Two people were rescued in separate operations in Nepal, 10 days after the devastating floods hit the country, officials said Saturday. A man was rescued from a hydropower tunnel, according to a social media post by the country’s prime minister’s office, bringing the total to three workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project. Two…
1m ago Court in lunch break The emergency stay granted by Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan was scheduled to be one-hour long and end at 12:30 p.m. The state’s highest court, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), is still reviewing defense attorney Kevin Reddington’s request to stop Sullivan’s declaration of a mistrial. The…
The FBI is turning to artificial intelligence as a tool to identify threats and fight crime, targeting transnational criminal organizations and drug cartels, Deputy Director Christopher Raia told CBS News on Thursday, three weeks after the bureau released data showing a significant drop in violent crime rates around the country. Raia, a 23-year veteran of…
Leon Black, an investor and former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein who was subpoenaed to appear before Congress on Thursday instead filed a lawsuit to contest the subpoenas compelling him to testify and provide documents to the House committee investigating the notorious sex abuser. Black was subpoenaed in June after he abruptly left a voluntary…
As tech companies pour trillions of dollars into new data centers as part of the ongoing AI boom sweeping the globe, communities across the U.S., including St. Louis, are finding themselves in the middle of a high-stakes fight. A million square feet of old warehouse space in the Missouri city has turned into a mountain…
A military judge on Friday tossed out a confession that alleged Sept. 11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed delivered to FBI agents almost 20 years ago, CBS News has learned, finding it was not given voluntarily. The ruling marks a blow to the federal government’s long-delayed effort to prosecute Mohammed, who is accused of developing…
A federal judge on Friday once again spurned President Trump’s effort to erase his hush money conviction, rejecting the president’s bid to move the state court case to federal court and have it dismissed on presidential immunity grounds. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said Mr. Trump’s reasons for renewing his request were “neither new…
A 35-year-old Venezuelan man who lived in Texas for years is now nearly 6,000 miles from his wife and 5-month-old American son after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported him to West Africa. Carlos Tellez Sanchez said he had never heard of Liberia until last week, when he found out he was being deported to…
Lindsay Clancy’s murder case is now in the hands of a Massachusetts jury after 22 days of testimony in Plymouth Superior Court. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Clancy admits to killing the children in their Duxbury…
A Trump administration effort aimed at discouraging Americans on food stamps from using the government nutritional aid to buy soda is having an impact, a new study shows. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits cut their sugary drink purchases by more than 12% from January to June of this year after new state-level restrictions…
