A cyberattack on several blood banks tried to raise temperatures to extremely high levels but was thwarted before it could do any damage to blood products or samples, French authorities said. The incident comes after supermarkets in a number of European countries reported that their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely taken…
Washington — Embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller lost his bid for reelection to Democrat Brian Poindexter in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, CBS News projected. Miller defied calls over the summer to end his campaign before a deadline that would have allowed Republicans to replace him on the November ballot amid allegations of domestic abuse toward…
Washington — GOP Sen. Ashley Moody defeated Democrat Angie Nixon in the Florida Senate race, CBS News projects, keeping the seat under Republican control. Moody, 51, was appointed last year to fill a vacancy left by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. She previously served as Florida’s attorney general, after working as a commercial litigator and…
Pieces of the jet that crashed in Palm Beach County on Sunday, killing nine people, were found nearly 4 miles away from the crash site, investigators said Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman said during a news conference that the discovery of a part of the tail located that far from the impact…
Google said on Tuesday that it will turn off artificial intelligence in its educational apps for K-12 student accounts unless school administrators expressly enable it. The Alphabet-owned search giant said that after surveying school administrators and teachers, it wants educational institutions to control students’ access to various AI capabilities. “We believe schools should have control…
A longtime friend of the co-pilot who died in a Florida plane crash on Sunday said air traffic control audio revealing her final moments “was definitely, probably the worst thing I’ve ever heard.” The co-pilot, 20-year-old Nathalia Filgueiras, can be heard saying in the audio recordings that the jet she was flying alongside 55-year-old captain…
Two years ago, President Trump made historic gains with Hispanic voters nationwide and won a majority of Texas Hispanics, upending conventional wisdom and setting back the Democratic Party’s hopes of making the state competitive. But now, Hispanics may be coming back. They’re frustrated with the state of the economy and concerned about the Trump administration’s…
Audio recordings reveal that the pilot of a plane that crashed in Florida on Sunday said “we’re managing the ice” shortly before declaring “Mayday.” The jet crashed into a neighborhood along a busy road, killing all nine people on board the aircraft as it burst into a massive fireball and left a huge crater in…
Grocery store chains in at least three European countries reported unexpected temperature spikes Monday in refrigerators and freezers that ruined food — the second time in less than a month that similar incidents have raised concerns about cyberattacks on increasingly interlinked infrastructure. Netherlands-based food retailer Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt in Belgium both said an IT incident…
Four United States citizens were among the at least 69 people who were killed when a high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train in central Spain last week, officials said Sunday. The Center for Integrated Data, the legal body in Spain in charge of identifying victims of events with a high death toll,…
