American workers’ wages are once again failing to keep up with inflation — a painful financial déjà vu of the pandemic years. The repeat situation may feel even more acute given that many workers are still catching up from the 2021-2022 inflationary bout, when companies gave workers only moderate pay raises that fell short of four-decade-high price…
Palestinian-American Loui Ridi said he could only watch via security cameras from his home in Ohio as Israeli settlers laid siege to his house in the village of Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, for over a week. Settlers have long illegally seized Palestinian homes in the West Bank, but the attacks have stepped up…
Violent crime rates in the U.S. have plummeted with their biggest one-year drop on record, a White House official said Friday as the FBI prepared to release its finalized crime data for 2025. The statistics show an 18.1% decrease in the murder rate compared with the prior year, the official said. Violent crime rates in…
Tennessee and Oklahoma executed inmates within 30 minutes of each other on Thursday, followed by Alabama later in the day, marking the first time since 2010 that U.S. states executed three men by lethal injection in a single day. The Tennessee man was executed for killing a maid at a motel in 1985 and the…
Moderate Democrat David Crowley will win his party’s primary for Wisconsin governor, CBS News projects, in a narrow, upset victory over Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist who was widely viewed as a frontrunner in the race. Crowley will face GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany on the ballot in November. Crowley overcame significant headwinds, especially after he…
With the end of summer rapidly approaching, people are getting in as much beach time as they can. But the mayor of a New Jersey beach town is worried a social media trend could be setting up a potential shark attack. “It’s not illegal to fish here. It’s not illegal to fish for shark, but…
A lifeguard in Maine said he “started swimming like hell” when a shark grabbed onto his buoy and pulled him underwater off the coast of Scarborough Beach on Saturday. Greg Wilfert said he initially thought he was caught in the propeller of a boat. “‘Cause that’s the only thing I could think of until I…
Rep. Ed Case defeated a primary challenger in Hawaii’s 1st District, the Associated Press projected, defying a recent trend of progressive challengers ousting moderate incumbents. With 91% of the vote counted, Case had a nearly 14-point lead over his nearest challenger, state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole. Keohokalole had criticized Case for his vote to send military…
What a difference a day can make for monetary policy. On Thursday, interest rate futures were decidedly tilted toward the Federal Reserve hiking its benchmark rate in September, according to CME FedWatch, which tracks traders to forecast the central bank’s policy decisions. But after Friday morning’s dismal July jobs report, which showed that employers unexpectedly…
In a back room behind a colorful facade in northern Manhattan, drug users are smoking crack while nearby cubicles stand ready for heroin users to wrap tourniquets around their arms and inject themselves with new, sterilized needles. It’s all part of a 5-year-old experiment sanctioned by the city of New York, but not by the…
