NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump visited a construction site in New York City early Thursday morning, before returning to court for his alleged "hush money" trial. The former president met with a group of workers at the corner of East 48th Street and Park Avenue, near the JP Morgan Chase Building in Midtown, Manhattan. Trump showed up around 6:30 a.m. Thursday, and the campaign stop lasted about 15 minutes. He shook hands, posed for photos and signed autographs for people who went through a security screening to enter a penned-off area.Some supporters said they woke up early for the chance to...

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is expected to continue testifying Thursday in Donald Trump's New York criminal trial, his third day on the stand.Court is set to reconvene at 9:30 a.m. to resume proceedings and will overlap with another significant legal development for the former president. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether Trump should be immune from federal prosecution in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. The judge overseeing the trial denied Trump's request to attend the arguments in the capital.In his testimony on Tuesday, the most recent day of the trial, Pecker...

NEW YORK — Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning after Oakland starting pitcher Joe Boyle was called for a balk on the previous pitch and the New York Yankees beat the Athletics 7-3 on Wednesday night.Anthony Rizzo and Juan Soto also homered as the Yankees won for the fifth time in seven games and improved to 10-1 in their last 11 in the Bronx against Oakland.It was the first time Judge, Rizzo and Soto homered in the same game this season.Judge appeared to take a called third strike and was headed back to the dugout, but third...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has been sentenced in the 2021 murder of a Yale graduate student.Thirty-three-year-old Qinxuan Pan pleaded guilty in February to murdering 26-year-old Kevin Jiang.Pan was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison. During the hearing, he apologized and took responsibility for his actions. "I feel sorry for what my actions caused and for everyone affected," Pan said. "I fully accept my penalties."Yale grad student Kevin Jiang fatally shotPolice say on the evening of Feb. 6, 2021, Jiang was shot multiple times in the East Rock neighborhood of New...

NEW YORK -- Two NYPD officers are accused of sexually assaulting a woman while they were off-duty in 2023.Christian Garcia, 32, and Julio Alcantara-Santiago, 40, were both arrested Tuesday morning.Prosecutors say Garcia and Alcantara-Santiago were seen on security video walking with the alleged victim as they left Zona de Cuba restaurant in the Bronx around 12:30 a.m. on July 9.According to court documents, the woman was heavily intoxicated and appeared to be unable to stand on her own. Video allegedly shows Garcia and Alcantara-Santiago walking on each side of her, holding her up by her arms. The court documents also...

SAN FRANCISCO — Francisco Lindor hit a pair of two-run homers and the New York Mets avoided a three-game series sweep on Wednesday with an 8-2 win over the San Francisco Giants.Lindor went 4 for 5 with four RBIs and recorded the 16th multi-homer game of his career."Yesterday it seemed like I wasn't on any pitch. Today it seemed like I was on most of the pitches," Lindor said. "It feels really good, especially when you win."Tyrone Taylor homered and added a two-run double, and Jeff McNeil had an RBI single as New York snapped a three-game skid."(Taylor) is going to...

NEW YORK -- The family of Willis Moore, the man who was killed when a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan on April 18, 2023, has filed a lawsuit against the building's owners, claiming they prioritized profits over people and ignored safety issues.What caused the 2023 NYC parking garage collapse?An outside firm hired by New York City is still investigating the cause of the collapse, but video from that day shows heavy SUVs on the roof and, according to Department of Buildings records, the garage had open violations dating back 20 years.Attorneys for Moore's family point to those open violations as...

Pope Francis pleaded for peace worldwide amid ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, telling CBS News on Wednesday that "a negotiated peace is better than a war without end." "Please. Countries at war, all of them, stop the war. Look to negotiate. Look for peace," the pope, speaking through a translator, told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell during an hourlong interview at the guest house where he lives in Rome. The pontiff frequently talks about the Israel-Hamas war in his addresses. He made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine...

NEW YORK -- New York is making a major state-wide investment in mental health services. As part of her 2025 budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced more than $33 million will go towards expanding services for New Yorkers struggling with mental illness and involved in the criminal justice system. CBS New York spoke to mental health experts and those who have benefited from programs that will receive funding. Ibrahim Ayu faced federal charges back in 2023 following an incident with an NYPD officer, but what changed the trajectory of his life was his case being handled through...

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Two heroic men saved a little girl that was running into into a busy intersection. The rescue was caught on video. Surveillance video shows the girl running down the street towards a busy intersection earlier this month in East Hartford. The video shows the barbers were busy cutting hair, but then looked out the window and spotted the running child. Two of them left their customers in the chair and charged out the barber shop's door, bolting toward the girl as she ran closer and closer to the intersection. The video shows at least seven vehicles passing through the intersection...

NEW YORK - More young people are learning how to make guns online, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Wednesday. They're finding the videos on YouTube after watching videos about other subjects, like video games, Bragg said. He wants companies like YouTube to change their video suggestions. "You can go from watching a game like 'Call of Duty' on YouTube to getting a workshop on how to build a ghost gun with just a few clicks," Bragg said. "Potentially half of the defendants that come in to be interviewed mention to us that they became exposed to, or learned how to build ghost guns, through...

NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams announced New York City's executive budget for the next fiscal year on Wednesday.Though it avoids major cuts, members of the City Council are questioning why any had to be made at all."Like it or not, we're doin' the damn thing," Adams said.Wednesday was budget day for the 2025 fiscal year and yet, the mayor spoke often of 2022, the start of his administration, when he says the work began to avoid cuts."We managed this budget. We managed our way out of not one crisis, we managed out of the crisis of COVID, and we...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A New Jersey woman has received a first-of-its-kind transplant using a modified pig kidney along with a heart pump. She says she's grateful for her second chance at life.At age 54, Lisa Pisano's heart and kidneys were failing."I couldn't go up the stairs. I couldn't drive. I couldn't play with my grandkids. So when this opportunity came to me, I said, 'I'm taking it,'" Pisano said."When we admitted her to the hospital, she had two cardiac arrests so that's how close she was to death," Dr. Robert Montgomery from NYU Langone Transplant Institute said.With FDA permission, Montgomery...

PASSAIC, N.J. -- The city of Passaic received historic funding Wednesday to combat flash flooding.The federal funds will change the city's landscape.Flash flood remediation in Passaic, New JerseyRep. Bill Pascrell handed over a check for federal funds totaling more than $1.5 million that will go toward flash flood remediation in Passaic."This award will be essential to improving drainage to prevent tragedies in the future," he said.Mayor Hector Carlos Lora shares more trees will be planted, and green space and underground rain water storage will be added.  A culvert that has been the root cause of the repeat problem will...

Regardless of who you are, it's an important part of maintaining a healthy body. Luckily, meal kit delivery services like Green Chef can help you stick to a doctor-approved weight loss strategy and master fitness-friendly eating with ease.The best meal kits can also help you avoid pitfalls like excessive added sugars or high-sodium intake, two big drivers of unhealthy diets in recent years."Meal kits provide fresh ingredients that are usually locally sourced with healthier cooking methods and minimal environmental impact," says Jennifer May, principle nutritionist and director of Sydney City Nutritionist Nutritionist and Food Intolerance of Australia.You can typically find information on how different companies...

If you've ever caught yourself glaring at the stove like it's your sworn enemy and not an inanimate object, it might be time to switch things up with a meal delivery service. These handy options can make life easier by cutting out time that would otherwise go toward grocery shopping, prep work, and arguably the most dreaded part: a sink full of dishes (cue thunderclap and shrieking sounds). That's how I felt when I decided to give HelloFresh, touted as America's most popular meal kit (language front and center on the company's homepage, no less), a trial run. I sampled some...

Apple's latest smartphones, the iPhone 15 family, have been out for some time now. It's still one of the best options out there if you want to buy a new mobile device, but it's not the only game in town. If you're not an iPhone fan, there are plenty of fantastic Android phones that can compete with or even surpass the iPhone's features and performance, often at a lower price point.Brands like Samsung, Google, and OnePlus bring top-notch experiences that the current iPhone simply can't match – so much so that you might be wondering if you should abandon the iPhone...

Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson is visiting Columbia University on Wednesday, where he's expected to call for the university's president to resign as the campus has been roiled with accusations of antisemitism amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests.Johnson said in an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt" show Wednesday morning that he plans to call on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign, saying Shafik "has shown to be a very weak, inept leader." GOP Reps. Mike Lawler and Nicole Malliotakis of New York are slated to join the speaker on Wednesday. The speaker's remarks are set to focus on "the troubling rise...

NEW YORK -- Some Queens residents are fuming over a beloved greenway that has turned into a car parking lot.For mobility researcher John Surico, the paths are a ticket to the city. But he says one of his favorites in the western part of the borough is under a direct threat."To see it like this now is so dramatically different," he said.The once-lush Queensbridge "Baby" Park Greenway, whose bike lane connects to the waterfront, has been taken over by cars."Once it happened with one person, it became accepted, normalized behavior," Surico said.Alongside the bike path, vehicles crowd daily onto tire-torn dirt,...

MANORVILLE, N.Y. - The search for evidence in the Gilgo Beach murders case resumed Wednesday. Authorities with the Suffolk County Police Department, New York Police Department and New York State Police were searching an area in Manorville. "We do not comment on investigative steps while they are underway," Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney's office said in a statement. About suspect Rex Heuermann The search comes as suspect Rex Heuermann remains behind bars. Heuermann, a former architect, was arrested last July after police said DNA from discarded pizza and telephone records tied him to the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. Earlier this year he was also charged in the death of...