The Trump administration has made plans to deport nearly 200 Afghan nationals by first sending them to Pakistan, where officials would then return the deportees to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a U.S. official told CBS News. The official cautioned the plans are still in flux, and that it’s unclear when such deportations could take place. The Afghans…
An Australian appeals court on Friday ordered triple-murderer Erin Patterson to never be released from prison because of the “shocking criminality” involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. The three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal dismissed Patterson’s appeal of her convictions and upheld prosecutors’ challenge to…
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…
French authorities are extending curfews and increasing the police presence in public spaces as President Emmanuel Macron’s government tries to regain control after rioters torched buildings and looted thousands of businesses this weekend. But addressing the problems that have brought students and workers to the streets for the last five weeks will be a tougher…
A self-proclaimed Kenyan preacher and his associates were found guilty of murdering 191 people, all but one of them children, in an infamous starvation cult by a Mombasa court on Monday. “I am satisfied that the prosecution has proved the case against all the 29 accused persons for the murder of 190 children and one…
Hurricane Trudy brought heavy rain and powerful winds to parts of Mexico’s Pacific coast on Sunday, impacting sections of the country’s western and southwestern states that were already targeted by Hurricane Simon last week. The National Hurricane Center, which is based in Miami, warned that hurricane and tropical storm conditions could materialize in areas under weather…
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(CBS News) Lena Dunham’s hit TV series “Girls” is the most talked-about television these days . . . and she talked about it all with our Tracy Smith: If you want to feel better about yourself, consider Hannah Horvath, the central character in HBO’s comedy-drama series, “Girls.” Hannah is an aspiring writer on her own…
The drumbeat of monster hurricanes in the Pacific has broken a record for nasty, long-lasting storms east of the international date line, turbocharged by nature’s supersized El Niño, scientists said. “Since September 20, when Odalys formed, it’s been berserk,” said Colorado State University researcher Phil Klotzbach, who forecasts and studies storm activity. “This year, just…
The death toll from Hurricane Simon and the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel rose to six Tuesday after heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast, authorities said. Hurricane Simon continued moving slowly off Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 1 storm, bringing heavy rain to Nayarit and Sinaloa states, where authorities remained…
