New York City Council passes bill to ban horse-drawn carriage rides within 2 years cbsn.ws/3W5SHws

Trump says he recommended "powerful" Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother stay up. cbsn.ws/4eIqxhl

Taiwan is bracing for Typhoon Champi Thursday night, as the incoming storm brings swelling waves to the region's southeast coast. Champi is expected to make landfall on Friday, and is the latest in a series of intense typhoons.

Supreme Court rules New Hampshire can ban use of student IDs for midterm voters cbsn.ws/4sidIjH

Benny Melendez, the owner of a small construction company in South Texas, says he’s been forced to install fencing at job sites to protect his workers from ICE. “It’s embarrassing for the land of the free, to have to do this,” Melendez told @camiloreports. Unable to find workers, Melendez, a 2024 Trump voter and 2020 Biden voter, says he plans to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections.

Firefighters in Ukraine battled multiple fires after Russian strikes hit Kyiv and several other locations early Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of using cluster munitions in the strikes that came hours after Russia released American Stephen Hubbard, and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and called him a “humanitarian.” At least four people were killed, according to Ukraine's foreign ministry. Another 34 people were injured, including five children, Zelenskyy said.

An explosion at an Alabama paving plant triggered a fire at nearby buildings on Thursday and forced evacuations from the surrounding areas, local authorities said. Fire officials said 55-gallon drums containing hazardous chemicals were involved in the fire, but it's unclear what caused the explosion.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino Jr. captured an aerial view of the East Wing ballroom under construction while on board Marine One. The construction project was announced officially in July 2025, and is expected to be finished before the end of Trump’s second term.

U.S. citizen Stephen Hubbard has been released from Russian custody, but roughly 20 other Americans remain imprisoned in Russia, some potentially on false charges. @FaceTheNation’s @margbrennan reports that the State Department has yet to designate some of those Americans as wrongfully detained, a step that would trigger additional U.S. government efforts to secure their release.

When asked by @weijia how the Iran war has impacted the midterm races, President Trump said that even though some people are against the war, "many people, many great patriots, really love it." "This should have been done a long time ago by other presidents, the Iran war," Trump argued Thursday. "We've knocked the hell out of them, and we may do it a little bit further."