Damaging winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Lowell pelted Hawaii’s western islands early Tuesday, knocking out power, damaging roads and buildings and bringing the threat of flash floods and mudslides. Fierce winds downed trees and caused widespread power outages on the island of Kauai, home to 73,000 residents. The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative reported that…
Washington — An Air Force email from August and obtained by CBS News shows the Pentagon was instructing personnel to stop referring to ongoing U.S. military operations in Iran as “Operation Epic Fury” — three months after the Trump administration declared it had ended. In response to questions from CBS News, the Pentagon said Wednesday…
The Pentagon will begin requiring male service members ages 30 and older to get screened for testosterone deficiency, the military announced Wednesday, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for the change over the summer. The Defense Health Agency released a set of clinical guidelines for the tests, which will take place during service members’ regular…
Official reports of sexual assault and the estimated number of sexual assaults in the military both decreased in fiscal year 2025, according to the Pentagon’s annual review of sexual assault released on Friday. The review included data from an anonymous survey conducted every other year that asks service members whether they’ve been the victim…
The national debt topped $40 trillion, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday, representing a fiscal milestone that underscores the federal government’s mounting borrowing and interest costs. The Treasury Department’s daily financial report shows that the nation’s debt reached $40.05 trillion on August 18, more than double its level in 2017. The federal debt has…
Violent crime rates in the U.S. have plummeted with their biggest one-year drop on record, a White House official said Friday as the FBI prepared to release its finalized crime data for 2025. The statistics show an 18.1% decrease in the murder rate compared with the prior year, the official said. Violent crime rates in…
Washington — The Pentagon has formally acknowledged that U.S. military operations killed more than 150 innocent civilians and injured over 240 people in 2025, with three airstrikes in Yemen accounting for every casualty the department confirmed. The newly released tally, which did not include any deaths from airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and…
Hamas said on Saturday it remained ready to proceed with a US-backed Gaza peace plan and urged pressure on Israel, which insists it did not agree to the latest part of the deal. Hamas informed US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace that it stood by the latest stage of the plan, under which the…
Three lions at a Tokyo zoo have died from suspected heatstroke and others are under treatment, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, with the big cats struggling with high humidity. Japan sweltered through its hottest summer on record last year and parts of the country have hit 40 degrees Celsius in recent weeks, qualifying for the…
A key question in the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy is whether postpartum psychosis drove her to kill her three children. On Monday, a jury heard opening statements in the trial of the former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Both sides agree she strangled her children aged 5 and younger in…
