Rising prices of goods, produce dim prospects for Thanksgiving, Christmas Cranes unload shipping containers from the CMA CGM Laperouse container ship at the Port of Los Angeles in California, United States, on Aug 15. Higher US tariffs have started to filter through to consumers in categories su...
He hedged when asked about the president's push to end the filibuster. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that there is no formal proposal from the White House to defund the Affordable Care Act and instead send money directly to Americans, despite a social media post from President Donald...
LONDON, Nov 10 Reuters - The BBC's boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The publicly funded BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former...
The dome of the US Capitol is reflected in a window as people visit the Washington Monument on November 2. Kent NishimuraReuters A critical bloc of eight Senate Democratic centrists on Sunday helped advance a funding deal to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending enhance...
The nine missing are believed to have been near the crash site, officials said. The death toll has risen to 13 after a UPS plane departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky crashed in a ball of flames earlier this week, officials said Thursday. The victim had been transport...
Musk would become the best-compensated CEO ever. Tesla shareholders awarded CEO Elon Musk a pay package on Thursday that could grant the tech entrepreneur nearly $1 trillion in compensation over the next decade. The pay package would make Musk the best-compensated CEO ever recorded. According to a...
WASHINGTON -- Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she will not seek re-election next year and will retire from Congress at the end of her current term. Pelosi, 85, has represented California in Congress since 1987. She served as minority leader of the House of Representativ...
The number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody increased to 66,000 this week, setting a new record high as President Trump intensifies his crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News. Never before has...
A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Snap, also known as food stamps, and accused the administration of withholding the food aid "for political reasons". Judge John McConnell said in his order on Thursday that without ...
A displaced woman and some children sit under a tent built from logs and cloth in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, Aug 8, 2025. [The UN World Food ProgrammeHandout via Xinhua] UNITED NATIONS - Relief organizations in Sudan's North Darfur are increasing support for the growing number of people displac...
The former top legal officer in Israel's military has been arrested after admitting that she authorized the leak of a video that appears to show Israeli soldiers attacking a Palestinian detainee in a detention facility last year. Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi served as Military Advocate Gene...
At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre," according to a museum employee with knowledge of the system. The revelation comes as the museum's security measures have com...
Millennial lawmaker pledges to tax the rich and ease burden on working people Supporters cheer for the election win of Democrat Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York on Wednesday. ZHANG ZHENGHAOXINHUA Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected the youngest mayor of New York in more than a cen...
MANILA -- Typhoon Kalmaegi left the Philippines before dawn Thursday with 114 deaths and at least 127 missing mainly in the central Philippines, the Office of Civil Defense OCD said. OCD Deputy Administrator Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro told local media that Kalmaegi killed at least 114, "with actu...
Federal officials announced that the U.S. will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 "high-volume" markets starting on Friday, citing staffing shortages related to the ongoing government shutdown. "We have decided that a 10% reduction in scheduled capacity would be appropriate to continue to take the...