CEO quotes Martin Luther King in email announcing layoffs
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Wall Street sends stocks to their highest levels since summer
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How will Netflix stop you from sharing your password?
Streaming company said a crackdown is coming by March, but a similar effort in other countries yielded mixed results.
Amazon launches subscription prescription drug service
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Spotify is latest big tech company to slash jobs
Music streaming service cutting 6% of its workforce, citing need to lower costs amid "challenging economic environment."
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Full transcript of "Face the Nation" on Jan. 29, 2023
On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio join Margaret Brennan.
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DOJ "actively working" on providing info on Trump, Biden docs to senators
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McCarthy wants "reasonable" debt ceiling deal, will meet with Biden this week
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Arizona Republicans pick former Trump aide to lead state party
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CEO quotes Martin Luther King in email announcing layoffs
PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada quoted the civil rights in an email a critic called an "all time classic bad layoff announcement."
Kentucky Trader Joe's becomes third store to unionize
The unionization effort at Trader Joe's comes amid a larger wave of organizing largely led by younger workers.
Looking to get hired? These are the best months to try.
U.S. employers typically finish their annual budgets in January and start advertising for open roles soon thereafter.
Many more single women than men are homeowners. Here's why.
Single women own about 10.7 million homes compared to 8.1 million for single men, according to a LendingTree analysis.
Wall Street sends stocks to their highest levels since summer
Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, marking the market's third winning week in the last four.
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Full transcript of "Face the Nation" on Jan. 29, 2023
On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio join Margaret Brennan.
DOJ "actively working" on providing info on Trump, Biden docs to senators
Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte sent a letter to the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Saturday.
McCarthy wants "reasonable" debt ceiling deal, will meet with Biden this week
"I want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling but take control of this runaway spending," McCarthy told "Face the Nation."
Arizona Republicans pick former Trump aide to lead state party
The former state treasurer, and former aide to Donald Trump, will replace Kelli Ward as the Republican Party chair in Arizona.
Transcript: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on "Face the Nation"
The following is a transcript of an interview with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that aired Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023, on "Face the Nation."
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Gay and bisexual men would be able to donate blood under rule change
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Veterans file 260,000 burn pit claims under new law
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CBD has too many safety unknowns to be regulated, FDA says
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Djokovic wins 10th Australian Open and 22nd Grand Slam, tying Nadal's record
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Iranian state TV says defense factory hit in drone attack
The state-run news agency IRNA said three drones were shot down by Iranian air defenses.
At least 25 die in Peru when bus plunges off cliff
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Tiny radioactive capsule that was lost in Australia triggers search
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Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson on "Banshees," friendship
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Passage: In memoriam
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Creating a "lie detector" for deepfakes
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Why San Diego's waves turned bright pink
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Archaeologists find the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt
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Asteroid about to zoom oh-so-close to Earth, NASA says
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Egyptian archaeologists tout rare discoveries unearthed in Luxor
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Earth's inner core may have started spinning the other way, study says
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Just days after Amanda Perrault, the wife of an Eatonton police officer made allegations of abuse against her husband, he claimed that she took her own life.
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DOJ working to brief senators on Trump, Biden docs
In a letter obtained by CBS News, a Justice Department official said prosecutors are working to brief lawmakers on potential risks to national security after the discovery of classified documents at the homes of both former President Donald Trump and President Biden.
Face the Nation: Warner, Rubio, Demings
Missed the second half of the show? The latest on Chinese businesses in the U.S., Tyre Nichols death and violence in Israel.
Blinken to visit Israel and West Bank amid outbreak in violence
CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports from Jerusalem ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is traveling to Israel and the West Bank amid an outbreak of violence that has raised security concerns in the region.
Warner and Rubio on classified documents and more
Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, the chair and vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, discuss the investigations into classified documents found at the homes of President Biden and former President Donald Trump, the threat posed by China, TikTok and more.
Val Demings: Tyre Nichols video "shocking and appalling"
Democratic Rep. Val Demings of Florida, who served in law enforcement for 27 years, including four years as the Orlando police chief, says she "could not believe what I was seeing" in the video of five Memphis officers beating Tyre Nichols, an unarmed Black man who died three days later.