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American employers announced 33,429 job cuts last month, down 46% from a year earlier, while artificial intelligence accounted for a third of them for the fifth straight month.
The CDC says 36 people have been hospitalized in a Salmonella Javiana outbreak traced to peppers imported from Mexico. Colorado and Minnesota each have at least 110 cases.
Four people familiar with the effort told Reuters the administration wants to bar imports of new Chinese models of the devices that shuttle data over fiber inside data centers. China's Zhongji Innolight holds a 27% global share.
Survivors of the Iranian strike on Port of Shuaiba say commanders ignored force-protection warnings and denied requests for medical supplies. Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants the investigation released.
WatchThe S&P 500 finished at a record 7,737 and crude fell to $75.32 a barrel after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come within days.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo is the second person to die after being held at the Newark ICE facility and the 22nd to die in ICE custody this year. His family says he was never sent to a hospital in time.
Aaron Farinacci, 37, was booked on suspicion of first-degree arson and held on $1 million bond after a witness reported seeing him kneeling in the grass where the Old Trails Fire began.
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue called the incident 'very weird and unprecedented' — the first time, he believes, that something this autonomous has carried out a cyberattack on its own.
WatchThe president called off a massive bombing campaign on the promise that negotiations were about to begin. Tehran's foreign ministry says the only talks happening are with Oman, and American officials told CBS News no new negotiations are scheduled.
WatchPima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News he had no body, no burial site and no note. The next day his department published two ransom letters — the second of which says the 84-year-old died shortly after she was taken.
The framework built on Trump’s June executive order is voluntary, an official said, and the administration will present it to industry partners Tuesday.
The longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S. House was a passenger when her vehicle was hit Sunday morning in Toledo. Police say the other driver was picked up by a second car and fled the scene.
WatchThe July total beat June's record of roughly 43,000, with about 1,500 people entering custody every day. Roughly 68,000 people are currently being held across the detention network.
The bank committed to financing 1 million affordable units and helping 500,000 people buy homes by 2035, a 40% increase over its housing capital in the previous 10 years.
Analysts expect $6.9 billion in second-quarter revenue, most of it from Starlink. On Thursday, a lockup expires and more than 911 million additional shares can be sold.
The 2026 total has already passed last year's, and 93% of the infections are in people who were never vaccinated. Officials expect the country to lose its measles elimination status this year.
WatchThe president said Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates asked him to hold off, and that talks aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz would begin Monday. Iran's foreign ministry says no direct talks with Washington are scheduled.
Three fires burning around Washington's second-largest city have scorched more than eight square miles with zero containment, and forecasters warn the coming days could bring extreme fire behavior.
Three people were killed and seven wounded at a Twin Falls, Idaho, restaurant on Saturday. The 24-year-old suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after two bystanders returned fire.
The Cessna operated by Aerodiana had taken off from Ica for a flight over the ancient desert geoglyphs. Nazca's municipal government said there were no survivors.
Day four of Lindsay Clancy’s first-degree murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court turned on medical testimony and a site visit. Her defense says postpartum psychosis; prosecutors say calculation.
The complaint filed Thursday in Delaware Superior Court says Livi Castro, 13, Riv Kelleher, 14, Nathaniel Chambers, 17, and Dawson Holden, 18, all developed compulsive platform use, severe sleep loss and suicidal thinking before their deaths. Meta booked $2.4 billion in legal expenses last quarter.
The FBI, EPA and CISA warned this week that intruders seized control of internet-exposed equipment at water utilities, in some cases causing pressure loss and flooding. Federal investigators are examining whether Iran is behind it; the president blamed the state where more than 30 systems were hit.
Freddie Mac's 30-year average climbed eight basis points as the Iran war pushed oil and Treasury yields higher and the Fed signaled its next move is more likely up than down.
WatchSources tell CBS News the two governments want any campaign against Iran's energy grid wrapped up before financial markets open Monday. President Trump has not given final approval.
The roughly $100 million jet went down in an open field at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Friday, starting a fire that crews smothered with retardant.
The Woodside Fire broke out Thursday afternoon inside Salt Point State Park and pushed smoke into the North Bay at levels EPA monitors rated up to four times the hazardous threshold.
Chevron's profit nearly quadrupled and Exxon's doubled as the Strait of Hormuz blockade pushed Brent crude past $100. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wants a windfall tax; Exxon's CEO calls that short-sighted.
WatchA configuration error handed live internet access to models that had been told they were playing inside a closed simulation. One of them pulled credentials from a production database; another shipped malicious code to a public software repository.
The Commerce Department's advance estimate came in well below the 2.1% economists expected, even as consumer spending accelerated. The price index for gross domestic purchases jumped to 5.7%.