Sioux City, Iowa — Less than 24 hours after President Trump held a raucous rally inside an airplane hangar in this western Iowa town, Senate Majority Leader John Thune stood alongside Rep. Ashley Hinson in a strip-mall bar and grill a few miles away. Looking out over a giant water tank that punctuated the flat …
Roughly two thirds of people on the planet use social media — and many simply cannot stop scrolling. The dangers for children are well-documented, including mental health problems, bullying and sexual predators. Here in the U.S., social media companies have settled lawsuits totaling billions, without admitting any wrongdoing. But Australia is trying something different. Last …
The lake country straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border has a quiet, majestic beauty. But in September 2022, that vast landscape seemed to have swallowed up Mike Harding, a California transplant who disappeared without a trace. JULIE HARDING (phone call): Hi Captain, this is Julie Harding with the California Highway Patrol … Mike’s wife Julie Harding, a …
It was Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, and a small strip mall in Huntsville, Alabama, was teeming with police activity. The frantic scene was captured on police body cameras and dashcam video in the moments after police discovered 37-year-old Savannah Tolbert shot dead in the front seat of a red Tesla. Moments before police arrived, her …
When the California High-Speed Rail Authority awarded a $24 million contract to KPMG, newly obtained records indicate it knew the consulting giant intended to charge more than its unusually low bid for high-level positions. KPMG’s winning bid proposed an average hourly rate of roughly $200, but records reviewed by CBS California show its billed average …
Over the past week, Ukraine has received a stark reminder of its growing dependence on uninterrupted access to Elon Musk’s Starlink and Starshield networks in its drone-heavy war against Russia, now in its fifth year. Ukraine has a fraction of Russia’s resources, but its aggressive development of drone warfare on defensive and offensive fronts has …
6m ago Egyptian parliament postpones debate on military support to Saudi, state media reports Egypt’s parliament on Monday postponed its debate on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s request to authorize military support to Saudi Arabia, which has faced mounting attacks from Yemen’s Houthis, Egyptian state media reported. The debate has been delayed until next week, …
Detective Susan Logothetti lives her professional life deep in the past, investigating cold cases at the Everett Police Department, north of Seattle. Det. Susan Logothetti: I love that people who thought they could get away with it 40 years ago are looking over their shoulder now, wondering what they left behind. One case in particular …
Erin Moriarty: Trysten, where are we? Trysten Mullis: We’re at the farm that I grew up on. This is where … me and my brother and sister grew up … these big white buildings here are the hog barns. Trysten Mullis, along with his younger siblings Taylor and Wyatt, and his parents Todd and Amy, …
It was a Monday evening around dinner time when a text popped up on Jane Doe’s cellphone on Oct. 21, 2024, less than 48 hours after a night of excessive drinking, drug use and group sex at the Chi Phi fraternity house on the Cornell University campus. Over two weeks of intermittent texting, in messages …