It was Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, and a small strip mall in Huntsville, Alabama, was teeming with police activity. The frantic scene was captured on police body cameras and dashcam video in the moments after police discovered 37-year-old Savannah Tolbert shot dead in the front seat of a red Tesla. Moments before police arrived, her…
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seized on what he described as cruelty and indecency coming from President Trump and his Republican allies, stepping into one of the nation’s ugliest midterm fights as he worked to rally Democratic voters in battleground Ohio. Obama took specific aim at Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who has doubled…
Glass artist Paul Stankard, whose delicately-crafted paperweights were displayed in museums around the world, died on October 6, 2026 at age 83. In this April 26, 2015 “Sunday Morning” report, Martha Teichner visited Stankard at his New Jersey studio, where the self-taught paperweight-maker demonstrated the remarkable process of creating a tiny world of nature out…
Former NBA player Malik Beasley is negotiating a plea agreement with the Department of Justice after initially pleading not guilty to charges that he altered his play in certain games in 2024 to enrich sports bettors and ease his own debts, his attorney said Saturday. In July, Beasley entered a not guilty plea in New…
A former Mexican state attorney general could face trial for treason over accusations that he illegally launched a joint operation with the CIA without telling the federal government. The operation to dismantle a drug lab in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico in April drew attention after two CIA agents and two state officials…
Bubbles rise through the murky green water as divers tenderly explore a rare 15th-century shipwreck off Stockholm’s coast, believed to be the oldest warship found off Sweden. “It’s a very big ship, it was around 40-45 meters when it sailed probably,” project leader and marine archaeologist Hakan Altrock from Sweden’s Museum of Wrecks said, overseeing…
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has banned Defense Department personnel from using nonpublic information to bet on U.S. military operations, according to a memorandum obtained by CBS News. In the Oct. 20 message to senior Pentagon leadership and combatant commanders, Hegseth said the prohibition would apply to classified and unclassified information and specifically includes…
Norfolk, Virginia — L. Louise Lucas, a powerful Virginia state senator and vocal Trump critic who played a central role in the state’s redistricting effort last year, has been arrested in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme, a Justice Department spokesperson said Thursday. According to a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District…
Washington — The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to resume for now construction of a border wall and other infrastructure through a remote area of West Texas that includes Big Bend National Park. The Justice Department urged the high court to lift a lower court injunction that temporarily bars…
In a heated city council meeting on Tuesday, leaders in Memphis, Tennessee, voted against a moratorium that would have paused data center development for a year in the city, which has become a hotspot for the facilities driven by Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI. Instead, city council members passed a substitute ordinance — which some said they…
