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The death toll from the Trump administration’s monthslong series of strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean has risen to at least 199 people after survivors of recent attacks were not found. The total includes at least 22 people who had survived an initial strike only to be …
As the summer travel season starts to take off, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration tells CBS News he has confidence in the system, despite hundreds of FAA facilities being run on decades-old technology. “Go back to last summer. We saw, you know, we saw equipment failures in Washington, Newark, Philadelphia, places where the …
Nairobi — A Kenyan court on Friday temporarily halted the opening of an Ebola quarantine center for U.S. nationals following a petition filed by a rights group. The facility had been due to open Friday in Kenya, according to U.S. officialsto quarantine Americans arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is battling a major …
Footage of Katie Thomas’ traffic stop went viral after she was accused of holding a phone in her right hand while driving. The only problem: she doesn’t have a right hand. Court records show the citation has been dismissed at the officer’s request. CBS News’ Cristian Benavides spoke exclusively with Thomas about the stop and …
3m ago Israel-Lebanon talks set to take place at the Pentagon today, Lebanese media say Security talks between Israel and Lebanon are due to take place Friday at the Pentagon, according to Lebanese media, after a week of escalating Israeli military operations along the two countries’ shared border that saw Israeli forces push deeper into …
LONDON (AP) — Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met the artist Lucian Freud. The paintings he made of her in the 1990s are now among the most famous in modern art — and the most valuable. “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet,” regarded as one of Freud’s masterpieces, is going up …
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – Todd Blanche has moved quickly as acting U.S. attorney general to please the man whose face now adorns the exterior of the Justice Department’s Washington headquarters: President Donald Trump. The Department of Justice under Blanche, who took over in early April after Trump fired his predecessor, Pam Bondi, secured criminal …
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, May 29 (Reuters) – Huntington Beach, the right-leaning California city that banned the Pride flag from City Hall and elected a city council of MAGA supporters, is heavily favored to get a new Democratic congressman who is gay, progressive and an outspoken critic of U.S. President Donald Trump. It’s a result of redrawing …
TORONTO, May 29 (Reuters) – A Canadian man accused of selling a legal but potentially deadly chemical online to 14 people who took their own lives is expected to plead guilty on Friday to aiding their suicides, allowing him to avoid a murder trial. Kenneth Law, 60, is scheduled to appear on Friday morning at …
BUDAPEST, May 29 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Friday he would conclude a political agreement on the release of frozen European Union funds at a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen later in the day. Magyar arrived in Brussels on Thursday to negotiate the release of EU funds …