Like so many in Gary, Indiana, Shatiya Hardin has been waiting for the minute her power finally turns back on. “It’s been absolutely horrible,” Hardin told CBS News. “At night we’re sweating, we’re irritable, we have children to look out for, elderly people who need electricity for oxygen tanks.” Beginning Aug. 11, several days of…
It was just after 1 a.m. on May 7, 2023, when authorities responded to a reported road accident on a secluded dead-end street in Greenwood, South Carolina. At the edge of the nearby woods, they would find 46-year-old Davis McClendon‘s body. But what they saw at first was on the road itself: a shirt, a…
Dangerous heat dome causes extreme temperatures in the South – CBS News Watch CBS News There were record-high temperatures on Tuesday in six states as a dangerous heat dome causes extreme temperatures in parts of the U.S. Rob Marciano has the latest. Source link
Washington — The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to require nonprofits to disclose in their annual tax filings whether their top officials have been convicted of certain financial or terrorism-related crimes, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told CBS News. The IRS disclosure requirement would be added to the Form 990, the annual…
Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have heard weeks of testimony as prosecutors have tried to make their case that the Massachusetts mom should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the case, but her attorneys don’t deny that…
Rome — A 30-year-old American tourist died Sunday after being struck by lightning on Italy’s Mount Etna, according to Italy’s national news agency ANSA and other major news outlets. The man, whose name has not been confirmed by authorities, was hiking on the volcano when a powerful thunderstorm moved across the area. According to initial reports…
President Trump has ordered a reduction in childhood vaccines — publicly faulting the shots for an increase in autism cases — even as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has failed to produce evidence linking vaccinations to the disorder. While the executive order released Aug. 10 does not directly mention autism, Mr….
The summer of 1936 wasn’t just hot; it was dangerously hot. At least 5,000 people ended up dying from heat-related causes. “New York City, Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky, Minneapolis – I mean, cities were hammered,” said Geoff Williams, the author of “The Summer of Death,” about that great heat wave. “For weeks, some cities…
D——etectives Stephanie Winter and Devin Rigo of the Hillsboro, Oregon, Police Department had never encountered a crime scene like the one they encountered in January 2023. Natalie Morales: How would you two characterize this case when you first got it? What did you think? Det. Stephanie Winter: You know, I just thought that it’s a…
The Iran war has underscored how disruptions to a key shipping route thousands of miles away can have a material impact on what American consumers pay at home for essentials like gasoline. The conflict, now nearing its six-month mark, has throttled traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for global energy shipments, as…
