The Royal Bahamas Police Force did not release the man's name, citing the organization's policy, but his attorney, Terrel Butler, identified him to CBS News as Brian Hooker.

Brian Hooker previously told police his wife fell off their boat over the weekend. Butler said Brian Hooker "categorically and unequivocally denies any wrongdoing" and "has been cooperating with the relevant authorities as part of an ongoing investigation."

The search for Lynette Hooker, who is from Michigan, is ongoing near Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, which the Royal Bahamian Defense Force said has turned into a search and recovery operation.

The U.S. Coast Guard launched a criminal investigation into the case, a U.S. official told CBS News on Wednesday. The Coast Guard is taking the lead on investigative efforts in coordination with the U.S. Attorney's Office, according to the official.

The Coast Guard's Criminal Investigative Service handles crimes on U.S.-flagged vessels in international waters. The investigation remains in its early stages, the U.S. official said.

Brian Hooker reported that he and his wife, who are both U.S. nationals, set sail aboard an 8-foot hard-bottom dinghy from Elbow Cay on Saturday night, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

He told police his wife fell overboard with the keys to the boat, causing its engine to turn off. He said that strong currents carried her out to sea and he lost sight of her, according to police. Brian Hooker paddled the dinghy to shore, arriving hours later at the Marsh Harbor Boat Yard at 4 a.m. Sunday, police said.

Lynette Hooker was wearing a black bathing suit at the time, officials said.

Lynette Hooker's daughter, Karli Aylesworth, is seeking answers about what happened on the dinghy. 

In an interview with CBS News, Aylesworth described her mother as an experienced swimmer who has been sailing for more than 10 years. She said she wants authorities to thoroughly investigate the incident and that she doesn't believe the sequence of events described by Brian Hooker.

"For one, I don't understand how she got the key," Aylesworth said. "Brian's always driving. So he basically is in charge of the key. So the fact that my mom had it doesn't make any sense."

Aylesworth said Brian and Lynette Hooker had split up and gotten back together in recent years. 

Brian Hooker declined to answer questions about the investigation when approached by CBS News on Tuesday but has since addressed his wife's disappearance in a social media statement.

"I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas," he said Wednesday. "Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her and that is my sole focus."

Brian Hooker's attorney, Terrel Butler, says his client "in particular (denies) the allegations recently made by Karli Aylesworth."

Pooh Shiesty, whose legal name is Lontrell Williams Jr., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver for a hearing on Wednesday. Prosecutors have also charged eight others over the alleged January confrontation at a music studio, where the victims were allegedly robbed at gunpoint.

Prosecutors have declined to name the victims, and an FBI affidavit attached to a criminal complaint only refers to them by their initials. One victim, R.D., is described as the owner of 1017 Records, the label belonging to Gucci Mane, whose legal name is Radric Delantic Davis.

"I find that the weight of the evidence against you is strong," Toliver told Pooh Shiesty during the hearing.

She noted that the rapper had a criminal history and had violated a home confinement order following a prior firearms conspiracy conviction in Florida.

As of Thursday morning, no other hearings are scheduled in the case.

Affidavit details alleged gun threat, robbery during Dallas studio meeting

During the hearing, Bradford Cohen, the rapper's attorney, raised questions about much of the prosecution's evidence. "The FBI doesn't take three months to arrest someone if they believe everything that was said on the night that it occurred," Cohen said.

Prosecutors have accused the rapper, who was arrested last week, of arranging the music studio meeting in Dallas to discuss the terms of his contract with 1017 Records.

According to an affidavit attached to a criminal complaint, Pooh Shiesty had asked to speak with the record label owner in a recording room. He then allegedly produced contract termination paperwork and pulled out what appeared to be an AK-style pistol while forcing the label owner to sign.

The rapper then took the victim's wedding ring, watch, earrings and cash, according to the affidavit.

Pooh Shiesty is from Memphis, Tennessee, but he is believed to have been recently living in a high-rise apartment in Frisco, according to the affidavit. Several of the defendants traveled from Memphis to Dallas ahead of the meeting, according to the affidavit.

Gucci Mane is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of trap music alongside fellow Atlanta rappers T.I. and Jeezy. He emerged in the mid-2000s with his breakout single "Icy" and went on to build a vast catalog.

The Consumer Price Index this week is expected to show March prices rose at a 3.3% annual pace, the average of six separate forecasts reviewed by CBS News. That would mark the highest inflation rate since May 2024 and an almost 1 percentage-point jump from February.

The CPI report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. 

"The impact of the war on energy prices will push headline CPI inflation well above 3% in March and above 4% by April," Oxford Economics forecast in a report on Wednesday.

Inflationary pressures are being driven by higher energy prices tied to the Iran war, with the U.S. experiencing the largest one-month jump in fuel costs since at least 1957, according to Pantheon Economics. 

The conflict's impact on a wide range of goods and services is likely to last for months, and experts said the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is unlikely to immediately ease global energy shortages.

Higher fuel prices could push up the cost of other goods, including food, because of increased transportation and production costs. Energy prices tend to rise quickly during disruptions to oil supplies but fall more slowly after a crisis ends — a phenomenon economists call the "rockets and feathers" principle.

Early-year cooldown

"We're going to be paying the price for this through much of the year," Mark Zandi, chief economist at financial research firm Moody's Analytics, told CBS News. "We should see a bit of a bump in the cost of airline tickets. Grocery prices will probably be a bit higher. Obviously, that goes to transporting food from the port or the farm to the store shelf."

The expected increase in the CPI comes after inflation cooled to a 2.4% annual rate in the first two months of 2026 — still above the Federal Reserve's 2% target but far below the 40-year high of 9.1% recorded in June 2022.

On Thursday, another key measure of inflation signaled that everyday costs were elevated in February even before the Iran war, rising 0.4% from January. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index also showed that consumer spending rose 0.5% in February from the prior month, but that falls to 0.1% when adjusted for inflation, according to EY-Parthenon chief economist Greg Daco. 

"Make no mistake, households are increasingly running on fumes," Daco wrote in a report.

Even before the Iran war sent gas prices soaring, many Americans were still recovering from the pandemic-era inflation spike and continued to cite affordability as a major concern. The Trump administration has said that "gas prices will plummet back to the multi-year lows American drivers enjoyed before these short-term disruptions" from the Iran war.

After the U.S. announced the truce with Iran on Tuesday,  the U.S. oil benchmark tumbled almost 15%, falling to $96.41 a barrel. But that remains 43% higher than just before the war, signaling consumers may not see much relief in the next few weeks.

Consumers have already paid an additional $8.4 billion in fuel costs in the month after the Iran war started, according to an estimate from the Joint Economic Committee's Democratic minority. Higher prices for other goods and services, from airline fees to higher mortgage rates, could also weigh on household finances. 

Rising prices could pressure household budgets and derail consumer spending if Americans pull back on discretionary purchases, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee told CBS News earlier this month. Because consumer spending accounts for about 70 cents of every $1 of GDP, a hit to household finances could ripple through the economy.

"It adds up"

Even before the Iran war, some consumers were showing signs of financial distress, said Elizabeth Pancotti, managing director of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think tank. Hardship withdrawals from 401(k)s reached a record last year, while loan delinquency rates even among higher-income households rose in 2025.

"We had started to see credit delinquencies increase. We had started to see savings rates go down. We have seen wage growth really stagnate," Pancotti told CBS News. "If you pile on to that, I think you go from flashing warning signs to major flashing alarm bells."

Businesses are also feeling the impact of higher energy prices, as well as disruptions to other key supplies shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. While about 20% of global energy supplies travel through the vital waterway, other commodities — including helium, aluminum and fertilizer — also pass through the strait.

"Every single thing going in and out of a ranch comes in on freight, and so when freight costs are up, shipping cattle goes up, shipping feed goes up," said Andrew Coppin, CEO of Ranchbot, a Fort Worth, Texas-based company that sells water-monitoring technology to ranchers. "And now you've got a dearth of fertilizer availability, and the cost of fertilizer is going up."

The average rancher drives about 1,000 miles a week to check on their cattle, Coppin noted. "It adds up, and at a time when they just didn't need it," he said, adding that he expects the price of beef to rise this year due to the higher costs facing ranchers.

What's up with interest rates?

Consumers and businesses may not get a break on borrowing costs any time soon. The Federal Reserve will need to grapple with higher inflation, as well as a labor market that has swung from monthly job losses to gains over the past year.

In March, the Fed had penciled in one interest rate cut for 2026, but the expectation of higher inflation this year has caused many economists to scrub that cut from their forecasts. 

"The Federal Reserve is on a prolonged pause until the fog of war clears and they can assess the full impacts on the U.S. economy," said Heather Long, chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union, in an email.

Minutes released Wednesday of the Fed's March 17-18 meeting, where it held borrowing costs steady, also suggest that some policymakers on the central bank's 19-member interest-rate setting panel think it may become necessary to consider a future rate hike. 

If there's one bright spot on inflation, it's that the impact of the Trump administration's tariffs has waned, with the effective tariff rate now at about 8%. That's down from a peak of 21% in April 2025, when the president first announced his wide-ranging tariffs, according to the Yale Budget Lab. 

The impact of higher import costs is now waning, Bernard Yaros. lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, told CBS News. "Most of the tariff pass-through has occurred."

The decision for now vacates a lower court judge's temporary blocks on the law.

The measure was first approved by Republican majorities in the Iowa House and Senate and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds in 2023, which they said reinforced age-appropriate education in kindergarten through 12th grades. It's been a back-and-forth battle in the courts in the three years since lawsuits were filed by the Iowa State Education Association, major publishing houses and bestselling authors, as well as an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, Iowa Safe Schools.

The law was in effect for part of the 2024-2025 school year until last March, when a federal judge reissued a temporary block on the book ban provision, which prohibits books containing specific sex acts from appearing in school libraries or classrooms. In a separate decision in May, U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher said Iowa could restrict mandatory instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools up through the sixth grade but could not enforce the restriction on any "program" or "promotion," saying those terms were too broad.

Iowa asked the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn both decisions, which a three-judge panel did Monday. The cases will continue in the district court while the law is in effect.

"This is a huge win for Iowa parents," Iowa's Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a statement. "Parents should always know that school is a safe place for their children to learn, not be concerned they are being indoctrinated with inappropriate sexual materials and philosophies."

Iowa's measure was enacted in 2023 amid a wave of similar legislation around the country, driven by Republican lawmakers, to prohibit discussion of LGBTQ+ identities and restrict the use of restrooms in schools. Many of those laws prompted court challenges. The decision comes as Trump's administration said Monday it has terminated agreements adopted under previous administrations that upheld rights and protections for transgender students.

The Iowa law states that K-12 school libraries cannot include materials with descriptions or visual depictions of six different sex acts. The state's defense argued that the law outlines the restrictions explicitly and that the state, in its mission of advancing children's education, has legitimate reason to ensure public school materials are appropriate.

But the teachers union, as well as publishers and authors, have maintained that the law is overly broad, reaching "far beyond obscenity to prohibit any book with any description of a sex act for any age," their lawsuit stated. Plus, they argued, libraries are places of voluntary learning, not existing exclusively to advance the school's educational mission.

The appeals court sided with the state, saying the restrictions are not amorphous and the books in a school library can be considered part of the school's curriculum. For that reason, the court notes that the claims from the authors and publishers that the law infringes on First Amendment rights will likely not hold up.

The ruling also said: "The First Amendment does not guarantee students the right to access books of their choosing at taxpayer expense."

The law also prohibits "any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender identity or sexual orientation." Attorneys for the state maintained that that text, as written, means mandatory school curriculum. Opponents argued the law is vague enough to limit any information accessed or activity engaged in at the school.

"Reading the plain language," the appeals court decision said, "we cannot say the State's assertion is wrong."

Locher's decision last May had granted a partial injunction, saying the state could restrict such topics when it comes to curriculum, tests, surveys, questionnaires or instruction but not any "program" or "promotion."

Locher laid out specifically what that meant: "Students in grades six and below must be allowed to join Gender Sexuality Alliances ('GSAs') and other student groups relating to gender identity and/or sexual orientation." And the district, teachers and students "must be permitted to advertise" those groups.

In vacating Locher's partial block, the appeals court said Locher wrongly focused on the two words — program and promotion — in interpreting "an expansive view of the law's scope."

Because Iowa Safe Schools and the students asked the court to block the law on face value, not because of specific claims that it infringed on their rights, the appeals court said their complaint will likely fail on merits.

The appeals court also said the state could enforce a provision that requires school administrators to notify parents if a student makes a social transition, and wants to go by a different pronoun or name at school.

The decisions Monday are a setback but "not the end of the fight," said Nathan Maxwell, senior attorney at Lambda Legal, one of the legal organizations representing Iowa Safe Schools.

It "is a cruel and unconstitutional law that silences LGBTQ+ children, erases their existence from classrooms, and forces educators to expose vulnerable students to potential harm at home," Maxwell said. "We will continue to use every legal tool available to protect these young people."

Hegseth announced at the start of Wednesday's briefing that the Pentagon's job is done in Iran. But he clarified that "we're not going anywhere" and "our troops are prepared to defend, prepared to go on offense, prepared to restart at a moment's notice" to ensure that Iran complies with the ceasefire. 

Wednesday's briefing came after President Trump announced late Tuesday that he had agreed to "suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks," adding that the U.S. has "already met and exceeded all Military objectives."  

Mr. Trump said early Wednesday that under the agreement, "there will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear 'Dust.'" 

Hegseth said at the briefing that "it takes time sometimes for a ceasefire to take hold." He added that "we're watching it, we're prepared if necessary, but we hope and believe that it will hold."

Hegseth said as he opened the briefing that "Iran has been a threat to the United States and the free world for 47 years."

"No longer, not on our watch," he added.

Hegseth echoed the president's message, touting a "big day for world peace." And he praised the U.S.' military operation as a "historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield."

"By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran's military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come," he said.

Hegseth said "in less than 40 days," the U.S. "dismantled one of the world's largest militaries."

"The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism proved utterly incapable of defending itself, its people or its territory," he said. "We untied just a fraction of our strength, and Iran suffered a devastating military defeat."

Hegseth said "now we have a chance at real peace and a real deal" amid the ceasefire. He said the Pentagon "for now, has done its part," and stands ready to "ensure Iran upholds every reasonable term."

Caine said "over the course of 38 days of major combat operation, the Joint Force achieved the military objectives as defined by the president." The joint chiefs chairman said "we welcome the ongoing ceasefire," adding that "we hope that Iran chooses a lasting peace."

The ceasefire announcement came after Mr. Trump said early Tuesday morning that a "whole civilization will die" if Iran didn't agree to a deal. 

Asked whether the U.S. was prepared to follow through on the threat, Hegseth said "we had a target set locked and loaded of infrastructure, bridges, power plants," and Iran "knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of."

"He ultimately said, 'we can take it all from you, your ability to export energy will be taken away,'" Hegseth said of the president. "That type of threat is what brought them to the place where they effectively say, 'OK, we want to cut this deal.'"

Amid the ceasefire announcement, oil prices plunged Wednesday, staying well above pre-war levels but dropping below the $100 a barrel mark, and stocks soared in early trading Wednesday. 

But at least three explosions were heard around Iran's Lavan Island Oil Refinery, the country's state media reported Wednesday, hours after Mr. Trump said the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a conditional two-week ceasefire.

It was not immediately clear whether U.S. or Israeli forces had launched new attacks on the island, which sits less than 10 miles off Iran's coast in the Persian Gulf, west of the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.

Israel has also agreed to the ceasefire proposal, a White House official told CBS News. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced late Tuesday night that while Israel supports the United States' two-week ceasefire with Iran, the accord doesn't cover the fighting between Israel's military and Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Iranian proxy.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi confirmed that Iran had agreed to halt "defensive operations," likely referring to its drone and missile strikes on U.S. allies in the region, if the U.S. stops attacking Iran. Araghchi also said Iran's armed forces will coordinate to allow for "safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz."  

A maritime monitoring service said Wednesday that vessel movement was resuming in the Strait of Hormuz, with two ships moving through the vital waterway.

"Early signs of vessel activity are emerging in the Strait of Hormuz following a ceasefire," MarineTraffic said on X.

"Initial movements are now being recorded," it said. "The Greek-owned bulk carrier NJ Earth crossed the Strait at 08:44 UTC, while the Liberia-flagged Daytona Beach transited earlier at 06:59 UTC, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas at 05:28 UTC."

Taylor, who focused her campaign on abortion rights, handily defeated Republican-backed Maria Lazar in the fourth straight victory for liberal court candidates dating back to 2020. Liberals are now guaranteed to hold a majority on the court until at least 2030.

"Once again, Wisconsin showed the entire nation that we believe that the people should be at the center of government and the priority of our judiciary, not the billionaires, not the most powerful and privileged, but the people," Taylor said in her victory speech.

Wisconsin Republican Party Chair Brian Schimming, in the wake of Lazar's double-digit defeat, called for Republicans to "stay united and continue fighting for our conservative values."

Democrats tightened their control of the court just months before a November election in which they seek to keep the governor's office and flip the state Legislature, where Republicans have held the majority since 2011. Democrats aspire to undo a host of Republican-enacted laws that made Wisconsin a focal point for the nation's conservative movement in the 2010s.

This year's Supreme Court election stands in stark contrast to the swing state's previous two, where national spending records were set in battles over majority control. Spending and national attention was down dramatically this year without control of the court at stake.

Liberals took control of the state's top court in 2023, ending 15 years under a conservative majority. They held onto their majority with last year's victory in a race that drew involvement from President Donald Trump and billionaires George Soros and Elon Musk, who personally handed out $1 million checks to voters in the state.

Liberals argued that democracy was at stake in the 2025 election, noting that when the court was controlled by conservative justices in 2020 it came just one vote shy of siding with Trump in his attempt to invalidate enough votes to overturn his loss in that year's presidential election.

The court under liberal control has reversed several election-related rulings, including one that overturned a ban on absentee ballot drop boxes, and it is poised to once again be in the spotlight around the 2028 presidential election.

Races for the court are officially nonpartisan, but support for candidates breaks down mostly along partisan lines. The seat was open due to the retirement of a conservative justice.

Taylor, who is a state Appeals Court judge and previously worked for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, focused much of her campaign on abortion rights. One of her TV ads argued that "abortion is on the ballot." In another ad, she criticized Lazar for calling the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 "very wise."

Lazar, who is also a state Appeals Court judge and was supported by anti-abortion groups in her run for that court, tried to brand Taylor as nothing more than a politician who will push a partisan agenda on the high court.

They sparred over each other's partisanship during the campaign's sole debate last week.

Lazar accused Taylor of being a "radical, extreme legislator" and a "judicial activist." Taylor said that Lazar would bring "an extreme, right-wing political agenda to the bench."

But she had a much harder time getting her message out. Taylor had a large fundraising advantage and spent about nine times as much as Lazar on television ads, based on a tally by the Brennan Center for Justice.

The liberal-controlled court has already struck down a state abortion ban law and ordered new legislative maps since taking control of the court, fueling Democrats' hopes of capturing a majority this November.

Taylor has been a judge since 2020 and before that spent 10 years as a Democrat representing the liberal capital city of Madison in the state Assembly.

Lazar, a judge since 2015, previously worked four years under a Republican attorney general in the state Department of Justice. In that role, she defended a law enacted under former Republican Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.

A circuit court judge ruled in December that the law is unconstitutional, a decision expected to ultimately land before the state Supreme Court.

Lazar also defended laws passed by Republicans and signed by Walker implementing a voter ID requirement and restricting abortion access.

Democrats had been optimistic given the past two Supreme Court elections, which saw candidates they backed winning by double digits.

Another conservative justice is retiring next year, giving liberals a chance to take 6-1 control of the court thanks to Taylor's victory.

He said the Iranian foreign minister responded favorably to the agreement, but that others in the country are "lying."

"This is why I say this is a fragile truce," Vance said in Budapest. "You have people who clearly want to come to the negotiating table and work with us to find a good deal and then you have people who are lying about even the fragile truths that we've already struck."

Vance said President Trump has shown "we still have clear military, diplomatic and, maybe most importantly, we have extraordinary economic leverage."

But he said the president "has told us not to use those tools."

"He's told us to come to negotiating table," Vance said. "But if the Iranians don't do the exact same thing, they're going to find out that the president of the United States is not one to mess around. He's impatient. He's impatient to make progress."

Vance said Tuesday, before an agreement was announced, that the U.S. has largely accomplished its military objectives in Iran, but noted, "There are still some things that we'd like to do — for example, on Iranian ability to manufacture weapons. That we'd like to do a little more work on militarily."

"But fundamentally, the military objectives of the United States have been completed," he said. 

Vance was in Hungary when the ceasefire agreement was announced and said he was there "to help" Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reelection bid.

Speaking to thousands of Hungarians five days before Hungary's Sunday parliamentary elections, the vice president weighed in on the foreign election in the Russia-allied Hungary, telling the crowd, "we have got to get Viktor Orbán reelected as prime minister of Hungary, don't we?" 

Vance rang Mr. Trump as he began his Tuesday speech and, after a couple tries, got the president on the phone. "I love Hungary and I love that Viktor," Mr. Trump told the crowd through the speakerphone.

Vance said he visited Orbán because the two countries are fighting for the "defense of Western civilization," even though Orbán is considered by many Western political experts to be an "illiberal democrat" or an "electoral autocrat." Despite the controversy, Mr. Trump has long lauded Orbán, and Vance did on Tuesday as well. 

The Hungarian prime minister is seeking his fifth consecutive term in office. Freedom House, a democracy-oriented, U.S.-based nonprofit, designates Hungary as only "partly free," citing issues with less-than-free-and-fair elections and a stifling of independent institutions. 

"Will you stand against the bureaucrats in Brussels?" Vance concluded. "Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy? Will you stand for Western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, for truth and for the God of our fathers? Then my friends, go to the polls in the weekend, stand with Viktor Orbán because he stands for you and he stands for all these things."

Two Iraqi government sources and a source familiar with the situation told CBS News on Tuesday that Kittleson had been released. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later confirmed her release, saying in a statement, "We are relieved that this American is now free and are working to support her safe departure from Iraq." 

Kata'ib Hezbollah had Kittleson's name on a list of American journalists to target for kidnapping, multiple sources said. She was abducted in Baghdad last Tuesday, March 31.

A spokesperson for the Kata'ib Hezbollah militia said earlier in a post on the group's Telegram messaging app channel that Kittleson was being released on the condition that she leave Iraq immediately.

Her exact whereabouts were not immediately clear.

Two militia officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that in exchange for Kittleson's release, Iraqi authorities would free several detained members of Kata'ib Hezbollah.

Earlier, the group released an undated video of Kittleson in which she speaks directly to the camera. It is unclear where the video was taken. It runs about two and a half minutes long and she is seen wearing a pink sweater and green blazer.

Rubio in his statement thanked the FBI, Department of Defense, "U.S. personnel across multiple agencies, and the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council and our Iraqi partners, for their assistance in securing her release."

FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement that the agency was "thrilled to welcome American journalist Shelly Kittleson's release today." 

"Our Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell was relentless in this effort working with our outstanding State Department, Department of War, and other partners across the federal government," Patel said, using the Trump administration's preferred term for the Defense Department. "This was a team effort in every way reflecting President Trump's commitment to leaving no American behind."

Alex Plitsas, Kittleson's designated point of contact in the U.S. and a CNN national security analyst, previously told CBS News the U.S. government had warned Kittleson about a specific threat against her by Kata'ib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed paramilitary group that was allegedly looking to kidnap or kill female journalists. 

Kittleson was contacted multiple times with warnings of threats against her, including as recently as the night before she was abducted, a U.S. official had told CBS News.

Journalist Kiran Nazish, the founder and director of the Coalition for Women in Journalism, told CBS News last week that Kittleson was traveling to Iraq to stay with a family there who had reassured Kittleson that she shouldn't worry and that they "would keep her safe." Kittleson told Nazish in a text message that she had been advised not to travel, but "she was doing what she had always done," Nazish told CBS News.

Nazish said Kittleson traveled to Iraq and Syria several times before and had "experience reporting on the ground in difficult circumstances." Kittleson lives in Rome and has spent time in Istanbul. 

In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, Leo said any attacks on civilian infrastructure in Iran would violate international law, and urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.

"Today, as we all know, there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable," he said as he left his country house in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.

Mr. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Tuesday that "a whole civilization will die tonight" unless a deal is reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, otherwise he will order attacks to destroy all of Iran's power plants and bridges. He set his deadline for 8 p.m. ET.  

Leo recalled his Easter appeal for peace and to reject war "especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate, and which is not resolving anything."

He invited all people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to remind them that attacks on civilian infrastructure are "against international law" and also are a "sign of the hatred, the division, the destruction human beings are capable of, and we all want to work for peace."

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The Wolverines captured the second NCAA title in school history and its first since 1989.

Elliot Cadeau led the Wolverines with 19 points, including the team's first 3, which came 7:04 into the second half. The second, from freshman Trey McKenney, came with 1:50 left and felt like a dagger, giving the Wolverines a nine-point lead.

To no one's surprise, UConn fought to the finish — Solo Ball banked in a 3 to cut it to four with 37 seconds left — and after two missed free throws, UConn's Alex Karaban (17 points) barely grazed the rim on a 3 that would've cut the deficit to one with 17 seconds left.

Not until McKenney sank two free throws to bring Michigan's shooting from the line to 25 for 28 for the night could the Wolverines (37-3) kick off the celebration.

"Nobody cared about stats the whole season. Nobody cared about nothing but winning," Cadeau said from the trophy presentation stage amid a confetti-strewn court.

The game had a 1950s feel to it.

"If you'd told me we would shoot it this poorly and (be) dominated on the glass and still find a way to win, I don't know if I would have believed you," Michigan head coach Dusty May said. "This team just found a way all season."

Michigan had to fight for everything. The Wolverines missed their first 11 shots from 3, finished 2 for 15 from there and won despite the struggles of its best player, Yaxel Lendeborg. Ailing with a hurt knee and foot that kept him from elevating, the graduate transfer from UAB finished with 13 points on 4-for-13 shooting. 

Truth be told, it wasn't anyone's prettiest night.

UConn's hopes at becoming the first team since John Wooden's UCLA dynasty to win three titles in four seasons came up short, done in by massive foul trouble and its own terrible shooting.

Coach Dan Hurley's team shot 30.9% from the floor and missed its first 11 shots from 3 in the second half.

Braylon Mullins, the hero of the Duke win that put UConn in the Final Four, finished 4 of 17, though he made a pair of late 3s that kept the game in reach.

UConn (35-5) covered the 6 1/2-point spread, and Hurley kept his players out on the court to watch the podium get set up for the presentation of a trophy heading not to Storrs, but Ann Arbor.

About the only consolation: The Huskies clogged things up, slowed things down and made Michigan beat them at their game.

Michigan had become the first team to score 90-plus points in five straight tournament games in the same season. With the help of 7-foot-3 center Aday Mara, the defense amassed eight or more blocks in the first four games of the tournament — the first time that's happened since blocks became an official stat in the 1980s.

The Wolverines had only three swats against Arizona, but that was a 91-73 win in a game that was supposed to be the best of the tournament but turned into something else.

Style points aside, this was a championship built from outside — the best team money could buy.

All five Wolverines starters played college ball elsewhere, and all but Nimari Burnett came to Ann Arbor this season. That's the product of the transfer portal that May has shown no reluctance to use. His ability to form a makeshift group into a winner is still the value of a coach and a culture.

"They might be still calling us mercenaries but we're the hardest-working team," Lendenborg said. "We're the best in college basketball and we'll be one of the greatest ever."

The Ann Arbor Police Department said it had a large presence "as thousands of fans celebrated" the win.

It added that "two people were arrested and Ann Arbor Fire extinguished more than 40 fires in connection with the post-game celebration. Multiple street signs were also damaged during the celebration. There were no serious injuries reported."

Speaking at a news conference at the White House, Mr. Trump also said that he believes the Iranians are negotiating "in good faith" amid a renewed diplomatic push to strike a deal that would stop the fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president has given the Iranians until 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday to reach an agreement on opening the strait before targeting power plants and infrastructure.

Mr. Trump said the effort to locate the downed airmen was "one of the largest, most complex, most harrowing combat searches — I guess you would call it a search and rescue mission — ever attempted by the military."

The American F-15E fighter jet was shot down by Iranian fire on Friday. The plane's pilot was located and rescued that same day, but the second crew member, a weapon systems officer, remained missing in Iran's mountainous terrain. The president announced early Sunday morning that the weapon systems officer had also been rescued.

The operation involved more than 150 planes and more than 200 munitions, CBS News reported earlier Monday. The stranded officer had only a handgun to defend himself.

Joined at the White House by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Mr. Trump said he "ordered the U.S. armed forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back home" soon after the jet was shot down. He revealed that the F-15 was brought down by a "handheld shoulder missile, [a] heat-seeking missile."

The president said it was a "risky decision" to attempt to recover the airmen, since the U.S. could have ended up with "100 dead as opposed to one or two." He later said hundreds of Americans were involved in the operation.

"It's a hard decision to make, but in the United States military, we leave no American behind. We don't do it," he said. 

The president said the pilot of the fighter jet was located in the first wave of search-and-rescue operations and picked up by a U.S. helicopter crew that "faced gunfire at very close range." 

Mr. Trump said the second crew member was injured "quite badly" and stranded in an area "teaming with terrorists," far from the pilot's location. He said the airman followed his training and began climbing toward a higher altitude to evade capture, scaling cliff faces, treating his own wounds and contacting U.S. forces to transmit his location. 

Hegseth said when the airman was able to access his emergency transponder, "his first message was simple and it was powerful — he sent a message, 'God is good.'"

The president said, "In a breathtaking show of skill and precision, lethality and force, America's military descended on the area … engaged the enemy, rescued the stranded officer, destroyed all threats and exited Iranian territory while taking no casualties of any kind."

Mr. Trump said the officer "had evaded capture on the ground in Iran for almost 48 hours. That's a long time when you're in tough shape and when you're bleeding."

The president said the large number of forces involved in the operation was meant, in part, to throw the Iranians off the trail of the officer's trail.

"We wanted to have them think he was in a different location, because they had a vast military force out there. Thousands, thousands of people were looking," he said. "So we wanted them to look in different areas. So we were scattered all over, like we were right on top of them. We had seven different locations where they thought — and they were very confused — they said, 'Well, wait a minute, they've got groups here.'"

Ratcliffe, the CIA chief, called the challenge of the search-and-rescue operation "comparable to hunting for a single grain of sand in the middle of a desert." He said it was also a "race against the clock," making it critical to locate the American aviator as soon as possible. He said for that reason, the CIA launched a "deception campaign to confuse the Iranians who were desperately hunting for our airman."

"On Saturday morning, we achieved our primary objective by finding and providing confirmation that one of America's best and bravest was alive and concealed in a mountain crevice, still invisible to the enemy, but not to the CIA," Ratcliffe said. "That confirmation was relayed by Secretary Hegseth to the president, and the operation quickly moved to the execution phase."

Hegseth said "the United States military will go anywhere at any time to protect our own and complete the mission." He added that "we flew for seven hours in daylight over Iran to get the first pilot, and we flew seven hours in the middle of the night to get the second."

"And Iran did nothing about it," Hegseth said. 

Caine, the Joint Chiefs chairman, said the mission was "incredibly dangerous" and detailed a firefight that preceded the rescue of the downed pilot. He said drones, A-10 jets and other aircraft were "violently suppressing and engaging the enemy in a close-in gunfight to keep them away from the front-seater and allow the pickup force to get into the objective area."

A pilot of one of the A-10s took fire and "continued to fight, continued the mission, and then upon exit, flew his aircraft into another country and determined that the airplane was not landable," Caine said. The A-10 pilot "made the decision to eject over friendly territory, and was quickly and safely recovered," the chairman said.

Caine said the rescue operations showed that "the United States of America will recover our war fighters anywhere in the world, under any conditions, when we want to. We will always bring overwhelming skill and firepower."

What comes next in Iran

On Sunday, the president threatened to destroy Iranian power plants and other civilian infrastructure if a deal isn't reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Mr. Trump extended the deadline until Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET, after vowing that "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran."

The president said Monday at the White House that "the entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night."

When asked about Tuesday's deadline by CBS News' Weijia Jiang, Mr. Trump said that "we have to have a deal that's acceptable to me, and part of that deal is going to be, we want free traffic of oil and everything else."

"We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night. Where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again — I mean complete demolition — by 12 o'clock, and it will happen over a period of four hours, if we want it to," Mr. Trump said. "We don't want that to happen."

A diplomatic effort is underway to avoid the possible major escalation. The president is considering, among other ideas, a Pakistani proposal for a 45-day ceasefire that would involve the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Asked about the negotiations and a possible pause in the fighting, Mr. Trump said he couldn't comment on the possibility of a ceasefire, but he said "we have an active, willing participant on the other side."

"They would like to be able to make a deal," he said. 

When asked to clarify his mixed messages on how long the war with Iran will continue, Mr. Trump said, "I can't tell you, I don't know."

"It depends what they do. This is a critical period," Mr. Trump said. "They have til tomorrow. Now we'll see what happens. I can tell you, they're negotiating, we think, in good faith."

Ron Gibson, who is serving his third term on the Indianapolis City-County Council, said Monday that someone fired 13 shots at his front door after midnight and left a note inside a zip-closed bag on the doorstep that said "NO DATA CENTERS."  

"My 8-year-old son and I were not physically harmed, but we were awakened by the sound of gunfire. Like any parent, I immediately ran to him and reassured him that he was safe," Gibson said in a statement. 

"This was not just an attack on my home, but endangered my child and disrupted the safety of our entire neighborhood," he said. "I understand that public service can bring strong opinions and disagreement, but violence is never the answer, especially when it puts families at risk."

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said officers were called to the home around 9 a.m. Monday. Officers found evidence of gunshots and believe it was "an isolated, targeted incident," police said. A suspect has not been identified.

The FBI is assisting in the investigation, according to police.

Data centers used to store, train and operate artificial intelligence models have become controversial in towns across the U.S. in part because they drain power from the shared electric grid, driving up costs for residents, CBS News has previously reported. They have also been shown to use massive amounts of water, sparking concerns over rippling impact on the environment and public health. 

Days before the shooting occurred, Gibson attended a Metropolitan Development Commission meeting to advocate for the rezoning of 2505 North Sherman Drive, where the developer Metrobloks LLC looks to build a data center and other business offices.

When Gibson stepped up to speak at the meeting on Wednesday, he was met with boos from the crowd. 

"There are real benefits tied to this development. Construction is expected to support roughly 300 jobs over a three-year period," Gibson said at the meeting.

Shortly after Gibson voiced his support for the rezoning project, the room was asked to stand up if they disapproved of the project — and the majority of the crowd could be seen rising to their feet.

Despite the opposition, the Metropolitan Development Commission approved the project last week, CBS affiliate WTTV reported, but the rezoning petition still has to go through the Indianapolis City-County Council.

Protect Martindale-Brightwood, one of the neighborhood groups against the data center, on Monday condemned the act of violence at Gibson's home and denied any involvement.

"Violence has no place in our community or our advocacy," the group said on social media. "We want to be clear: any signage or messaging at the scene is not affiliated with our organization and does not reflect who we are. Our work is rooted in peaceful, community-led advocacy grounded in respect and accountability."

Indianapolis City-County Council President Maggie Lewis on Monday also issued a statement urging civil discourse. 

"Differences in opinion are a natural and necessary part of civic life," Lewis said. "But violence, threats, and intimidation are not forms of dialogue—they are attacks on our shared commitment to democracy, civil discourse, and community safety."

But behind some of the viral physiques lies a troubling trend: the use of a powerful drug never approved for humans.

A rapid transformation — and a risky choice

At 16 years old, Zaid Laila says he didn't want to spend years working out to build a body like those he saw online. 

"Why wait 10 years … when I could do it in less than a year," he said.

The high school student from suburban Dallas began documenting his journey on social media, where his transformation quickly drew attention. His videos show a leaner, more muscular physique — the kind often celebrated across social media platforms.

But Laila is open about how he got there: "A lot of steroids and a lot of working out."

He told CBS News he's been using anabolic steroids for about 10 months, including trenbolone, a powerful drug developed for livestock and never approved for human use.

A drug not meant for people

Trenbolone, often referred to as "tren," is designed to increase muscle growth in cattle. It is classified as a Schedule III controlled substance in the United States, making it illegal to possess or distribute without a prescription.

Dr. Jason Nagata, a pediatrician specializing in adolescent health at the University of California, San Francisco, says anabolic steroids can damage the heart, liver and kidneys — and trenbolone may be even more dangerous. 

"Trenbolone, because it's so powerful, it has even more significant side effects," Nagata said. "There is no safe [human] indication for this animal drug."

Steroid use, from sports to social media

For decades, steroid use was largely associated with competitive sports, but the motivation has shifted. 

"There are many people now who aren't actually participating in any type of sports who are using these drugs only for the purpose of looking better," Nagata said. 

A 2023 study by the nonprofit Countering Digital Hate found TikTok videos under certain hashtags promoting steroid-like drugs have been seen at least 587 million times in the U.S. between 2020 and 2023, with 72% of those views from users between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. 

Scroll through social media and the trend is hard to miss: transformation videos, gym influencers and before-and-after photos appear to showcase rapid results. 

"With more social media, there have been really extreme pressures for boys to build muscle," said Nagata. 

Laila says those images played a direct role in his decision. 

"Seeing people do it is what makes you want to do it," he said, adding that the drugs are also easy to obtain. 

"It's not hard at all," he said. "Anyone can get their hands on it if they try."

A warning shaped by tragedy

More than two decades after losing his younger brother to steroid use, Don Hooton Jr. says the problem has only grown. His brother, Taylor, began using anabolic steroids in high school after being encouraged to get bigger and stronger for sports. After stopping the drugs, he experienced severe depression and died by suicide in 2003.

Hooton now leads the Taylor Hooton Foundation, which educates young people about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs. 

"We're seeing kids today asking if trenbolone is safe," Hooton said. "That's a major problem."

He says social media has fundamentally changed how young people are exposed to these substances. "[The] drug dealer has gone from a dark alley … to the safe four walls of our home," he said.

"Everybody is filming themselves. They wanna be the next social media star, and they're doing whatever it takes to change that physique, even if it's using illegal drugs," said Hooton. 

Despite the risks, some teens remain focused on the short-term rewards. 

"If I have a heart attack at 30, I have a heart attack," Laila said.

What parents should watch for

The warning signs aren't always obvious. Nagata told CBS News parents should look out for obsessive workout routines, teens avoiding meals with family and friends, or other changes that impact socializing. 

In some cases, parents may even unintentionally reinforce the behavior by praising physical changes without understanding how they were achieved.

For Laila's family, conversations are underway. His father, Haitham Laila, told CBS News he is deeply concerned about his son's health and overwhelmed by the misinformation his son has cited to justify steroid use. 

Zaid Laila says he understands the risks — but continues to make his own choices.

 "I'm still going to do [steroids] " he said. "I know what can come with it."

Average U.S. gas prices topped $4 per gallon on March 31 for the first time since 2022, according to AAA.

Analysts say prices are likely to remain elevated until shipping resumes in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which one-fifth of the world's oil supply flows.

Gas prices are typically higher in California, which relies heavily on oil imports from abroad and has higher taxes on gasoline than other U.S. states. Still, prices have increased across the country. 

Diesel, which powers trucks, boats and trains that transport U.S. goods, has risen more quickly than regular gasoline, in part because diesel was already in short supply before the war began.

Oil only accounts for half the cost of a gallon of gas. The rest is a combination of refining, taxes and marketing, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The time of year also influences gas prices, as demand for fuel rises during warmer months.

The U.S. is the world's leading oil producer. However, the global market sets the price. Higher oil costs mean higher prices for Americans fueling their cars.

And it's not just gas: Heating bills may be getting more expensive as the price of residential heating oil has begun to climb in response to the war in Iran.

NASA released the image on Sunday. In it, the moon is oriented upside down, with its South Pole facing upward and parts of its far side visible, according to the agency's description. The Orientale basin, a massive crater that's hard to see from Earth, is situated along the right edge of the moon in the latest picture, NASA said, adding that the Artemis II voyage marks the first time humans have ever seen the basin in full.

The Orientale basin will be an ongoing subject of study for members of the Orion spacecraft's four-person crew, which includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen.

"The Artemis II crew will continue to observe Orientale from multiple angles as they approach the Moon and throughout the lunar flyby," said NASA. The agency noted how the basin can be "used as a baseline to compare other impact craters on rocky worlds from Mercury to Pluto." 

The Artemis II mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, last week, in the first piloted moonshot since the Apollo program more than 50 years ago. It is meant to be a test flight that sets the stage for future missions that return astronauts to the moon.

On "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" Sunday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman underscored that collecting data observations and data is the mission's primary goal right now.

"We want to gather as much data as we possibly can for that," he said. "Of course, there's various science experiments, there's lunar observations, but learning as much as we can about Orion is critically important, because Artemis III is a year away."

Artemis II was about 64,000 miles from the Moon on Sunday, according to NASA. A mission status update shared just before 12:30 p.m. ET said the crew had recently woken up for the fifth day of their flight to the song "Working Class Heroes (Work)" by CeeLo Green. A flight controller sitting in mission control "was seen briefly dancing in his chair" to the wakeup call, it said. 

Later on Sunday, Artemis II is due to enter the lunar sphere of influence, which is the point where the pull of the Moon's gravity becomes stronger than the pull of the Earth's. The crew will have a full day to test their spacesuits and conduct other flight tests as they move toward the moon. NASA will host a televised briefing about the mission Sunday evening from the Johnson Space Center.

Early Monday, NASA said Artemis II officially entered the lunar sphere of influence at 12:38 a.m. EDT. The moon, rather than Earth, was the main gravitational force acting on the Orion spacecraft.

"We have rescued the seriously wounded, and really brave, F-15 Crew Member/Officer, from deep inside the mountains of Iran," President Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday, calling him "a highly respected Colonel." 

Mr. Trump said the pilot was rescued "in broad daylight" after U.S. forces spent "seven hours over Iran." He plans to share more about the operation at a news conference on Monday, according to the post.

The president originally confirmed the crew member's rescue in a Truth Social post overnight.

"WE GOT HIM!" he wrote in the post. "My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is now SAFE and SOUND!"

Mr. Trump said that the rescued officer had "sustained injuries, but he will be just fine."

Of the rescue operation, the president said that "at my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him."

U.S. officials had previously told CBS News the jet was carrying a two-person crew when it was downed by Iranian forces Friday. 

Iranian Revolutionary Guards took credit for the strike, alleging the jet was brought down in southwestern Iran Friday morning. Photos of debris that Iranian media said showed the wreckage of the downed U.S. fighter jet appeared consistent with an American F-15, two weapons experts told CBS News.

The pilot of the F-15E had safely ejected and was rescued by two military helicopters, U.S. officials earlier said, but the second crew member, a weapons system officer, had remained missing.

During Friday's recovery efforts, a U.S. chopper carrying the rescued pilot was struck by small arms fire, wounding crew members on board, U.S. officials said, but the helicopter landed safely.

An A-10 Thunderbolt that was part of Friday's search mission took fire and was damaged. The Warthog's pilot ejected over the Persian Gulf and was successfully recovered, U.S. officials said.

Mr. Trump on Friday put some other operations on pause in Iran to prioritize the search and rescue, directing hundreds of special operations forces to the effort, zeroing in on the stranded crew member's beacon.   

A U.S. official and a White House official confirmed to CBS News that U.S. commandos recovered the missing crew member in a complex operation that involved dozens of special forces personnel, and several dozen warplanes and helicopters. The news was first reported by the New York Times.

The rescued officer was flown to Kuwait to receive treatment for his injuries, the two officials said.

The harrowing military operation utilized bombs and weapons fire to keep Iranian troops away from where the missing officer was believed to be hiding, the two officials said. While stranded, he had only a handgun to defend himself, the two officials disclosed. 

Two transport planes tasked with flying out rescue crews were unable to take off from a remote base in Iran. Those planes were demolished to keep them from being captured by the enemy, the officials said, and the commandos flew out on three extra aircraft that were sent in to fetch them. 

The three rescue planes flew out of Iran to Kuwait, each just a short distance behind each other, the officials disclosed. The mission was completed just before midnight, with all U.S. forces out of enemy airspace.   

The CIA was deeply involved in the rescue mission, a senior Trump administration official told CBS News on Sunday.

Before locating the airman, the CIA launched a deception campaign, spreading word inside Iran that U.S. forces had already found him and were moving him on the ground for exfiltration out of the country.

While the deception operation was ongoing, the agency used its capabilities to track the crew member in a mountain crevice, the official said. 

The CIA shared the crew member's exact location with the Pentagon and the White House, the official said. The president ordered an immediate rescue mission, with the CIA continuing to provide real-time information.

The downing of the F-15E fighter jet marks the first time a U.S. fighter jet has been shot down in combat in over 20 years, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Houston Cantwell, a former F-16 fighter pilot, told The Associated Press. 

At least four U.S. fighter jets have been shot down since the Iran war began on Feb. 28, but three of those were in a friendly-fire incident, the Pentagon said. On March 1, three American F-15s were "mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses," U.S. Central Command said at the time, and there were no casualties from that incident. 

Until Sunday's announcement, Mr. Trump had been mostly silent on the subject of the search, telling The Independent in a phone interview Friday that he couldn't comment on what he might do if the crew member were captured by Iran. 

"Well, I can't comment on it because — we hope that's not going to happen," Mr. Trump said.

In his social media post Sunday, Mr. Trump said the White House's silence was to protect the missing officer, saying the U.S. military "did not confirm" Friday's rescue of the F-15E's pilot "because we did not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation."  

Mr. Trump on Saturday also issued another warning to Iran regarding its control over the Strait of Hormuz, telling the Iranian regime it had 48 hours to reopen the crucial waterway or "all Hell will reign [sic] down on them."

Since the war began, the virtual closure of the strait — which sees about 20% of all global oil traffic — has caused fuel prices to skyrocket worldwide. 

The 152-page ruling by Judge Lewis J. Liman in Manhattan came after Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment among more than a dozen claims against Baldoni and other parties. 

A trial is scheduled to start on May 18. A brief phone conference was conducted after Liman issued his ruling. On the call, lawyers discussed the process of jury selection for the trial.

Baldoni, who directed the movie and co-starred opposite Lively, has denied the sexual harassment claims.

Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios had countersued for $400 million against Lively and her husband, "Deadpool" actor Ryan Reynolds, accusing them of defamation and extortion. The judge dismissed Baldoni's claims last June.

In his ruling, Liman determined that Lively was an independent contractor rather than an employee. On that basis, he said she was not entitled to bring sexual harassment claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That law prohibits employment discrimination on various grounds, including gender.  

In an analysis of the sexual harassment claims, the judge said Lively's claims had to be viewed in the context of the movie they were working on.

"Lively claims that during filming, Baldoni leaned in and gestured as if he was intending to kiss her, and that he kissed her forehead, rubbed his face and mouth against her neck, put his thumb to her mouth and flicked her lower lip, caressed her, and leaned into her neck, saying 'it smells good,'" the judge wrote.

He said there was no question that the conduct would support a hostile work environment claim if it happened on a factory floor or in an executive suite.

However, the judge noted, Baldoni was "acting in the scene." 

"Assuming he was improvising, the conduct was not so far beyond what might reasonably be expected to take place between two characters during a slow dancing scene such that an inference of hostile treatment on the basis of sex would arise. At least in isolation, the conduct was directed to Lively's character rather than to Lively herself," he wrote.

"Creative artists, no less than comedy room writers, must have some amount of space to experiment within the bounds of an agreed script without fear of being held liable for sexual harassment," Liman added.

Despite those findings, the judge said some sexual harassment claims may be put to a jury to support two retaliation claims that survived the ruling, including one against It Ends With Us Movie LLC and Wayfarer Studios, and a third claim that was left intact, alleging breach of a contract rider agreement against It Ends With Us Movie LLC.

The judge noted that Baldoni once said "pretty hot" after asking Lively to remove her jacket, exposing a lace bra underneath, and that when he was warned that it was inappropriate and distracting to make such comment, he allegedly rolled his eyes and responded: "Sorry, I missed the sexual harassment training."

Liman also cited a scene in which Baldoni pushed for Lively to perform a birth scene naked and then the scene was filmed over several hours without the set being closed to nonessential personnel. 

In a statement posted to Instagram on Friday, Lively said "the last thing I wanted in my life was a lawsuit, but I brought this case because of the pervasive RETALIATION I faced, and continue to, for privately and professionally asking for a safe working environment for myself and others." 

"I'm grateful for the Court's ruling which allows the heart of my case to be presented to a jury next month, and for the ability to finally tell my story in full at trial, for my own sake, but also for those who don't have the same opportunity to... many of whom I have known and loved deeply in my life, and the countless I'll never know," Lively said in the statement. 

Attorneys for Baldoni said in a statement to CBS News that they're "very pleased" the court dismissed the sexual harassment claims, stating they were "very serious allegations." 

"What's left is a significantly narrowed case, and we look forward to presenting our defense to the remaining claims in court," attorneys Alexandra Shapiro and Jonathan Bach said in a statement. 

An attorney for Lively said in a statement to CBS News that the case "has always been and will remain focused on the devastating retaliation and the extraordinary steps the defendants took to destroy Blake Lively's reputation because she stood up for safety on the set and that is the case that is going to trial."

"For Blake Lively, the greatest measure of justice is that the people and the playbook behind these coordinated digital attacks have been exposed and are already being held accountable by other women they've targeted," said Sigrid McCawley, an attorney for Lively. "She looks forward to testifying at trial and continuing to shine a light on this vicious form of online retaliation so that it becomes easier to detect and fight."

In February 2025, Lively alleged in an amended complaint that Baldoni made other women uncomfortable on the set of "It Ends with Us." 

"It Ends With Us," an adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling 2016 novel that begins as a romance but takes a dark turn into domestic violence, was released in August 2024, exceeding box office expectations with a $50 million debut. But the movie's release was shrouded by speculation over discord between Lively and Baldoni. 

Lively appeared in the 2005 film "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and the TV series "Gossip Girl" from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including "The Town" and "The Shallows."

Baldoni starred in the TV comedy "Jane the Virgin," directed the 2019 film "Five Feet Apart" and wrote "Man Enough," a book challenging traditional notions of masculinity.

The F-15E is flown by a two-member crew, and the search for the second crew member, a weapons system officer, is continuing, two U.S. officials said. 

The jet was shot down by Iranian forces, the officials said, and the combat rescue mission ensued shortly after. An A-10 Warthog was part of the search and rescue mission when it took fire and was damaged. The Warthog pilot ejected over the Persian Gulf and was successfully recovered, according to the officials.

Two helicopters also took part in the search and rescue mission and successfully retrieved the F-15E pilot who had ejected, officials said. The helicopter carrying the recovered pilot was hit by small arms fire, wounding crew members on board, according to the officials, who said the helicopter landed safely. All service members are receiving initial medical treatment and will be transported for further medical care.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard claimed it shot down a U.S. fighter jet over the middle of the country Friday morning. Photos and video circulating on social media and shared by Iranian state news outlets suggested at least one U.S. C-130 aircraft and two Black Hawk helicopters were spotted flying low over central and southwest Iran, in what was described as an effort to locate and recover the crew.

CBS News reported earlier this week that the U.S. military had lost at least 16 MQ-9 Reaper drones over Iran since the war began, and three U.S. F-15 fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait in a "friendly fire incident" early in the conflict, but there were no casualties.

The downing of the jet Friday comes after repeated assertions by President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and military commanders of U.S. air superiority that largely deprived Iran of attack capabilities and air defenses during the war.

"Now in our fifth week of the campaign, it is my operational assessment that we are making undeniable progress. We don't see their navy sailing. We don't see their aircraft flying, and their air and missile defense systems have largely been destroyed," CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday.

A local affiliate of Iran's state TV channel said Friday a prize was being offered for anyone able to "capture the enemy pilot or pilots alive and hand them over to the police." 

The Associated Press said the TV broadcast included a written message urging viewers to shoot at any U.S. aircraft seen flying overhead. 

Goolsbee — who emphasized he was speaking for himself and not for the Federal Reserve as a whole — told CBS News that, before the start of the conflict, he was confident the Fed could cut its benchmark rate this year. But that optimism has waned as the war drives up oil and fuel prices. 

"Before the war, before we got the oil shock, I've been on the optimistic side of the rate — I believed rates could come down even multiple times in 2026," Goolsbee said.

The energy shock "complicates that picture for me — that if we're truly not going to see any improvement in inflation, to me that starts pushing these decisions off to 2027 at the earliest," he said.

The Fed in March left the federal funds rate — what banks charge each other for short-term loans — unchanged because of mounting economic uncertainty amid the Iran war, although policymakers indicated they still expected to cut rates once in 2026. Since then, energy costs have continued to rise, with the average price of gasoline hitting $4.09 a gallon on Friday, more than $1 higher than before the war.

In 2026, Goolsbee is serving as one of five alternate members of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's rate-setting panel. He participates in discussions and contributes to economic assessments, and is slated to rotate onto the committee as a voting member in 2027, according to the Fed.

Private economists are also paring their forecasts for interest rate cuts this year due to the risk that higher oil and fuel prices will reignite inflation, which remained well above the Fed's 2% annual target before the Iran war began. CME FedWatch, which bases the probability of rate cuts based on 30-Day Fed funds futures prices, now predicts that the Fed won't issue a single rate cut in 2026.

The next Consumer Price Index report, set to be released on April 10, is likely to show that March prices rose at a 3.1% annual pace, accelerating from February's 2.4% rate, according to economists polled by FactSet.

Pressure on household budgets from higher energy prices could threaten to derail consumer spending, Goolsbee told CBS News. Even before the war, many Americans were feeling pinched financially, and coping with the sharp increase in gas prices could cause some to pull back on spending in other areas, he added.

"It's in the near term, but not immediate, that you would start to see that weighing down the consumer," he said. "They would just get sticker shock — people were already highly concerned about affordability and the cost of living, and this would just be piling onto it."

Consumer spending has been "the backbone of our growth," Goolsbee said, adding that the pressure on households from higher costs "endangers the extended nature of this boom."

Goolsbee also worries that economic uncertainty arising from the Iran war could spill over into the labor market, which on Friday posted stronger-than-expected March gains, with 178,000 new jobs created last month. The Labor Department revised February's payrolls report lower to a loss of 133,000 jobs, larger than the 92,000 decline originally reported. 

The labor market has been described as "low hire, low fire," meaning that while companies aren't doing much hiring, they also aren't making large layoffs. Economic uncertainty is likely behind the current state of the labor market, Goolsbee said. 

"I think that combination comes from so much uncertainty. Most of the businesses that I'm out here talking to in the Midwest say they're a little bit sitting on their hands until they get some resolution, whether it's geopolitical and the price of oil or tariffs, and what the rates are going to settle down to," Goolsbee said.

The lawsuit, led by California, was filed with the U.S. district court in Massachusetts. It asserts that neither the Constitution nor any federal law gives the president the power to mandate widespread changes to states' electoral systems or voting procedures.

The measure, they said, "transgress Plaintiff States' constitutional power to prescribe the time, place, and manner of federal elections" and seeks to "amend and dictate election law by fiat based on the President's whims." 

The executive order at the center of the challenge was signed by Mr. Trump on Tuesday, months before the November midterm elections, and lays out new requirements related to mail voting. The directive calls for the Department of Homeland Security to compile "State Citizenship Lists" of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in federal elections and requires the U.S. Postal Service to send mail or absentee ballots only to voters on each state's list.

Mr. Trump's measure also lays out specific requirements for mail ballot envelopes, including requiring them to bear a unique barcode for tracking. States and localities that don't comply with the executive order are at risk of losing federal funding. 

The directive has already been challenged by a coalition of major Democratic groups, which accused Mr. Trump of attempting to rewrite election rules for partisan gain.

In the lawsuit, the states warned that the president's order "violates bedrock principles of federalism and separation of powers." 

"Each Plaintiff State has duly enacted laws governing voter rolls and mail voting that are, where applicable, consistent with statutory requirements set forth by Congress," they wrote. "The EO disregards States' inherent sovereignty and attempts to arrogate to the President the States' and Congress's constitutional power to regulate federal elections."

Mr. Trump has long railed against mail voting, claiming that the method is "cheating" and compromises election integrity. But instances of mail-voting fraud are rare, and there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. 

The president himself has taken advantage of voting by mail, casting a mail ballot in a special election last month for a Florida state House seat. First lady Melania Trump and his son Barron Trump also voted by mail, according to records from the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections.

The Constitution's Elections Clause gives states the power to set the "times, places and manner" of federal elections, and Congress also has the authority to pass election regulations. While Mr. Trump often accuses Democratic states of allowing noncitizens to cast ballots in federal elections, it is a federal crime to do so. Instances of noncitizen voting are rare. 

The president's executive order comes as he has pressured the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require Americans to show proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections and implement photo ID requirements for voting. The House approved the measure in February, but it's unlikely to clear the GOP-led Senate, where most legislation requires 60 votes to advance.

Mr. Trump signed another election-related executive order last year, which sought to overhaul U.S. elections and require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, but key provisions have been blocked in court.

Rothman has been president of the multicampus 165,000-student university system since 2022. He said in letters to regents first obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday that they were trying to force him to resign or face being fired without explanation. The letters were the first public indication that Rothman's job was in jeopardy and took university and state government officials by surprise.

Regents the AP contacted have declined to comment.

"This lack of transparency is unacceptable," Republican state Rep. David Murphy, chair of the Wisconsin Assembly's colleges and universities committee, said in a Friday statement. "President Rothman deserves to know exactly why the Board has lost confidence in his leadership."

Rothman's tenure has been marked by his efforts to increase state funding amid federal cuts, debates over free speech on campus amid pro-Palestinian protests, and declining enrollment leading to eight branch campus closures, even as enrollment overall held steady.

Murphy, a frequent critic of the university, praised Rothman's work, saying "he has made tough decisions to sustain our campuses and protect educational access for Wisconsin students."

"I am concerned that the push to oust him may actually stem from his strong support for free speech and open inquiry on our campuses—core principles that must be defended in higher education," Murphy said.

Murphy called on the board of regents to give a "full explanation" for why they want Rothman out or "stand down from this effort."

Rothman can be fired for no stated reason and he has no appeal rights, said Wisconsin employment law attorney Tamara Packard, who reviewed Rothman's contract at the AP's request.

"They can terminate him for good, bad or no reason as long as it's not an illegal reason," she said.

If Rothman feels the reason for his termination is illegal, he could file a lawsuit and try to gather evidence to back up his claim through discovery, Packard said.

Under the contract, Rothman would have to be given six-months' notice of her termination. In practice, what usually happens is the person is told to focus on transitioning their duties and not actually work in the office any longer, Packard said.

The Wisconsin open meetings compliance guide requires votes by the board of regents, with very narrow exceptions, to be done in public and recorded. The discussion about personnel issues preceding the vote can be done in secret.

Rothman has had to navigate negotiations with a Republican-controlled Legislature during his tenure and a board of regents with a majority of appointees from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The board was controlled by Evers appointees when Rothman was hired.

Evers spokesperson Britt Cudaback did not return messages Thursday or Friday seeking comment.

Evers is not seeking a third term, meaning there will be a new governor next year with the power to make appointments to the board of regents. The board is in charge of hiring and firing university leaders.

Rothman raised the possibility of resigning in 2023 when the board of regents rejected a deal reached with legislative Republicans over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The board later reversed its vote and approved the deal.

The fight over Rothman's future also comes as the flagship Madison campus is losing its chancellor. Jennifer Mnookin is leaving at the end of the current academic year in May to take the job as president of Columbia University.

Rothman, the former chair and CEO of the Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner law firm, had no prior experience administering higher education.

His salary as UW president is $600,943.

"The Government's arguments do not come close to convincing the Court that a different outcome is warranted," wrote Chief Judge for the District of Columbia James Boasberg.

In January, Powell revealed that the Federal Reserve had received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into him.

The subpoenas threatened a criminal indictment related to Powell's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June 2025, according to Powell. The chairman — who has drawn President Trump's ire for declining to rapidly slash interest rates — said the probe centered on his comments about a years-long renovation project at the Federal Reserve's office buildings. The investigation has not resulted in any criminal charges.

In sealed proceedings, lawyers for the Federal Reserve asked Boasberg to quash them. Boasberg granted the request and unsealed his decision last month, prompting U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to accuse him of being an "activist judge" whose decision was "untethered to the law."

The government is both appealing the ruling and filed a separate motion asking Boasberg to reconsider his decision.

The foundation of the house was crumbling, so Michigan Humane called the Detroit Fire Department for assistance. Video shows fire crews using their fire truck's ladder to reach the puppy inside the chimney.

"This little guy was discovered at the very top of a chimney in an abandoned home. Yes, the top," Michigan Humane said in their Facebook post. "A neighbor made the call, and with help from the @detroitfiredepartment, he was safely brought down and into our care."

The puppy appeared exhausted as fire crews handed him off after the rescue.

The puppy, which appeared to be a pit bull or a mix breed, was examined by medical staff. The fire department gave the dog the name Stack.

Stack remains under the care of Michigan Humane at the Mackey Center for Animal Care while working to gain weight.

"Good calls, quick action, and the right people at the right time made this rescue possible," Michigan Humane said.

Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody by nearly a dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who surrounded his car on Monday in Milwaukee after he left his home, according to the Islamic Society of Milwaukee.

Supporters called for his immediate release on Thursday. His attorneys said he was detained on the grounds that he is a foreign policy threat, a claim they say has no merit.

Instead, they believe Sarsour, 53, was targeted for speaking out against Israel and for a conviction as a minor by Israeli military courts, which have faced scrutiny over allegations of limited due process and high conviction rates of Palestinians. Israel rejects those claims. The offenses included allegedly throwing rocks at Israeli officers, according to attorney Munjed Ahmad.

"Our government should not be doing the bidding of a foreign government," Ahmad said of Israel. "There's no question in my mind is that this is to stifle the discourse on the Palestinian narrative."

Attorneys said Sarsour, born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has no criminal record in the U.S., where he has lived for more than 30 years. They said the U.S. government has known about Sarsour's conviction in Israel since he came to the U.S. in 1993.

An email message left Thursday for ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was not immediately returned.

Sarsour's attorneys have likened the case to that of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student activist who faces deportation because the federal government said he was a foreign policy threat.

Sarsour has been the board president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the largest Islamic organization in the state, for five years. His attorneys say he holds a green card and lives just outside Milwaukee. His wife and four adult children are U.S. citizens.

At a crowded news conference, boisterous supporters chanted to free Sarsour, recounting his advocacy for those in need. Several recalled Sarsour's stories about his childhood, including allegations of inhumane treatment while being detained by Israelis.

"He was targeted because of one thing, because he dared stand up to the Israeli army," Othman Atta, one of Sarsour's attorneys, told the crowd. "And he was not a U.S. citizen."

A diverse group of religious leaders in attendance called Sarsour a valuable community member.

"This appears to be just the latest example of how this administration seeks to silence opposition and intimidate those who speak and act differently," said the Rev. Paul D. Erickson, bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Sarsour's arrest also prompted outcry from elected officials, including Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, who called it "an outrage."

"He is a legal permanent resident. There is no substantive evidence he has done anything wrong," Johnson said Thursday in a post on X. "This is another example of overreach and harm from the U.S. immigration authorities."

Sarsour is being held at a county jail in Indiana. His attorneys have filed a petition seeking his release.

"He is ready to fight tooth and nail to make sure that he's not drug through the mud," Ahmad said. "He wants to stay in this country."

All three states have sent cease and desist orders to such companies accusing them of engaging in illegal online gambling under state law. Arizona also filed criminal charges last month against Kalshi for allegedly violating state gambling laws and a law that makes betting on elections illegal.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission contends in court filings that it, not the states, regulates these companies.

"The CFTC will continue to safeguard its exclusive regulatory authority over these markets and defend market participants against overzealous state regulators," CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig said in a written statement. He said Congress "rejected such a fragmented patchwork of state regulations" because it led to increased risk of fraud and poor consumer protection.

Last month, the Trump administration threw its support behind the operators Kalshi and Polymarket in a critical legal battle that could have implications for how sports betting is regulated.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong on Thursday accused the Trump administration of "recycling industry arguments" that have been rejected in district courts across the country.

"These contracts are plainly unlicensed illegal gambling under time-worn state law, and we will aggressively defend Connecticut's commonsense consumer protection laws," he said.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, told CBS News' Ed O'Keefe in an interview that will broadcast Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the war is likely not justified under the Just War Theory. 

One of the tenets of Just War Theory, as articulated by St. Augustine, is that war should only be a last resort "in order that peace may be obtained" and not preemptive. 

"The Lord Jesus certainly brought a message of peace and also, I think war is always a last resort," Broglio said. He added that the Trump administration "may have information that led them to think that that was the only choice they had. I'm not making a judgment about that, because I really don't know. But I do think that it's hard to cast this war, you know, as something that would be sponsored by the Lord."

Asked by O'Keefe about rhetoric from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has invoked Jesus' name and called for prayers for service members in relation to the war with Iran, Broglio said casting the war as something that Jesus would justify is "a little bit problematic."

"I would line myself up with Pope Leo, who has been urging for negotiation," Broglio said. 

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has urged President Trump and other leaders to find ways to reduce the violence in the Middle East and find an "off-ramp" in the war with Iran. 

At the individual level, Broglio counseled Catholic service members to "do as little harm as you can, and to try and preserve innocent lives."

Broglio said that because of the way conscientious objection is set up in the U.S. military, "you cannot object to a specific war or a specific action, you can only object to, 'I'm opposed to war.'" He said how a service member conducts themselves "depends on where you are in the chain of command."

"The question might be, would, you know, would generals or admirals have space to perhaps, say, 'can we look at this a different way?'" Broglio said. "But having spoken to some of them too, they're also in the same dilemma."

Broglio said he and his fellow chaplains are spending more time working on questions of "moral injury," or concerns among service members that they may need to seek forgiveness for the violence they carry out.

"Even if you obey a legitimate command, but you have to kill someone, that's going to leave some traces in, you know, in your heart or on your soul," he said. "We've tried to provide structures and help to people in that situation, to try and help them heal from those situations." 

The video shows Woods being handcuffed after failing a sobriety test.

The Martin County Sheriff's Office, which responded to the collision, shared video of the arrest on Thursday. It shed more light on the incident that deputies recounted in an affidavit detailing Woods' demeanor as he interacted with officers and attempted, only partially correctly, to complete a series of sobriety exercises.

In the body camera video, Woods told deputies that he had been checking his phone while driving and hit the car in front of him.

"I looked down at my phone and all of a sudden, boom," Woods said. No one was injured.

Woods, 50, had to climb out of the passenger's side door of his Land Rover in the wake of the March 27 crash on Jupiter Island, because the car had flipped onto its side after clipping the trailer attached to a pickup truck driving in front of him, according to the arrest report. 

Deputies observed the athlete "sweating profusely," with glassy and bloodshot eyes that he initially concealed behind a pair of sunglasses. In the report, they said Woods was driving behind the truck and failed to notice when it slowed down in front of him to turn into a driveway. His SUV then swerved over the double lines running down the center of the street and struck the trailer before rolling over. 

Woods told deputies that he had not consumed alcohol that day but had taken "a few" prescription medications, the names of which were redacted from the arrest report. In the video, Woods' voice was muted as he described some of the medications.

The footage showed the moment two pills were found in the pocket of Woods' pants, which deputies also described in their affidavit. Woods could be heard telling an officer "that's a Norco" once the pills were retrieved, referring to a drug containing hydrocodone and acetaminophen, the Associated Press reported. The pills were later determined to be the painkiller hydrocodone, according to the affidavit.

While undergoing a sobriety test, Woods told officers that he underwent seven surgeries on his back and more than 20 on his right leg, and his ankle seizes when he walks. 

Throughout his interactions with officers at the scene, Woods appeared to be alert but his "movement was lethargic and slow," they said in the arrest report. He agreed to undergo field sobriety tests, which were meant to evaluate his coordination and ability to follow instructions, but did not perform all of the tasks correctly.

Prior to his arrest, the bodycam video shows Woods, while holding his cell phone, telling deputies that he had just spoken to "the president."

"I was just talking to the president," Woods says in the video. It's unclear if Woods was referring to President Trump. 

Addressing the crash on March 27, Mr. Trump told reporters of Woods at the time, "I feel so badly...he's got some difficulty. There was an accident, and that's all I know. Very close friend of mine. He's an amazing person, amazing man. But some difficulty."  

Woods was taken into custody without incident and subsequently transported to the Martin County Jail, deputies said. Once there, he agreed to an alcohol breath test, which did not show the presence of alcohol in his body, but refused to submit a urine test, which could have detected other substances in his system. In addition to the DUI, Woods faces additional charges for refusing the urine test.

A court document filed Tuesday by Woods' attorneys showed he has pleaded not guilty to the charges and waived his right to arraignment. Woods said later in a social media post that he would be "stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment."

Kennedy said the $144 million national program will be called STOMP, which stands for "Systemic Targeting of MicroPlastics." The program will bring toxicologists, data scientists and other experts together to create standardized tools capable of detecting and quantifying microplastics in the human body, research the effect they have on humans, and develop targeted strategies to remove them from the body, Kennedy said. 

"We are not dealing with a distant or theoretical risk. We are dealing with a measurable, growing presence inside the human body," Kennedy said, after citing research that showed microplastics present in human organs, blood and the placenta. The program's research will prioritize those at greatest risk, he said, including pregnant people, children and workers with high exposure rates. 

Microplastics are tiny particles from larger plastic items that have been detected in the human body and external sources. They enter the water supply through littering, storm runoff, and more. The particles, which are less than five millimeters in size, cannot be fully removed by traditional water filtration methods, according to the World Health Organization. 

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin also announced that the agency has added microplastics to its contaminant candidate list for the first time, opening the door for future regulations. 

The contaminant candidate list is a list of substances that are not subject to proposed or existing drinking water regulations, but are "known or anticipated to occur in public water systems," according to the EPA's website. Adding a substance to the list does nothing to regulate it or limit its use, but prioritizes funding, research and information collection to learn more about how these products affect drinking water.  

"This is a direct response to the concern of millions of Americans who have long demanded answers about what they and their families are drinking every day," Zeldin said. 

Dr. Celine Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and KFF editor-at-large for public health, said adding microplastics to the CCL is "the beginning of a long timeline, not the end of one." 

"Researchers have found that microplastics are widespread in water and the human body, which suggests potential health risks, but we don't yet have the kind of evidence regulators require to set legal limits," Gounder said. 

Complicating efforts to set legal limits is a lack of standardized measuring system for microplastics, and no national data showing how much microplastics are actually affecting drinking water. Gounder said there also needs to be "clearer evidence linking typical exposure levels to specific health outcomes."  

The contaminant candidate list that Zeldin announced, or CCL 6, is a draft. There will be a 60-day public comment period before it is finalized. The CCL is updated every five years. 

Pharmaceuticals are also set to be added to the contaminant candidate list, Zeldin said. Medications enter the water supply through human waste and improper disposal, Zeldin said. The EPA has also released human health benchmarks for 374 pharmaceuticals, giving authorities a "critical new tool to assess risk and take action when drug residues are found at concerning levels," Zeldin said. 

The existing list, CCL 5, includes 66 chemicals, 12 microbes and three chemical groups: Pre- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, disinfection byproducts and cyanotoxins. The draft list for CCL 6 includes 75 chemicals, nine microbes and four chemical groups: PFAS, disinfection byproducts, pharmaceuticals and microplastics. CCL 6 removes cyanotoxins, or compounds produced by some algae, as a chemical group.  

CCL 6 is expected to be signed by November 17, 2026, after the public comment period ends and after the EPA consults with its independent Science Advisory Board.

To reduce exposure to microplastics, Gounder recommends avoiding bottled water, not heating food in plastic containers, and improving indoor air quality, since water and air are the major exposure routes. But it is impossible to entirely avoid microplastics because of their prevalence, Gounder said.