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Historic … unprecedented … and guilty. You couldn't escape those words this past week, after a former President of the United States was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York, a city he long called home.

But beyond all the drama, said CBS News legal contributor Rebecca Roiphe, was simply a jury of seven men and five women doing their duty – and honoring the dictum, "Nobody is above the law."

"You can have all sorts of power, you can have all sorts of wealth, but when you're in that courtroom, you're just like anybody else," said Roiphe. "Of...

Being found guilty of 34 felony counts would normally mark the end of someone's political prospects. But as longtime Trump chronicler Michael Wolff notes, the former president has built his career, and brand, on grievances – and this week's conviction in a New York courtroom is not stopping Trump from running for another term in the White House. CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa reports.

A shooting at a bar in suburban Pittsburgh has left two people dead and seven others injured

Forty-seven percent say they think the charges against Trump were politically motivated. At the same time, 51% think Trump intentionally did something illegal.

Views about former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial after the verdict look much like they did before it took place.

Just over half the country thought Trump was guilty before the verdict, and now just over half think the jury reached the right verdict and that the trial was fair.

Republicans remain overwhelmingly of the belief that Trump was treated unfairly. Echoing the former president's sentiments, those who say the verdict was wrong call the jury biased, say the evidence was insufficient and the charges politically motivated...

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron described problems of the modern understanding of freedom as a "society of little tyrants" last week in an interview with Patrick Deneen, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

Barron and Deneen, during an interview that aired Friday on the Word on Fire's "Bishop Barron Presents," contrasted a view of freedom that seeks to eliminate any constraints on individuals versus what they described as the ancient, Platonic and more Christian understanding of liberty.

"We've all become our own little...

The manuscript is the world’s oldest surviving music from the Caribbean island.

South Korea says it’ll take strong retaliatory steps against North Korea over its launch of trash-carrying balloons across the border and other provocations

Park officials say a Malaysian climber likely died of exposure and altitude-related illness as he sheltered in a snow cave at the top of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain in Alaska

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government begrudgingly accepted President Biden's plan for a cease-fire in Gaza on Sunday.

Biden had issued the plan on Friday, and Netanyahu initially responded with dismissal. Hamas has indicated it favors the plan, though no formal agreement has been made.

Ophir Falk, chief foreign policy advisor to Netanyahu described Biden's plan in an interview with the U.K.'s Sunday Times, saying it was "a deal we agreed to — it's not a good deal but we dearly want the hostages released, all of them."

"There are...

On 4 June, Indians will find out who governs their country for the next five years.

Can the ANC, which has dominated South Africa for 30 years, reinvent itself after a dismal election result?

A shooting on a street in Akron, Ohio, killed one man and wounded 26 other people early Sunday morning

Ukraine has imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure and claimed it made gains in the eastern Donetsk province

Both countries are trying to dissuade others from attending the upcoming event, Ukraine's president says.