The Women’s Professional Baseball League has chosen New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco as the cities that will represent the four teams that will compete in the inaugural season, the league announced Tuesday. The upstart league co-founded by Justine Siegal, the first woman to coach for an MLB team with the Oakland Athletics…
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy criticized Democrats for declining to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open with no strings attached. “I call it the ‘Seinfeld’ shutdown because it’s a shutdown about nothing,” the California Republican told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett, referencing the common joke that the seminal sitcom was…
The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and underscoring the fragility of a system reliant on only a handful of tech giants. Monday’s problems at Amazon Web Services, or AWS, spawned 11 million total outage reports,…
How goats are solving the invasive plant problem on Tennessee River island – CBS News Watch CBS News A popular camping ground on the Tennessee River was overrun by vegetation and desperately needed a trimming. As Dave Malkoff reports, the search for a landscaper led to an unlikely solution. Source link
Washington — The portion of the White House East Wing that is being knocked down as a part of President Trump’s ballroom project includes the first lady’s office and dozens of other workspaces, sources familiar with the plans told CBS News. The East Wing, built in 1902 and renovated in 1942, will be reconstructed, sources…
In her posthumously published memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre shares a personal account of the story that made headlines worldwide: her accusations against Prince Andrew and years of alleged trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein. “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” was released on Tuesday. Guiffre died by suicide earlier this year. Here…
Guidance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) clarifies that a $100,000 fee imposed in September to obtain H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers applies only to new applicants who are living abroad. In a notice posted on the agency’s website late Monday, USCIS explains what types of visa applicants must pay the new six-figure fee and…
Washington — Arizona’s attorney general is taking legal action against the House of Representatives over Speaker Mike Johnson’s delay in swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who would be the decisive signature on a petition to force a vote on releasing files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Arizona’s Democratic Attorney General Kris…
Tropical Storm Melissa has formed in the Caribbean, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Tuesday morning. Melissa, the 13th named storm in the Atlantic this year, is not expected to have major impacts on the mainland United States, but there is uncertainty on its path and intensity, the hurricane center said. Here’s what to know…