Scott Pelley fired from ’60 Minutes,’ deepening turmoil at CBS News

June 4, 2026

CBS News fired longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he reportedly 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, days after a leadership overhaul. Pelley, 68, criticized management Monday during a fiery staff meeting with Nick Bilton, the program's new executive producer installed by Weiss last week, according to a detailed report on the Status website. In a termination notice ...

The show will go on

June 4, 2026

NEW YORK — And now, Take Two: The White House Correspondents' Association dinner has been rescheduled — with President Donald Trump apparently in attendance. The dinner, cut short in April by a gunman who prosecutors say was trying to assassinate Trump, will now take place on July 24. It ...

Feeling a little bleak about the world? There’s a film festival for that

June 3, 2026

Bleak Week, a film festival celebrating "cinema of despair," started as a contrarian response to cries for feel-good movies after the pandemic. Programmers at the American Cinematheque, a nonprofit arts group that curates for several historic theaters in Los Angeles, heard the cries for ...

Scott Pelley of ’60 Minutes’ accuses CBS News head Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ the show, report says

June 3, 2026

NEW YORK — In a remarkable sign of the turmoil at CBS's top-rated "60 Minutes," correspondent Scott Pelley said CBS News head Bari Weiss was "murdering the show" and accused its new producer of having "slender qualifications" for the job, according to reports. Pelley made his accusations ...

Steampunk festival creates an unlikely capital for Victorian style and sci-fi oddity in New Zealand

June 3, 2026

OAMARU, New Zealand — The woman in the pink frock coat announced herself as steam curled from a strange brass contraption on her back. "I am Lady Sarsaparilla Ovabyte, of the Coventry Ovabytes," she said. "We are purveyors of fine cordials." Her companion peered through glasses made from ...

From her bookstore in Nashville, Ann Patchett drives the literary conversation

June 2, 2026

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When she isn't working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for others: maybe coming up with a blurb for Douglas Stuart, or recording a video birthday message for fellow author-bookseller Emma Straub, or beginning an interview with a plug for ...