By CBSBoston.com Staff Click here for updates on this story NANTUCKET, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A proposal filed by a Nantucket citizen seeks to make all beaches on the island topless in the name of gender equality. Local voters will consider that measure and others at Nantucket’s May 2022 town meeting. The article filed by Dorothy
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The Jefferson City fire department responded to a house fire on the 2700 block of Briarwood Dr.
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By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrants whose children were taken from them under former President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance border policy have not reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. government. That’s according to a lawyer for the families, who along with other advocates is pushing back at increasing criticism of a proposal
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By ADAM BEAM and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Unemployment agencies across the country were bombarded with fraudulent claims during the pandemic. But so far states have reported few fraud attempts among their rental assistance programs. Congress has approved $45 billion to help eligible tenants pay their rent during the pandemic. More
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By ADAM BEAM and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Unemployment agencies across the country were bombarded with fraudulent claims during the pandemic. But so far states have reported few fraud attempts among their rental assistance programs. Congress has approved $45 billion to help eligible tenants pay their rent during the pandemic. More
Continue Reading By PARKER PURIFOY Associated Press The New Orleans Audubon Zoo has taken in a 7-month-old female jaguar that was rescued from wildlife trafficking. The jaguar was rescued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums then asked the New Orleans zoo to care for it because it already has the
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI, ROB GILLIES, and MARIA VERZA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has kicked off the North American Leaders Summit with a one-on-one meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling the relationship one of the easiest in the early going of his presidency. But as Biden and Trudeau sat down
Continue Reading By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A suspected serial killer has been charged with killing two people in Kansas. Wyandotte County authorities announced Thursday that 26-year-old Perez Reed was charged with killing two people at an apartment complex in Kansas City, Kansas. He has already been charged with four killings in
Continue Reading By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A suspected serial killer has been charged with killing two people in Kansas. Wyandotte County authorities announced Thursday that 26-year-old Perez Reed was charged with killing two people at an apartment complex in Kansas City, Kansas. He has already been charged with four killings in
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer CVS Health will close hundreds of drugstores over the next three years, as the health care giant adjusts to changing customer needs and converts to new store formats. The company said Thursday that it will close about 300 stores a year for the next three years as it looks
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A Washington state florist who refused to make an arrangement for a couple out of religious objections to same-sex marriage is withdrawing a pending petition before the Supreme Court after announcing that she has settled her dispute, according to her lawyers. The settlement means the justices won’t
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By Eric Levenson, Brad Parks, Brian Stelter and Carma Hassan, CNN The jury in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial concluded its third day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict in a day that featured the judge’s decision to ban MSNBC from the courtroom for allegedly following a jury bus. The 12-person jury, made up of five
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Potential pay outs of up to $450,000 to migrant families separated at the US-Mexico border are the latest political flashpoint in the Republican criticism of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy — and the political back-and-forth has put a tense relationship under further strain. The debate has not only put the Biden
Continue Reading DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a missing 3-year-old boy from Tennessee and a 16-year-old girl from Kentucky were found safe in Southern California and the younger child’s father was arrested. Orange County sheriff’s deputies found Noah Clare and his cousin, Amber Clare, Thursday in Dana Point. Thirty-five-year-old Jacob Clare was taken into custody.
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court will hear arguments next month on whether the state’s largest health care provider can require its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Cases involving Ochsner Health employees in the Shreveport and Lafayette areas have been consolidated by the state’s highest court. A hearing is set for Dec. 7.
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s human rights abuses. Such a boycott would keep American dignitaries, but not U.S. athletes, from the games. Biden made the comment to reporters Thursday as he hosted Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Dos hombres condenados por el asesinato de Malcolm X en 1965 fueron exonerados después de más de medio siglo, según sus abogados. Una investigación de 22 meses llevada a cabo por la Fiscalía del Distrito de Manhattan Cyrus Vance y los abogados de los hombres Muhammad A. Aziz y el difunto
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the new chair of the Defense Policy Board Wednesday, the Pentagon announced, almost exactly one year after the Trump administration abruptly removed her and other national security experts from the advisory committee. Albright is the first chair of the board since
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of the men exonerated decades after the 1965 killing of Malcolm X says that “I am an 83-year-old man who was victimized by the criminal justice system.” The convictions of Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam were dismissed Thursday by
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By Ethan Cohen, Daniella Diaz and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democrat Rep. G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina announced Thursday he would not seek reelection in 2022, all but blaming his decision to retire on a redrawn congressional map that made his district more competitive. Butterfield is the latest Democrat to say they’ll leave Congress as the
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