Just four years after he signed the Declaration of Independence, but before the colonies would win the war that granted their freedom, Benjamin Franklin was already thinking about the future. Franklin wrote a letter in 1780 to his close friend Joseph Priestley, the scientist who discovered oxygen, lamenting being born at the beginning of the scientific…
An Albanian-American man who sold land for a possible luxury development backed by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is under investigation for alleged drug trafficking and money laundering, Albanian court records reviewed by CBS News show. The controversial plans to build resorts in long-protected natural coastal areas have sparked mass protests in Albania’s capital Tirana….
U.S. employers added 57,000 jobs in June, far below analysts’ forecasts and signaling that hiring may be losing momentum. By the numbers Economists polled by FactSet had predicted the economy would add 100,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate was 4.2% in June, down from 4.3% in May. June’s payroll report marked a slowdown after…
Turning a basketball arena into a wedding venue fit for a superstar might sound intimidating. But for celebrity event planners and designers, it’s just another day. Rumors have been swirling about Taylor Swift’s impending nuptials to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Law enforcement sources told CBS News the pair plan to tie the…
Catia La Mar, Venezuela — Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced Thursday after pulling a man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days after deadly twin earthquakes, AFP journalists witnessed. With the official death toll nearing 2,300 and huge numbers of people still missing, the rescue of security guard Hernan Gil…
Behind the counter of a bodega in Brooklyn, a cashier casually rang up a tiny vial of a peptide the store advertised as retatrutide — an experimental weight-loss drug whose sale is generally prohibited by federal law. “PEPTIDES SOLD HERE” reads a large sign displayed on the storefront of Mr. Green, a small shop on…
Rome — The Vatican announced Thursday that six bishops associated with the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) have been excommunicated following the unauthorized consecration of four new bishops the previous day in Écône, Switzerland. The consecrations were carried out without the approval of Pope Leo XIV. Under Catholic canon law, only the pope…
Major Garrett discusses the backlash over President Trump’s profits from crypto projects while in office. Mr. Trump made $1.4 billion from crypto ventures last year as his administration loosened rules on those markets. On Wednesday, he debuted a new Air Force One jet gifted by the government of Qatar, which is also raising questions. Source…
An 11-year-old boy crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing eight, officials said. A total of 35 monks from Mukdahan province, about 600 kilometers northeast of the capital Bangkok, were on the pilgrimage. Five monks were killed at the site, while three others…
Lulu Gribbin was 15 when she survived a shark attack off the coast of Florida. She lost her left hand, part of her right leg and almost her life. What she didn’t know when she entered the water on that day in 2024 was that another woman had been bitten by a shark 90 minutes…
