A British TikTok influencer is facing possible execution in Dubai after allegedly stabbing a man to death in what she says was an act of self-defense, according to the advocacy group Detained in Dubai. Brooke George, 23, a former department store worker from Kent in eastern England, has been charged with the murder of an…
The Phoenix Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas has received a flagrant foul penalty and been suspended for one game after hitting Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark in the throat during a game Wednesday night, the WNBA said Thursday. The hit happened with 6 minutes and 52 seconds left in the second quarter of the Fever-Mercury game at…
Washington — President Trump and House conservatives are holding Congress hostage over Senate Republicans’ inability to pass a voting regulations bill known as the SAVE America Act. Mr. Trump abruptly canceled a signing ceremony Wednesday for a landmark housing affordability bill that has overwhelming bipartisan support in both chambers, seeking once again to use unrelated…
At least 188 people were killed and some 1,500 injured by a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Venezuela Wednesday evening, the country’s National Assembly president said Thursday. The toll was likely to keep rising as rescuers continued searching collapsed buildings and emergency crews raced to access devastated areas. The U.S. Geological Survey said the…
Apple on Thursday said it is raising prices on MacBooks and iPads, blaming AI-driven demand for memory and storage that has sharply increased component costs. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,” the company said in a statement shared with CBS News. “We have shielded our customers from these increases…
Washington — A top official with the National Park Service said in a court filing Thursday that the agency reported damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool caused by a sharp knife over two weeks ago. Frank Lands, deputy director for operations for the National Park Service, said the park service reported the damage on…
Gdánsk, Poland — Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Radek Sikorski told CBS News in an interview that he would not rule out the possibility of Russia staging a “false flag operation” in the next two years to justify an attack on a NATO member state. “I wouldn’t exclude the Russians doing some kind of false flag operation…
Tennis champion Chris Evert said Thursday that her ovarian cancer had returned, and that she had already undergone surgery for the recurrence. “I have always believed in being open and honest about my health journey,” Evert wrote in a social media post. “This past weekend, after undergoing CT and PET scans, I learned that my ovarian…
Washington — GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Wednesday dropped his support for a Democrat-led effort to restrict President Trump’s war powers in Iran after receiving a briefing at the White House — a briefing he said he secured with a note slipped to the president’s envoy to the Middle East following a heated…
“Are you ready for it?” While details have been kept under wraps for one of the most anticipated pop culture events of the year — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding — there’s speculation that the couple’s big day could take place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The New York Times reported Wednesday that a…
