China could draw on its innovation in advanced manufacturing to improve business – and overall – ties with the United States amid a fragile trade truce, according to a prominent American political scientist. In an interview, Robert Pape, a professor at the University of Chicago, also said China could “rise peacefully” to be the world’s…
Inside the fight to end chronic homelessness in Kansas City – CBS News Watch CBS News The number of homeless people in the U.S. is growing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that the number of unhoused Americans rose 18% in 2024 compared to the previous year. Ian Lee reports on the effort…
Kansas City, Missouri — Many consider a stretch of road next to train tracks and the Missouri River the most dangerous area in Kansas City, Missouri. But for years, couple Smoke and Serena have called it home. “Violence, oh yeah, I guess it just, it brings out the worst in you, man,” Smoke told CBS…
A Kansas City firefighter paramedic was fatally stabbed by a patient who he was taking via ambulance to a local hospital, officials said. Graham Hoffman, 29, was taking a patient following a routine medical call from police on Sunday when he was stabbed in the chest, piercing his heart. Despite lifesaving efforts, Hoffman died from…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — When retired school counselor Don Herneisen meets up with friends each week for breakfast at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, the conversation often turns to the economy. With financial markets in turmoil as President Donald Trump unveiled his latest tariffs this week, the popularity of that topic is unlikely to change anytime…
A total lunar eclipse will occur for all of North America Thursday night. What You Need To Know A total lunar eclipse will take place Thursday night into Friday morning All of North America will have the chance to see it The last total lunar eclipse on Earth was in 2022 A total lunar eclipse…
Two men were charged Wednesday in the deaths of three Kansas City Chiefs fans whose bodies were found in a backyard two days after they got together to watch the final game of the regular season in 2024. Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson are each charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts…
The television reporter who died in New Orleans while on assignment to cover the Super Bowl had a sedative drug in his system, a police detective testified in court this week. Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old anchor and reporter for Telemundo in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead in his hotel room in the New Orleans…
Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old Missouri man who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of a Black honor student who rang the White man’s doorbell in Kansas City by mistake, has died, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Lester was charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Harsh cold descended on the nation’s midsection Monday as a polar vortex gripped the Rockies and Northern Plains on the heels of weekend storms that pummeled the Eastern U.S. with floods, killing at least 14 people. What You Need To Know The National Weather Service is warning of life-threatening cold Extreme cold warnings have been…