Hull, England – For 28 years and one day, Karl Bushby took the long way home on an epic odyssey of human endurance back to northern England. His adventure was made even more difficult – physically and mentally – with his two self-imposed guiding rules: he could not advance his journey with the help of…
Dozens of robots took on more than 3,000 steps up one of China’s most famous peaks Monday, many carrying eggs and watermelons in a race organizers billed as a test of real-world machine endurance, state media showed. For hundreds of years, Mount Tai — the tallest peak in China’s eastern Shandong province — was an…
Public servants going into government to clean things up? Sounds cliché! But at the Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that’s job number one (and number two). As our guide Bill Graffin explains, this 101-year-old pioneering feat of engineering treats as much as 400 million gallons of wastewater each day. So, before the…
On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont Rep. Mike Lawler, Republican of New York Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat David Becker, CBS News election law contributor and the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research Anthony Salvanto, CBS News…
As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet. Earlier this month, Ford installed an automated underground system that uses a solar-powered pump to periodically saturate…
Syrian government forces entered two northern towns Saturday morning after the command of Kurdish-led fighters said it would evacuate the area in an apparent move to avoid conflict. Two soldiers were killed and others wounded in the latest clash, state media reported. The town of Deir Hafer changed hands after deadly fighting erupted earlier this…
 21m ago Why Pennsylvania could be one of last states to count ballots this Election Day Why Pennsylvania could be one of last states to count ballots this Election Day With four days until Election Day, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and city commissioners are urging people to vote. Officials on Thursday escorted the media…
A German submarine slipped through frigid New England waters and covertly dropped off two Nazi spies in Maine on Nov. 29, 1944. Their assignment was to gather intelligence in the United States at the height of World War II. Just four days later, the same U-boat spotted a merchant ship in the area and fired…
Hennepin County prosecutors on Wednesday charged James O’Keefe, 42, and Cam Higby, 26, with felony unlawful voting and identity theft over videos they filmed during Minnesota’s Aug. 11 primary, according to a news release from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. The office said both men visited multiple precincts in Hennepin County and misrepresented their identities…
Israeli police arrested a man with a knife at an event for left-wing leader Yair Golan after what his party described as a “suspected stabbing attempt” Thursday, as Israelis went to the polls in a crucial election. As Golan mobilized voters Tuesday in Tel Aviv, “an unidentified man wearing a jacket approached him in a…
