June 5 (Reuters) – A seven-month-old Palestinian baby was killed and his parents were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry identified the infant as Sam Fahd Abu Haikal and said he was killed at …
The wheels of democracy slowly turned in California on Friday as the U.S. continued to wait for the winner to be declared in two high-profile primaries. 3.5 million ballots have yet to be counted. CBS News election law expert and contributor David Becker has more.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is holding a campaign rally on Friday, following a week marked by allegations. He pushed back against yesterday’s New York Times report, where several former girlfriends accused him of “unsettling” behavior. CBS News’ Taurean Small reports and Midcoast Villager deputy editor Alex Seitz-Wald has more.
The FBI has fired at least five analysts who were involved in the creation of a withdrawn internal 2023 intelligence memo on “Radical Traditionalist Catholic” ideology that drew the ire of President Trump’s allies, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. The analysts’ firings were reported earlier by MS Now. The FBI declined …
The company that operated a bus involved in a deadly crash in Virginia last week has ties to a broader network of travel firms, including one shut down by regulators a decade ago due “excessive” speeding violations, a CBS News investigation has found. Now, federal authorities are also looking into those connections. The network bears …
American journalist speaks out from inside notorious Iranian prison – CBS News Watch CBS News An Iranian-American journalist being held in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison made a plea for help in a CBS News-obtained recording. “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan reports.
Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro told CBS News’ Lilia Luciano that “without a doubt” President Trump is intervening in his country’s election by endorsing right-wing candidate Abelardo De La Espriella. “Any interference by one country over another in order to determine the destiny of another is an attempt against freedom,” Petro said.
Job creation is not roaring in the U.S., but it is running well ahead of expectations. The economy created 172,000 jobs in May, employment data shows. CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O’Grady has more.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Defense announced on Friday a significant reduction in the number of religious affiliations it officially recognizes. The new list of 31 is down from more than 200 previously recognized traditions that troops could choose from. The list no longer includes atheists, Unitarian Universalists, pagans and Wiccans. “This decrease in …
Henry Nowak, 18, died after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in the English city of Southampton in December. Digwa, who is Sikh, falsely claimed to police he was the victim of a racist assault by Nowak, who was white. When police officers arrived, they initially treated the wounded man as a suspect before noticing his …