Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, voiced support for the measles vaccine Sunday amid a deadly outbreak in the Southwest, mainly in Texas.
An unvaccinated child who died in late February in Texas was the first U.S. fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade.
Recently confirmed as health secretary, Kennedy has previously made numerous false and misleading claims about the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and had downplayed the growing outbreak, saying annual outbreaks were "not unusual."
Adrian, Mich. — A Michigan woman is asking a judge to declare her three missing sons dead nearly 15 years after their father didn't return them after Thanksgiving. The disappearance has tormented a small town near Ohio and remains unsolved.
Multiple U.S. officials tell CBS News that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.
The 2025 Oscars are underway as "Conclave," "Emilia Pérez," "A Complete Unknown," "Wicked" and "The Brutalist" are each looking to turn their multiple nominations into big wins, including for best picture, at the 97th Academy Awards.
President Trump on Sunday named five cryptocurrencies under consideration for a new U.S. "strategic reserve," sending their values skyrocketing and partly reversing a recent slump.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is considering a petition to have Pete Rose posthumously removed from Major League Baseball's ineligible list, a person familiar with the situation told CBS News on Sunday.
Warren Buffett rarely gives interviews. But also rare is his friendship with the late, trailblazing publisher of the Washington Post, Katharine Graham. "If there's any story that should be told, it should be her story," he said. "If I was a young girl, I'd want to hear that story. It would change my self-image.
It's Oscar night, and TV funnyman Conan O'Brien is taking the stage as host of the 97th annual Academy Awards as the 2025 nominees compete for top honors.
The following is the transcript of an interview with European Union top diplomat Kaja Kallas that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on March 2, 2025.
There's at least one thing Americans widely agree on about President Donald Trump: they think he's changing the way the government works.
As part of the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to shrink the federal workforce, the General Services Administration eliminated its technology unit, CBS News learned Saturday.
It was just after 1 a.m. on May 7, 2023, when authorities responded to a reported road accident on a secluded dead-end street in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Brush fires that erupted amid dry and windy conditions caused officials in both North and South Carolina to order evacuations Saturday.
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