Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz issued an executive order Tuesday to ban nonferrous metal mining in the Boundary Waters area, according to his office. The order directs the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to stop issuing leases and permits in the Rainy River Headwaters watershed. It also directs the DNR … Read more
Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial resumed Tuesday in Massachusetts with a 15th day of testimony. You can watch the trial live on CBS News Boston in the embedded video or on YouTube when court is in session. More defense witnesses will testify, a day after the prosecution rested its case after calling 72 witnesses at Plymouth … Read more
Oil prices rise as resolution to Iran war remains unclear after MOU expires Fox NewsTrump says Iran won’t make deal it believes necessary, threatens to bomb Oman ReutersIran war now about who blinks first under economic pressure WSJOil Oil rises over $91 as Trump casts doubt on new Iran deal NBC NewsTrump’s foreign policy: Strongmen … Read more
A dangerous heat wave currently sweeping the South will remain locked in this week, with triple-digit highs, stifling humidity and little relief overnight from Texas to Florida and the Carolinas. Where it’s hot now It’s already hotter even than August standards in the south. The combination of heat and extremely muggy air has caused heat … Read more
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Police are searching for a masked suspect who investigators say has been terrorizing people in downtown Philadelphia. Video released by police on Monday shows a masked man chasing a woman who was jogging near City Hall last Wednesday around 5:30 a.m. He was holding his cell phone in front of her, at … Read more
Updated at 7:15 p.m. Aug. 17. Information will be regularly updated. Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green announced during a press conference Monday afternoon in Hilo about the recovery from Hurricane Lala that all public schools, as well as all county and state offices on the Big island, will be closed Tuesday. This is because of a … Read more
US President Donald Trump demanded that Iran surrender and threatened to bomb Oman if it interfered with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, as a 60-day ceasefire agreement between Washington and Tehran expired without an agreement to end the war. Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Trump said Iran should “put up the white … Read more
Two Penn State University fraternities are at the center of a cocaine trafficking bust, which led to charges against 14 people, authorities announced Monday. According to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, the cocaine was cut and packaged primarily at Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi fraternity houses before being distributed, primarily to other Penn State students. … Read more
Lindsay Clancy’s Massachusetts murder trial resumed Monday in Plymouth Superior Court, with prosecutors dismissing the case. The defense began calling witnesses, including Clancy’s mother and sister, before the trial day ended. Paula Musgrove, Clancy’s mother, took the stand around 12:40 p.m. and completed her testimony shortly before 3 p.m. Michael Vulfovich, an emergency room doctor … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday again rejected President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a $5 million jury finding that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their … Read more