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WASHINGTON — Members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family are calling for him to step down as health secretary following a contentious congressional hearing this past week, during which the Trump Cabinet official faced bipartisan questioning about his tumultuous leadership of federal health agencies. Kennedy’s sister, Kerry Kennedy, and his nephew, Joseph P. Kennedy III, issued scathing statements Friday, calling for him to resign as head of the Health and Human Services Department. The calls from the prominent Democratic family came a day after Kennedy had to defend his recent efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and fire high-level…
California town hopes for Powerball luck after devastating wildfires – CBS News Watch CBS News Saturday’s Powerball jackpot soared to $1.8 billion, making it the second-largest jackpot in history. One town north of Los Angeles is looking for a little luck after a devastating year. Elise Preston has the story from Altadena.
ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic — Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for minerals and hydrocarbons in the area drilled into the seafloor to see what it could find.It found, of all things, drops to drink under the briny deeps — fresh water.This summer, a first-of-its-kind global research expedition followed up on that surprise. Drilling for fresh water under the salt water off Cape Cod, Expedition 501 extracted thousands of samples…
A new feature on Instagram that lets users share their real-time physical location with others on the app has privacy experts concerned over the amount of data exposed and potential safety risks to users.Called Instagram Map, the new feature was introduced on Thursday as part of an app update. On its blog, the company says the location-sharing tool makes it “easier for you and your friends to stay in touch through the content you’re enjoying on Instagram.” “You can opt into sharing your last active location with friends you pick, and you can turn it off anytime,” Instagram said in a…
Barely two weeks into the college football season, and whatta ya know — we’ve already got another bad beat.On Saturday, it was Ole Miss spread bettors who took a gut punch thanks to a last-second field goal from Kentucky that meant nothing in the game but everything for bettors.Let’s check out how it all went down.Kentucky covers with late FGOle Miss looked well on its way to not only winning, but covering the spread. The Rebels kicked a 36-yard field goal with 1:10 left, stretching their lead to 10 points, and bettors riding Ole Miss -8.5 were feeling confident the…
Israel warns Gaza City residents to evacuate as it prepares assault – CBS News Watch CBS News Israel has urged the residents of Gaza City to evacuate as it prepares for a full-scale military assault. Leaflets dropped from the sky telling residents of the famine-stricken area to leave. Haley Ott reports.
This school year, more states are moving to limit cell phones in the classroom. It’s happening as new data reveals that ⅔ of Americans believe all-day bans would boost grades, social skills and behavior. Skyler Henry has more from a school in Atlanta.
[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump moved on Friday (Sep 5) to create a blacklist of countries that Washington says unjustly detain Americans, spelling out harsh punishments including bans on travel.In an executive order (EO), Trump said that the United States will now designate “state sponsors of wrongful detention”, similar to the powerful tool of branding countries as state sponsors of terrorism.“With this EO you are signing today, you are drawing a line in the sand that US citizens will not be used as bargaining chips,” Trump aide Sebastian Gorka told reporters in the Oval Office. The Trump administration did not immediately…
[NEW YORK] When Meta Platforms turned to lenders to secure US$26 billion in debt funding for the construction of a sprawling new data centre, one key detail made all the difference in fuelling a heated bidding war for the deal: the technology giant agreed to a special guarantee on the Louisiana complex.The financing is being run through a complex arrangement that keeps the debt off of Meta’s books and frees up its balance sheet as it pursues an aggressive push into artificial intelligence (AI). A joint venture will actually build and own the four-million-square-foot Hyperion facility, while Meta will occupy…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons No military aircraft had ever been quite so unassuming and so successful as the Vought A-7 Corsair II in the annals of military aviation. It wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t fast. And it sure wasn’t the kind of airplane likely to be glorified in the headlines. But the “Short Little Ugly Fella,” as the crews who adored it called it, went on to become one of America’s most dependable strike planes. How did a short, subsonic jet develop such popularity during an age when speed and streamlined shape dominated the day? Image Source:…