CBS News Special Report - Season 4 / Year 2025

Special reports covering the transport of the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) to the U.S. Capitol to lie in State.

9 a.m. President Carter's remains are removed from the Capitol with a ceremony. 9:30 a.m. President Carter's remains arrive at the Washington National Cathedral, where a brief arrival ceremony is held. 10 a.m. The National Funeral Service for President Carter takes place. 11:15 a.m. Upon conclusion of the funeral service, President Carter and his family will travel by motorcade to Joint Base Andrews.

President Biden is delivering his farewell address to the nation. 

Norah O'Donnell will anchor the all-day coverage on the CBS Television Network and streaming on CBS News 24/7, continuing until at least 5:00 PM, ET. CBS News journalists will join the coverage throughout the day, including John Dickerson, Maurice DuBois, Margaret Brennan, Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil, Nancy Cordes, Major Garrett, Robert Costa, Jan Crawford, Dr. Jon LaPook, Ed O'Keefe, Weijia Jiang, Kris Van Cleave, Nikole Killion, Scott MacFarlane, Caitlin Huey-Burns, Nancy Chen, Omar Villafranca, Kelly O'Grady, Nicole Sganga and Willie Inman.  

The day concludes with INAUGURATION IN AMERICA – A CBS NEWS PRIMETIME REPORT at 10:00 PM, ET on the CBS Television Network, anchored by John Dickerson, Maurice DuBois and Margaret Brennan. CBS News journalists will share key moments from the inauguration with newsmaker interviews, examine the state of the nation and illuminate  the hopes of the American people as the new administration begins.

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress, the Democratic response.

CBS News will have an extended special report as the cardinal's process into the Sistine Chapel. 

Ongoing special reports to mark each time smoke emerges from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel.

When the new pope is selected, CBS News will have live coverage from the moment white smoke appears until the new head of the Catholic Church is introduced to the world.

New pope selected: White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the conclave. His identity, and the name he will take as pontiff, will be revealed soon. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been selected as the 267th pope in history. He is the first American to serve in the role and chooses the name Leo XIV.

Senior Pentagon officials revealed new details about the U.S. operation to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying it was the "largest B-2 operational strike in U.S. history" and inflicted "extremely severe damage and destruction" to the targets.

"This was a highly classified mission with very few people in Washington knowing the timing or nature of this plan," Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman, said in a briefing at the Pentagon Sunday morning detailing the strikes against the Iranian nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.

Caine said the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, included seven B-2 Spirit bombers that flew east from their base in Missouri to Iran. The 18-hour flight required multiple in-flight refuelings, and the bombers met up with U.S. fighter jets and support aircraft once over land in the Middle East in a "complex, tightly timed maneuver," Caine said.

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit on ending the war in Ukraine, but the talks failed to produce the ceasefire that Mr. Trump had sought.

The two leaders, along with a pair of top aides each, met for nearly three hours at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage after a carefully choreographed welcome that included a red carpet and military flyover.

In brief remarks afterward, Putin alluded to unspecified "agreements," while Mr. Trump called the meeting "extremely productive." Neither leader, however, mentioned a halt to the fighting in Ukraine. The summit ended early without a planned meeting between a broader group of officials.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to be dismissed on the grounds that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who secured their indictments, was unlawfully appointed to the role.

The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie are a significant victory for Comey and James, who both argued their prosecutions are retaliatory and motivated by President Trump's efforts to punish his political foes. The Justice Department is likely to appeal the decisions and ask for them to be halted.