London — Cyberattacks on grocery store refrigeration systems across Europe sent temperatures soaring on Monday, spoiling food and causing significant financial losses in the second such incident in less than a month. In October, hundreds of French stores were targeted in a similar attack that sent temperatures in some units soaring to 122° Fahrenheit, destroying…
A California judge late Friday ordered the federal government to stop demanding that state and local election officials separate out ballots or not count certain votes from alleged noncitizens, and to stop threatening officials with criminal prosecution if they do not comply. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson came in response to a…
Dolly Parton’s nephew and longtime head of security said in a Tennessee court filing Tuesday that he was a close friend and ally of Parton’s longtime manager Danny Nozell before Nozell took out a restraining order accusing him of threatening to do violence and destroy Parton’s legacy and business empire. In an affidavit opposing the…
Thieves stole about 30,000 bottles of some of Italy’s most prized wines worth an estimated $5.8 million from a winery in Tuscany, in what the producer described Friday as the country’s largest wine theft on record. The theft targeted Marchesi Antinori’s facility near Cortona, in the province of Arezzo, where a group of at least…
A Tennessee judge granted Dolly Parton‘s estate a temporary restraining order Wednesday against the late singer’s nephew Bryan Seaver and his private security company. She’s Alive, the entity founded to manage Parton’s estate, had filed the complaint against Seaver and Squadron Augmented Protection Services a day prior. The estate accused Seaver, who was Parton’s head…
Eighteen months after his initial diagnosis, chemotherapy hadn’t slowed 21-year-old Mason Henderson’s rare brain tumor, which had spread to his spinal fluid. So he left his home in southeastern Texas to spend three weeks in a clinical trial in New York City. But that failed, too, leaving a murky path for Henderson, whose cancer was…
U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas-bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks struck the vessels while they were traveling toward the United States, according to U.S. officials. One of the vessels was the VL Prosperity, a 1,093-foot Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker headed to Galveston, Texas. Iranian state media identified the ship…
An English judge issued a scathing report Tuesday blaming dysfunctional management and a “complete failure at all levels” to protect babies at the hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven newborns. The inquiry into baby deaths found the Countess of Chester Hospital, in northwestern England, could have saved some infants from…
A federal prosecutor who withdrew from the criminal case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani shortly after senior Justice Department officials moved to dismiss the charges has been fired, several sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Andrew Tyler, an acting assistant chief in the fraud section of the Criminal Division, was removed on Tuesday…
Iran has finalized a preferential trade agreement with Oman, according to the Islamic Republic’s official Trade Promotion Organization. The agreement, which Oman has not yet confirmed, still requires approval by Iran’s parliament and other authorities. The announcement, relayed by Iranian state media, came two days after President Trump heralded a shift in U.S. tactics in…
