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Federal agents on Wednesday seized $33 million worth of cocaine aboard a boat that was trying to smuggle the drug into the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques, officials said, marking at least the third major bust in the U.S. territory since July.More than 3,600 pounds were confiscated in the pre-dawn hours after unidentified people aboard the boat beached it and fled the area, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Vieques is located just east of Puerto Rico and is a popular tourist destination.Agents were able to recover the boat from the shallow waters and the FBI took custody the...

Feds seize another huge stash of cocaine from boat in Puerto Rico

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  The Western Michigan Broncos vs. Ohio State Buckeyes NCAA college football game will be played today. The Buckeyes are riding high from a Week 1 victory, while the Broncos hope to bounce back after losing last week.Keep reading to find out how and when to watch the Western Michigan vs. Ohio State game, even if you don't have cable.How and when to watch the Western Michigan vs. Ohio...

How to watch the Western Michigan vs. Ohio State football game

Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value. But they had no idea just how much until just a few years ago.The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more than $500,000, said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections, which specializes in currency and is handling an online auction that will end in October.What makes the dime depicting President Franklin D. Roosevelt so valuable is a missing "S" mint mark for San Francisco, one of just two without...

A rare coin hidden for decades could fetch $500,000 at auction

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The Mega Millions jackpot continues to swell after there were no winners Friday.The jackpot rose to an estimated $800 million with a cash option of $401.8 million for Tuesday's drawing. It is the seventh-highest jackpot in the game's history. The six higher jackpots have been over $1 billion.Mega Million said the jackpot was last won in Illinois on June 4, with a ticket valued at $552 million. Since then, there have been 27 drawings, but no jackpot prize winners.Only two Mega Millions jackpots have been won so far this year. Before the Illinois winning ticket, a $1.1 billion winning ticket was...

Mega Millions jackpot soars to an estimated $800 million after no winners

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MINNEAPOLIS — Tim Walz, Minnesota's governor and the Democratic nominee for vice president, is being summoned to stand before a U.S. House of Representatives committee and answer questions about the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.The Minnesota-based nonprofit has been accused of diverting $250 million in federal funds meant to feed low-income children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Republican-led House Education and the Workforce Committee issued subpoenas on Wednesday to Walz and leaders from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of Inspector General.Committee chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx, Republican of New York, made the following allegation regarding Walz in the...

House committee subpoenas Tim Walz in $250M COVID fraud probe

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An opinion piece appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA this week illustrates why the drug problem among people experiencing homelessness in Denver may be so severe. It's because many homeless people aren't addicted to just one drug, but two, according to the viewpoint's author, Benjamin A. Howell of Yale School of Medicine and colleagues.

Fentanyl-meth combo ravages homeless in Denver, so why aren't there better treatments?

The family of Aysenur Eygi, an American woman who was shot and killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, is demanding an independent investigation into her death.Witnesses, activists and Palestinian media said the dual U.S.-Turkish national was shot by Israeli troops while attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration against settlement expansion in the Nablus area of the northern West Bank, near the town of Beita. Palestinian medics rushed Eygi to an ambulance, but by the time she got to the hospital, it was too late."They killed her. They shot her in the head," a woman told CBS News.Jonathan Pollak, with the Defend...

Family of U.S. citizen killed in the West Bank demands investigation

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BOSTON – When an engagement breaks down, who gets to keep the ring? A case deciding just that was argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Friday.The state's highest court heard arguments from lawyers representing Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino, who were briefly engaged in 2017. According to court documents, Johnson bought the engagement ring from Tiffany's in Boston, paying more than $70,000. Shortly after the pair became engaged, the relationship ended. So who gets the engagement ring?Massachusetts law considers an engagement ring a "conditional gift," saying the gift giver can get the ring back if they are found to be without fault...

Who keeps a $70K engagement ring? Case goes before Massachusetts court

Leaving its crew behind in orbit, Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station Friday and chalked up a successful unpiloted return to Earth, closing out a disappointing test flight with an on-target New Mexico touchdown. Despite NASA's concerns about earlier thruster problems and multiple helium leaks in the ship's propulsion pressurization system, the Starliner had no problems undocking and moving away from the station at 6:04 p.m. EDT and executing a critical 59-second deorbit braking maneuver at 11:17 p.m. to drop out of orbit.Slamming into the discernible atmosphere 400,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, the Starliner streaked across...

After leaving its crew behind, Starliner makes safe return to Earth

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They're shaped like a potato and tend to bake in hot weather, biologists say. That's why you will find cheeky little pikas in Colorado's mountains. But climate change could cause these critters' numbers to dwindle, according to wildlife experts. Like polar bears, Pikas may predict warmer temperatures, scientists say.

Potato-shaped critter visible now may predict climate change in Colorado

Louisiana State

A whistleblower has come forward to Congress alleging Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre and other Steward executives illegally conspired with foreign officials to secure a hospital contract abroad, CBS News has learned. "In touting Steward's supposed competitive advantage in Malta… de la Torre boasted that he could issue 'brown bags' to government officials if necessary to close transactions," Ram Tumuluri, a health care executive who worked with the Maltese government, wrote in a complaint to Congress, shared with CBS News. In the submission, which was sent to a U.S. Senate committee investigating the hospital company's collapse, Tumuluri describes a...

Whistleblower claims Steward CEO bragged he could sway foreign officials with bags of cash

Watch the CBS Reports documentary "Ultra Processed: How Food Tech Consumed the American Diet" in the video player above.HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. - Fifteen-year-old Tiara Channer was 13 when she was diagnosed with prediabetes — a condition 1 in 5 American kids faces that causes an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. She and her mother, Crystal Cauley, blame her diagnosis on a poor diet. "[Tiara] actually had to have a neurological consult, because she felt the tingling and the different sensations," Cauley said. "And it was all linked to prediabetes. So it was a wake-up call,...

The loophole that allows food companies to decide what's safe to eat

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, but decades before, she was a Harvard student trying to find her way. That's when she met Patrick Jackson, a White classmate who joined an effort to have a Confederate flag removed from campus. He went on to become her husband.In an interview with Gayle King for CBS Mornings to talk about her new book "Lovely One," the justice opened up about how she and Jackson met and navigated their interracial relationship. "I love the backstory of your meeting. I already see the movie," King said. Brown...

Ketanji Brown Jackson shares her and husband's love story

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Valley fever, a disease caused by breathing in a type of fungus primarily found in the Southwest, is on the rise in California, according to the state's department of public health. "People who live in or travel to the Central Valley or Central Coast regions of California may be at increased risk of Valley fever through the fall," the department recently warned.Compared to more than 9,000 reported cases statewide in 2023, there have already been more 5,000 preliminary cases reported this year as of July 1, the department reported. Valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis or "cocci," is caused by inhaling dust or...

Valley fever, the fungus disease spreading in California, explained

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When it premiered on CBS in January 1971, All in the Familyset a new precedent for realistic quality programming in the area of weekly television comedies. Co-created by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, the show, which originally ran until 1979, addressed controversial issues never before seen on mainstream sitcoms. No topic was off-limits, from racial disparities to abortion to homosexuality; All in the Family covered it all, and more.

Clash of the TV Icons: 'All in the Family' Star Carroll O'Connor Battled with Creator Norman Lear

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El Paso, TX

A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has been held in Texas since his arrest in the U.S. over the summer does not oppose being transferred to New York to face charges there, according to a court filing Thursday.Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, 76, co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was arrested along with Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of notorious drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán," after landing at an airport near El Paso on July 25. They are charged in the U.S. with various drug crimes and remain jailed.Federal prosecutors in Texas asked the court last month to move Zambada...

Top Mexico cartel leader agrees to be transferred to New York

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Today, Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration for failing to provide public documents requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing. The March 2024 FOIA request sought records related to policies allowing the release of dangerous criminal illegal aliens from U.S. prisons into the general population rather than deporting them.

FL Attorney General Sues Biden-Harris Administration Over Release of Criminal Illegal Aliens

The city of Paris wants to honor a Ugandan Olympic runner who was killed when her partner attacked and set her on fire.Rebecca Cheptegei died Thursday at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in the attack. She was 33.Cheptegei's death was less than a month after she competed in the women's marathon at the Paris Olympics and finished 44th.On Friday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo proposed the city name a sports venue after her. The proposal will be discussed by elected city officials in October."Paris joins its elected representatives in expressing its...

Paris wants to name venue after murdered Olympian

It's been two decades since beloved actor Brian Kelly died of pneumonia at 73 in 2005. Best known as Porter Ricks in the classic TV family show Flipper(NBC, 1964-1967), Kelly had once suffered a paralyzing motorcycle accident that ended his acting career. However, he rechanneld his creative talent and became a producer. This is his story.

The Paralyzing Accident & Tragic Death of TV's 'Flipper' Father Brian Kelly: Two Decades Later

Beloved actress Nichelle Nichols, who died at 89 in 2022, found fame with her pioneering role as Communications Officer Lt. Nyota Uhura on TV's original Star Trek series (NBC, 1966-1969). She went on to play a groundbreaking role in several feature films and, as an African-American actress, became a beacon of dignity and diversity in Hollywood.

'Star Trek's' Nichelle Nichols Was Not Allowed To Play Secretary 'Peggy Fair' on TV's 'Mannix'

Kamala Harris clinches Democratic presidential nomination; Study examines how sharks are being impacted by a changing ecosystem.

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