[ad_1] The government shutdown has not stopped the start of construction for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom being built at the White House with private funds. Demolition began in the East Wing Monday. In July, President Trump said the ballroom “won’t interfere with the current building,” but a few days ago reversed his comments, saying the East…
[ad_1] The remnant storms of Typhoon Halong tore into western Alaska with such ferocity that they pulled Steven Anaver’s home from its foundation and buoyed it across choppy water — with him inside. “I was inches away from death,” he wrote on Facebook. The storms’ blistering winds and record-high water levels laid waste to several…
[ad_1] 11m ago Senate Republicans to attend White House lunch Senate Republicans are set to attend lunch with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the plans confirmed to CBS News. The lunch is expected to be held in the White House Rose Garden. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma…
[ad_1] The Louvre heist in Paris happened in broad daylight, just 30 minutes after the museum opened. French officials say the thieves used a basket lift to reach a window before smashing display cases, grabbing priceless jewels and fleeing within minutes, like something out of a novel. Bestselling author Daniel Silva has written more than…
[ad_1] The massive Amazon cloud computing outage on Monday took down websites and disrupted internet service for hours globally. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger breaks down how people can protect themselves for incidents like the outage in the digital age. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Paris — France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first previous head of a European Union state to be jailed on Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. France’s right-wing leader from 2007 to 2012, Sarkozy was found guilty last month of seeking to acquire funding from Muammmar Qaddafi’s Libya for the…
[ad_1] A leader of lime growers in the violent western Mexican state of Michoacan was killed Monday, authorities said, after repeatedly denouncing in recent months the extortion demands of organized crime on producers. The Michoacan state prosecutor’s office said on social platform Monday that the body of Bernardo Bravo, president of the Apatzingan Valley Citrus…
[ad_1] Microchips implanted into the back of the eyes of legally blind patients have helped some of them read again, according to a new study published Monday. Out of the 32 patients with geographic atrophy — an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration — who completed the clinical study, 26 of them showed “meaningful improvement…
[ad_1] A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Court documents obtained by CBS News said Christopher Moynihan was arrested Sunday after saying in text messages that he planned to “eliminate” Jeffries when the top House Democrat spoke at an event in New York City…
[ad_1] Halloween is creeping up on Americans’ calendars and their wallets. With Halloween falling on a Friday this year, celebrations are expected to be bigger. Consumers are opening their wallets for everything spooky, from candy to costumes, despite paying higher prices for many items. U.S. consumers are expected to spend a record $13.1 billion this…
