Seven months after axing their own seawater desalination plant project — and five months from when a water crisis is expected to surface — Corpus Christi City Council voted 6-2 Tuesday to begin preliminary talks with a new company to build a desalination facility for the Coastal Bend area. AXE H20, a 2-month-old private company …
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award. The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday to …
SEOUL, May 7 (Reuters) – North Korea is not bound to any treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. Kim Song, permanent representative of North Korea to the United Nations, said in a statement the U.S. and some countries are “tarnishing the atmosphere” at the 11th NPT review conference held …
Periodically, we get e-mails complaining about how we refer to the President in our copy. We asked White House correspondent Mark Knoller to respond. During my 18 years at CBS News, most of it covering the White House, there’s no issue on which I get more listener and viewer mail and e-mail than on our …
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said it’s “extraordinarily rich” for former President Barack Obama to say he’s concerned about the “politicization of the criminal justice system” under the Trump administration. “There’s something extraordinarily rich about a Democrat suggesting that this administration is charging our political adversaries,” Blanche told CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez.
Autonomous cars to be ticketed for traffic violations in California – CBS News Watch CBS News Autonomous cars in California will no longer be immune to traffic tickets once a new law takes effect in July. CNET editor-at-large Scott Stein joins CBS News to discuss this and other top technology stories of the day.
Police announced Wednesday that an 18-year-old has been arrested in a shooting that left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded last weekend during a nighttime party beside an Oklahoma lake. Police in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond said the man, identified as Jaylan Amhad Davis, has been charged in connection with the …
The Mississippi Court of Appeals has reversed a judge’s ruling that Rankin County deputies bore no blame for the 2021 death of Damien Cameron after witnesses said one deputy sat on Cameron’s back while another kneeled on his neck. In a ruling Tuesday, the appeals court revived the civil lawsuit and sent it back to …
For the first time, the FDA has authorized fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers. Some health groups and parent organizations worry it could drive more underage vaping. CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Céline Gounder has more.
The Orleans Parish School Board voted on Tuesday to accept an agreement on a funding battle that district officials said funneled around $135 million away from schools and towards municipal expenses, settling a 2019 lawsuit filed against the city of New Orleans by the district. The board voted 6-1 to accept the deal. Under the …