MoneyWatch: The mortgage refinancing boom ends – CBS News Watch CBS News Rising interest rates are affecting nearly every aspect of the U.S. economy and the mortgage refinancing boom of 2021 seems to be the latest casualty. Axios markets correspondent Matt Phillips joined CBS News’ Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers […]
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Louisiana state troopers charged in beating of Black man
State prosecutors have charged three Louisiana State Police troopers accused of beating a Black motorist, hoisting him to his feet by his hair braids and bragging in text messages that the “whoopin’” would give him “nightmares for a long time.” The misdemeanor simple battery charges in the 2020 arrest of […]
Coinbase reels as cryptocurrency prices slump
Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has lost half its value in the past week, including its biggest one-day drop to date on Wednesday as the famously volatile crypto market weathers yet another slump. Coinbase reported a $430 million net loss in the first quarter, or $1.98 per share, on declining sales […]
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says vote reveals where senators stand on “women’s reproductive freedom”
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says vote reveals where senators stand on “women’s reproductive freedom” – CBS News Watch CBS News Ahead of Wednesday’s Senate vote on a bill to protect abortion rights nationwide, Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York told CBS News’ Nikole Killion that it would reveal to voters […]
Best graduation gifts in 2022
Getty Images The Class of 2022 is graduating — from high school, from college, maybe even from grad school. Pick up a gift for the grad in your life to celebrate the accomplishment. Consider gifting your grad with an Amazon gift card, new luggage, diamond earrings and more. We break […]
Bridge in Pakistan collapses after glacial lake outburst
Bridge in Pakistan collapses after glacial lake outburst – CBS News Watch CBS News A bridge in northern Pakistan collapsed on Saturday after a glacial lake outburst caused by a recent heat wave released huge amounts of water into the stream and surrounding areas. View CBS News In Be the […]
Alabama shipwreck holds key to past for kin of enslaved Africans
Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from what’s left of the village built by newly freed people after the […]
Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor says Putin “certainly” a war criminal
London — As Ukrainian authorities and the international community work to meticulously collate mounting evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials of World War II-era Nazi officials told CBS News that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “certainly” a war criminal. Benjamin Ferencz, […]
What’s next in abortion rights fight on Capitol Hill
What’s next in abortion rights fight on Capitol Hill – CBS News Watch CBS News After a bill to codify abortion rights failed in the Senate, Democrats in Congress believe the abortion debate will be a critical issue in the midterms. Republicans say they’ll be able to campaign on this […]
First image of black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Three years after capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light years away, astronomers have managed to “photograph” the gaping maw of the smaller but much closer black hole lurking at the core of Earth’s Milky Way, researchers announced Thursday. The black hole […]