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A new report on the state of birds in the United States has an urgent warning: bird populations across nearly every habitat are declining, with about one-third of U.S. bird species in critical need of conservation action.  A total of 229 out of 718 bird species in the U.S. are …

On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week in favor of a Christian graphic artist who said it would violate her religious beliefs to create wedding websites for same-sex couples, a man whose name and contact information appeared in case documents with an alleged request to use …

One suspected gunman has been arrested in connection with the Memorial Day mass shooting on Florida’s Hollywood Broadwalk that left at least nine people hurt and sent holiday revelers fleeing for safety, police confirmed to CBS Miami on Saturday. The Hollywood Police Department said the suspect, Jordan Burton, was taken into custody …

Allen Weisselberg, the former Trump Organization chief financial officer who pleaded guilty to tax fraud and other crimes, was released from jail Wednesday, records show. Weisselberg spent 100 days in New York City’s Rikers Island jail, beginning in January, serving more than two-thirds of his five month sentence, after appearing …

Rutgers University and union representatives have announced an agreement on a framework for new contracts with several faculty unions, allowing a halt to a five-day strike that was the first such job action in the 257-year history of New Jersey’s flagship university, Rutgers said early Saturday that the agreement on …

Authorities have launched a homicide investigation after a former police oversight commissioner was found dead in her Ann Arbor home on Thursday. Jude Walton, 51, had been the commissioner of Ann Arbor’s Independent Community Oversight Commission. Ann Arbor police said in a news release that they arrived at Walton’s home …

Syphilis rates surged by an alarming degree in 2021 amid an overall increase in cases of sexually transmitted infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. There was a 32% increase in combined stages of syphilis between 2020 and 2021, the CDC said. Cases of congenital syphilis, which …

The Biden administration is proposing the first-ever national standard for six “forever chemicals” in drinking water,  the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday. Per- and polyfluorinated substances are a group of compounds knowns as PFAS found in multiple water sources and can cause ailments like cancer, liver disease and more.  The …

The 6-year-old who shot his elementary school teacher in Newport News, Virginia, in January will not face charges, according to the case’s prosecutor, though it has not yet been decided whether any adults will be held criminally responsible.  The prosecutor said that a child that young could not reasonably stand …

Daylight saving time is going to begin Sunday the same way the twice-a-year time change has started for the last 17 years, only to end in November 2024 — but that end won’t be permanent. Time ran out for a proposal that cleared a major hurdle in Congress in 2022 to …