Washington — Democrats will capture enough House seats to retake control of the chamber early next year, CBS News projects, effectively halting President Trump’s legislative agenda and teeing up a wave of investigations into his administration and business ventures during his final two years in the White House. Economic discontent over the cost of living…
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded…
It was Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, and a small strip mall in Huntsville, Alabama, was teeming with police activity. The frantic scene was captured on police body cameras and dashcam video in the moments after police discovered 37-year-old Savannah Tolbert shot dead in the front seat of a red Tesla. Moments before police arrived, her…
(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…
Zach Hickerson, the brother of Hayden Panettiere‘s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, attempted CPR on the actress before she was declared dead, a 911 call revealed. Panettiere, known for her roles as a child actor in “Remember the Titans” and later the TV series “Heroes” and “Nashville,” was found unconscious at her Greenville, South Carolina,…
Hayden Panettiere’s on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother were at the scene of her death, according to a police report obtained Tuesday by CBS News. The “Heroes” actor, 36, was found dead in a South Carolina apartment on Sunday. Panettiere and Brian Hickerson had a tumultuous relationship, including Hickerson being arrested multiple times over alleged…
Restaurateur Tommy Fello was driving from his Ohio establishment to his house on Christmas Eve when he started veering off the road. Fello, then 71, had been awake since 4 a.m. local time preparing a holiday buffet for his family. He chalked the disturbance up to a flat tire. Driving slowly and relying on the…
When Amber Meade twisted her ankle and broke a bone in her foot, she expected recovery to be easy. She needed surgery to shave down the damaged bone and make sure the nerves and tendons in her foot were where they should be. The procedure seemed to go smoothly, but in the weeks that followed,…
Before streaming, smartphones, and social media, bowling leagues used to bring people together. And in New England, it was candlepin bowling. Alleys stretched from Massachusetts all the way into Canada’s Maritime Provinces. But it never really caught on anywhere else. But in Ellsworth, Maine, Autumn Mowery is fighting to keep the candlepin flame flickering….
This story originally aired on Oct. 18, 2025. The investigation of Joe Shymanski‘s murder began as a missing persons case. It was Sept. 4, 2023, at 7:47 p.m. when sheriff’s deputies in Calvert County, Maryland, were called to the home of the well-known photographer. His ex-wife, Heather Snyder, met them in the driveway. She would…
