On Saturday night, Republicans and Democrats reached a tentative agreement (“in principle,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said) to raise the debt ceiling. For a topic that’s been front-page news for weeks, the debt ceiling sure seems to mystify a lot of people. What happens to Social Security if the U.S. …
Read More »An ex-convict has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Lauren Heike, a woman who was attacked from behind and stabbed 15 times while walking on a desert trail in northeast Phoenix last month, authorities said Monday. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced the grand jury …
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Commencement addresses are traditionally staid affairs, wherein top thinkers, business people or celebs, impart advice to a college’s class of graduates. But Boston University’s graduation on Sunday was marked by angry shouts and loud booing from the audience when Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav stood on the podium to …
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All within the past few weeks, several famous faces have come forward with news about their health. Ed Sheeran opened up about living with an eating disorder, Maria Menounos shared her pancreatic cancer journey, Toni Braxton spoke out about lupus, Jewel talked with “CBS Mornings” about her mental health reset, and Meghan Trainor …
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Until recently, Jonathon Murray relied on Medicaid to pay for treatments for multiple health conditions, including chronic insomnia. Murray, a 20-year-old restaurant worker from the college town of Brookings, South Dakota, said that without his medication, he would stay awake for several nights in a row. “I’d probably not be …
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An assault weapons bill that had unexpectedly advanced in Texas’ Republican-controlled legislature earlier in the week missed a key deadline to receive a floor vote, likely dooming it in this legislative session. Thursday marked the last day that bills can be scheduled in the Texas state House before the legislature …
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An Idaho jury found Lori Vallow Daybell, the mom charged with murder in the deaths of two of her children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, guilty on all charges. A timeline of the caseCompelling moments marked weeks of testimony in Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial Vallow Daybell, 49, …
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Texas state lawmakers on Monday moved forward with a gun control bill in a surprise move that came just hours after families of mass shooting victims had begged them to take action in the wake of the rampage Saturday at a mall in Allen that left eight dead. State House lawmakers on Monday voted …
Read More »Some consumers who used Intuit’s TurboTax could get up to $85 each as part of a 50-state settlement over the software maker’s tactics that allegedly tricked consumers into paying for tax services that should have been free. Under the settlement, Intuit must suspend its “free, free, free” ad campaign that …
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An arrest has been made in connection with a string of stabbings near UC Davis in California, police announced Thursday. Carlos Dominguez, 21, had been taken into custody Wednesday and was formally arrested a day later after allegedly admitting to at least one of the stabbings, CBS Sacramento reported, but police …
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