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Veteran correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim informed their colleagues they would remain at "60 Minutes" Friday, but public reaction was mixed.

The broadcast legends circulated a memo to CBS News colleagues saying they would stay on despite the firings of executive producer Tanya Simon, executive editor Draggan Mihailovich and three correspondents, including Scott Pelley.

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is dismissing the need for Ebola vaccines — even as public health officials scramble to contain a real Ebola outbreak ahead of the FIFA World Cup being held across the United States, Canada and Mexico this summer.

In an interview with LindellTV's Cara Castronuova, Johnson argued that federal health agencies are laying the groundwork for another mass vaccination campaign — this time targeting diseases like Hantavirus and Ebola.

Three remaining “60 Minutes” veterans have decided on their futures with the beleaguered broadcast mainstay.

Longtime correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim announced Friday they would stay on at the news magazine despite turmoil engulfing the CBS News division under the leadership of editor in chief Bari Weiss.

Continuing questions about Donald Trump’s health were not helped on Thursday during an Oval Office press availaibility that led to more questions about his ability to keep up at his current pace.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-hosts Johnathan Lemire and Willie Geist highlighted the 79-year-old president “slumped’ in his chair as EPA Head Lee Zeldin talked about clean coal, with the two pundits observing the president was clearly asleep.

A Justice Department lawyer astonished onlookers by arguing in federal court that the Trump administration could "bulldoze" the Statue of Liberty if they moved too quickly to be stopped.

The lawyer appeared Friday morning for oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit over President Donald Trump's controversial White House ballroom project, which is under construction on the site of East Wing he ordered demolished last year without warning, and Judge Patricia Millett pressed the attorney on the matter.

A Florida Democrat snapped during a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting Friday, declaring the Republican fiscal year 2027 spending bill "a war on women and girls" after it moved to eliminate family planning funding for millions of Americans.

"I'm mad as hell! I cannot believe what I see!" Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) shouted during the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee markup. "This is a war on women and girls!"

A former senior Social Security official has disclosed that the Trump administration drew up plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including United States citizens, legal permanent residents and teenagers — as dead, using one of the government's most powerful identity databases to effectively erase them from the financial system.

Jeremiah Schofield, who spent 25 years at the Social Security Administration and helped lead its IT modernization efforts, said he refused to implement the plan after agency lawyers warned it could violate federal law, and the Washington Post reported that he has detailed his account in a 49-page whistleblower disclosure filed with two Senate committees.

Amid the ongoing litigation of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, the president’s lawyers were asked to provide records supporting one of the president’s key claims in the suit – and immediately lashed out, The Guardian reported Friday.

Trump sued the BBC last year after accusing the broadcaster of deceptively editing a documentary that detailed his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. He claimed to have suffered “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” due to the network’s actions.