Canada’s defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire. “I’m saddened to share that there have been both fatalities and injuries as a result of an incident on the base,” Defense Minister David McGuinty said. The incident occurred at…
Washington — In late December, two months before the U.S. war with Iran began, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George warned that his service was critically short on missile defense munitions and that the shortage would last another five years, according to multiple U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have morphed over the last decade from being a little-known group in northwest Yemen, to Iran’s most potent ally in the region and a central opponent of the United States and its allies across the Middle East. While Iran’s other proxy forces have been depleted in recent years, the Houthis have taken…
White House homeland security adviser Stephen Miller spoke at a training conference for counterterrorism agents at FBI headquarters just over a week ago, days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, Katie, multiple sources told CBS News. Former Justice Department officials called the visit unusual, given the…
A statement by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that recognized three years since Hamas’ “horrific” attack on Israel — and extensively criticized Israel’s “ongoing genocide” in the Gaza Strip — has drawn fury from some Democrats. Mamdani is a longstanding and vehement critic of Israel’s actions during its war with Hamas in Gaza, and…
Washington — New videos obtained exclusively by CBS News show Iranian attacks on a major U.S. military base in Kuwait as the war with Iran kicked off seven months ago. American forces faced ballistic missiles, drones and what witnesses described as Iranian F-5 fighter jets. The footage obtained by CBS News was recorded by…
Three years after Hamas militants launched their assault on southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, taking 251 others hostage and triggering Israel’s war in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, CBS News met two teenagers on both sides of the Gaza border to find out how they are coping. “Some kind of nightmare”…
Three years before California realtor Wanying “Heather” Zhang was arrested as an alleged Chinese agent, she showed up in San Francisco celebrating the visit of President Xi Jinping. Zhang was photographed in 2023 wearing a red cap and marching on the street alongside the leader of a Chinese-American organization with deep ties to the Beijing…
Nadi, Fiji — Extreme heat is increasingly linked to problems such as premature births or underweight babies, the U.N. climate chief warned on Monday as Fiji hosted talks ahead of a major summit. This week’s meetings in the city of Nadi and on the atoll nation of Tuvalu are aimed at drawing the world’s attention to…
Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of President Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off in a runoff on Oct. 25 for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy. The country’s electoral court in Brasilia said neither the 80-year-old incumbent, seeking his fourth non-consecutive term, nor the 45-year-old son…
