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US attorney doesn’t rule out continuing to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Powell

2026-05-03T17:52:00.081Z / CNN

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US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell departs following his final press conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC on April 29, 2026.

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US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that she may reopen a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, depending on what an inspector general’s probe uncovers over building renovations at the Federal Reserve.

Her comments come just over a week after she wrote on social media that she had directed her office to suspend its investigation into Powell and after Powell’s likely replacement at the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, was approved by the Senate Banking Committee.

“I want to see what’s there. If there’s something there, great. And if there isn’t, I’ll go home,” Pirro told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”

The Justice Department first launched an investigation into Powell, who is a frequent target of President Donald Trump over not lowering interest rates, in January.

North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis held up the committee vote to advance Warsh’s nomination for months due to the investigation into Powell, arguing it was politically-motivated and threatened the independence of the fed.

Pirro also said in the interview that her office is going to make a motion to appeal a judge’s recent decision that quashed her subpoenas in the investigation, saying, “it’s extremely important for us as prosecutors, the precedent that it sets to prevent us from going into a grand jury.”

In her announcement suspending the investigation, she said the Office of the Inspector General of the Federal Reserve will conduct its own investigation into Powell. Pirro went on to say that after the inspector general concludes its report, her office “will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so.”

Jeanine Pirro, US attorney for the District of Columbia, during a news conference at the Department of Justice on Monday, April 27, 2026.

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Tillis told CNN on Sunday that while he supports Warsh, he maintains that Powell did not commit any crimes while serving in office.

“At the end of the day, no crime was committed, and the prosecutors I spoke with all agree,” Tillis said. “That’s what I was fighting against, not any single prosecution, but a process that would undermine the independence of the Fed.”

Tillis, who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, previously said that he supported the end of the investigation into Powell.

When asked if he thinks Warsh will maintain some independence from the Trump administration, he said, “I think so.”

Since beginning his second term, Trump has intensified his verbal attacks on Powell, making several public remarks and online posts criticizing him and the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors over monetary policy.

In one Truth Social post on April 29, Trump wrote “Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell wants to stay at the Fed because he can’t get a job anywhere else — Nobody wants him.”

Powell, whose term as chair is set to end on May 15, has pushed back on the pressure, telling senators during a hearing last year that “we don’t take into consideration political factors” when setting rates. Powell has said he will remain at the fed as a governor until the criminal investigation concludes.

The Justice Department has drawn scrutiny for repeatedly using its authority to pursue individuals who have openly criticized or been roadblocks to the president and his administration, including former FBI Director James Comey and six members of Congress who appeared in a video last year urging service members to refuse unlawful orders.

Warsh still needs to be confirmed as the fed chair by the full Senate.

Latest Trump assassination attempt exposes ‘educated assassins’ moral crisis, university president says

2026-05-03T14:37:17-04:00 / Fox News

Cornerstone University president says the WHCD suspect’s profile — educated and tied to teaching — raises new concerns about whether education is shaping character or extremism

By Jasmine Baehr, Fox News

Published May 3, 2026 2:37pm EDT

Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-Riaño says some “violent activists” are among the most educated, raising concerns about whether schools are fostering extremism after WHCA Dinner suspect revealed as teacher.

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The California man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was highly educated and had worked as a tutor, a profile one university president said raises an unsettling question about the role of education in shaping character.

Cole Allen, 31 earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 and a master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills last year. That doesn’t match the typical resume of a would-be presidential assassin, but a disturbing shift appears to be underway, according to Cornerstone University President Gerson Moreno-Riaño.

“A troubling trend that appears to be emerging is that of the ‘educated assassin,’ individuals who do not fit the typical profile of people who commit such heinous acts,” Moreno-Riaño said. “These individuals are often schooled in some of America’s most elite institutions and act out of a perverted philosophical conviction that sees the killing of others not as evil, but as justified.”

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A photo of Cole Allen in a graduation gown and cap from 2025.(Cole Allen/LinkedIn)

“My concern has been for many, many years that some of these not just activists, but violent activists, are perhaps some of the most highly educated ones in our country,” he said. “When education ceases to educate, when it’s ideological, when it’s brainwashing, when it’s indoctrination, it’s no longer education… It’s something very different.”

Prosecutors say Allen, who remains in federal custody, targeted Trump and Cabinet officials in the April 25 incident. He allegedly had authored a damning manifesto and left what authorities described as an extensive digital trail showing weeks of planning.

In addition to his advanced schooling, Allen joined tutoring company C2 Education in March 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile. A Dec. 30, 2024, Facebook post from the company congratulated “Cole Allen of C2 Education Torrence” as a teacher of the month.

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Law enforcement personnel detain Cole Tomas Allen, a suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2026.(Donald J Trump via Truth Social/Handout via Reuters)

Secret Service Director Sean Curran told Fox News Thursday that Allen shot an agent in the chest while “charging through security,” with the round stopped by the agent’s bulletproof vest.

Curran said the agent returned five shots that missed, adding the agent was the only person other than Allen who discharged a weapon during the incident. Allen is believed to have tripped and fallen, prompting Secret Service agents to surround and subdue him.

Defense attorneys claim prosecutors lack key physical evidence and dispute aspects of how the incident has been characterized. A defense memo described Allen as a “devout Christian,” a highly educated man with no criminal history and a “loved and respected teacher.”

But Moreno-Riaño warned that credentials and professional roles do not necessarily reflect deeper moral grounding.

“The universities have rejected the centrality of God, a theistic Christian worldview, but nothing has taken its place,” he said.

“There is no moral compass for universities and for education today. It just doesn’t exist.”

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A Secret Service agent fires at Cole Allen, suspected in the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump on Saturday, April 25, 2026.(Obtained by The Washington Post)

He added that parents should take a more active role in understanding what their children are being taught.

“Parents can no longer… simply drop off their student” and assume responsibility ends there, Moreno-Riaño said.

Moreno-Riaño also said people who carry out acts like this can hide their intentions, making them difficult to identify ahead of time.

“Our entire life as a whole, whatever we do in private, whatever we’re doing in secret, does have a significant impact on what we do in public,” he said.

Allen’s next hearing is scheduled for May 11.

For Moreno-Riaño, the case points to a moral concern.

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“There’s a crisis of morality, a crisis of faith,” he said. “Without it, all we’re giving to students is just information then. And that’s not giving them guidance and moral direction.”

Fox News Digital’s Alex Koch, Asra Q. Nomani, Jake Gibson, Julia Bonavita and Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this reporting.

Jasmine Baehr is a Breaking News Writer for Fox News Digital, where she covers politics, the military, faith and culture.

Sen. Raphael Warnock says Supreme Court’s voting rights decision “poured fuel on this redistricting arms race”

May 3, 2026 / 12:52 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia called the Supreme Court’s decision last week to strike down Louisiana’s congressional map and narrow the Voting Rights Act “a massive and devastating blow,” while warning of its implications for the redistricting fight.

“The court, sadly, poured fuel on this redistricting arms race,” Warnock said Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

The ruling was a key victory for Republicans, striking down a map that included two majority-Black districts. And it followed a redistricting battle that began last year when President Trump’s political team pushed Texas GOP leaders to redraw the state’s congressional map, which sparked a counterpush by Democrats in California and efforts by both parties in other states to redraw their maps.

Warnock, a pastor who’s represented Georgia in the Senate since 2021, said he supports the push by Democrats on redistricting “because Donald Trump — who is better at dividing us than anybody I know — instituted an arms race in redistricting.”

“I don’t like gerrymandering, but we could not unilaterally disarm,” Warnock said. “He’s the one who called Texas and said, literally, ‘give me six more seats.’ And so California and other states had to respond, Virginia, in kind.”

But Warnock said “the solution to this really is to ban partisan gerrymandering,” which he said “turns our elections on its head, so that rather than the people picking their politicians or their public servants, the politicians are picking their voters.”

The high court’s decision narrowed the landmark Voting Rights Act, with the court’s conservative majority finding that compliance with Section 2 could not justify the state’s use of race in redrawing its House district lines. The outcome is expected to make it more difficult for minority voters and voting rights groups to successfully challenge voting maps under Section 2, with implications far beyond political representation in Louisiana.

Since the Supreme Court’s decision,Republican governors in a handful of states, including Louisiana and Tennessee, have called for special sessions of the state legislature or otherwise expressed interest in redrawing congressional maps.

Warnock said “what happened this week is nothing less than a massive and devastating blow, not only to our democracy, but particularly to people of color in the South.”

“We will see a devastating impact as a result of this, and now, more than ever, we’ve got to stand up and fight for our democracy,” he said.

On the Voting Rights Act and the law more broadly, Warnock said “I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy — I’m tired of racism.”

“I think it’s a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady,” Warnock said.

The Georgia Democrat pointed to changes to the Voting Rights Act in recent decades, including when the high court in 2013 struck down a formula for states to get preclearance from the federal government before instituting voting procedure changes under Section 5. He said “since they removed the protections of Section Five, states that used to play old games, they’re playing new games.”

“They’re 21st Century Jim Crow tactics in new clothes — moving voter polls, closing polls in Black and brown communities,” Warnock said. “And now, as a result of the decision this week, they’re saying that even when you show up, we have given the green light so that politicians can play games with the lines, so that even when you overcome those barriers to show up, your voices will be muted.”

On the question of representation, Warnock said the idea that it doesn’t matter “ignores history, it ignores the facts — it’s uninformed.”

“When I go to the Senate, every week, I bring my story and my experience as a Black kid who grew up in public housing in Savannah, and so does that White kid who grew up in Appalachia,” he said. “And so when, when we create an increasing monolith, which is what I think is going to happen as a result of this decision this week, we hurt the democracy itself, and we make it harder to get at a policy, policies that embrace all of our children and give every child a chance.”

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Inside Spirit Airlines’ failed ‘Hail Mary’ to the Trump administration

May 3, 2026 12:43 PM ET / CNN

By Betsy Klein

Winding down a major US airline is a complicated business. Doing so when the president of the United States hints it could be saved adds another layer of complexity.

Wracked with financial trouble, Spirit Airlines had filed for bankruptcy for the second time in August 2025. Months later, the conflict with Iran had driven up fuel prices and made its financial position even more untenable, putting it on the brink of closure.

For weeks, Trump administration officials were in talks with the bargain airline on the possibility of a $500 million bailout package. The proposal would effectively give the government control of the overwhelming majority of Spirit’s shares.

President Donald Trump publicly suggested that he would be on board “if we can get it at the right price.”

“They have some good aircrafts, some good assets, and when the price of oil goes down, we’d sell it for a profit,” he told reporters in the Oval Office last month.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Trump to lay out the options, according to two sources familiar with the meeting, which prompted some internal division among the president’s team.

Lutnick, one source familiar with the deliberations told CNN, “was pushing” for a deal, with a second source familiar suggesting that he argued it would be a political win for the administration. But there were reservations about the possibility of a bailout from officials including Duffy, Trump deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, and members of the White House counsel’s office, a third source familiar with deliberations told CNN. Those included concerns about pumping money into a company with a bad financial record, two of the sources said.

The idea of a bailout for a single airline also sparked backlash from both the airline industry and among Republicans in Congress. Previous bailouts have been in support of all US airlines, not a single carrier or group of airlines. And those rescue packages were in response to a paralyzed industry, like when passengers were afraid to fly in the wake of terrorist attacks or a pandemic, not because of increased costs and losses.

Spirit Airlines planes are parked on the tarmac at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 2, 2026, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Trump, meanwhile, “was like a dog on a bone trying to figure out a way to keep Spirit afloat,” Duffy told reporters Saturday, adding that he was “in the Oval many times” with the president in the days before the airline shuttered.

After that initial meeting with Duffy and Lutnick, it became clear that a bailout would be more complex than Trump’s efforts to gain government control over companies like US Steel or Intel. The possibility of invoking the Defense Production Act — a law that gives the government more control to direct industrial production during emergencies — was raised, but rejected by the Department of Defense, two of the sources familiar with deliberations said. And ultimately, officials were never able to identify a funding source for the $500 million.

Meanwhile, Duffy actively floated the idea of a Spirit acquisition by another airline, sources said, gauging interest for a proposition that failed to gain traction, the second and third source said.

On Thursday, the White House gave Lutnick the word to tell Spirit CEO Dave Davis that there would be no government bailout, the third source said.

That evening, Lutnick spoke by phone with Davis, and while they “left open the possibility of a Hail Mary,” the first source said, “there was the determination that we have to start putting things in motion to wind this down – even if we are going to try to find an off-ramp on Friday.”

Trump administration officials, including Duffy, began working with Spirit’s competitors to create a plan for customers left stranded and for the company’s 14,000 employees.

Then, early Friday afternoon, the president appeared to express some optimism that a plan to keep the airline afloat could materialize.

“We’re looking at it,” he told reporters at the White House. “But if we can’t make a good deal, no institution’s been able to do it. I’d like to save the jobs, but we’ll have an announcement sometime today. … We gave them a final proposal.”

Trump’s comments, the first source familiar with deliberations said, brought “new life” to the possibility of a bailout. Stakeholders, they added, “were holding out hope.”

But Trump did not follow up on those comments to the media, that source said. And while Lutnick continued to push toward a deal, Trump, who went on to make multiple public appearances Friday evening in Florida, did not directly engage with Davis or other stakeholders, including the key group of creditors that would have been responsible for backing the proposal.

“It felt like classic Trump to me — there’s always a deal to be had, let’s keep talking,” the second source said.

Later Friday, Spirit began canceling some overnight and early morning flights. At 6 p.m., the company’s board was expected to meet to take a vote, but the meeting never happened as efforts continued to try to cobble together a plan, according to a source. But by 11 p.m., the airline began to tell its union leaders there would be no deal.

Around 2 a.m., after the final Spirit plane had landed, the company announced in a statement that it had “started an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately.”

Duffy said Saturday that the creditors failed to agree to a deal with the US government.

“In the end, this was a creditor issue. Again, they have the final say of whether they want to do a deal with the government,” he said at a press conference at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Duffy continued: “But also from the government’s perspective, we oftentimes don’t have a half a billion dollars laying around in a spare account that we can put into a bailout of an airline. So there was creative thinking on how it could happen. Those two things never materialized.”

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Hours before the overnight announcement, Trump allies were already shifting blame to their predecessors.

Alex Bruesewitz, an outside Trump adviser, pointed to a 2024 social media post by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren praising a federal judge’s ruling that blocked JetBlue’s proposed purchase of Spirit due to antitrust concerns.

“If Spirit Airlines fails, the blame will fall squarely on crazy Elizabeth Warren and the Biden Administration. Their anti-capitalist policies killed the Spirit–JetBlue merger that would have saved the airline and protected its workers’ jobs,” he wrote.

Warren rebuked that claim, writing on social media Saturday that, “Spiking fuel prices from Trump’s war was the nail in the coffin for twice-bankrupted Spirit airline” and that the merger failed because a Reagan-appointed judge said it was illegal.

At Newark airport Saturday morning, Duffy also shifted the blame to his predecessors.

“History has judged the denial of the merger between JetBlue and Spirit through the Biden administration, with, I think, a view that it was a massive mistake,” Duffy said.

The Justice Department sued in 2023 to halt JetBlue’s proposed acquisition of Spirit, as part of the Biden administration’s argument for greater competition between businesses, especially in the industry. A federal judge in January 2024 ruled against the merger, outlining concerns over increased fares for flyers and significant debt for JetBlue.

Meanwhile, Spirit’s demise has stranded thousands of passengers who have to adjust plans and millions who have tickets for future dates.

United, Delta, JetBlue and Southwest, Duffy announced Saturday, “are capping their ticket prices for Spirit customers.” American Airlines and Delta, he said, are offering “reduced fares on high-volume Spirit routes.” Allegiant, he added, has “committed to freezing fare prices on routes that they have shared with Spirit.” And Frontier Airlines, he said, is offering 50% off base fares until May 10.

But the impacts of the airline’s demise are just beginning – and the closure could have broader effects on prices and make air travel less accessible.

“It’s another blow to the working class. People who fly Spirit fly at a bare minimum (of services) and now they don’t have another option,” the first source said.

Patel says FBI has cut bureaucracy, moved 1,000 agents to field offices in ‘generational’ overhaul

May 3, 2026 12:38pm EDT / Fox News

FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday said the bureau thwarted four terrorist attacks across the U.S. last December — including three inspired by ISIS — by tracking suspects both online and in person.

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In just 14 months, the FBI claims it has carried out a “generational” shakeup that has cut bureaucracy, shifted agents into the field and embraced artificial intelligence in what FBI Director Kash Patel calls a long-overdue effort to restore trust and sharpen its focus on protecting Americans.

In a draft of a letter from Patel to the FBI workforce obtained by Fox News, the director wrote that the bureau has delivered on changes FBI employees have been requesting for years, transforming the FBI into a premier modern-day law enforcement organization.

The overhaul has included a significant redistribution of personnel away from Washington, D.C., according to Patel, with more than 1,000 agents and staff reassigned to field offices and hundreds of intelligence personnel moved closer to active investigations.

At the same time, Patel wrote, the bureau has accelerated its use of advanced technology, expanding artificial intelligence tools to help process tips, identify threats and streamline investigations.

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FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington on April 27, 2026.(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Patel also touted significant cost savings, saying a sweeping review of contracts and facilities has already cut more than $300 million in spending, with additional savings projected in the years ahead. The planned relocation of FBI headquarters is expected to generate further long-term savings, with officials estimating billions in reduced costs.

The FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover headquarters building in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2, 2016.(Cliff Owen/AP)

The reforms place a heightened emphasis on domestic security, including the creation of a multiagency mission center focused on domestic terrorism and politically motivated violence.

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Officials say the FBI has also deepened its collaboration with both law enforcement and private industry, establishing new partnerships with technology companies and creating formal channels for state and local agencies to engage directly with bureau leadership.

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 26, 2025.(Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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Patel wrote that while he has been the one pushing for the reforms, they could not have happened without the feedback of all those who work at the bureau.

Rep. Jason Crow says U.S. is “not good at having off ramps” in Middle East conflicts

May 3, 2026 / 1:35 PM EDT / CBS News
By Kaia Hubbard

Washington — Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado said Sunday that the U.S should be considering a broader question of strategy in the war with Iran, while criticizing the U.S.’ track record of prolonged conflicts in the Middle East.

“We are not good at having off ramps and accomplishing large strategic decisions in the Middle East,” Crow said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan”.

President Trump told congressional leaders late last week that “hostilities” with Iran have “terminated” as the war reached the 60-day mark. And despite a ceasefire brokered in early April, the U.S. has enforced a naval blockade on Iranian ports — considered an act of war — while threatening to imminently restart strikes.

On Saturday, the president said he was reviewing a new peace proposal from Iran. But he stressed that he was unlikely to accept the offer because “they have not yet paid a big enough price.” Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has said that the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will remain in effect until a deal can be reached to end the war.

Asked whether the war with Iran can end without clearing the Strait of Hormuz, Crow noted that Iran is blocking the key waterway, and the U.S. is blockading their blockade. But more broadly, he argued that “the real question that we should all be asking is, does America really want to continue to have conflict in the Middle East for another 5, 10, 20 years?”

“We have confused, as a nation, tactics versus strategy,” Crow said. “Most of the conversation around Iran is about tactics — Should we blockade? How do we counter drones?” Crow said.

The Colorado Democrat cited previous conflicts in the Middle East, saying “we spent trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, in Iraq to replace Saddam Hussein with ISIS.” He said Iran is “just yet another example” of the U.S. struggling to find an off-ramp in the region.

“So let’s actually talk strategy and what it is we’re trying to accomplish here, instead of having a constant discussion around blockades,” he added.

The comments come after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before congressional committees last week on the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request. Crow said on Sunday that he would oppose the funding, arguing that “we don’t need that money.”

“We have already funded munition stockpiles amounts, and what I am not going to do is continue the pattern, like we continued in Iraq and Afghanistan, of throwing good money after bad and constantly funding conflicts that never end and will not end up in a good result for America,” Crow said. “That is exactly what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. And somebody has to say, enough is enough.”

Crow added, “In a president that hasn’t told us what the strategy is, hasn’t come to Congress for authorization, hasn’t even articulated to the American people what he’s trying to accomplish, I am not going to write blank checks to have that cycle continue. I’m not going to do it.”

Michigan Senate candidate defends her deleted posts after CNN report: ‘People are desperate for authenticity’

May 3, 2026, 12:23 PM ET / CNN

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Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow explains deleted tweets following CNN report

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Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a candidate in the state’s competitive Democratic US Senate primary, made the case for her “authenticity” while responding to criticism she’s facing after an investigation by CNN’s KFile revealed she deleted old social media posts criticizing the rural Midwest and praising California.

McMorrow told CNN’s Manu Raju on “Inside Politics Sunday” that she is “not somebody who wanted to be in office or wanted to be in Congress when I was in diapers.”

“I started my career as a car designer, and then I worked in a very different career and wasn’t thinking about it,” she said. “I tweeted normal things like a normal person, and people are desperate for authenticity, so that is what we need in November.”

The Michigan Democrat, who has said she would not back Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to lead the caucus, said voters are “responding” to her call on the campaign trail for “new leadership in the Democratic Party that recognizes — not as a lifelong politician, but as an American and as Michiganders here — what’s actually at stake here.”

McMorrow pointed to Maine, where Democratic leaders’ handpicked candidate, Gov. Janet Mills, dropped out of the Senate race last week after failing to garner the momentum needed to raise money in the Democratic primary against Graham Platner, a progressive who has also come under fire for his old online posts.

“We just saw what happened in Maine. I think the bigger liability is somebody who’s been so concerned that one day they might run for office that everything about them is manufactured, and if that is what you’re looking for, there are two other opponents in this race who fit that bill,” McMorrow said.

The roughly 6,000 deleted posts resurfaced by CNN’s investigation reflect a range of McMorrow’s views, from support of the Black Lives Matter movement to comparing President Donald Trump and his supporters to Nazis.

In January 2017, when a user on X wrote, “California should have its own diplomats” to “make sure we don’t get nuked because of morons from the other side of the country,” Morrow responded, “There are days like these that make me miss California even more.”

McMorrow has since branded herself as the pragmatist in the crowded Michigan race.

On Sunday, she stood by past posts in which she implied rural Americans should learn from coastal elites, saying, “Trump has succeeded in weaponizing us against each other, convincing us that we are each other’s enemies. I’ve lived all over the country. I’ve met a lot of different people, and I stand by that.”

“Was it the most eloquent tweet I’ve ever tweeted? No, I’ve tweeted thousands of times,” she continued. “There is a level of authenticity and just grappling in the wake of the 2016 election, of how somebody like Donald Trump could have been elected.”

Rep. Haley Stevens, another candidate in the Michigan Senate race favored by some establishment Democrats, told Raju on Thursday she thinks McMorrow’s posts were “a little tacky” and “very out of touch with what our state is all about.” She warned they could be a liability in the general election against former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, who narrowly lost to Sen. Elissa Slotkin in 2024.

“Why litigate that in a general election when we know we’re in a swing state?” Stevens said, later adding that the potential risk McMorrow’s past statements posed was “very concerning.”

McMorrow told Raju on Sunday she did not delete hundreds of her past tweets because she was concerned that they would become a political liability, but rather because of “a decision to delete everything to 2021.”

Abdul El-Sayed, another of McMorrow’s primary opponents, also removed several old controversial social media posts as part of a larger purge, including some aligned with the “defund the police” movement. He has since clarified his position, telling Raju in Michigan last month he supports “investing in the things that are going to keep us safe.”

McMorrow says car post was foreshadowing ‘a dark future’

McMorrow, who previously worked in the auto industry as a designer and writer, explained to Raju that a post of hers declaring “cars are dead” was part of a broader “conversation with a number of automotive journalists bemoaning the way that tech CEOs were talking about eliminating cars with autonomous vehicles and ride-share programs.”

“That was me thinking about a dark future where there are no cars and at a moment where Big Tech is taking over everything,” she said.

The Michigan Democrat also did not back down from past comparisons of the Trump administration to Nazi Germany, telling Raju, “it is deeply concerning that we see an authoritarian slide.” She added that “dividing people against each other to convince people that if you’re not doing well economically, it’s somebody else’s fault, is an incredibly dangerous place for us to be in.”

Raju also pressed McMorrow on the discrepancy between her claim in a recent book that she “permanently relocated” to Michigan from California in 2014 and her own deleted posts suggesting she still lived and voted in California as late as June 2016.

McMorrow said she and her husband decided to move to Michigan in 2014, though “like a lot of millennials, moving takes time” and she was not fully settled in Michigan and did not change her voter registration until later in 2016.

Sting embarks on “The Last Ship”

May 3, 2026 / 10:12 AM EDT / CBS News

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When Sting comes back to his hometown these days, it’s not to the same place he left more than five decades ago. The city of Newcastle, tucked up in the northeast corner of England, now presents a tranquil vista where modern architecture spans calm waters. But for centuries, Newcastle was a hard-scrabble, noisy, industrial powerhouse. It built ships.

And Sting, a boy from a working-class family, was given some fatherly advice he didn’t want to hear: “He’d say, ‘Son, go to sea. See the world, make something of yourself.’ Of course, I disappointed him!”

Sting with correspondent Mark Phillips in Newcastle. CBS News

All Sting did was become one of the most successful songwriters and pop performers of his generation, starting with his 1970s band The Police, and through many variations since. His most popular songs – “Every Breath You Take,” “Roxanne,” “Message In A Bottle,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Fields of Gold,” “Shape of My Heart” – have streamed in the billions.

Asked if he keeps score of awards won and albums sold, Sting replied, “The answer is, enough. I have had more than enough success and affirmation. I don’t actually need any more. It’s lovely, but it’s not something I particularly think about. I don’t think of myself as a celebrity. I don’t like to. I like to think of myself as a working musician with a story to tell” – a story about his hometown.

“I just wanted a bigger life than the one I was being offered,” he said, “and it was only later that I realized that where I’d been brought up was actually a gift.”

How so? “Because of these very profound symbols to wake up to every morning: A gigantic ship hanging over the street; an army of men walking to work; the ship being built, launched into the river, out to sea. Those are very powerful images for an artist. I wanted to honor where I came from, because what they gave me was a sense of identity, a work ethic. So, I wanted to repay that.”

Sting’s musical (which he’s been working on for more than a decade) is called “The Last Ship,” and it recounts the demise of Newcastle’s shipyards. Now he’s taking it on tour, with the advantage of added star power – namely, Sting, and his good friend, Mr. “Bombastic” himself, Shaggy.

Sting starring in his musical, “The Last Ship,” about a community’s loss of its shipyard, a key part of its identity and economy. “The Last Ship”

The reggae star told us he’s never done anything quite as bombastic as “The Last Ship”: “Not quite on this scale,” he said. “I’m still sitting here and I’m saying, what have I gotten myself into?”

Why Shaggy? Working together has paid off before, when he and Sting won a Grammy for best reggae album in 2019, for “44/876.”

Shaggy and Sting. CBS News

“I immediately knew Shaggy was the perfect man for the job,” said Sting. “He has a great sense of mischief, a great sense of joy, but he’s also a natural actor.”

“He knows me better than me!” Shaggy said. “I was like, ‘I can’t really,’ and he was like, ‘No, you can do that.’ And then I’m doing it and I was like, I hate admitting that he was right!”

The show has already played to sold-out halls in Europe and Australia, and is set for a run at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. An earlier incarnation of “The Last Ship” played on Broadway in 2014. The show has had its book revised.

Asked why the project has meant to much to him, that he has stubbornly pursued it for more than a decade, Sting replied, “I’m tenacious. If I believe in something, I will stick at it. And I do not conflate commercial success with excellence or quality at all. I think this play, even though it’s set in the 1980s, has something to say to people now. All of us are in danger of losing our work to AI. All of us. “

Asked if he wants to be taken “seriously” as a theatre composer, as distinct from his pop career, he said, “I’m very grateful for the pop career, and it was a certain time in my life when I was of a certain age and looked a certain way and made a certain kind of music. But it can’t be my entire life. I don’t want to be just defined from how I was at the age of 25. I’m 74 now.”

Sting, born Gordon Sumner, was given his stage name because of the striped yellow-and-black top he used to wear that someone said made him look like a wasp. And there’s been plenty of buzz about his career ever since, including about the real meaning of his biggest hit, “Every Breath You Take.”

The Police – Every Breath You Take (Official Music Video) by ThePoliceVEVO on YouTube

“Some people interpret that song as being a very romantic love song, or it’s about a stalker – this obsessive watching, I’ll be watching you,” said Sting. “I don’t contradict people in their individual interpretation of the song. I think it enriches the song. I think gives it its power. It’s about both things.

“Some people get married to that, so God bless them!”

Sting’s life has been about many things. Now it’s about coming home – spiritually at least – as when he came with our cameras to a Newcastle pub. “They have come to bring me home, to shoot some local color, which would be you,” he told the crowd. “So, please be as colorful as you are!”

Sting performs “Message In a Bottle,” and the crowd joins in. CBS News

If ever there was a “local boy makes good” story, this is it. And everybody here seems to know the words to “Message In a Bottle.”

We asked Sting if he ever thinks of taking a vacation. “Explain that concept to me,” was his response.

But why is he still doing this? “Because I like to work,” he replied. “Could I retire? I’m not sure I could do it. I haven’t developed that skill to just sit and do nothing. Perhaps I’m afraid of it. I haven’t prepared myself for it. But while I’m still fit enough to do my work, I will continue. At some point, I hope I have the objectivity to say, OK, you’ve done enough. Go and sit on the farm.”

Could he do that? “I’m not sure!” he laughed.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Watch an extended interview with Sting (Video) https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-sting/

Extended interview: Sting 18:42

For more info:

• “The Last Ship” (Official site)
• Sting’s”The Last Ship” at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City (June 9-14)
• Sting (Official site)

Story produced by Mikaela Bufano. Editor: Carol Ross.

Explosion that killed 2 in U.K. is not being investigated as suspected terror incident, police say

May 3, 2026 / 8:53 AM EDT / CBS News

By Emily Mae Czachor

After an explosion killed two people in southwestern England early Sunday, British police said the incident would not be investigated as suspected terrorism, seeking to dispel concerns tied to a recent update to their country’s national terrorism threat level.

“Given the recent change to the U.K. threat level, we would like to reassure the public from the outset we are not treating this as a suspected terrorist incident,” police said in a statement. Government officials had adjusted the threat level to “severe,” up from “substantial,” last week.

The explosion happened at around 6:30 a.m. local time at a residential property in the city of Bristol, according to police. Two adults died as a result, and the cause is being treated as suspicious, they said. A “major incident” was declared, meaning multiple emergency services agencies were involved in the response.

Law enforcement is not searching for anyone else in connection with the incident, police said. They are, however, investigating a different property in a nearby neighborhood with ties to the situation. No details were provided about the potential relationship between that second property and the first.

Police said they have cordoned off an area around the site of the explosion “as a precaution to help keep the public safe.” People living within that area have been temporarily evacuated, although police do not believe the blast caused significant damage to other properties.

The explosion took place as authorities around the United Kingdom grapple with persistent acts of violence, including a spate of antisemitic attacks.

On Thursday, the U.K. raised its national terrorism threat level from “substantial” to “severe,” in the wake of a stabbing that wounded two Jewish men in London earlier in the week and was formally declared a terror incident. Government officials referenced growing threats of Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorism in the U.K. when they announced the change.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jewish-leader-reacts-to-london-stabbing-attack-as-uk-raises-terrorism-threat-level/

奥地利北部营地“战争遗物”爆炸 致五名儿童受伤

2026年5月3日 22:45 / 联合早报

奥地利北部营地篝火下的“战争遗物”爆炸，导致五名年龄介于10至14岁的儿童受伤。

奥地利警方发声明说，目前正在调查“战争遗物”是如何出现在篝火区域下方的。 （示意图 / Pexels）

路透社报道，奥地利警方星期天（5月3日）说，这起事件发生在星期六（2日）晚上，位于上奥地利州弗赖施塔特附近的圣奥斯瓦尔德村（St Oswald bei Freistadt）。这个地区经常有青少年团体露营，受伤儿童则是来自上奥地利州其他地区的团体。

警方声明指出，爆炸发生后，警方检查了相邻的一个火坑，发现了另一个含有爆炸物的物体，同样被描述为“战争遗物”，随后召来了拆弹小组进行处理。

声明说：“目前正在调查这些战争遗物是如何出现在篝火区域下方的。”

警方说，目前尚不清楚这些儿童的伤势严重程度，他们已被送往附近林茨市的一家儿童医院。

虽然奥地利仍不时发现二战时期的炸弹，尤其是在建筑施工挖掘过程中，但像星期六这样的事故实属罕见。