Washington — Progressive William Lawrence beat one-term Republican Rep. Tom Barrett in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, CBS News projected. The race was one of the most closely watched in the nation. Barrett, who was first elected in 2024 and flipped the Lansing-area district red, was one of the first House Republicans to break with President…
Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security. When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said,…
Amazon launched two new AI gadgets on Thursday that the company says can listen to conversations, compose notes and issue reminders. The first, the Bee Frontier, is a silicone wristband that can also be clipped to clothing and retails for $74.99. Amazon also announced the Bee Eclipse, a credit card-sized device that magnetically attaches to…
Noah Kahan is right where he always thought he’d be. “My high school prediction was Most Likely to Be a Regionally-Known Musician,” he said. “I think it was supposed to be an insult, but I’m happy to have found my niche.” He’s somewhere in the woods of Vermont, talking about his favorite place. “I think…
The FlyDubai co-pilot whose alleged violent attempt to crash a flight to Israel last week and kill everyone onboard has a history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found. Many posts posts written and shared by Hamam al Hamami on an X…
Christa Pike‘s attorneys said she has pneumonia, a blood clot, couldn’t swallow, and is unable to move her arms or hands once she regained consciousness in a Tennessee hospital, days after the death row inmate survived a botched execution by the state. “Her hands looked like if you were to blow up a surgical glove,”…
A group of former Cornell University students say they are being falsely connected to the alleged 2024 fraternity house rape, and smeared and targeted online, and they want the college to say explicitly that they were not among men accused in the incident. The former students, members of the Chi Phi fraternity who graduated in 2022…
Russia’s government played down concerns Monday sparked by media reports that a female scientist in Siberia might have died of exposure to the plague after a lab accident. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that the state health watchdog known as Rospotrebnadzor was the “lead agency with expertise in this area,” and he urged Russians to…
The Ohio trial of a former “American Idol” contestant and music pastor charged with murdering his wife earlier this year continued Thursday with the testimony of his mistress. Alleigha Botner, 24, who had an affair with the defendant Caleb Flynn, 40, concluded two days of testimony by discussing the more than 100,000 text messages the…
A California family gave over $4.4 million in political donations to Governor Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and other leading California politicians. And now, that family’s alleged past links to infamous suspected honeypot spy Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang, and other Chinese government officials have thrust them into an ongoing debate over foreign influence…
