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Russia launched the strikes on Ukraine less than a day after negotiations to end the war, which also involved the United States, ended in St. Petersburg.

It was the biggest earthquake in the region in the last five years, China

A drought-stricken region of northeast Spain has become a focus for American companies searching for locations to place their data centers.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday he had launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti.

The pro-Israel lobbying group and influential political funder announced it would no longer endorse candidates or give directly to campaigns. AIPAC's affiliated super PAC, though, will continue.

In an interview with CBS News after Stephen Hubbard was released from Russian custody, his son, Fr. Joseph Coleman, said his father might have made a mistake in staying in Ukraine when the war began.

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Pope Leo XIV will not need any further treatment after having lung cancer surgery, his doctors said in a statement.

Experts tell CBS News geography, interceptor shortages and evolving Houthi tactics are helping the Iranian proxy menace Saudi Arabia, and global energy supplies.

Iran says the U.S. is seeking changes to a seven-day ceasefire proposal Trump rejected last month as indirect talks continue.

French authorities are extending curfews and increasing the police presence in public spaces as President Emmanuel Macron

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It's the fourth major U.S. carrier to cut its 2026 forecast this month because of a spike in fuel costs.

Retail brands are shrinking assortments to get back to healthy growth, while box stores are culling products to better curate offerings and stabilize business.

Lilly said it plans to start Phase 3 trials on the combo regimen adding its amylin drug eloralintide to tirzepatide at the end of the year.

The study identified contested trust disputes by examining thousands of civil filings that were scheduled to come before San Francisco Superior Court.

Barry Diller's People Inc. has rescinded its offer to buy the remaining public shares of MGM Resorts.

Cox analysts said Ford and General Motors are seeing sales lag because they don't have many hybrid vehicles.

Digital Realty and Equinix, two of the largest data center REITs, saw their stocks slump after warnings over AI advancements.

Most battery cells currently rely on raw materials from China. GM is seeking to establish domestic supply chains both for EVs and energy storage.

The NFL has an opt-out clause at the end of the 2029-30 season in which it can resell and redistribute its media rights.

Engelbert oversaw a period of unprecedented growth for the WNBA, but has faced criticism from players over her leadership.

The NBA also fined the Los Angeles Clippers $30 million and said the team will forfeit five first-round picks, one in each year in drafts starting in 2029.

Whatnot and TikTok are tapping into its potential livestream shopping in the U.S. after a decade of massive success in China.

Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft after 21 years.

OpenAI built an “offline world” for top AI models.

Listings must “accurately represent” items being sold.

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

Didn’t Microsoft say the next Xbox needed to be affordable?

Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.

Galaxy phones without the RAM price hike.

A study out of Texas is a warning on data centers everywhere.

Will this deadline actually stick?

Vertical films aren’t ready for the red carpet treatment.

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.

GM thinks it can beat China with smarter cars and AI.

Sitting at a desk all day hurts. And it isn't good for us. Strategies to make it a little more comfortable, from eye muscle exercises to alleviate eye strain to a back pain-fighting body movement.

For years, customers have complained of aggressive sales tactics and charges at mall skincare stores. NPR investigated the business that connects many of them.

Factory workers in India are being asked to wear GoPros to record the way they do their jobs. The ultimate goal is to train robots to take over. Will it work?

Listeners of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday may already know that host Ayesha Rascoe loves horror. But why do scream queens (and kings) like her like what's frightening? The answer may surprise you.

The 17 goals agreed upon by world leaders are incredibly ambitious. Are we even close to achieving any of them? If we don't, is the project a failure?

No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.

That's the grim assessment from the ground in the wake of the catastrophic flooding, which damaged or destroyed 7 health facilities, interrupted routine care and is affecting mental health.

The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice.

The judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder case has declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.

A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammation and pelvic floor dysfunction.

Medicare launched a pilot program that could streamline the process to get GLP-1s, with some seniors paying just $50 a month. But many people with the most serious illnesses won't get that discount.

Completed in 1958, the domed building is located on the campus of Florida Southern College, home to 13 Wright-designed buildings, the world's largest single-site collection of the architect's work

Very few night skies seen from the south of France during the summer of 1889 would match the scene on van Gogh's canvas. A new study argues that it could have been July 22

Some Americans lauded the 30-year-old bank robber as a Robin Hood-esque folk hero. Others castigated him as a violent criminal whose misdeeds were emblematic of the troubled era

Home to the world’s largest public collection of his artworks, a new pavilion at Quebec's Musée National des Beaux-Arts showcases the more than 50-year career of Riopelle, who was a key member of the avant-garde Automatistes movement

A 17-person crew traveled to a remote atoll in the South Pacific to investigate the so-called Taraia Object. After surveying the site, the team announced that the anomaly was not a fragment of the long-lost Lockheed Electra aircraft

A new study claims that the pages of the Voynich Manuscript, thought to be written by several different scribes in 16th-century Europe, alternate irregularly. It may change the way codebreakers approach the text

White dwarf stars are too far from Earth to be observed directly. So, scientists reconstructed how they'd look to human eyes based on the wavelengths of light they emit and found a colorful array of objects that might appear yellow, purple or pink

Experts say that an oft-circulated anecdote about two royal astronomers drunkenly failing to foresee an eclipse thousands of years ago contains hints of truth

The sleuths spent two years digging into archives and building 3D models of 19th-century Paris. The location is now immortalized by a bronze plaque celebrating the historic site and the "poetic" early photograph

One year after the species was reclassified from “endangered” to “least concern,” green turtles in the western Indian Ocean exemplify that return—and the subtleties a global designation can miss

New research suggests that the ancient coffin was repurposed in the tenth or eleventh century to hold the remains of an abbot who'd overseen the London monastery

At first, plants below an elephant carcass die. Soil microbes and plants grow back soon after, but only a few select species. Herbivores later come in to munch on the nutrient-rich greens