SEC legal battle with LSU could reshape college football and governance of all college sports – CBS News Watch CBS News Just days before the first week of the college football season, a judge is set to rule on whether former professional football players can return to campus and play football. Mark Strassmann has the…
The federal government plans to start excavation over the next two weeks on a massive triumphal arch across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said Thursday, launching a controversial project championed by President Trump. Construction at the site is expected to take two to three years, with an intense…
A football player for William Jewell College in Missouri died Saturday after experiencing a medical emergency during the team’s season opener, according to school officials. The school identified the player as William Jewell running back MicahJo Barnett, a junior majoring in business administration. The incident occurred at Greene Stadium in Liberty, Missouri, during a…
Washington — A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for Ohio Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty and the Justice Department on new efforts by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees to add President Trump’s name back onto the building’s facade. Lawyers for Beatty, who sued last year over Mr. Trump’s…
An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent White men following last year’s killing of Charlie Kirk. The ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of…
Slough, England — Residents of the small industrial town of Slough, just west of London, told CBS News the soaring temperatures have been difficult to bear this year as Britain records its hottest summer ever. But emerging research suggests Slough may have had it particularly rough, as it sits next to the second largest data center…
A fast-growing wildfire spread from the Sierra foothills toward the center of Reno early Sunday, forcing nearly 14,000 homes to be evacuated. The “GO NOW” zone reached the edge of the University of Nevada campus as the Hawk Fire grew to more than 10,500 acres. As of Sunday morning, it was 0% contained. Smoke rises…
Two members of the Milligan University cycling team were killed, and several more injured, in a collision with a vehicle on a rural highway in eastern Tennessee on Wednesday morning, both state officials and the school confirmed. A driver has been arrested. In a news conference Wednesday night, Milligan University President Dr. Stephen Waers said…
Rio de Janeiro — Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said Monday that it had suspended livestreams in Brazil after criticism that it failed to protect children and adolescents. The move came in the wake of a suicide case. Brazil’s government, under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the country’s Supreme…
Detective Devin Rigo knew the clock was ticking as he raced to a metal scrapyard just north of Portland, Oregon. Rigo, with the Hillsboro Police Department, had just learned about the discovery of a maroon minivan he believed contained evidence connected to the murder of 56-year-old Kenneth “Kenny” Fandrich, a contract pipe fitter. On…
