Man Suspected of Plotting Violent Attack Had Sought to Target Louvre, Officials Say

PARIS, May 11 (Reuters) – ⁠A ⁠27-year-old man suspected ⁠of plotting a violent ​attack and of planning to join ‌Islamic State in ‌Syria or Mozambique had ⁠sought ⁠to target a Parisian museum and the ​Jewish community, though no specific target was identified, a source ​close to the investigation said on ⁠Monday. French newspaper ⁠Le Monde …

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Netanyahu says “nobody had perfect foresight” on Iran’s Strait of Hormuz blockade

CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about The New York Times reporting that, in pre-war conversations with President Trump, Netanyahu and his team asserted that Iran would not choke off the Strait of Hormuz. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes joins with Mr. Trump’s response.

South Florida Officers Sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Claiming Details in ‘The Rip’ Are Too Real

MIAMI (AP) — Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon ‘s recent action thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers’ personal and professional reputations, according to a defamation lawsuit. Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, sergeants in the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, filed …

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CDC’s acting director says hantavirus is not “a five-alarm fire bell”

Washington — Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended the federal government’s response to the deadly hantavirus outbreaksaying it doesn’t make sense to sound “a five-alarm fire bell” because the risk to the public is “much, much lower” than what we saw with the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s very …

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The stakes of Trump’s 2-day summit with Xi Jinping

President Trump will head to Beijing on Tuesday for a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Henrietta Levin, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins CBS News with analysis.

Stocks remain strong despite Iran war uncertainty

Despite the ongoing war in Iran and high gas prices, stocks started trading higher on Monday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both hit record highs, bolstered by the tech sector. Yahoo Finance senior reporter Brooke DiPalma joins with analysis.

GM Just Paid a Record Penalty for Breaking California Privacy Law

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent. The settlement, announced Friday, is the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a 2018 law that requires companies to tell consumers about how …

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