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The three news outlets banned from the White House by President Donald Trump said they planned to file a First Amendment lawsuit on Monday to restore their access, according to a joint statement published by CNN, MS NOW and Politico.  "This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes."  For more click here.  

Read about how Hoekstra, a Florida attorney whose firm was involved in an earlier win in court against Meta/Facebook for causing addiction, recently filed a series of 15 lawsuits against the two biggest sports gambling apps in the country, FanDuel and DraftKings. The cases follow a similar legal theory: that gambling apps were designed to addict. 

Click here to read about how photos obtained exclusively by CBS News from activity duty military members truly reveal for the first time the widespread damage and destruction of buildings and vehicles at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East, as a result of Iranian missile and drone attacks.   

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the Kennedy Center could "close" or be "ripped down" if his administration doesn't receive recognition on the performing arts center as tensions over his name being removed mount.  "I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition. Because frankly, if we don't do that, it's going to close. It'll end up being ripped down," the president told reporters on the tarmac in North Carolina.  Click here for more on this story.  

Newly declassified videos obtained first by 60 Minutes show the moments when two U.S. Air Force officers were rescued, two days apart, after being shot down in Iran.  The two officers, who we're referring to by their mission call signs "Alpha" and "Bravo" for security purposes, ejected after their fighter jet was shot down.  Click here for the full story.  

Army Spc. Jasmine Hernandez enlisted in the Army in part out of gratitude for the life her parents had worked to build for her. Her father came to the United States illegally from Guanajuato, Mexico, at 17, looking for work and a safe place to raise a family. For Hernandez, one way to return that sacrifice was to protect him from deportation.  Still, Hernandez's military service didn't prevent her father from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention earlier this year -- just one of several cases where military families are being swept into President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown.  Click here for the full story.  

FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge raced to the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001 from his midtown Engine Company One / Ladder Company 24. As the chaos unfolded, he prayed for the people trapped, for the rescuers and for humanity. His legacy of hope and service live on a quarter century after his death when the south tower collapsed.  Click here to read the story who was first victim of 9/11 who died while giving back to humanity.  

Click here to read about how a researcher for Anthropic resigned from the company on Tuesday, warning that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

In a series of posts on X, Jacob Coxon, who said he has worked for both Anthropic and OpenAI on pretraining research, claimed neither AI giant is “acting responsibly.”

Inflation held steady in August but price increases remained elevated as the Iran war continued to push up fuel prices months after it began. The reading matched economists' expectations.

Prices rose 3.4% in August compared to a year earlier, maintaining the same level from the prior month, federal government data released on Friday morning showed.  Inflation stands more than a percentage point higher than the Federal Reserve's target rate of 2%.  Click here for more.  

These cameras are run by a company called Flock Safety and this sabotage, which happened in late July, is a signal of growing concern over the nationwide spread of sophisticated AI-powered surveillance systems. Similar vandalism incidents have occurred in Minnesota, California, and Georgia.  Click here for more on this story.