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Jenny Simpson says her life is far from over, but her racing days are. In a detailed Instagram post , the 39-year-old three-time Olympian revealed she went into sudden cardiac arrest after pacing a group of girls in a one-mile race in Raleigh, North Carolina, in June, then went into cardiac...
Costco is getting ready to tuck a new item onto its shelves: its own branded Medicare plans. The retail warehouse is teaming with nonprofit insurer SCAN Group to launch Costco-labeled Medicare Advantage plans in two states and a Medicare supplement in a third, reports the Wall Street Journal . The initial...
Elizabeth Smart isn't turning away from true crime. Instead, she's trying to rewire it. The now-38-year-old kidnapping survivor is hosting a new weekly podcast, The Survivor Files With Elizabeth Smart , that shifts the focus from grisly details to what happens after the headlines fade, including recovery and the long, uneven...
The Defense Department broadened its offensive against the military's storied newspaper on Friday, dismissing the editor in chief and a reporter for Stars and Stripes after removing Publisher Max Lederer. Erik Slavin said he, along with reporter Lara Korte, were pushed out over their appearance on CBS' Sunday Morning in...
Iran is moving to treat talking to the outside world as a crime. Parliament this week backed a measure that would criminalize virtually any contact with foreign media, embassies, or institutions—inside or outside the country—unless Iranians get written clearance from the Foreign Ministry, reports CBS News . Violators could...
Ed Martin's stormy run at the Justice Department is ending, with the Trump loyalist exiting after clashing with top officials over his freewheeling approach to investigations. President Trump announced the move Friday on social media, saying Martin will head outside government to wage "legal battles" around the November congressional elections...
A new school year in a small Swedish town was shattered Friday when an 18-year-old armed with a sword stormed a high school, killing one person and wounding three others, police said. Students described scenes of panic as officers flooded the building and the school went into a roughly five-hour...
Some high-end DC condos with seven-figure price tags now come with an unexpected feature, residents say: the smell—and particles—of Gordon Ramsay's burgers. In a piece for the Washington Post , Rachel Kurzius reports that several owners in Penn Quarter's Terrell Place building blame the celebrity chef's Gordon Ramsay Street...
A German Cup match between Waldhof Mannheim and Kaiserslautern was halted for about a half-hour on Friday as fans threw fireworks and other objects and invaded the pitch. The match was tied at 0-0 and heading into extra time when fans at both ends of the ground threw flares and...
US stocks rose Friday and trimmed their losses from a shaky week. That was even though the bond market, which has been the center of Wall Street's action, remained jumpy and continued to add pressure. The Dow rose 517.80 points, or 1%, to 53,277.01, ending the week...
Tesla and other Chinese carmakers are making a major recall of more than 4 million vehicles over safety concerns mostly related to their door handles, Chinese authorities said Friday. The US carmaker is recalling about 2.98 million China-made and imported EVs including Model 3, Model Y, Model X, and...
A drug mix-up at a Nashville hospital caused dire consequences for multiple patients and is now under state investigation, reports WTVF . The mix-up last week at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown affected at least four people who went in for joint replacement surgery, according to the outlet. The family of one...
German investigators quietly watched an underground weapons cache near Berlin for months, hoping someone would come back for it. No one did—but officials now say they suspect Russian intelligence planted it and are trying to extradite a "low-level agent" from Romania in connection with the find. Interior Minister Alexander...
President Trump is moving against the gatekeeper for American law schools. The Education Department began moving Friday to strip the American Bar Association of its role approving law schools for federal purposes, calling the ABA-run system a "cartel" that injects politics into accreditation. A 500-page department report argues the ABA's...
President Trump appeared Thursday on his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen's radio show, holding a stunning public reunion with the man who once called him a "Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain" and testified against him both in court and before Congress, the AP reports. For Cohen, who served prison time for his role...
An American philosopher who publicly accused British professor Jason Arday of plagiarism has now been suspended by his own university, the Guardian reports. Ghent University in Belgium confirmed it has launched a preliminary disciplinary probe into postdoctoral researcher Nathan Cofnas and has suspended him as a "precautionary measure" while it...
Columbia House, the mail-order music club that once flooded American homes with cheap CDs and tapes, is finally calling it quits, CNN reports. After a notice on its website announcing a Sept. 15 shutdown briefly appeared and vanished, a customer service rep confirmed to the network that operations are winding...
Deportations to Haiti are quietly ticking up as a packed deportation flight carrying 170 people to the Caribbean nation marked one of the largest removals of Haitians under President Trump's second term, advocates say. The plane landed Thursday in Cap-Haitien because commercial flights have been shut out of Port-au-Prince amid...
Two Oregon teens who say a thrill ride turned into a 25-minute nightmare just secured a six-figure payout, KATU reports. A Multnomah County jury on Wednesday awarded $275,000 each to Xitlali Gomez-Salais and Evie Yannotta, who were 13 and 14 when Oaks Amusement Park's AtmosFEAR ride froze in June...
Federal drug agents are now helping investigate how Hayden Panettiere died in a South Carolina apartment last week, USA Today reports. The DEA has joined local police and the Greenville County coroner in probing the 36-year-old actor's death, which followed an apparent cardiac arrest after a possible overdose, according to...
Nancy Kissinger, a near-constant presence at husband Henry Kissinger's side as his partner in a high-profile, globe-trotting life, died Thursday at her home in South Kent, Conn., the New York Times reports. She was 92, and her family announced the death. A onetime student of Henry Kissinger's at Harvard and...
The Defense Department has decided to scrap an Army unit set up in Europe last year to learn the emerging lessons of drone warfare. The Unmanned Assault Battalion will return to its previous role as a standard airborne infantry unit after it finishes a training exercise in September, CBS News...
Those "buy now, pay later" loans that once greased impulse buys at checkout are increasingly being used to keep the lights on, reports the New York Times . The paper details how fintech players like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are expanding their installment products beyond shoes and gadgets to cover rent,...
Sandra Bullock says she started mourning Bryan Randall years before the public knew he was sick, Page Six reports. Speaking on the SmartLess podcast this week, the 62-year-old Oscar winner explained why she stayed silent about Randall's ALS: "He asked me not to share … I know why he asked...
Israel's military on Wednesday announced its first criminal investigations into troop conduct in Gaza, focusing on the killings of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and of 15 Palestinian paramedics, the AP reports. The military said it would not probe three other attacks that killed aid workers from World Central...
An airplane pilot died Wednesday after a violent collision with a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter near a runway at a small airport, but both state troopers aboard the helicopter survived, authorities said. The plane was coming down on the runway and veered into the helicopter that was near the ground,...
The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade with Iran on Wednesday after the UAE said it had come under renewed fire from the country—a move that will further isolate the Islamic Republic, which is suffering under US sanctions and a blockade, the AP reports. Incoming ballistic missile fire triggered...
President Trump played White House tour guide on Wednesday, showing off the helipad he is building on the lawn before leaning over to autograph a piece of it and bragging about the ballroom he's rushing to complete despite legal challenges, the AP reports. Trump gushed for several uninterrupted minutes about...
A morning training ride for Milligan University's cycling team ended in tragedy Wednesday in northeast Tennessee, the New York Times reports. Two sophomores, Haylan Engdahl and Brayden Rogers, were killed when a car hit the group of 11 cyclists around 8am on Highway 19 near Simerly Creek Road in Carter...
President Trump is turning up the pressure on Tehran and anyone still doing business with it, Al Jazeera reports. The POTUS on Wednesday unveiled what he called the "most crushing economic operation" ever against Iran, vowing "economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale" as efforts to end the more...
America just crossed a financial line it's never seen before: the national debt has blown past $40 trillion, the New York Times reports. The government is set to borrow more than $2 trillion this year alone, driven by war spending in Iran, rising costs for major benefit programs, and tax...
Sen. Bill Cassidy, who withheld his support until the last minute for the confirmation of her potential boss, gave the nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration a hostile reception after President Trump's announcement on Wednesday. The outgoing Republican, a physician and chair of the Senate Health Committee, called...
Family drama around the Los Angeles Lakers' future just escalated. The Athletic reports that team governor Jeanie Buss is formally challenging her siblings' reported vote to sell the family's 17.8% stake in the franchise—a move that could have ended her control of the team—calling it a violation...
California drivers may eventually pay a little more for new tires, but the state says they'll make it back at the gas pump. The California Energy Commission on Monday approved the nation's first efficiency standard for replacement car tires, aimed at cutting both fuel use and emissions by limiting "rolling...
Meta's camera-equipped eyewear just hit a wall at one of the US government's most scrutinized agencies. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has formally barred all staff from wearing Meta's smart glasses in the "federal workspace," saying the devices amount to personal body cameras that could inadvertently capture or transmit "sensitive information,...
Harvard is cutting a $53 million check in an effort to close the book on one of the most disturbing scandals in its medical school's history. The university on Tuesday agreed to the payout to resolve lawsuits from families who say body parts donated to Harvard Medical School's Anatomical Gift...
President Trump is poised to put a key advocate of his health agenda in charge of the nation's drug and food regulator. According to two senior officials cited by the New York Times , Trump is set to nominate Dr. Heidi Overton, a White House domestic policy adviser and supporter of...
Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk's killing pointed Tuesday to an engraved bullet, arguing that the inscription "Hey Facist! CATCH!" demonstrates that Kirk was targeted because of how the defendant perceived his politics. Whether Tyler Robinson acted out of political animus could be key for prosecutors seeking the death penalty, reports the...
Amazon's long-teased drone dream is about to get a major stress test. The company says its Prime Air service will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns by year's end, a sixfold jump from today's footprint that puts the company on track for a prestated goal of 1 million deliveries...
Alaska's Senate matchup is set, and it's one with national stakes. Former Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan have secured spots on November's ballot after advancing from the state's top-four nonpartisan primary , per the AP —putting a key Senate seat in play. Peltola, an Alaska Native...
A 2024 TikTok clip of a mystery creature squirting out of a borewell has led scientists to a first-of-its-kind underground fish in India's Ganges basin. The newly named Gangaichthys indonepalicus is a pale, four-centimeter "earthworm eel" that lives in total darkness beneath the Indo-Gangetic Plain in Bihar, researchers report in...
Princess Eugenie just revealed the name of her baby girl—and it comes with a nod to the late queen. Two weeks after welcoming her third child in Portugal, Eugenie announced that her daughter is named Adelaide Elizabeth Annina Brooksbank, reports People . She said the baby is named after people...
Anthropic's math-whiz AI got its own version of a locker-room pep talk—and it seems to have mattered. In the Wall Street Journal , science columnist Ben Cohen recounts how Anthropic engineer Jarred Sumner asked Claude to revisit the famously unproven Riemann hypothesis . When Claude got stuck, Sumner—who makes clear...
A stack of rare books led 404 Media straight to an Amazon operation that scans—and destroys—such works for its AI training. Reporter Emanuel Maiberg writes that his outlet slipped an Apple AirTag into an obscure title included in a 1,000-book bulk order placed through marketplace site Biblio—...
Prescription drugs are suddenly bucking a decades-long trend. New government data show prescription prices dropped 0.8% in July and are now 3.1% lower than a year ago, the sharpest annual decline in more than 60 years, per Axios . Broader medicinal drug prices also experienced the largest annual drop...
An Alaska runner managed to stop a charging brown bear after it mauled her on a popular Anchorage trail. State wildlife officials say the woman was alone on the Wolverine Bowl Trail near the Prospect Heights trailhead Thursday when the bear attacked; she used bear spray to get the animal...
A Russian court on Monday convicted a prominent opposition politician for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 11 years and one month in prison in the latest crackdown leading up to next month's parliamentary election. The verdict against Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the...
More than two dozen alleged looters in Los Angeles didn't appear to make much effort to conceal themselves. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has released photos of no fewer than 27 people they say swarmed an Auto Zone on two consecutive nights earlier this month during "street takeovers," reports...
Chicago's long relationship with Schlitz ended with a foamy thud on an Old Town bar top. Glunz Tavern on Wells Street says it tapped Chicago's last keg of Schlitz on Wednesday, reports Block Club Chicago , capping a 145-year partnership that helped build both the beer and the family business. The...
Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation. The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo's most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever, with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths,...
