Umbrella.” While combing through Rihanna’s expansive career, Rob also discusses whether Jay-Z’s guest verse on “Umbrella” is the worst of his career. Later, Brittany Spano joins the show to answer the difficult question of what song is Rihanna’s best, and much more.
The procedure is simple—genial, even. Contact Houthi rebels in Yemen and pay up, and your freight can pass into the Red Sea unmolested. We examine how this extortion affects world trade. China is fast closing its gap with America on AI innovation, and doing so far more cheaply (7:22). And a trip to a Ghanaian rum distillery reveals a regional trend (15:44).
Prattville Pride, an LGBTQ+ organization, is set to participate in the city's February 1 Mardi Gras parade after securing a federal court order to join last December's Christmas parade.
James Cauthen, a 54-year-old battalion chief with Coweta County Fire Rescue died in Chambers County after being fatally shot while assisting a couple whose car hit a deer.
The fate of the girls at Pathway of Madison County in Owens Cross Roads is uncertain if city leaders revoke the facility's business license at a hearing on February 21.
On his first day as the 47th U.S. president, Donald Trump signed over 100 executive orders aimed at reshaping American policies and institutions. These orders spanned a wide range of priorities, including border security, energy policy, immigration laws, and cultural issues.
Donald Trump, just sworn in as the 47th president, was reelected to be a wrecking ball, a middle finger, the people’s punch to the Beltway’s mouth. And while this populist moment feels “unprecedented,” it’s not. The rebuke of the ruling class is encoded in our nation’s DNA.
We have seen populist leaders like Donald Trump before. He stands on the shoulders of Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, Alabama governor George Wallace, and Louisiana legend Huey Long. There have been populist senators, governors, newspaper editors, and radio broadcasters.
But only rarely has a populist climbed as high as President Trump. In fact, it has happened only once before.
The last populist to win the presidency was born before the American Revolution. He rose from nothing to become a great general. His adoring troops called him Old Hickory, and his enemies derided him as a bigamist and a tyrant in waiting. His name was Andrew Jackson, and he’s the guy who’s still on the 20 dollar bill.
On today’s debut episode of Breaking History, Eli Lake explains how Andrew Jackson’s presidency is the best guide to what Trump’s second term could look like.
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Credits: Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency; PBS