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A cloud of dread has descended upon CBS News as controversial editor-in-chief Bari Weiss prepares to overhaul "60 Minutes" when the show returns next season — with network insiders warning changes are coming that will upend the venerable Sunday night institution.

According to the Guardian, the current season concludes on Sunday, after which the iconoclastic Weiss is expected to impose her ideological imprint on a program that has operated with editorial autonomy for decades.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump disclosed a “flurry” of financial transactions he’d made earlier this year, but on Saturday, Bloomberg correspondent Josh Wingrove unpacked those transactions in greater detail, and in doing so, sparked outrage among critics.

The financial disclosures revealed this week that Trump or his advisers had made “at least $220 million in financial transactions in the securities of major U.S. companies” during the first three months of 2026, Bloomberg previously reported. On Saturday, Wingrove provided additional details on the president’s financial disclosures.

A significant schism is emerging within the Republican Party over the extent to which the United States should support Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — with a substantial number of MAGA voters showing unwavering loyalty while non-MAGA conservatives increasingly question America's commitment to the longtime ally.

According to Politico, new polling from The POLITICO Poll reveals stark divides among Republican voters on Israel policy, with the party's traditional unity on Middle East issues fracturing amid Trump's unpopular Iran war and growing skepticism about U.S. interventionism.

President Donald Trump lashed out at New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday after she criticized the Trump administration for its labor policies, while also issuing the Democratic governor a backhanded offer to help.

The feud between Trump and Hochul was sparked by the closure of the Long Island Rail Road after workers went on strike early Saturday morning. Hochul said the strike was sparked, in part, by the Trump administration’s “reckless actions to cut mediation short.” Trump pushed back on Hochul’s criticisms, claiming he wasn’t even aware of the labor dispute until Saturday morning.

President Donald Trump's war against Iran has already hit Americans at the gas pump, but farmers told Axios that a potentially more devastating impact is still coming – and soon.

“There's going to be fewer farmers next year than this year,” said Mark Mueller, an Iowa farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, speaking with Axios for its report published on Saturday.

Appearing on MS NOW early Saturday morning, the frustrated secretary of state of Colorado bashed her fellow Democrat, Gov. Jared Polis for deciding to commute the sentence of former election official Tina Peters, one of the nation’s most notorious MAGA-aligned election deniers.

Speaking with the hosts of “The Weekend,“ Jena Griswold, who oversees elections in her state, claimed Polis has undermined the national election integrity by freeing Peters, a convicted felon sentenced to nine years for tampering with election equipment.

The Trump administration’s Justice Department (DOJ) is “finalizing a deal” to secure a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded settlement from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ABC News reported on Saturday, but a new detail flagged by ABC News’ Katherine Faulders has left some onlookers stunned.

The deal stems from a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS in response to his tax returns being leaked in 2019. Trump has reportedly agreed to drop the suit in exchange for a $1.7 billion settlement, directed toward a fund dedicated to “settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration’s ‘weaponization’ of the legal system,” ABC News previously reported.

MS NOW's Jen Psaki used her Friday night show to fact-check Eric Trump in real time after the president's son threatened to sue her and the network over coverage of his business ties during Donald Trump's state visit to China.

"Today, the adult son of the President of the United States, Eric Trump, came after us on social media and accused us of lying," the former Biden White House press secretary told viewers on "The Briefing."

President Donald Trump has drawn intense scrutiny over his alleged plan to secure a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded settlement, but another White House proposal – one with a price tag more than 880 times larger – has gone largely ignored, journalist Ken Klippenstein argued on Friday.

That proposal is the $1.5 trillion in defense spending for fiscal year 2027, a proposal that came from the White House and represents a $400 billion increase over the previous year. The White House is also asking for an additional $200 billion to cover costs associated with the president’s deeply unpopular war against Iran.

FBI Director Kash Patel has once again blurred the lines between personal and professional conduct, bringing his country singer girlfriend to a closed-door meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to discuss combating fentanyl trafficking — raising eyebrows about his judgment and priorities.

According to the New York Times, in early April, Republican Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania invited Patel and other top law enforcement officials to Allentown for a confidential meeting on fentanyl trafficking strategies. The synthetic opioid has killed tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians.