The Trump administration is unlikely to scale back its aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration following the results of the midterm elections, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News, citing the elevation of immigration hawk Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff. Republicans suffered huge losses across the country on Election Day, including in some historically…
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power after Russian strikes hit Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, authorities said on Sunday. In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, “more than 600,000 residents of the region have been left without power,” power company DTEK said on Telegram after a “night attack has damaged important energy facilities”. It said the…
The stock market tanked on Thursday amid concerns that a shift in congressional political control following the U.S. midterm elections could slow the construction of data centers that power artificial intelligence services. Stocks sank across the board, but technology companies with a hand in the AI sector were hit especially hard. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite…
An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The space agency said Monday it predicts the Swift Observatory will likely come crashing down on Wednesday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. But a handful of…
A business jet with nine people aboard nose-dived and crashed near homes in Palm Beach County, Florida, Sunday afternoon, killing everyone on board, officials said. No one on the ground was injured, Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters at a news conference. Approximately 600 people were evacuated from the crash site near a mobile home park…
Stock futures for the Nasdaq Composite Index cratered before the opening bell on Friday, tumbling nearly 800 points, or 2.7%, after disappointing earnings reports from Alphabet, Amazon and Intel renewed fears about the prospects for artificial intelligence. Intel’s stock plunged more than 26% ahead of trading, while Alphabet shares continued to wobble after sliding more…
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…
Dozens of cattle spilled onto a street in Kansas City, Missouri, when a semitractor-trailer plunged off a highway overpass in the city’s downtown area and onto a car early Sunday, shutting down some roads and setting off a search for the traumatized animals that survived. The accident occurred shortly before 3 a.m. and the roundup…
Israel was prepared to shoot down a FlyDubai plane after the captain was attacked in the cockpit, even with over 150 Israelis on board, two Israeli sources with direct knowledge of the situation told CBS News. The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week was approaching Israel when the co-pilot allegedly stabbed the flight captain…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated to CBS News Wednesday that the motive of the co-pilot accused of stabbing his fellow pilot on a passenger jet bound from Dubai to Tel Aviv is still unknown. “I don’t think it was a hijacking,” Netanyahu told “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil. “I think it looks like…
