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This week on Face the Nation, a major development in the Artificial Intelligence arms race, and our election year battleground tracker reveals where the race for control of Congress stands less than two months from election day.  

As the midterm election campaign pace picked up dramatically last week, so did America's anxiety over AI. Dario Amodei is the head of Anthropic. We'll have more of Amodei's first on CBS conversat...

This week on Face the Nation, there are new signs of resiliency in the job market, but prices remain high.

As Americans hit the roads and skies before the end of summer, gasoline prices are at the highest ever for a Labor Day weekend. One major factor behind elevated prices: the war with Iran, which flared up again last week.

What could that conflict – plus a new landmark U.S. oil deal with Venezuela – mean for consumers ...

This week on Face the Nation, an update from Nepal following last week's devastating flooding, and a look back at the chaotic withdrawal from the longest war in US history

Four days after a glacier collapsed and triggered a cataclysmic flash flood in Nepal, we'll have the latest on the search for its missing victims, including nearly 100 Americans. 

And, with the attacks on Ukraine and concerns about Russian aggression intensify...

This week on Face the Nation, new warning signs for the U.S. economy and mounting higher costs for American families. As Washington prepares for race cars to speed down its streets today, many Americans are focused on a different pace, the struggle to keep up with the rising cost of living and a growing sense of economic uncertainty.

The country's debt reached unprecedented levels last week and president Trump's Treasury Secretary ...

This week on Face the Nation, democratic socialism divides the Democratic party...are mainstream democrats coming on board?   And, is President Trump being too dismissive of voters' concern over the economy?
With just over eleven weeks to go ahead of midterm election day, democrats continue their soul searching when it comes to picking candidates to face voters in the fall, will they unite behind growing calls for big chang...

This week on ‘Face the Nation,’ can a fractured Democratic party unite to flip the House and Senate in the fall? Plus, a deep dive into the challenges facing public health.

 
As we hit the final stretch of the summer of '26, the Senate has wrapped up and headed home. One of its last items of business: confirming President Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Todd Blanche, who squeaked through by one vote despite...

This week on ‘Face the Nation,’ Iran apparently blinks after threats from President Trump for a major joint US and Israel attack on Iranian soil. Heading into a sixth month of conflict with Iran, President Trump told reporters Friday he had plans to go full throttle on his threat for military action in Iran.
His vows for "going big" caused a flurry of diplomatic scrambling, and yet another announcement of "perimeters...

This week on Face the Nation, as the U.S. war with Iran approaches the 5 month mark, both sides are searching for a diplomatic off-ramp.
After nearly two weeks of striking targets across Iran following the collapse of the short-lived ceasefire earlier this month, the Trump administration paused its bombardment for two straight days for the first time, as diplomatic talks over the Strait of Hormuz show signs of progress.
With ...

This week on ‘Face the Nation.’ America is back at war with Iran. Overnight, the U.S targeting Iranian drone and missile sites after Iran's revolutionary guard killed two American servicemembers and injured others, with one servicemember still missing. These are the first deaths of US troops since the fighting resumed two weeks ago. To date, sixteen American troops have died in the conflict. We have the latest with Sena...

Today on Face the Nation, breaking overnight: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has died from what his office calls a "brief and sudden illness" at the age of 71. We'll have the latest and we'll talk with fellow South Carolina Senator Tim Scott about his impact in Washington and beyond.

Plus, new developments overseas as U.S. Central Command has launched a new wave of strikes against Iran after its military force attacked a containe...

This week on Face the Nation, America celebrates its 250th birthday. We try to put politics aside and a take look at some of the things that make this nation so unique.

Despite record breaking temperatures sweeping across much of the nation, Americans came out over the weekend to honor the country's 250th year of independence.  Fireworks, parades, flyovers, and red, white and blue were all on display. 

We take a loo...

This week on Face the Nation, the fragile detente between the US and Iran is disrupted and tensions over the war with Iran explode between President Trump and the Republican Senator he worked to defeat.
Following a Capitol Hill shouting match between President Trump and Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy over the Senator's vote against the war with Iran, we spoke exclusively with Cassidy about that exchange, his relationship with...

This week on Face the Nation, Vice President Vance and Iranian officials meet face to face in Switzerland to kick off a 60 day period of talks to resolve the nuclear issue, but the Trump administration is finding that their path to peace is complicated. 

Saying he wanted to avert "economic catastrophe," due to the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, the President negotiates an agreement with Iran that's far short of the goals he'...

This week on Face the Nation, the U.S. and Iran might be on the brink of a preliminary peace deal. As the nation's capital gets ready for a UFC fight night on president Trump's birthday, officials say a deal to end a war in the Middle East is imminent. 
We get the latest in an exclusive interview with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Plus, we hear from two key Democrats on committees with oversight on national security, S...

President Trump's grand plan for the Washington DC skyline isn't the only thing shaking up the city this summer.  Last week he appointed a man with NO intelligence experience to head up the top agency in the intelligence community.

 Bill Pulte, who serves as the director of the federal housing finance agency, is the heir to a building fortune and close to the President.  He's rubbed some cabinet members the wrong ...