As millions of Americans prepare to jet off on their annual summer vacation, they'll face a delicate — and potentially painful — question of air etiquette that often leads to bruised feelings and knees: to recline or not to recline? Air travel is expected to be more crowded, expensive and uncomfortable than ever this summer, with tensions sure to be running high among testy travelers clinging to their limited personal space. And while airlines invite passengers to sit back and relax, some travel experts insist that passengers should never recline their seats."You can recline the airline seat, but not without potentially...

Davenport, Iowa — One moment Lexus Berry and her wife were rushing toward the door of their fourth-floor apartment and the next, Quanishia "Peach" Berry was gone.Their apartment had disappeared into a heap of bricks and steel far below, leaving Lexis Berry running by herself to a stairwell in the teetering building, panicked that she might never see her wife again. "The moment that we hit the door, it started to shake and rattle and literally - it all just happened in the blink of a second - the floors caved in, like collapsed," Lexus Berry said Wednesday. "So as...

One person was killed and 10 others, including nine children, suffered serious or critical injuries in a major crash in the South Natomas area of Sacramento Wednesday night, authorities said. Witnesses told CBS Sacramento there were four to five kids in the car with the two adults. It wasn't clear why the numbers conflicted. The Sacramento Police Department said the crash happened shortly after 8:15 p.m.Investigators believe eleven people were in silver sedan. It wasn't clear who was driving.All the children are between the ages of 3 and 8, authorities said.The car apparently went up on a curb and hit a tree. Witnesses told CBS Sacramento they saw the vehicle go out of control and crash and then begin smoking.Multiple people ran to help everyone inside the vehicle get out.The cause of the crash is under investigation.

SACRAMENTO — One person is dead and 10 others, including nine children, suffered serious or critical injuries in a major crash in south Natomas on Wednesday night, authorities said.The Sacramento Police Department said the crash happened shortly after 8:15 p.m. along San Juan Road between Binghampton and Bridgeford drives.Investigators believe eleven individuals were inside one vehicle. It is unclear at this time exactly who was driving.All children are between the ages of 3 and 8.A vehicle at the scene appeared to have gone up on a curb and struck a tree. Witnesses at the scene told CBS13 they saw that vehicle lose control and crash before the vehicle began smoking.Witnesses said there were two adults and several injured children in that car, and multiple people ran to help everyone inside the vehicle get out.Sacramento police said that stretch of San Juan is expected to be closed through the early morning hours Thursday.The cause of the crash is under investigation.

There were fewer babies born in the U.S. in 2022 compared to 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, suggesting that a rebound in births following the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have ended. An estimated 3,661,220 babies were born nationwide in 2022, according to an initial analysis of data from birth certificates issued last year. That is less than a 1% decrease from 2021."It's essentially unchanged. It's a very small difference, relatively speaking, compared to the total number of births, which are in the millions," said Brady Hamilton, a statistician demographer at the CDC's...

Actress Kim Cattrall is heading back to set to briefly reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones on the "Sex and the City" spinoff series, "Entertainment Tonight" has learned. According to ET, Cattrall will appear in the finale of the second season of "And Just Like That…" Both the show's official Twitter account and the streaming service Max, formerly HBO Max, also appeared to confirm the news Wednesday, tweeting "Secret's out."Cattrall starred in six seasons and two movie spinoffs of "Sex and the City" as Jones, a glamorous publicist. The second season of "And Just Like That…" will premiere June 22.According to...

A months-long standoff between congressional Republicans and the White House appears to be nearing an end with the House passage of a bill to raise the debt ceiling late Wednesday. The deal, a compromise to shrink federal spending and avoid default, was forged by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and the speaker's handling of the negotiation is drawing praise from one of his predecessors."I thought he did a very good job," former House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett in an interview for "The Takeout." Boehner served as speaker of the House...

Kim Yo Jong, the sister and senior aid of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, condemned the international community's reaction to North Korea's launch of a military spy satellite, which crashed into waters off the Korean Peninsula's western coast on Tuesday.Kim singled out the United States, accusing it of hypocrisy, "gangster-like logic" and "inveterate hostility" toward North Korea."If the DPRK's satellite launch should be particularly censured, the U.S. and all other countries, which have already launched thousands of satellites, should be denounced," Kim said in a statement Wednesday published by North Korean state-run agency KCNA. She also accused the U.S. of...

The Biden administration is planning to dramatically expand the processing of asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border by admitting nearly 40,000 migrants at official crossings each month, an unprecedented number, Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News Wednesday.Starting in June, officials will allow more migrants waiting in Mexico to secure an appointment to enter the U.S. through a government phone app known as CBP One, which the Biden administration has transformed into the main gateway to the American asylum system. U.S. border officials are preparing to distribute 1,250 appointments each day — or roughly 38,750 each month — to migrants in...

As Congress moves closer to passage of a bill to raise the debt limit and avoid a catastrophic U.S. default, some 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls are weighing in on the legislative deal reached between House Republicans and President Joe Biden – and taking aim at Washington over spending. After months of standoffs, negotiators reached a deal Saturday ahead of June 5, the date by which the Treasury Department estimates the government will run out of money to pay its obligations. The agreement suspends the debt limit until early 2025 after the presidential election. It also locks in non-defense spending for 2024 at...

A man has pleaded guilty to disturbing a baby bison at Yellowstone National Park in an incident that ended with the calf being euthanized, officials said. Clifford Walters, a Hawaii resident, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of feeding, touching, teasing, frightening or intentionally disturbing wildlife, the National Park Service said in a press release. Walters must pay a $500 fine, along with a $500 community service payment to Yellowstone Forever Wildlife Protection Fund, a $30 special assessment and a $10 processing fee, the park service said.While park officials said there was no indication that Walters acted maliciously, his actions led...

Orlando, Florida — Chrissy and Cole Robinson are finally unpacking in their newly purchased home after a daunting search in Northern California's Silicon Valley."There were 15 other offers on this house," Chrissy Robinson told CBS News. Silicon Valley home prices have seen some of the steepest declines in the nation, dropping 11.8% between April 2022 and April 2023, per Redfin. As a result, it's drawing in buyers despite higher mortgage rates, according to real estate agent Kelly Dippel."There's more buyers than available homes," Dippel said. The average 30-day mortgage is now at 6.91%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. "People that have...

New York City — In 1982, now retired Master Sgt. Andrea Motley Crabtree became the U.S. Army's first female deep-sea diver, and the first Black female deep-sea diver across all U.S. military branches. It was a remarkable moment in her remarkable life. "I was happy to be there, happy to be in that suit," said Crabtree, who told CBS News she was inspired by her father and grandfather, both veterans. At the time she earned her Army diver badge, she posed for a photo that later became the basis for a 2017 portrait by artist Henry Taylor that was featured in...

Nurses report seeing or hearing racism and experiencing discrimination from almost 80% of their patients, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Asian, Black and Latino nurses are significantly more likely to experience racist microaggressions than their White peers, and they told researchers that patients frequently use racial slurs or question their credentials. Six in 10 nurses also reported they face discrimination from their colleagues as well, according to the survey. Of the nurses who have experienced racism or discrimination, 9 in 10 said it has affected their well-being and mental health.And even though an overwhelming majority...

Years before he allegedly killed a 14-year-old boy wrongly suspected of shoplifting, a South Carolina gas station convenience store owner shot a shoplifter and opened fire on the vehicle of another shoplifter in separate encounters, officials said Wednesday. Rick Chow, now 58, was never charged in those cases because his "conduct in the above incidents did not meet the requirements under South Carolina law to support criminal charges," the Richland County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday. Chow is now facing a murder charge for allegedly chasing after and then fatally shooting Cyrus Carmack-Belton on Sunday.Officers have responded to hundreds of calls for help at...

Washington — Federal investigators have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump in which he acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document after he left the White House, according to people familiar with the matter. The recording — from a July 2021 meeting at Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey — is a crucial piece of evidence that prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office obtained in recent months and presented in grand-jury proceedings examining the former president's retention of sensitive records and possible obstruction of the investigation, the people said.  CNN first reported the existence of...

A Delta passenger is suing the airline over its claim that it is "carbon-neutral," alleging that the three-year-old pledge is nothing but greenwashing.The suit, filed Tuesday in federal court in California, alleges that Delta's claim to be "the world's first carbon-neutral airline" is a sham. Greenwashing refers to a marketing spin that makes it appear that a company or product is environmentally friendly, when it may not be.Rather than undertaking the hard work of actually reducing its carbon emissions, the complaint alleges, Delta is buying largely fabricated carbon offsets, while continuing to charge a premium price to travelers who believe...

Country music superstar Dolly Parton has added three new Guinness World Records to her collection. Parton was presented with the certificates in Nashville, Tennessee, for her musical achievements, according to the Guiness World Records. Parton set the record for the longest span of No. 1 hits on the US Top Country Albums chart for a female artist.Her first of eight albums to top Billboard's Top Country Albums chart was "New Harvest…First Gathering," released in May 1977, and her latest chart-topping album was "A Holly Dolly Christmas," released in October 2020, Guinness World Records said. That is 43 years and 156 days between number...

Three women in 2017 escaped from the Texas prison where disgraced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is serving her sentence. One of the women, Edith Lara, still hasn't been found, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.Holmes, who lost her fight to remain free while appealing her convictions, reported to prison Tuesday to begin her 11-year sentence at Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan — one of the Bureau of Prisons' seven minimum security prisons. These work and program-oriented facilities house inmates deemed a low security risk by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. On Saturday, May 27, 2017, at approximately 10:15 p.m., inmates...

A jury found "That '70s Show" star Danny Masterson guilty of two out of three counts of rape Wednesday in a Los Angeles retrial in which the Church of Scientology played a central role.The jury of seven women and five men spent more than six days deliberating. Jurors said they were deadlocked on the third rape charge against Masterson, which alleged Masterson raped a longtime girlfriend. Last Thursday afternoon, the downtown L.A. panel heard again portions of testimony from the alleged victim. Masterson was led from the courtroom in handcuffs. The 47-year-old actor faces up to 30 years in a state...