Digital Brief: October 17, 2023 (AM) Digital Brief: October 17, 2023 (AM) 03:08 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia police are seeking tips and surveillance videos after what they called two gunpoint “stranger rapes” in the Kingsessing section of the city over the weekend. One happened early in the morning, while the […]
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Trump returns to New York courtroom as civil fraud trial continues
Former President Donald Trump is attending his civil fraud trial in New York on Tuesday, returning to a Manhattan courtroom for the fourth time since the trial began two weeks ago. Trump, two of his sons and their company were already found liable for fraud in September in the civil […]
Kirby: “Significant progress” made on humanitarian assistance to Gaza
U.S. officials believe “significant progress” has been made on a “framework” to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war, but “there’s nothing flowing right now” by way of assistance, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, John Kirby, told “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday. Secretary of State Antony […]
Why Tokyo is trying to cancel Japan’s biggest Halloween party
Tokyo – While boosting tourism is usually part of the job description for a local politician, the mayor of one Tokyo district is taking a different tack: He’s pulling up the welcome mat. “This year we’re making it clear to the world that Shibuya is not a venue for Halloween […]
4 inmates, including murder suspect, escape Georgia jail
Four inmates escaped custody from a jail in central Georgia on Monday, authorities said. One was being held on a murder charge. The men, identified as 52-year-old Joey Fournier, 24-year-old Marc Kerry Anderson, 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell and 29-year-old Chavis Demaryo Stokes, fled from the Bibb County Detention Center early […]
Dozens reported dead in Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza, where civilians had been told to go
Dozens reported dead in Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza, where civilians had been told to go – CBS News Watch CBS News Israel was conducting heavy airstrikes early Tuesday in and near the southern Gaza towns of Khan Younis and Rafah, where Israel had told civilians to seek refuge, local […]
Man claims Hertz falsely accused him of stealing car
Man claims Hertz falsely accused him of stealing car – CBS News Watch CBS News A Kentucky man says Hertz accused him of stealing a car, a car he says he returned over three years ago. CBS News’ Anna Werner reports. View CBS News In Be the first to know […]
Dozens of WWII shipwrecks identified in Dunkirk channel: “Very moving”
Shattered by bomb impacts, the 100-meter-long British destroyer “Keith” has been lying at the bottom of the Dunkirk channel since its sinking in 1940. It went down during Operation Dynamo, when hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were rescued by sea from the advancing Germans. Now the World War II […]
Man imprisoned 16 years for wrongful conviction fatally shot by Ga. deputy
Kingsland, Ga. — A man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said. Leonard Allen Cure, 53, was identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, […]
Live updates: Biden to show solidarity with Israel visit as U.S. crafts Gaza aid plan
President Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday to deliver a strong message of support to a key U.S. ally that has declared war on the Palestinian group Hamas over its brutal terror rampage in southern Israel. Mr. Biden is “coming here at a critical moment for Israel, for the region, and […]