A 21-year-old airman who disappeared during a World War II spy mission over Thailand and Burma has been accounted for, the U.S. military said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Franklin H. McKinney was a pilot from Rhode Island and part of the 35th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, 14th Air Force, according to the Defense…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to charities this week ahead of their wedding at Madison Square Garden. The donations were spread out across 20 local and national charities, according to Swift’s publicist, with many located in areas where the couple has deep ties. Nine of the selected organizations are based in New…
President Trump’s recent financial disclosure finally put a dollar amount on the web of crypto ventures he’s continued to pursue since returning to office. But the revelation he made $1.4 billion off the fledgling industry has rekindled another mystery about his finances: how much is he paying in taxes? The president’s crypto windfall appears to…
The FBI is ramping up its investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County, Georgia, by ordering field offices across the country to send investigative analysts to Atlanta to help evaluate thousands of records, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. According to a memo sent to all field offices and reviewed by…
World Cup fans who thought they had bought pricey match tickets at the ongoing soccer tournament are suing StubHub, alleging that the ticket broker failed to deliver them. Plaintiffs in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday said they “did not get what they paid for” in buying World Cup tickets through…
Canadian researchers will begin a “once-in-a-generation” expedition to survey two legendary shipwrecks, which belonged to an iconic pair of polar explorers, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society said. The organization is due to send human-occupied and remotely operated vehicles to the depths of the North Atlantic this month, in hopes of observing the wrecks in detail…
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…
