
Jim Axelrod
Chief Correspondent and Executive Editor, Eye on America at CBS News
@cbsnews Sr. National Correspondent
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cbsnews.com | Pat Milton |Jim Axelrod |Michael Kaplan
Detective digs up graves to solve cold cases Kristina Morris never knew what happened to her father. He disappeared in 1995 when her mother was five months pregnant with her. All she had was faded photographs, family stories and endless questions. She yearned for answers to her father's mysterious disappearance. As a child, she even fantasized that her father worked undercover for the FBI and couldn't disclose his whereabouts.
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3 weeks ago |
cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod
Sneak peek: My Mother's Murder Trials Dana Chandler has spent decades maintaining her innocence against allegations she was responsible for the 2002 murders of her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his girlfriend, Karen Harkness. In 2025, Chandler took on her own defense, representing herself in the third trial the state brought against her for the murders. DANA CHANDLER (in court, closing): My liberty, my freedom is hanging in the balance.
Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months poisoned their drinking water
1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod
When Kristine Wojnovich and her husband bought their home 20 years ago in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, it was everything they wanted — until one day in 2023, when she turned on her kitchen faucet. "It tasted weird and smelled like oil," Wojnovich said. "It was very disconcerting."Wojnovich called Sunoco Pipeline, operator of the Twin Oaks pipeline that runs just across their street. It carries jet fuel underground from a fuel terminal outside Philadelphia to Newark Terminal near the airport.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod
Horse trainer behind Kentucky Derby favorite Now may be a tough time for journalism — unless you're a horse, Journalism is your name and you're favored to win the Kentucky Derby. And Michael McCarthy, Journalism's trainer, has been in the game long enough to know horses like this don't come along very often. He says Journalism is his best shot so far at winning a derby on his own. "Anybody who's in the horse business, this is kind of where they want to be," McCarthy said.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
cbsnews.com | Jim Axelrod
Military bases revert to old names, with a twist Fayetteville, North Carolina — For the second time in less than two years, the largest U.S. military base has a new name — but the new name is also its old name. For more than a century, North Carolina's Fort Bragg honored Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. In 2023, it was changed to Fort Liberty by a congressionally mandated commission to rename nine bases that honored Confederate generals.
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Listen to the music…. As the wise men once wrote. And sang.

This week, Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons – founding and current members of the Doobie Brothers – will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. As the band embarks on a summer tour, correspondent Jim Axelrod talked with them, and with fellow Doobie https://t.co/7sqvNCnWe3

Our Eye on America tonight focused on Operation Babylift. Half a century ago, President Gerald Ford took a strong stand on what he saw as an obligation of the US to do the right thing when it came to some young immigrants. @CBSEveningNews tonight. https://t.co/rrMT6cJWuC

ICYMI: Some days I would pay to go to work - instead of the other way around. This was one of them. @TheDoobieBros on songwriting. @CBSSunday https://t.co/ubH2qCvfAC via @YouTube