04/03/2026 | World News Roundup

0:00Attorney General Pam Bondi fired. Pam, I think thank you. What a great job. The Artemis astronauts head to the moon. We're just getting started. We have a lot of mission left ahead of us. Dramatic Maui murder trial. Even though you say you're defending yourself, how did you feel about that she was bleeding so horrible? Good morning, I'm Peter King. With the CBS World News Roundup, Attorney General Pam Bondi has been one of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters and publicly Trump has praised her time and time again, at least until yesterday when he suddenly fired her. Your CBS News White House correspondent, Ouija Zhang. Pam Bondi was a fierce and unflinching defender of President Trump. She ran a justice department that investigated frequent Trump targets like Latisha James James Comey and Jerome Powell. But that loyalty was not enough to save her job as the nation's top law enforcement official. Just one day after the President and Bondi attended a Supreme Court hearing together,

1:00Trump announced her departure Thursday and praised Bondi for overseeing a massive crackdown in crime across our country, adding, we love Pam. Trump did not always love the way Bondi handled the Jeffrey Epstein case after she promoted conspiracy theories about a possible Epstein client list. She later said it never existed. There was no client list. And last September, the President also complained publicly that Bondi didn't succeed in prosecuting his political rivals. The ongoing war with Iran hasn't tamped down the upheaval in the Defense Department where the Pentagon's chief has fired the Army's top officer, CBS's Cammy McCormick. A senior Defense Department official told CBS News it was time for a leadership change in the Army. General Randy George, a career infantry officer, was nominated for the position by former President Biden. And confirmed by the Senate, the current vice chief of staff is expected to replace him. He is a former military aide to Hegseth.

2:01Hegseth is fired over a dozen senior military officers. The Artemis II crew is fastest sleep right now. Astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook and Jeremy Hansen, are headed to the moon and already farther away from Earth than any humans have gone since 1972. Corresponded Chris Van Cleave is at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Integrity, good engine, good control. And it's go for the moon. For nearly six minutes, Orion's main engine fired with 6,000 pounds of thrust to give the capsule a 900 mile an hour boost, sending it and its four astronauts on a path around the moon. We all wanted to give a shout out to our families first because we are pretty far from Earth and we have not gotten to say hi to them yet. Overnight, the Artemis crew spoke to the media from space about the journey so far. Having just experienced incredible views of planet Earth and seeing the entire planet out the window in one pain, knowing that we're about to have some similar views of the moon in that same way is definitely getting me more excited for it.

3:02We're just getting started. You know, we've worked really hard and we have a lot of mission left ahead of us. Artemis II will swing around the far side of the moon on Monday. CBS's Jonathan Biglady updates us on a sensational attempted murder trial going on in Hawaii. Maui anesthesiologist Dr. Gerhard Koenig took the stand hoping to persuade a jury that hitting his wife repeatedly with a rock was self-defense. Koenig is on trial for second degree attempted murder, charged with trying to push his wife Ariel off a cliff then assaulting her with a rock. There's his version. She hits me with a rock on the side of the face. And her version. In my mind, he's trying to knock me unconscious to be able to drag me over that. It was not just witnesses backing up Ariel Koenig's testimony. It was also Dr. Koenig's 19 year old son. He described what was said during a facetime call he received moments after the alleged attack. That Erie, my stepmom had been cheating on him, and he tried to kill her. If the president gets his way,

4:03the military will be getting a big funding increase in his proposed budget. Here's CBS's Linda Kenyan at the White House. President Trump is expected to request $1.5 trillion for defense spending in his fiscal year 2027 budget. That's roughly $600 billion more for defense than in 2026. This latest request comes amid the U.S.-led war against Iran and represents the highest year-over-year increase since World War II. On the domestic front, the president is expected to continue to cut healthcare funding, including money for Medicaid, Medicare, and Universal Child Care. Trump has already instituted deep cuts to the federal workforce. Linda Kenyan, CBS News, the White House. Easter Week is, of course, a big travel week here in the U.S. for families and spring breakers. In the U.K., Easter Weekend travel plans have a way of changing this year. CBS is Vicki Barker. With such popular holiday destinations as Dubai, suddenly off-limits, no flights, and if you can get there, there's a possibility of incoming Iranian missiles. Millions of Brits have opted for stay-cations this Easter Weekend.

5:07Result, transport officials say British roads are likely to be the busiest since 2022, with almost 21 million trips planned. That's three times the number of those planning to leave the U.K. for the four-day Easter Weekend. Vicki Barker, CBS News, London. Of course, you can't talk about Easter without mentioning eggs. A year ago, they were the new gold. This year, prices have come back down to earth. CBS is Michael Tuscano. You say retail egg prices in the U.S. averaged $2.50 per dozen in February compared to $6.23 in March 2025, a 60% drop. Bird flu was to blame for the spikes last year, and the fact that it's eased considerably as a big reason prices are so much lower now. The outbreak forced the slaughter of entire breads of egg-laying hens, but eggs supplies have improved as farmers replenish those flocks. In college basketball, it's final four weekend. Now the men don't play until tomorrow, but the women start play tonight in Phoenix. Reporter Erica Herskowitz has our preview. The defending national champion, Yukon Huskies, aim for a 13th title

6:09when they tip off against fellow top seed South Carolina in the opener of the double-header in Phoenix tonight. It's a rematch of last year's championship game, but Huskies head coach Gino Oriema says this year's gamecocks will be tougher to beat. They have added some really key pieces. I think they're a much better team than they were last year. After Yukon and South Carolina, Texas tips off against UCLA in the nightcap, the winners advance to Sunday's title game. Erica Herskowitz for CBS News. The men start play tomorrow night with Illinois taking on Yukon, then Michigan and Arizona. The winners meet Monday night for the men's national championship. It is not hard to destroy a college. Last season, the podcast Campus Files brought you stories of fraternity drug rings, stolen body parts, campus colts, and more. And now Campus Files is back for another season. There's a guy screaming into his phone. He's like, I just saw Charlie Kirk just assassinated right in front of me. Every week is a new episode and a new story. It was so chaotic. It's almost like a university on a siege.

7:09Listen to and follow Campus Files, available now wherever you got your podcasts. She's back after a brief health scare. Fans were thrilled when Megan the Stallion returned to the stage at the Hershfeld Theatre two nights after she cut her performance in Mulan Rouge short and wound up in the hospital. Her rep later announced the rap star was suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, phasoconstriction and low metabolic levels, or as Megan explained it on Instagram, she'd been pushing herself past her limits, running on empty, and her body finally said, enough! The gig in the long running jukebox musical marks her Broadway debut. Last night's show was a sellout. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News, New York. The city of Sanford, Florida has temporarily shut down a dog park because of invasive caterpillars which have caused inflammation and rashes. That's the world news roundup for Friday, April 3rd, 2026. The broadcast produced this week by David Shapiro and Todd Weiss.

8:11I'm Peter King, CBS News.