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Ashley Etienne, a former top staffer for Vice President Kamala Harris, has joined CBS News as a political contributor. Etienne made her debut on Thursday on CBS News Streaming’s Red & Blue. She will contribute across the news division’s programs and platforms. Etienne served as communications…

When President Joe Biden visits Florida on Wednesday, he will be seeing for himself the destructive impact of Hurricane Ian, which has claimed more than 100 lives, wiped out entire neighborhoods and left questions of the timing of evacuation orders.  Before the storm made landfall, networks…

Natalie Morales will be a correspondent for CBS News, with duties that will include the true crime series 48 Hours. Morales continues to co-host The Talk. She joined CBS last year after 22 years at NBC News. She had served as the west coast anchor of Today, correspondent on Dateline. She also…

Bill Plante, whose tenure as a CBS News White House correspondent spanned the administrations of Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, has died. Plante was 84 and suffered from respiratory failure on Wednesday, the network said. Plante retired in 2016 after 52 years with the news division, a career that included coverage of…

CBS News is partnering with the Texas Tribune Festival,  the annual event that focuses on news and civic engagement. As part of the partnership, conversations with CBS News correspondents and newsmakers at the TribFest will appear on the network platforms. The Sept. 22-24 event takes place in Austin. Among the events…

John Dickerson, CBS News chief political analyst and senior national correspondent, will debut a nightly show on the network’s streaming channel. CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson will stream Monday through Thursday at 7 PM ET/PT, starting tonight. Dickerson will continue to serve as a CBS News correspondent…

A federal judge has granted summary judgment to ABC, CBS, The New York Times, Gannett and Rolling Stone, rejecting libel claims by Nick Sandmann over an incident at the Lincoln Memorial that went viral in 2019. In a video, Sandmann, in Washington with other Covington Catholic High School students for the March for…

Some 260 WGA members employed at CBS News have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three-year contract. The new agreement, which was approved by 89% of those who voted, the guild said Monday, covers WGA East and WGA West members who work as news writers, producers, graphic artists, desk associates and others at the…

Richard Wagner, whose three-decade career as a correspondent for CBS News included covering the war in Vietnam and numerous other conflicts around the world, has died. He was 85. His wife, Donna Lewis-Wagner, said that he died at his home in Charlottesville, VA. No cause of death was given. During the 1960s, 70s and…

Al Ortiz, a CBS News veteran who has been serving as interim executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, announced that he will retire later this summer. Ortiz stepped into the role at the evening newscast after the departure of Jay Shaylor last year. On Wednesday morning’s editorial call, Ortiz said…

Andrew Roy, who has overseen international coverage for the BBC, is joining CBS News as vice president and London bureau chief. Roy will start May 3 and oversee all coverage out of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. His hiring comes after previous London bureau chief Andrew Clarke exited the network in…

UPDATED, Saturday April 9, 9:37 AM PT: CBS News confirmed that Norah O’Donnell has re-signed to CBS Evening News, which she has anchored since 2019. The new contract will keep her in place past the 2024 election, according to a source close to the situation. PREVIOUSLY: Norah O’Donnell has extended her contract at CBS…