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Tennessee leads a lawsuit by 17 states over a rule in the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act providing employees accommodations like time off for abortions.
As a mother who is almost 40 and who was born in Iran, the new Miss Germany Apameh Schoenauer stood out at the beauty pageant. "I took part in Miss Germany because I wanted to change something," said Schoenauer, an architect and mother of a toddler, who moved to Germany aged six.
In a small town high in the Colombian Andes, Clovisnerys Bejarano kneels before a glass box holding the petrified corpse of her mother, who died 30 years ago, but looks as if she might just be asleep. In the late 1980s, some 50 mummies were found in the mausoleum every year, but the rate has declined to a handful per year, said Vergara.
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Thursday temporarily suspended a law extending payroll tax exemptions for 17 sectors of the economy, according to a decision seen by Reuters. Justice Cristiano Zanin granted an injunction suspending part of the law after a government request. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last year vetoed the bill passed by Congress extending the payroll tax exemptions until 2027, but lawmakers later voted to block his veto.
Guatemalan prosecutors raided the offices of the charity Save the Children on Thursday, citing a complaint alleging the violation of migrant children’s rights. Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche said in a video to media that the complaint filed by an unidentified foreigner had raised serious concerns because it involved allegations of abuse of children. The raid came a week after the secretary general of Guatemala's Public Ministry, Ángel Pineda, wrote a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asking for support in addressing allegations that Save the Children and other aid groups “could be participating in child trafficking operations.”
It's been a decade since the Flint water crisis began. Residents told CBS News the scandal still weighs heavily on the city.
Five livestock experts who study infectious diseases in the dairy industry explain the risks as the FDA announces that about 20% of milk sampled from stores across the US tested positive.
In today’s edition, reporters Lawrence Hurley and Ryan J. Reilly break down what happened in the Supreme Court arguments over Trump's claim of absolute immunity
Democratic officials led by the White House on Thursday spurned the request from House Speaker Mike Johnson to deploy troops to Columbia University.
Beans and legumes are a great source of plant protein, fiber and other nutrients. Which beans are healthiest? Dietitians discuss the benefits of beans and share their top picks.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that traces of the bird flu virus have been found in 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk, providing a more detailed picture of how much of the milk supply has been affected.
The Canton Police Department in Ohio has released body camera video from the night a 53-year-old man died after he repeatedly told officers “I can’t breathe” as he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and he was pinned to the ground.
The long-awaited Starliner mission is on track to carry two NASA astronauts — Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — to the International Space Station.
The agent, whose identity has not been disclosed, was involved with the vice president’s departure from Joint Base Andrews on Monday for a trip to Wisconsin.
The University of Southern California's decision Thursday to cancel its main graduation ceremony, a move that came 10 days after administrators said the student valedictorian who had expressed support for Palestinians would not be allowed to speak, left students and alumni stunned as protests over the Israel-Hamas war continue to spread on campuses nationwide. “It seems like USC isn’t really listening to their student body,” said Olivia Lee, a 2023 business administration graduate who said she is rethinking whether to recommend the private university to potential students.
Valerie Watson is waiting to find out how long her husband Ryan's sentence will be after bullets were in his duffel bag on Turks and Caicos.
The execution date for a man convicted in the 1998 fatal shooting of a delivery driver who had stopped at an ATM has been set for July 18, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, will be put to death by lethal injection, which is the state's primary execution method. The announcement came a week after the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution to go forward.
Officials are racing to conduct more testing to better understand the spread of the virus and its potential risk to humans.
Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the mostly peaceful protests on U.S. college campuses over Israel's war in Gaza, describing them as "tremendous hate," while saying that the violence at a white nationalist rally in Virginia when he was president was by comparison "a little peanut." Trump, the Republican candidate for president in the November elections, also sought to place blame for the campus protests on Democratic President Joe Biden. In remarks to media following the day's testimony in his criminal trial in New York City, Trump referenced the violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 between white nationalists and counter-protesters, in which one woman was killed, and claimed the current college protests over Israel were far worse.
The head of Mexico’s detective service apologized Thursday for saying his country is “the champion” of fentany l and meth production. The 91,000 pounds (41,310 kilograms) of meth found there was more than half of the 162,000 pounds of the drug Mexico has seized so far this year. A year ago, soldiers seized more than a half-million fentanyl pills in Culiacan in what the army at the time described as the largest synthetic drug lab found to date.
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