This story first aired on Feb. 16, 2019. It was updated on Dec. 14. “I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Lynne Westafer said of the moment she heard gunshots. “None of us know what’s going to happen.” “A hundred-percent, I thought it was a mass shooting,” Arta Gjonbalaj told “48 Hours.” “We’re all going to…
The Colombian navy on Wednesday announced its first seizure of an unmanned “narco sub” equipped with a Starlink antenna off its Caribbean coast. The semisubmersible vessel was not carrying drugs, but the Colombian navy and Western security sources based in the region told AFP they believed it was a trial run by a cocaine…
An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows. Qwen, a freely available model made by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, doesn’t acknowledge the violent suppression of protests in Hong Kong in 2019 or Tiananmen Square in…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on a flight to the International Space Station Thursday carrying two NASA astronauts, a cosmonaut and a Canadian crew member whose wife plans a launch of her own later this year, giving birth to the couple’s third child while her husband is in space. Strapped into a SpaceX…
On a freeway in Southern California’s Orange County, the chase is on. But authorities aren’t tracking a suspect. They’re trying to save a lost dog. A small terrier, to be exact. A drone overhead spots him in the carpool lane and guides in ground units. The entire rescue took just minutes. “This time we were…
President Trump has ordered a reduction in childhood vaccines — publicly faulting the shots for an increase in autism cases — even as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has failed to produce evidence linking vaccinations to the disorder. While the executive order released Aug. 10 does not directly mention autism, Mr….
A long-lost naval ship that sank more than a century ago off England has been located by divers exploring the waters off the Isle of Wight, military officials and an exploration team confirmed this week. In 1908, the 400-ton HMS Tiger, a torpedo boat destroyer, collided with the 10,000-ton cruiser HMS Berwick during the night,…
The Food and Drug Administration conducted just under 1,000 foreign food safety inspections in 2025, and the farm in Mexico believed to be at the center of the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S. was not one of them. A federal law enacted to prevent diseased and dirty food from reaching Americans’ plates requires the…
A woman was attacked and injured by a bear while hiking with a friend and three dogs in southern Alaska, authorities said. The attack happened Saturday at around 5:30 p.m. local time, according to Anchorage Police, as the woman hiked along what the Alaska Department of Fish and Game called “a social trail” in an…
