Google employee charged with using confidential search data to make $1.2 million on Polymarket
Sources from Associated Press say that U.S. prosecutors slapped insider trading charges against a Google employee this week...
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Key inflation gauge worsens as Americans’ income and spending power erodes
According to AP, a key inflation gauge accelerated in April to the highest level in three years, squeezing Americans’ finances and creating political challenges for President Trump and congressional Republicans with midterm elections just five months away...
Columbus City Council decides not to rebid contract for cemetery work
The price of gas may be going up, but that won't affect the cost of maintaining Columbus' Friendship and Sandfield Cemeteries this year...
U.S. investigators plan new Bahamas search after GPS data appears to contradict Brian Hooker's account of wife's disappearance
Newly obtained GPS data in the case of Lynette Hooker's disappearance in the Bahamas has prompted U.S. investigators to relaunch a search for the body of the missing Michigan woman, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation told CBS News...
Talarico says Paxton is "clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption"
Sources from CBS News say that Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in the Lone Star State, conceded Wednesday that some past statements during debates over transgender policy "missed the mark,"...
How much money you need to earn to afford a home in 49 U.S. cities
U.S. workers' pay is up roughly 4% this year, with median household income in April reaching roughly $88,000, according to government data, according to CBS...
One person dead and two injured after a crash in Pickens Co.
One person has died, and two people are injured - one of them being a baby - after a crash in Alabama.
Zelenskyy urges U.S. to expand deliveries of Patriot missile systems to defend against Russian attacks
According to CBS News, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine urged President Trump and Congress to expand deliveries of Patriot missile systems in a letter written on Memorial Day...
Matthew Perry’s assistant is last to be sentenced over his ketamine death
Sources from AP say that the final sentencing in the 2 1/2-year investigation and prosecution following the drug death of Matthew Perry will be of the personal assistant who sat at the center of the entire affair...
Trump’s latest immigration move clouds the path to green cards
According to AP, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Friday that foreigners in the U.S. who want a green card will need to leave and apply in their home country, barring some unspecified exceptions....
Median pay for CEOs rose nearly 6% in 2025, but some compensation packages were eye-popping
According to AP, the typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for bigger profits and higher stock prices, and gave them incentives to stick around and make even more money for shareholders...
South African government and Afrikaners reject US claim of a humanitarian emergency for white people
Associated Press says that the South African government and advocacy groups for the country’s Afrikaner white minority on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s position that there’s a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in South Africa...
Key Sens. Cruz, Cantwell look to break college sports logjam in Congress with a bipartisan bill
Sources from Associated Press say that two key senators involved in a long-simmering debate over fixing college sports will introduce a bipartisan bill designed to break a congressional logjam that would regulate payments to players...
Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP, despite racial bias ruling
Sources from AP say that Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court’s ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people....
Bondi undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer after recent diagnosis
According to CBS News, Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, she told CBS News in a text message exchange on Wednesday...
Military aircraft crashes near Noxubee and Kemper County area
For the second time this month, a military aircraft has crashed in our area.
Kevin Warsh is now leading the Fed. His main challenge is a doozy.
CBS News reports new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh could face a rude awakening this week with the release of key inflation data that economists expect to show consumer prices continuing to surge in April...
Infrared camera on sailboat may hold clues in Lynette Hooker investigation
Sources from CBS News say that CBS News has learned the sailboat used by Brian and Lynette Hooker in their travels around the Bahamas, before her disappearance, had an infrared camera capable of detecting heat radiation...
South Carolina Senate rejects Trump's call to redraw congressional map
CBS News reports that as early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina's primaries, the state Senate rejected a Republican plan to cancel those congressional votes and instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the GOP oust a longtime Democrat...
Nearly 2 decades after double murder in North Carolina, suspect arrested 3,000 miles away
Sources from CBS News say that the suspect in an infamous North Carolina double murder has been arrested after nearly two decades, some 3,000 miles from where the killings took place, authorities said...
DHS memo directs ICE to ramp up asylum-related fraud cases
According to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security's top lawyer on Tuesday directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorneys to aggressively pursue administrative fraud cases against immigration lawyers accused of filing false asylum claims...
Federal court blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans
According to AP, Federal judges on Tuesday blocked Alabama’s plan to use a congressional map that could give Republicans an advantage in a key U.S. House race in the midterm elections...
Supreme Court sides with Trump in dispute over immigration judges’ speech restrictions
Sources from AP say that the Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with President Donald Trump’s administration in a lawsuit over speech restrictions for immigration judges that touched on the rights of federal workers...
Congressional Black Caucus presses companies in the US to oppose Republican redistricting push
Sources from AP say that the Congressional Black Caucus on Tuesday called on major corporations across the U.S...
Cornyn tries to keep his Texas Senate seat in a runoff with Paxton, the latest test of Trump’s power
Sources from AP, Texans are choosing a Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s runoff election, bringing to a close the extended, bitter, and expensive primary where President Donald Trump weighed in late to tip the race in another effort to rid the GOP of leaders he sees as less devoted to him...