Actor Richard Roat, who was best known for appearing in “Seinfeld,” “Friends,” and “Dallas,” died at age 89. The veteran actor died in Orange County, California, on August 5. No further details were released.“His greatest love was his family. Richard was fortunate to marry the love of his life, his true soulmate, Kathy,” the LA Times wrote in its obituary.

The widow and sisters of a US marine killed in Afghanistan during the military’s chaotic departure from the country in 2021 are again suing actor Alec Baldwin for at least $25 million, claiming he exposed them to online vitriol after the actor accused one of the women of being a Jan. 6 insurrectionist. The federal suit was filed

Some of the biggest stars on Fox News are being compelled to answer questions about their coverage of the 2020 presidential election as a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from an election technology company that claims its reputation was ruined by the network’s airing of baseless fraud allegations picks up steam. Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems

Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Europe on August 31 amid concerns that Moscow is curbing supplies to pressure Western countries. Flows fell to zero on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany via the Baltic Sea, according to flow data from entry points linking Nord Stream 1 to the German gas network, for maintenance due to last until the

Jair Bolsonaro’s murky family finances have come under renewed scrutiny after claims the Brazilian president and close relatives used cash to pay for more than 50 properties worth millions of dollars. The allegations – the result of a seven-month investigation by the Brazilian newsgroup UOL – suggest that between 1990 and 2022, members of the Bolsonaro

U.S. life expectancy estimates have fallen to the worst levels since 1996, according to a new federal report, marking the second straight year of plummeting estimates in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health officials say the drop in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021 – falling by 2.7 years to 76.1 – is now the country’s worst two-year decline

The Justice Department said “efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation” of documents at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home months before FBI agents searched the Florida estate in early August. A court filing late Tuesday objecting to Mr. Trump’s proposal that the seized documents be vetted by a third-party arbiter

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform that brought about the end of the Cold War, reversed the direction of the nuclear arms race and relaxed Communist Party controls in hopes of rescuing the faltering Soviet state but instead propelled it toward collapse, died Aug. 30 in Moscow. He was 91.

More people in the U.S. are now smoking marijuana than cigarettes, according to a Gallup poll. Cigarette use has been trending downward during the past decades, with only 11% of Americans saying they smoke them in a poll conducted July 5 to 26, compared to 45% in the mid-1950s. Sixteen percent of Americans say they smoke marijuana, with 48%

Former President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning posting inflammatory messages on social media, including many explicitly promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory. While Trump has in the past promoted QAnon-inspired accounts and theories, the posts on his Truth Social account were his most explicit, unobscured, QAnon-promoting, and QAnon

Elon Musk sent a second letter to Twitter Inc. seeking to terminate his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform, citing recent allegations by Twitter’s former head of security in a whistleblower complaint. In the complaint made public last week, Peiter Zatko accused Twitter of “egregious deficiencies” related to privacy, digital and physical security,

Truth Social, the would-be Twitter competitor created by Trump Media and Technology Group, remains unavailable on the Google Play store.Google said the app lacks effective systems for moderating user-generated content, which violates the store’s terms of service.“the store’s terms of service.“ On Aug. 19, we notified Truth Social

Camilo Guevara March, a son of revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and director of a center dedicated to studying him, has died, Cuban officials said Tuesday. He was 60. The official news agency Prensa Latina said he died during a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, of “pulmonary thrombosis which led to a heart attack.”He was the third of four children born

Chris Kise, Florida’s former solicitor general who served on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ transition team, inked a contract to represent Donald Trump in the criminal case that resulted in the FBI search of the former president’s home in Mar-a-Lago, according to two sources with knowledge of the discussions. Kise, who declined to comment, began negotiations

Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez surrendered on Tuesday to face criminal charges, as an arrest warrant reveals he is being accused of accepting $15,000 in exchange for sponsoring a law five years ago to help a shopping plaza that had been repeatedly slapped with fines for code violations. Martinez, 64, is being charged with unlawful

Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions. Although statistically similar to last year’s 68%, it is up from 64% before the pandemic and is the highest Gallup has recorded on this measure since 1965.These data are from Gallup’s annual Work and Education survey, collected Aug. 1-23.The latest approval figure comes amid a burst

Starlink users around the world complained on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s internet from space service was down. My Starlink RV service in the Netherlands went down for about 30 minutes. It’s now reporting “Degraded Service,” which the SpaceX company is investigating, according to the Starlink app. My outage began at 3 AM ET, coinciding with

Tesla has filed suit to challenge a Louisiana law it says restricts its ability to sell electric vehicles directly to customers and violates its constitutional rights. The lawsuit filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana is the latest action by Tesla to try to open markets to its model of selling cars directly to consumers rather than using

Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman is calling on President Joe Biden to decriminalize marijuana before visiting Pennsylvania next week.“It’s long past time that we finally decriminalize marijuana,” Fetterman said in a Monday statement. “The president needs to use his executive authority to begin descheduling marijuana, I would love to see him do this prior

Secret Service official Tony Ornato announced his retirement on Monday, two months after a former White House aide testified that he had told her then-President Donald Trump lashed out in anger when agents refused to drive him to the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by his supporters. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed that

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring four disturbances in the Atlantic that can develop into tropical storms — and even hurricanes — ahead of Labor Day weekend. The center is actively watching the formations that could impact the US following the least active start of the Atlantic hurricane season in 30 years. Weather forecasters are paying

Journalists at newspapers, including the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, could go on strike this Wednesday after talks with the publisher, Reach, over the weekend failed to resolve a stalemate over pay. Reach journalists last week called off a strike at the 11th hour, averting a strike scheduled for Friday after the company asked for further negotiations.

President Biden will deliver a prime-time address Thursday on the fight for democracy in America and “the continued battle for the soul of the nation,” a White House official said Monday, an address that is likely to confirm his growing rhetorical emphasis on the anti-democratic forces he sees as capturing much of the Republican Party. Speaking at

Serena Williams has extended her presumptive farewell tour at least two more days. The 23-time major singles champion overcame early nerves and misfiring serves to win 6-3, 6-3 against Danka Kovinić in their US Open first-round match at Arthur Ashe Stadium, launching what is expected to be the final tournament of her glittering 27-year professional career

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, a judge ruled on Monday morning.In a written order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said Mr. Kemp, a Republican, must honor a subpoena issued to

Sparks flew Sunday as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro accused leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of massive corruption – and drew accusations of “destroying Brazil” in return – as they faced off in their first election debate. The two front-runners, who waited until the last minute to confirm they would attend the first televised debate ahead of October’s

A former D.C. bartender and Proud Boy stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were sentenced to 55 months in federal prison on Monday. In June, Joshua Pruitt, 40, pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding after he was caught on video joining a mob pursuing police officers and smashing a sign inside the U.S. Capitol. Two U.S. Capitol Police

A group of parents, students, and advocacy organizations are asking a federal judge to halt Florida school districts from enforcing the state’s contentious new law restricting how lessons on sexual identity and gender orientation are taught. In a court filing Friday, the group requested a preliminary injunction, arguing that policies in Florida’s “Parental Rights in

FBI agents have already finished their examination of possibly privileged documents seized in an Aug. 8 search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to a Justice Department court filing Monday that could undercut the former president’s efforts to have a special master appointed to review the files. The “filter team” used by the Justice Department

Bob LuPone, a leader of the off-Broadway company MCC Theater and brother to actress Patti LuPone, died Saturday, three years after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 76 years old.LuPone’s death was confirmed by the MCC Theater in a statement released on Saturday to the Associated Press.“The MCC Theater community mourns

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pulled out of a $25,000-a-plate fundraiser for New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin on Sunday because of an ‘unforeseen tragedy’, according to reports. Zeldin spokeswoman Katie Vincentz told the New York Post: ‘An unforeseen tragedy forced Governor DeSantis to reschedule his trip to New York.

NASA delayed the debut of its towering moon rocket Monday after issues emerged during the countdown, postponing the launch from the Kennedy Space Center. The agency was slated to launch its Artemis I mission during a two-hour-long launch window that opened at 8:33 a.m. ET, sending the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule on a

International inspectors were heading Monday to the Ukrainian nuclear plant at the center of growing alarm about a potential radiation disaster. The United Nations nuclear watchdog mission is set to arrive at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia power plant later this week, offering hope for progress even as the two warring sides exchanged new accusations

NASA’s massive Space Launch System (SLS) is almost ready for liftoff. This highly anticipated rocket launch has been over a decade in the making and marks NASA’s return to crewed missions to the moon. This mission is called Artemis I, and while there won’t be any astronauts on board during this launch, it will serve as a test for the future goal of

Meteorologists have all eyes on the tropics in a race against time. Will a tropical system develop before the end of the month? Or will a quarter-century-long record fall as the calendar changes to September? While almost a dozen named storms have come and gone in the East Pacific Ocean so far this season, the Atlantic Basin has been much quieter.

Venezuela and Colombia restored full diplomatic relations Sunday after a three-year break, as a new leftist government in Bogota takes shape. A new Colombian ambassador, Armando Benedetti, arrived in Caracas and said on Twitter: “Relations with Venezuela should never have been severed. We are brothers, and an imaginary line cannot separate us.”He was

Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before she closed out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new album.”I thought it would be a fun moment to tell you that my new album comes out Oct. 21,” said Swift after she won video of the year for her project “All Too Well: The Short Film”

Donald Trump has been complaining that Ron DeSantis is mirroring him — right down to the hand gestures. According to three people who’ve spoken to the former president about the Florida governor last year and in more recent months, Trump has repeatedly ridiculed DeSantis for ripping off the ex-president’s style. “There was this time, maybe a year ago

Three people, including the suspected shooter, were dead following an attack Sunday night at a Bend, Oregon, grocery store, police said. Authorities announced the number of deceased in a tweet around 9:15 p.m. local time. Earlier, a spokesperson for St. Charles Bend medical center said it had received one patient from the attack who was dead on arrival.

A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman. The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded to

A Massachusetts woman shot her brother-in-law, his father, her own dad, and herself to death after she publicly accused the first man of physically abusing her sister for years while the other two – along with additional relatives – stood idly by, according to authorities and a chilling social media post that offers an apparent motive for the violence. The gruesome saga

A mint-condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid-for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Diego

NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad. The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It’s poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA’s Apollo program, which landed

The OnlyFans model accused of killing her boyfriend in their Miami apartment was denied bond after being extradited from Hawaii to Florida to face murder charges, according to reports. Courtney Clenney, 26, was returned to a jail cell after making a first court appearance in Miami-Dade County on Saturday. She is facing a second-degree murder rap for fatally

IT ALMOST FEELS like a cliché to declare 2022 the year of Bad Bunny because let’s face it: The last several years have been entirely his. Since 2020, the Puerto Rican titan has been the most streamed artist in the world, and every rotation around the sun makes him a bigger phenomenon. He keeps breaking records and climbing skyward, reaching a place

Republicans head into the fall still in a position to gain enough House seats for a majority. Still, a tumultuous summer has made their advantage appear a little smaller today — with a trend so far pointing toward narrow gains instead of a wave. Our CBS News Battleground Tracker estimates Republicans at 226 seats today, down from 230 estimated in July

Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has revealed how he set about explaining his vaccination status leading into the famous August 2021 press conference where he told media he was ‘immunized.’When asked by reporters at training camp last August if he’d received the COVID-19 injection, Rodgers described himself as ‘immunized.’ Reporters did not

Late on 3 November 2020, Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden. At that moment, Rupert Murdoch’s US flagship upended Donald Trump’s re-election bid. Chris Stirewalt, a decade-long Fox News editor, was part of the team that put the state in the Democrat’s column. One insurrection and two months later, the network fired him. Fox called it a

Pope Francis, who has often said he may step down in the future if bad health impedes him from leading the Catholic Church, on Sunday praised the humility of one of the few popes in history to resign willingly instead of ruling for life. L’Aquila, a central Italian city that Francis visited briefly, is the burial place of Celestine V, who resigned as pope in 1294

Jason Jenkins, the Dolphins’ senior vice president of communications and community affairs, died suddenly in the hours before Miami’s game Saturday against the Eagles, the team announced. He was 47. The community pillar had worked with the Dolphins since 2009 and is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children.”Our hearts are broken

The Buffalo Bills released Matt Araiza on Saturday after a woman alleged in a civil lawsuit that the rookie punter “gang-raped” her as a 17-year-old minor last year. The lawsuit, filed in San Diego County Superior Court, alleges that Araiza and two teammates on the San Diego State football team took turns having sex with the woman during a party last October after

A federal district judge has shown her ‘preliminary intent’ to grant former President Donald Trump’s request of having a special master go through documents agents seized at Mar-a-Lago.Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon issued the preliminary order Saturday evening, just hours after the Justice Department released a redacted version

Abbott Laboratories said Friday it is restarting production of its Similac baby formula and expects to begin shipments to retail stores in about six weeks. The Sturgis, Michigan, facility at the center of the bacterial contamination concerns had already restarted production earlier this summer of EleCare and other specialty formulas, but not Similac.“We know that

Roland Mesnier, who created often-magical desserts for five presidents and their guests as White House executive pastry chef, has died at age 78.The White House Historical Association confirmed his death on Saturday, which said he died Friday following a short illness. One of the longest-serving White House chefs, Mesnier was hired in 1979