Actor Dominic Sessa and renowned chef Eric Ripert talk with “CBS Mornings” about the new movie “Tony,” which is loosely based on Anthony Bourdain’s stories of his first experience working in a kitchen restaurant before he found fame. Sessa describes how he got involved and Ripert, who one of Bourdain’s best friends, talks about his…
The Powerball jackpot drawing on Wednesday has crossed the $1 billion mark. The jackpot, which reached the sum after no one won in Monday’s drawing, is the eighth-largest Powerball prize of all time. This is the 15th time a $1 billion prize level has been reached in U.S. lottery history. The cash value for a…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was with President Trump last month when he secretly took a different plane from the publicly identified Air Force One aircraft from the NATO summit, according to sources familiar with the situation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were on the decoy flight. The secretaries, who separated…
Inflation eased for the second consecutive month, rising at a 3.4% annual pace in July, in line with economists’ expectations and a signal that some price pressures may be easing. By the numbers Economists polled by the financial data firm FactSet predicted July inflation rose at an annual rate of 3.4%. Oil prices surged in…
The U.S. Justice Department unsealed indictments on Tuesday against four members of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels accused of seeking to purchase arms and ammunition in exchange for drugs in the Czech Republic. The four alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, known by its Spanish acronym CJNG, were arrested in the…
Many Americans may have encountered a predatory scam — and may not even know it. The U.S. Secret Service says the use of skimming devices, which capture account details and personal identification numbers from bank and government benefits cards, is on the rise. The devices can be set up in seconds on debit and credit…
Eli Lilly said Wednesday it is suing six companies selling versions of its experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide, calling it the beginning of a concerted effort to crack down on a vast illicit market. That market has boomed even though retatrutide is still being studied in clinical trials and hasn’t been approved by the Food and…
Trump-backed Rhett Marques won a crowded Republican primary in Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday, the Associated Press projects. Republicans are seeking to defeat Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures, who won the seat in 2024 after the Supreme Court affirmed that the state’s GOP-drawn congressional map discriminated against Black voters. This year, however, the…
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he secretly switched planes in Turkiye last month at the direction of the Secret Service, but that the plane he ultimately flew on was still more vulnerable than Air Force One. Following a Nato summit in Ankara, Trump was transferred from Air Force One to a military plane…
10m ago Strait of Hormuz traffic falls to one-week low The number of vessels tracked transiting the Strait of Hormuz fell to a one-week low of eight, according to data reported by the Reuters news agency, as the ongoing conflict and stalemate kept shipping companies away from the vital waterway. Tuesday’s tally of eight…
