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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats "made progress” toward changing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance voting legislation, despite the dramatic collapse of the package that his party says is central to protecting democracy.

Nearly six decades after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and others fought "Jim Crow" laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting rights - and our very democracy - are under siege again.

The last of a new class of warships has departed a Maine shipyard.

A statement from their family said Robb and her husband, former U.S. Sen. Chuck Robb, D-Va., were the only occupants at the time of the fire.

The White House Historical Association is honoring President Lyndon Johnson with its 2021 annual Christmas tree ornament.

LBJ tried jawboning.

The grind of legislating is treacherous for some, a sport for others, and rarely successful in the slow-moving Congress.

Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in trying to navigate President Joe Biden’s big domestic vision into law.

When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring.

It’s big, messy and complicated as the Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy package into law.

Robert Caro has been writing history for much of his adult life.

First lady Jill Biden has campaigned for Democrats in Virginia's and New Jersey’s governors' races.

The generals acknowledged America’s “strategic failure” in its longest war, and their differences with Biden.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson introduced Hispanic Heritage Week. “‘Hispanic’ is a term that comes from and understands its relationship from coming from Spain. Listen: Northwestern University Professor Michael Rodriguez Muniz and Maria Hinojosa of Latino USA discuss Hispanic Heritage Month in the context of cultural and racial reckoning. She’s also the host of Latino USA, heard on WDET at 7 a.m. Saturdays and at 10 p.m. Wednesdays. As far as the actual word “Hispanic,” Hinojosa says it’s never been a term with which she identifies.

Opinions around the word Hispanic versus Latino or the newer Latinx are rooted in personal experiences. Here's a look at how more than 62 million people in the U.S. fall under the Hispanic umbrella.

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

President Joe Biden’s “build back” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul's airport, ending America's longest war.

At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America's longest war.

President Joe Biden’s belief that bipartisanship is still possible in a deeply divided Washington was validated when Senate Democrats and Republicans came together to pass his $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is appealing for out-of-state help to fight the third wave of COVID-19.

Luci Baines Johnson was 18 when her father signed the act.

Luci Baines Johnson was 18 when her father signed the act.

Voting rights, state sovereignty and our vote in 2022

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

Doubleline Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach's said with inflation rising and Treasury yields remaining low, U.S. bonds are essentially negative yielding assets.

The nearly 20-year American combat mission in Afghanistan was the United States’ longest war.

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug on research on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.

We set our calendars around national holidays — from December 25 for Christmas to July 4 for Independence Day, and, starting this year, June 19 for Juneteenth.

Congressional leaders and a media advocacy organization are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigate how policy decisions have disparately harmed Black Americans and other communities of color, according to a letter sent Tuesday to the acting FCC chair.

After nearly two years of renovations, the Harry S.

Case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time.

For a president who had campaigned on his ability to work across the aisle, Joe Biden's announcement of a bipartisan deal on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package was a victory.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle on Sunday, and afterward the president told reporters traveling with him that the 95-year-old monarch was “very gracious” and reminded him of his mother.

When Russia was still the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, summits with its leaders were largely about fears of a thermonuclear duel and mass annihilation. Here's a look back at the highlights.

Joe Biden will become the 13th American president to meet Queen Elizabeth II.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest daughter says she’s afraid American society is unraveling.

Six months into the Democrats’ hold on Washington, the party’s progressive wing is growing increasingly restless.

On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation declaring the second Sunday of each May would be “a public expressions of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country,” also known as, the creation of Mother’s Day.

Families who’ve fought for recognition for soldiers who died while traveling to Vietnam for a secret mission have something to celebrate.

President Joe Biden’s recent address to Congress focused rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” package. We didn’t hear much about foreign affairs. That’s because he’s put them on the back burner to press forward with his “transformative,” and unprecedentedly expensive, domestic agenda.

"As I've said before: In America, when we shoot for the moon, we plant our flag on it," the vice president tweeted following the announcement.

Joe Biden’s presidency is entering a new and more perilous phase.

President Biden’s first 100 days in office were marked by fierce debates on Capitol Hill over the rollout of progressive policy initiatives that have drawn comparisons to those enacted by his Democratic predecessors Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

Progressives are looking for their next big win now that the COVID-19 relief bill has been signed into law.

Progressives are looking for their next big win now that the COVID-19 relief bill has been signed into law.

“Hillbilly Elegy” author J.

Clark was known for defending unpopular figures, including former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Clark was known for defending unpopular figures, including former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark has died.

President Joe Biden’s vision of his presidency is quickly taking shape.

FILE - In this July 1981 file photo released by The White House, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, left, and Vice President George Bush go horseback riding at Camp David, Md. He capped it off by beating one of his granddaughters at Mario Kart during his first presidential visit to Camp David, the historic retreat for U.S. leaders. That’s what Camp David has traditionally offered presidents: a respite from Washington where they can shed their ties and relax with family. Bill Clinton tried to replicate that diplomatic alchemy when he invited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Camp David for Mideast peace talks in 2000. He said when foreign leaders descend on Camp David, it can be like an “adult sleepover.”“Going to camp in the cabins creates an atmosphere where leaders are very close together.

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington. One featured a public show of trying to reach across the political aisle, with bipartisan rhetoric and a White House invitation for Republican senators. But it's more likely that the White House will need to choose between the two extremes. “President Biden’s got some pretty big tests in front of him when it comes to domestic policy. AdThe process of securing the $787 billion package — aid broadly credited for helping boost an economy in free fall — left a bad taste for the Obama-Biden White House.

WASHINGTON – When Joe Biden took the oath of office as the 46th president, he became not only the oldest newly inaugurated U.S. chief executive in history but also the oldest sitting president ever. That’s 78 days older than President Ronald Reagan was when he left office in 1989. A look at how the country Biden now leads has changed over his lifetime and how his presidency might reflect that. The world population in Biden’s lifetime has grown from about 2.3 billion to 7.8 billion. The month Biden was born, a dozen eggs averaged about 60 cents in U.S. cities -- two hours of minimum wage work.

Now that he's left office, it's hard to see him embracing the stately, exclusive club of living former presidents. “He kind of laughed at the very notion that he would be accepted in the presidents club,” said Kate Andersen Brower, who interviewed Trump in 2019 for her book “Team of Five: The Presidents’ Club in the Age of Trump." Obama, Bush and Clinton recorded their video after accompanying Biden to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider following the inauguration. When Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast, Bush, father of the then-current president George W. Bush, called on Clinton to boost Katrina fundraising relief efforts. Obama tapped Clinton and the younger President Bush to boost fundraising efforts for Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake.

Kennedy, of course, isn't the only leader who had a vision for the nation's space program. Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969)NASAPresident Lyndon Johnson was instrumental in both ratcheting up and scaling back the United States' space race with the Soviet Union. So Nixon's most lasting mark on American space activities is probably the space shuttle program. The 1978 document helped establish a key plank of American space policy: the right of self-defense in space. George W. Bush (2001-2009)NASAPresident George W. Bush issued his own space policy statement in 2006, which further encouraged private enterprise in space.

Ron.”Thus was born the tradition of departing presidents leaving a handwritten note in the Oval Office for their successors. President Donald Trump has refused to accept the results of November’s election and vowed not to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. I know you will feel that, too,” Bush wrote in the note, adding, "I wish you great happiness here. Updegrove said even if the note tradition stops with Trump, it could easily start again when Biden leaves office. He has already been vice president and spent 36 years in the Senate, where tradition and bipartisan congeniality are strong.

Now Biden’s central political identity faces the ultimate trial. Biden's answer follows two tracks: defending the fabric of society and institutions of government that Trump’s tenure has stressed and calling for sweeping legislative action. The outcome will determine the reach of Biden’s presidency and further test the lifetime politician’s ability to evolve and meet events. Biden’s longtime friend, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is the House speaker, but presides over a diminished Democratic majority and slim margin for error. “They believe in his compassion and they believe in, quite frankly, his leadership skills.”Anzalone loosely compared Biden's appeal to Ronald Reagan's.

It meant buying into “alternative facts” — a phrase that spurred sales of George Orwell’s dystopian book “1984” when it was coined by a Trump aide. “I’m shocked to hear that,” Trump told his crowd. “And we now have the greatest, most modern military in the history of our country,” Trump told his Georgia crowd. But the systematic deceptions of the “alternative facts” president were unlike anything before. Attempting to explain her phrase, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said there are alternative ways of arriving at the truth.

Yet only two days later, on Aug. 28, 1963, the FBI’s head of domestic intelligence, William C. Sullivan, sounded an internal alarm on King. Absolutely not.’ In some ways, you could even say we were a little bit complicit.”On one hand, “MLK/FBI” enhances the legacy of King. Not just King’s indiscretions but an explosive and controversial allegation discovered by Garrow in FBI records that King watched while a woman was sexually assaulted. “A big part of my thinking two years ago is that everyone needs to be prepared for what will be in the full transcripts and the surviving tapes," Garrow said. The FBI’s recordings of King are under court seal at the National Archives until Jan. 31, 2027.

When Biden takes office later this month, his biggest challenge may be navigating a deeply divided country past the turmoil of the Trump era. Biden essentially framed his presidential campaign as a response to Trump, pledging to “restore the soul” of America. He has said he decided to seek the White House after watching Trump say there were “very fine people on both sides” of a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Biden has to be very conscious of dealing with President Trump," Updegrove continued. But the senator said the inauguration itself may offer the most important opportunity for Biden to set a forward-looking tone.

“For all four years, this is someone who at every opportunity tried to stretch presidential power beyond the limits of the law,” said presidential historian Michael Beschloss. I think he’s done tremendous damage in the last several weeks.”Jeopardizing the peaceful transfer of power was hardly Trump's first assault on the traditions of the presidency. He rage tweeted at members of his own party and used government property for political purposes, including the White House as the backdrop for his renomination acceptance speech. Trump used National Guard troops to clear a largely peaceful protest across from the White House for a photo-op. He held superspreader events at the White House and contracted the virus himself.

African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans and other people of color played a crucial role in helping Biden defeat President Donald Trump. "It's nice to know that a Native American is under consideration," said Haaland, who says she is concentrating on her congressional work. A record six Native American or Native Hawaiian lawmakers were elected to Congress. Tribal officials concur there has never been a Native American as head of interior. The department's websites cite six Native American heads of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which was transferred to the Interior Department from the War Department in 1849.

“It’s a mistake to ever have thought Wisconsin was a safely blue state,” said state Democratic Chairman Ben Wikler. To reverse Clinton's losses in the “blue wall” states, Biden benefited from both strong suburban turnout and in the urban centers of Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee. Even in losing Republican-heavy Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Biden's suburban gains were part of his winning Wisconsin formula. Trump also lost Saginaw County, Michigan, a struggling former General Motors supply manufacturing county Obama carried before the president flipped. But we're still a manufacturing economy and nearly stagnant in our growth,” Erie County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Wertz said.

Election Day is finally here. Or at least what we still call Election Day, since nearly 100 million Americans had already cast ballots by Tuesday. Here's what to watch as the final votes for President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are cast:WHAT DO AMERICANS WANT FROM A PRESIDENT? So it’s an open question how aggressive those official poll watchers will be in monitoring voters or even challenging eligibility. Trump is likely to counter with a lead among Election Day voters.

As president, Jackson allowed his postmaster general to let Southerners seize anti-slavery publications, in direct violation of the First Amendment. The movie portrayed the KKK as heroes and African Americans as uncivilized. Wilson appeared oblivious during the "Red Summer" of 1919 a time when communities across the country saw white mobs attack African Americans, resulting in hundreds of deaths. Democrat Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency in 1963 after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and sought to push a civil rights bill amid demonstrations by African Americans. But according to tapes of his private conversations, Johnson routinely used racist epithets to describe African Americans and some blacks he appointed to key positions.

Landmark decisions in the past 50 years regarding public funding of abortions in Illinois and the United States.

After the GOP convention in 1964 exposed some divisions within the party, President Lyndon Johnson's campaign wanted to make sure voters were aware.

Following the historic Selma march in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to pass legislation ensuring equal voting rights for African Americans. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6, 1965.

Is "Selma's" portrayal of LBJ historically accurate? Six months after witnessing President Lyndon Johnson outlaw segregation in July 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. was back at the White House seeking support for voting rights. In the movie "Selma," Johnson and King's relationship is confrontational. Michelle Miller investigates the historical accuracy of the film.

1/12: U.S. military Twitter account hacked; Is "Selma's" portrayal of LBJ historically accurate? A group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate took over CENTCOM's Twitter account and tweeted threats to American military. At the same time, CENTCOM's YouTube channel began showing ISIS propaganda videos. The attack only hit the Pentagon's social media channels, so some say it amounts to no more than a "gotcha" attack. David Martin reports; Six months after witnessing President Lyndon Johnson outlaw segregation in July 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. was back at the White House seeking support for voting rights.

Nature: The LBJ Ranch This week's moment in nature takes us to the wide open spaces of President Lyndon Johnson's ranch near Stonewall, Texas.

Almanac: Cigarette warning labels On July 27, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation requiring warning labels on packages of cigarettes. The warnings came a year-and-a-half after Surgeon General Luther Terry announced the findings of a groundbreaking study. Charles Osgood reports.

Bob Schieffer hosts "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" live symposium This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The landmark legislation signed by President Lyndon Johnson outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Bob Schieffer, who will host "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" tonight, joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to preview the special symposium.