A Florida company that was established in May won an unusual and potentially lucrative deal to be the only business permitted to stock the commissaries of the Bureau of Prisons’ 118 institutions with flavored nicotine pouches. Undated photo of mindSHFT nicotine pouches Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News The brand of 6-mg pouches being sold…
The wreck of a steam tugboat dating from the early 1900s is the latest relic to emerge from shrinking waters in Serbia as Europe’s rivers run dry, with the continent engulfed in prolonged, extreme heat and drought. The rusting hull — once a famed vessel known as the Slovenian — surfaced earlier this month from…
Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the skeletal remains of an adult they believe was buried as an offering near the base of Huaca Pucllana, an ancient adobe pyramid in Peru’s capital of Lima. The remains are believed to be those of a man who may have been sacrificed during a ritual in which a canal linked…
The bodies of two Belgian climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps 34 years ago have been found, freed from the melting Trift Glacier, police said Wednesday. On July 26, a hiker reported finding two bodies on the glacier in southern Switzerland, near the Italian border, the regional police in Wallis canton said in a…
Harvard University has agreed to pay a $53 million settlement after its former morgue manager stole and sold body parts donated for scientific research, with a court reportedly approving the plan on Tuesday. Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue at the prestigious Harvard Medical School before being fired in 2023, was sentenced to eight years…
Apparent human skeletal remains, including a jaw with the teeth still attached, were found at Lake Mead on Sunday, officials said, as water levels sink to new lows amid a drought and scorching heat in the West. “On Aug. 16, the Lake Mead Interagency Communications Center received a report of potential human remains at Boulder…
When Ray Kohn started feeling pain in his knees and elbows in 2015, he attributed it to his work as a stunt driver and mechanic. But as the years went on, he began to notice his body changing in unusual ways: His head grew so much that he needed a larger helmet, and his hands…
Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to speak out on public issues, his son Hunter Biden said in an interview. In a wide-ranging interview with the CBS News partner BBC News late on Friday, Hunter Biden grew emotional…
The new liaison to local law enforcement for the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles is facing state criminal charges himself, and has a string of prior convictions for driving under the influence, public records show. Shawn Christopher Lewis, who previously served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli’s chief of staff when he was…
Washington — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Thursday that he has been discharged from a rehabilitation center, nearly two months after he was hospitalized. “Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home,” he said in a statement. The statement did not say when McConnell is expected…
