The trial of a woman accused of feeding her lookalike friend poisoned cheesecake began in the New York City borough of Queens on Monday, CBS New York reports. Prosecutors say the suspect hoped to kill her target and steal her identity. When Olga Svyk was asked if the person who …
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Embattled home goods retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond is closing 87 stores as its financial travails continue. It will also close its entire chain of Harmon drugstores as well as five Buybuy Baby stores, the company said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. Bed Bath & Beyond said it …
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Springfield, Ill. — Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, a federal lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association Tuesday claims. The powerful NRA joined a parade of gun-rights activists seeking to toss out the newly minted prohibition on dozens …
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A series of crashes caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 80 killed five people, including two Arkansas high school students and three recent graduates of the school, and seriously injured others in south-central Wyoming. The driver has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired, according to a Wyoming …
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The typical U.S. tax refund, which averaged $3,200 in 2022, is often the biggest check a household receives all year. And with inflation still high, some measures show that roughly a third of Americans are counting on their 2023 refund checks to make ends meet. But getting that payment in …
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Chris Whipple, author of “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House,” that aired on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: We are joined now by Chris Whipple, author of a new book about the …
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With its sales slowing and its stock price tumbling, Tesla slashed prices dramatically Friday on several versions of its electric vehicles, making some of its models eligible for a new federal tax credit that could help spur buyer interest. The company dropped prices nearly 20% in the United States on …
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A former men’s magazine model was sentenced Tuesday in Nevada to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing a California doctor whose bludgeoned corpse was found in 2019 in the trunk of her abandoned car just outside Las Vegas. Kelsey Nichole Turner, 29, agreed in November to a so-called …
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Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show. The show is getting back to normal after going completely virtual in 2021 and seeing a significant drop in 2022 attendance because of the pandemic. On Wednesday, big names like LG …
Read More »Washington — The House’s unsuccessful efforts to elect its next speaker have thrust Florida Republican Byron Donalds into the spotlight, as three of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s detractors nominated him to be speaker in three subsequent rounds of voting Wednesday. Donalds garnered support from 20 of his fellow Republicans after he …
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