Month: October 2024

Israel begins “limited” ground operation in southern Lebanon – CBS News Watch CBS News The Israeli military says it has begun a “limited, localized” ground operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. The U.S. was told about the incursion before it began and the Pentagon said it is sending American troops to the region to

In a move intended to troll former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, ahead of the first and only vice presidential debate of 2024, the Democratic National Committee on Monday night is digitally projecting various phrases — including Vance previously calling Trump an “idiot” — onto Trump Tower in New York

Spotlight on home hospice care as Jimmy Carter turns 100 – CBS News Watch CBS News He’s already the oldest former president in the U.S. but tomorrow, Jimmy Carter will make more history when he turns 100. For the last 19 months, the 39th president has been in home hospice care. In “Eye on America,”

This past spring, Joan Prum’s advanced age and increasing frailty ushered in a new reality when she became a hospice patient. “I thought that unless you were really infirm and bedridden, you wouldn’t be a candidate for hospice, but it turns out not to be true,” Prum said. Healthcare teams provide comfort to hospice patients

The median height of the Rangers organization has increased substantially in the last few years.  One look around the rink at MSG Training Center in Tarrytown over the last month and it’s impossible not to take notice.  A 6-foot-6, 235-pound defenseman in Ben Harpur, who joined the Rangers in 2022 by way of a PTO

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s hit king who then became a pariah for gambling on the game, has died at the age of 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, confirmed to ABC News on Monday. Rose was found at his home by a family member, according to the medical examiner. There were no

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has kept detention space, meant for migrants considered a priority for deportation, unfilled as more than half a million known criminal migrants live throughout the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data, divulged to Congress last week, reveals that the agency’s

The long statewide nightmare has ended. After months of irritating technical glitches, confusing options and maddeningly irrelevant test questions, most California drivers 70 and older who apply to renew their driver’s license will no longer be required to take a knowledge test or the online training course. On the whole, this is good news. But

Vice President Harris boards Air Force Two at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Sept. 30, 2024. Ronda Churchill/AFP hide caption toggle caption Ronda Churchill/AFP Vice President Harris says she thinks marijuana should be legalized, going a step further than the Biden administration has in its marijuana reforms. “I just think we have

A couple were caught running a trafficking scheme that managed six slaves working at a McDonald’s restaurant. Ernest Drevenak, 46, and Veronika Bubencikova, 46, began exploiting the men, who were either homeless, unemployed or suffered with addiction issues in the Czech Republic in 2015. They were promised work, accommodation and a better life in the

Actor Will Ferrell claims “transphobia” comes from people “not being confident” in themselves. The 57-year-old comedian spoke to The Independent on Thursday about his recent Netflix documentary “Will & Harper,” which follows Ferrell and former “Saturday Night Live” writer Harper Steele as they travel across the country and explore Steele’s gender transition. Ferrell said he

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Just 35 days remain until the presidential election, but for some residents, fears are rising about whether it will be carried out fairly and transparently. In fiery testimony over two days, dozens of Montgomery County residents questioned how ballots are counted and who is being allowed to cast them. State

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea condemned the United States and its allies Monday for “stirring up military confrontations still… UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea condemned the United States and its allies Monday for “stirring up military confrontations still further” by engaging in war games in the Asia-Pacific region and “talking unceasingly” about regime

You may have observed more black widows and yellow jackets in Denver this summer, and we’re not talking about Scarlett Johansson or Melanie Lynskey. According to Karim Gharbi, a horticulture agent for Denver County with the Colorado State University Extension, there aren’t official studies documenting wasp or spider population trends in Denver, but he believes

An asbestos remediation project was scheduled to begin Monday night in the basement of the Rolling Meadows Library. Daily Herald File Photo, 2016 The lower level of the Rolling Meadows Library is closed to the public to remove asbestos found during a flooring replacement project. But the environmental remediation is taking place in a contained