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Family of Sarah Milgrim speaks out after D.C. Jewish museum shooting
The family of Sarah Milgrim, one of the two Israeli Embassy staffers who was shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last month, is remembering her as courageous, strong and striving for peace. Milgrim's parents, Robert and Nancy, and her older brother, Jacob, spoke to CBS News' Jonah Kaplan for their first network TV interview since the shooting about how they're processing their grief, Sarah's mission to promote peace in the Middle East and the rise in antisemitism in the United States. "Usually, a parent tries to mold their child. Sarah molded us," Robert Milgrim said. "She was a stronger person than I ever was." "I told Nancy after this happened that I'm a different person now than before this happened, from learning so much about what Sarah did and her courage and her striving for peace," he said. Wednesday marks two weeks since Milgrim and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, who also worked for the Israeli Embassy, were shot and killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. Law enforcement officials described the attack as "targeted" and said the suspect shouted "Free Palestine" as he was being detained. He has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and other crimes. The interview with the Milgrim family airs Wednesday on "CBS Mornings" and "CBS Evening News." January 6 defendant refuses Trump's pardon Sneak peek: Where is Jermain Charlo? Baldwin grills McMahon on unallocated funds for students, schools, approved by Congress
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Week of May 26 Morning News Ratings: GMA and CBS Mornings Gain Demo Viewers After Memorial Day
The short week that followed the Memorial Day holiday saw all three morning shows experience declines in total viewers. However, ABC News' Good Morning America and CBS News' CBS Mornings posted week-to-week gains in the advertiser-coveted demo of Adults 25-54 for the week of May 26. It may be a post-holiday hiccup, but NBC News' Today showed some vulnerability in its longtime first-place demo position as the gap between it and GMA was less than 100,000 A25-54 viewers. NOTE: GMA, Today, and CBS Mornings were coded as specials on Monday (05/6/25) due to the Memorial Day holiday. These specialed telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. The morning shows' weekly averages are based on four days (Tuesday-Friday). According to live-plus-same-day data from Nielsen, GMA averaged 2.629 million total viewers and 466,000 A25-54 viewers. Compared to the previous week, ABC News' morning show was down -1% in the former category, but up +3% in the latter. Looking at its performance alongside the same week in 2024 (the week of May 27), GMA was down -7% in total viewers and -1% in the demo. Today landed in second place in total viewers, but remained No. 1 in the demo with 2.558 million and 542,000 viewers, respectively. Week-to-week, the morning show saw a -1% decrease in the former category and a double-digit dip of -10% in the latter. Year-to-year, Today was down -2% in total viewers and -3% in the demo. CBS Mornings saw 1.823 million total viewers and 342,000 demo viewers for a decline of -9% in the former category, and a +9% gain in the demo. Year-to-year, the morning show sustained an -11% decline in total viewers and a -13% decline in the demo. ABC NBC CBS • Total Viewers: 2,629,000 2,558,000 1,823,000 • A25-54: 466,000 542,000 342,000 Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live+SD Current Week (w/o 5/26/25), Previous Week (w/o 5/19/25) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 5/27/24). Most Current Data Stream: 2024-2025 Season (9/23/24-6/1/25) and 2023-2024 Season (9/25/23-6/2/24). Beginning 8/31/20, national ratings also include Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Averages based on regular telecasts.
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Treasury head Scott Bessent says Jamie Dimon should relax about the bond markets: ‘For his entire career he's made predictions…none of them have come true'
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed worries about the U.S. debt this Sunday, just days after JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, a longtime deficit hawk, once again warned about the effects of U.S. spending on bond markets. Dimon's job in banking means he has to worry, Bessent said, adding: 'For his entire career, he's made predictions like this,' but 'none of them have come true.' JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has for years sounded the alarm about the U.S.'s level of borrowing—and the bond market of late seems to agree with him. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent isn't buying those worries, suggesting on a Sunday news show they're a bit overstated. Speaking on CBS News' Face the Nation on June 1, Bessent addressed Dimon's latest worries about what host Margaret Brennan referred to as a debt market crisis. 'I have known Jamie a long time. And for his entire career, he's made predictions like this,' Bessent told Brennan. 'Fortunately, none of them have come true.' He added, 'That's why he's a banker, a great banker. He tries to look around the corner.' Bessent also took issue with the widely reported prediction that the GOP spending bill—which slashes government benefits and cuts taxes, mostly for the wealthy—would cost $4 to $5 trillion over the next decade. 'We are going to bring the deficit down slowly,' Bessent said, noting that income from tariffs and savings from President Donald Trump's price controls on prescription drugs would make up the difference. 'We didn't get here in one year, and this has been a long process,' he said. 'So the goal is to bring it down over the next four years, leave the country in great shape in 2028.' Asked for comment on Bessent's assessment, a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson referred Fortune to Dimon's interview on Friday with CNBC, when the CEO addressed the Reagan National Economic Forum and described the looming debt problem, among other geopolitical concerns. Dimon is far from the only one concerned about U.S. debt and overall policy direction: The bond markets share his worry. In April, a bond selloff that drove interest rates on U.S. debt to historic highs prompted Trump to pull back on his tariff plans, putting a 'pause' on reciprocal tariffs planned against most of the U.S.' trading partners. In May, credit rating agency Moody's downgraded U.S. debt, meaning the U.S. no longer gets the highest rating from any of the three major credit agencies. During that month, Treasury yields, which represent the level of risk investors perceive from investing in the U.S., rose steadily. Just last week, yields on the 30-year Treasury note crossed 5%, a psychologically important barrier that, outside of a surge in October 2023 prompted by inflation worries, hadn't been seen since before the Great Recession. Here's how the bond meltdown would happen, as Dimon laid it out Friday. As the U.S. issues debt, in the form of Treasuries, investors will demand a higher yield, or interest rate, to compensate for the perceived risk that the debt might not be paid back. 'Something like $30 trillion of securities trades every day. These are investors around the world,' Dimon said, speaking to FoxBusiness's Maria Bartiromo on the sidelines of the Reagan National Economic Forum. 'People vote with their feet—and they're going to be looking at the country, the rule of law, the inflation rate, the central bank policies… Those rates aren't set by central banks,' he said. That means nervous investors could potentially bid up the interest rates on Treasuries and affect what the U.S. government pays to borrow money, as well as things like mortgage rates—without the Federal Reserve being able to do anything about it. Getting it down will require a reduction of debt, Dimon said. With the U.S. government's spending post-COVID, 'we hit $10 trillion in five years,' he said, speaking to CNBC at the same event. 'When Ronald Reagan first warned about deficits in the 1980s, 'the debt to GDP [ratio] was 35% and the deficit was 3.5%. Today it's 100%, and the deficit is at 7%. Highest [in] peacetime ever.' 'What I really worry about is us. Can we get our act together, our own capability, our own management,' Dimon later said. 'If we are not the preeminent military and the preeminent economy in 40 years, we will not be the reserve currency. That's a fact. Just read history.' This story was originally featured on
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Bill Clinton thinks Joe Biden 'was in good shape,' but did admit to one concern about him.
Bill Clinton told CBS News' 'Sunday Morning' there was never a moment when he thought Joe Biden was unfit to run for president, amid accusations of a coverup of Biden's decline. 'I saw President Biden not very long ago and I thought he was in good shape,' Clinton told CBS New in an interview published Sunday. The former Democratic president's comments come amid accusations that the Biden family and the Democratic establishment protected Biden as he allegedly declined mentally and physical during his reelection campaign, punctuated by alarming accounts in the newly released book, 'Original Sin.' It also comes as Biden recently revealed he was diagnosed with advanced-stage prostate cancer. Clinton, who said he didn't read the book, theorized that people are citing concerns about Biden's health in order to blame him for Trump's election victory. But he did make one admission: 'The only concern I thought he had to deal with was, could anybody do that job until they were 86?' Clinton said. 'We had several long talks. I had never seen him and walked away thinking he can't do this anymore. He was always on top of his brief.'
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Boulder mall attack suspect used makeshift flamethrower, Molotov cocktails, FBI says
A man is in custody after apparently targeting a group of marchers at a mall in Boulder, Colorado. The demonstrators were there in support of the Oct. 7 Israeli hostages when 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly attacked them with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, the FBI said. CBS News' Naomi Ruchim has the latest, and Rodney Harrison, a former chief of department at the New York City Police Department, joins "CBS News Mornings" with more analysis.
