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Shayndi Raice to lead CBS’s foreign coverage after Weiss ousts bureau chief over reported tensionsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxBari Weiss, the CBS News boss, has ousted a veteran bureau chief following tensions over coverage of the Middle East and brought in a new foreign editor who, according to sources, is more aligned with Weiss’s pro-Israel agenda.Paramount, which owns CBS, announced on Wednesday that it had hired Shayndi Raice, a Wall Street Journal editor who most recently served as the paper’s deputy bureau chief for the Middle East and north Africa, based in Israel. Raice will move to London, where she’ll oversee the network’s international coverage in a newly created position, the company said. In a social media post, Weiss called Raice “a scoophound reporter, a brilliant editor, and a clear-eyed leader”. Continue reading...

Melania Trump made a surprise appearance at the White House on Thursday to announce that she ‘never had a relationship’ with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.Her address has seemingly put Epstein back on the political agenda when focus had been firmly on the US and Israel’s war in Iran.The intervention came at a difficult time for her husband, Donald Trump, as the fragile ceasefire agreed between the US and Iran seemed to be at risk of falling apart, and as US lawmakers are raising the alarm over the president’s mental stability.Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian US editor, Betsy Reed – watch on YouTube Continue reading...

• The leading U.S. medical school accreditation body, LCME, removed language from its 2027-2028 standards requiring schools to teach about health inequities and disparities. • The previous standards mandated instruction on "health care disparities" and "approaches to reduce health care inequities," which were replaced with language on self-directed learning skills. • The change comes as the Trump Department of Justice probes three medical schools, amid growing political pressure on diversity and equity initiatives in medical education.