Americans are spending the biggest share of their income on food in 3 decades ( www.cbsnews.com )
Between groceries and restaurants, Americans are spending more of their income on food than they have in 30 years....
High-income earners who skipped out on filing tax returns believed to owe hundreds of millions of dollars to IRS ( www.cbsnews.com )
The IRS is going after high-income earners who skipped out on filing federal income tax returns in more than 125,000 instances since 2017, the agency said Thursday....
In two days, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to be the second-largest in Texas history ( www.cbsnews.com )
Just a reminder that it's still February, people.
Biden and Trump plan dueling visits to U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday ( www.cbsnews.com )
UAW president Shawn Fain on labor's comeback: "This is what happens when workers get power", says 'billionaires should not exist' ( www.cbsnews.com )
"I don't think billionaires should exist," he said. "No one needs that much money. I think it's inhumane. Pick any city, walk around, you know, you see people starving, people without basic necessities. There's no excuse for that. And it's not because people are lazy or don't want to work. The billionaires that keep amassing...
Suspect in Georgia nursing student's murder is accused of "disfiguring her skull," court documents say ( www.cbsnews.com )
The suspect in the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus used an object as a weapon in the crime and is also accused of "disfiguring her skull," according to newly filed arrest affidavits....
Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S. ( www.cbsnews.com )
Fentanyl dealers increasingly facing homicide charges over overdose deaths ( www.cbsnews.com )
Two people facing more than 200 animal cruelty charges after more than 100 animals found living in deplorable conditions ( www.cbsnews.com )
Florida Department of Health investigates Broward County's multiple measles cases ( www.cbsnews.com )
The Florida Department of Health is carrying out an epidemiological investigation surrounding the multiple cases of measles at a Broward County elementary school over the weekend....
Alexei Navalny appears healthy in video-link court hearing on day before his death – video ( www.theguardian.com )
After searing inflation, "American workers are getting ahead," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says ( www.cbsnews.com )
As of the end of 2023, the typical U.S. worker could afford the same goods and services as in 2019, prior to the pandemic, and had an additional $1,400 to spend or save per year, according to a January analysis by Treasury officials....
Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco ( www.cbsnews.com )
A pro-Palestinian protest action briefly blocked all traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Wednesday morning....
Artist says he will destroy $45 million worth of Rembrandt, Picasso and Warhol masterpieces with acid if Julian Assange dies in prison ( www.cbsnews.com )
Gen Z is recording themselves getting fired in growing TikTok trend ( www.cbsnews.com )
Fed Chair Jerome Powell on 60 Minutes: The US is on an unsustainable economic path ( youtu.be )
Pod of orcas trapped in drift ice off Japanese coast ( www.youtube.com )
Footage aired by the Japanese broadcaster NHK shows a pod of orcas, also known as killer whales, apparently trapped in drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido. At least 10 were seen poking out of a small gap in the surface and struggling for air.
WATCH LIVE: CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X and other social media companies testify in Senate hearing ( youtube.com )
Son 'decapitates his father,' 68, and brandishes his severed head ( www.dailymail.co.uk )
Son 'decapitates his father,' 68, and brandishes his severed head during gruesome 14-minute long anti-Biden YouTube rant in which he declared himself President of America under martial law before cops charge him with murder hours later
Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds ( www.cbsnews.com )
How fringe anti-science views infiltrated mainstream politics — and what it means in 2024 ( www.cbsnews.com )
Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts about 250,000 kindergartners at risk for measles, which often leads to hospitalization and can cause death. In recent weeks, an infant and two young children have been hospitalized amid an...
Texas doubles down in unprecedented border dispute with federal government ( www.cbsnews.com )
How was fugitive Kaitlin Armstrong caught? She answered U.S. Marshals' ad for a yoga instructor ( www.cbsnews.com )
Kaitlin Armstrong is serving 90 years in prison for murdering professional up-and-coming gravel cyclist Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson. It's a story that drew international headlines because after being suspected of killing Wilson in Texas, Armstrong vanished -- seemingly into thin air. The search for the suspected killer sparked what...
Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds ( www.cbsnews.com )
A growing number of Americans are ending up homeless as soaring rents in recent years squeeze their budgets....
A portrait of America's young adults: More debt burdened and financially dependent on their parents ( www.cbsnews.com )
Young adults in the U.S. are experiencing a very different trajectory than their parents, with more of them hitting key milestones later in life and also taking on more debt, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center....
