CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he allegedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job. The move deepened the turmoil at the nation's most influential TV news program and the news unit that oversees it. Pelley had criticized the program's leadership during a meeting Monday between the show’s staff and Nick Bilton, the new executive by...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The contours of a premier U. S. Senate race took shape Tuesday night in Iowa, while Democrats chose a nominee for a U. S. House race in New Jersey that could decide who controls the chamber after November's elections. But much of the focus is on California, home to Hollywood but not a governor's race packing much star power. It's a somewhat different story in Los Angeles, where a reality television personality is running for mayor as the city prepares to host the Olympics...

SEATTLE (AP) — A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the Pacific. The buoy 80 meters (260 feet) below the water's surface will be removed June 16 from the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million that has continuously collected real-time data for more a a...