News for May 2, 2025

The Trump administration agreed to stop freezing Maine child nutrition funds, and Maine will drop its lawsuit over the dispute.

An outside review for Indiana University found that former team doctor Bradford Bomba Sr. did not act in bad faith during the rectal exams he gave to athletes, even as experts said the exams were uncommon and raised concern.

The Trump administration has reached a settlement in principle with Ashli Babbitt’s family over a civil lawsuit tied to her Jan. 6, 2021, shooting death inside the Capitol.

President Donald Trump’s administration is reviewing the cases of 450,000 migrant children and using federal agents to check where they are living, which has raised fears of deportation and family separation.

An Illinois man was sentenced to 53 years in prison for the hate-crime killing of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi and the attack on the boy’s mother.

CBS News shares an excerpt from Mark Whitaker’s new book on Malcolm X, focusing on how Spike Lee and Denzel Washington helped shape the lasting power of Lee’s 1992 film about Malcolm’s life and legacy.

A new survey found that more than 1 in 4 Americans see Chinese Americans as a threat, showing a rise in suspicion toward Asian Americans in the U.S.

Sinatra Jordan spent 940 days in a Mississippi jail waiting for a trial that was repeatedly delayed, and his case was later dropped after the blame shifted to police officers.

Abbe Lowell is starting a new law firm with two Trump critics to fight back more aggressively against President Donald Trump’s pressure on the legal world.

Rev. Amos C. Brown was told by the Smithsonian that books he loaned to the National Museum of African American History and Culture may be returned as the institution faces a review ordered by President Donald Trump.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said attacks on judges by Donald Trump and his allies appear meant to intimidate the courts and weaken respect for the rule of law.

Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter known for “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel,” died in a house fire in Minneapolis at age 66.