In Freeport, Maine, Chris and Cheryl Oliver are making tough choices as they try to make ends meet on roughly $60,000 a year. “Am I going to get food this week, or am I going to get gas this week?” Cheryl Oliver told CBS News. Then came another blow. Just as diesel and gas prices…
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. Top retailers E. Leclerc, Intermarché and Cooperative U confirmed to AFP they suffered a cyberattack that…
Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery this week after a nodular lesion was found in his lung, the Vatican said. Recovery is expected to take a week. Leo, 71, said Sunday that doctors recently discovered the nodular lesion during medical checks. He said it was found in an early stage and was “circumscribed.” “The doctors…
The arrest of a California couple this week on conspiracy and child abuse charges has raised critical questions regarding the future of the 21 young children at the center of the case, most of them surrogate-born, who were removed from the couple’s Arcadia mansion and other properties. It has been over a year since authorities raided…
Washington — New videos obtained exclusively by CBS News show Iranian attacks on a major U.S. military base in Kuwait as the war with Iran kicked off seven months ago. American forces faced ballistic missiles, drones and what witnesses described as Iranian F-5 fighter jets. The footage obtained by CBS News was recorded by…
Protesters disrupted hundreds of high schools across France on Tuesday in what a student union said was a historic morning. The union, Union Syndicale Lycéenne, said 2,000 high schools were at a standstill and all universities were mobilized amid the protests by students, parents and teachers against poor school conditions. The protests are now in…
An attorney for Disney’s ABC asked a federal judge on Tuesday to block the Federal Communications Commission from conducting an early review of the network’s broadcast licenses, saying the regulatory proceeding was initiated to retaliate against ABC over content that offended the Trump administration. During a roughly two-hour hearing in federal court in Washington, D.C.,…
To find a little wilderness in West London, take a left at the shopping mall and head under the highway. Near a McDonald’s and within reach of the city’s busy transport network, a family of beavers is reshaping a wetland and helping protect nearby streets and a Tube station from flooding. Five Eurasian beavers were…
Branson, Mo. — Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86. Bakker died Monday, his second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a statement….
It’s some 37 feet of rusted steel, peeling paint, and shattered glass. But even at rest, this 1939 International Harvester school bus, called “Furthur,” conjures a sense of motion. “Furthur really is a call to action,” said Kelly Harris, director of the Haight Street Art Center in San Francisco. “It reminds us to never stop…
