In mid-January 2026, a rumor circulated online that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security used a lectern displaying a Nazi slogan during a Jan. 8 news conference. The rumor gained traction amid ...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation on Wednesday authorizing alkaline hydrolysis, commonly known as water cremation, as an approved cremation method in the state.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday passed bipartisan legislation to authorize the use of alkaline hydrolysis as a form of cremation in the Commonwealth, according ...

Ed O'Keefe is CBS News' senior White House and political correspondent reporting for all CBS News platforms. He's part of the team covering President Trump and covered all four years of Joe Biden's ...

RESTORING THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to restore the historic name “Department of War” as a secondary title for the Department of Defense. This is ...

Before President Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who joked on his Comedy Central show in 2010 that the body of water should be ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, but who actually owns the waterway that touches multiple countries? The shores of the gulf touch not just the United ...

Google Maps was the first company to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Other software leaders, like Apple Maps, are now following suit. If you search map websites for information about the ...

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...

An illegal cremation method got a medical center in North Texas a cease-and-desist letter from the Texas Funeral Service Commission and its body donation program under internal review in November. But ...

It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation to dissolve ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. State regulators have ordered a Texas medical school to immediately halt its ...