Just two months after the Kona low storms, another potential disaster is playing out on the rural southwest side of Hawaiʻi island. But this time, instead of too much water, farmers and other rural residents suddenly don’t have enough. Saturday’s 6.0 magnitude earthquake crushed and burst water catchment systems — large wooden and metal tanks …
It may be worth locking your money into a high-rate CD account now that interest rates are holding steady again. Getty Images/iStockphoto If you have a large, five-figure amount of money, such as $90,000, in your savings account now, investing it in stocks, bonds, real estate or a mix of all three may seem like …
Massachusetts may have just taken the wheel when it comes to “gig” worker rights. Drivers for apps like Uber or Lyft have officially unionized in the Bay State – an unprecedented step that could set the stage for similar collective bargaining drives across the country. This week’s announcement from the App Drivers Union is by …
NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuters) – CBS News has not renewed the contract of Sharyn Alfonsi, the “60 Minutes” correspondent who clashed with Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over a December report on a Salvadoran prison, according to an interview published on Wednesday in the New York Times. CBS pulled the segment – about a mega-prison where …
The Mexican governor of Chihuahua said Wednesday she was “being persecuted” by the country’s ruling party over the case of two U.S. officials who died in April during an unauthorized drug raid in her state. Maria Eugenia Campos, from the opposition National Action Party, appeared for questioning at the Mexican General Prosecutors office in Mexico …
Former first lady Jill Biden said she was “frightened” by her husband Joe Biden’s 2024 debate performance and thought he was having a stroke. “I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning’s Rita Braver in an interview airing Sunday on …
The leading candidate to oversee the Justice Department’s antimonopoly enforcement has been a critic of the tech sector and is a government lawyer who led an effort to crack down on social media companies during President Trump’s first term. Adam Candeub is being considered for assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, sources familiar with …
Former first lady Jill Biden said she was “frightened” by her husband Joe Biden’s performance at the 2024 presidential debate. “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death,” Biden told Sunday Morning’s Rita Braver in an interview airing Sunday.
BEIRUT, May 27 (Reuters) – Israel’s military on Wednesday declared a new swathe of southern Lebanon as a combat zone and said residents in the area should move north, warning it would act “with great force” against Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in the zone. The military’s statement, posted on X, appeared to signal further escalation …
Matthew Perry‘s former live-in assistant, who pleaded guilty to drug distribution charges in connection with the death of the “Friends” star, was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Wednesday. Kenneth Iwamasa, 60, is the fifth and final person sentenced for playing a role in the actor’s 2023 ketamine death. In August 2024, …