Berlin — The U.S. has made “major progress” on plans to establish a permanent U.S. Army base in Poland, President Trump said Thursday in a social media post. “If this goes ahead, the location will be announced very soon,” Mr. Trump said in his Truth Social post, which was shared by the White House on X….
Americans have had to shell out more to fill up their cars in recent months as the war with Iran drives up prices at the pump. But those expenses go far beyond fuel. “The rising cost of car ownership has been the big shocker of the inflation crisis,” Heather Long, a chief economist at Navy…
Kyiv — Russia targeted the plane carrying Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy twice in recent weeks, Zelenskyy told CBS News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. “In Moldova, my presidential jet was there, and that’s why they attacked Moldova,” Zelenskyy said. “When we went back home, again through Chisinau, they did the same.” Norwegian Prime Minister…
Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation Sunday local time after authorities lost contact with a passenger ship carrying more than 240 people in the Java Sea while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan province, officials said. The Search and Rescue Office in the city of Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan, which is located on Borneo…
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, the alleged plotters still have not faced a trial. After rejecting prosecutors’ request to begin the trial in January 2027, a military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ordered jury selection for the trial of four alleged 9/11 plotters — including Khalid Sheikh…
Manila, Philippines — A fire that burned overnight on a passenger ferry off the western Philippines left dozens of people missing Thursday and killed at least five. So far, 43 people have been rescued, Coast Guard spokeswoman Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said. An intense and widespread search was on for the unaccounted for. The ferry MV…
The Transportation Security Administration is actively considering allowing TSA PreCheck passengers to bring water bottles through security checkpoints at a select number of airports in the coming months, senior administration officials told CBS News on Wednesday. The potential change would be rolled out initially to airports equipped with newer CT screening technology and automated detection…
The Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 cargo plane that crashed off a Miami runway on Sunday, killing five people, was operated by a North Carolina company that has been accused by past employees of violating safety regulations, legal documents reveal. The cargo airline hired by Amazon, 21 Air, is controlled by Houston Astros owner Jim…
The National Transportation Safety Board provided an update Monday afternoon on its investigation into what caused an Amazon cargo plane to overshoot a runway at Miami International Airport and crash into two vehicles before coming to a stop and bursting into flames on Sunday. Five people were killed, and at least five others were injured, officials have said. All…
London — Hundreds of masked anti-migrant protesters brought traffic around one of the world’s busiest maritime passenger ports, the Port of Dover in England, to a standstill over the weekend. In the latest in a series of increasingly confrontational demonstrations across Britain, demonstrators, many wearing balaclavas, dressed in all black and carrying English and British flags,…
