Big tech companies engage in “vast surveillance” of users, FTC says
FTC Chair Lina Khan says tech giants such as Meta and Google “endanger people’s privacy” and “expose them to a host of harms.”
Latest news on January 6 attack defendants being sentenced
Several defendants could get years in prison for their role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane breaks down how their sentences will send a strong message to other defendants, and how the 2024 presidential election will impact the cases.
Former CIA officer gets 30 years in prison for assaulting dozens of women
A former CIA officer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for heinous crimes against more than two dozen women around the world. Some of Brian Jeffrey Raymond’s victims appeared in court for his sentencing.
Jurors watch video of EMTs failing to treat Tyre Nichols after he was beaten
Jurors in the trial of three former officers charged in Tyre Nichol’s fatal beating have seen video showing two EMTs standing as he sat bleeding on the ground.
Hours before execution, man says he lied in testimony against friend
Hours before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself.
St. Louis police say officers fired upon in West End
ST. LOUIS – Shots were fired at St. Louis police officers Thursday afternoon after responding to a call in the city’s West End neighborhood. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting happened in the area of Amherst Place and Julian Avenue. No officers were injured. Officers did not return fire. This is […]
Majority of Missourians support prohibiting cell phone access and later start times in high schools
ST. LOUIS – A poll by Saint Louis University and online marketing research company YouGov finds that a majority of Missourians support pushing back start times for high schools, as well as prohibiting cell phone use for students during school hours. The August 2024 SLU/YouGov surveyed 900 likely Missouri voters between August 8-16. weighted the […]
New signs to mark St. Louis sites with low-level radioactive waste
ST. LOUIS — The Army Corps of Engineers revealed new signs that will be going up at property where low-level radioactive materials are known to exist. They say the signs will go up with property owner’s permission. They will start to go up in November. Nuclear waste contamination from World War II and Cold War-era […]
Southern Illinois man sentenced on child porn charges
BENTON, Ill. – A Marion, Illinois, man appeared in U.S. District Court on Thursday to be sentenced on charges related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Missouri said Michael D. Mitchell, 36, pleaded guilty in May to two counts of receipt of child pornography […]
Scarlett Johansson on using physicality to voice Elita-1 in “Transformers One”
Scarlett Johansson compares the physical demands of voicing Elita-1 in Transformers One to her decade-long work as Black Widow in “The Avengers.”
