New York — A suspect has been arrested for allegedly attacking Asian women in Manhattan. The NYPD said Wednesday that 28-year-old Steven Zajonc had been arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime, attempted assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and harassment. As CBS New York’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas reports, police said seven women …
Read More »Texas judge temporarily restricts agencies from investigating family over gender
Texas agencies are temporarily restricted from investigating a family for providing their child with gender-transitioning procedures, a Travis County District Court judge said Wednesday. Last week, Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies, including the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, to investigate gender-transitioning procedures as child abuse. The temporary restraining …
Read More »Amazon to close all its brick
Amazon is closing all of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, as well as its 4-star shops and pop-up locations, as the online retail giant reworks its physical footprint. The Seattle-based company said Wednesday that the move, which affects 66 stores in the U.S. and two in the United Kingdom, will enable it …
Read More »Stocks close down for the week as investors keep wary eye on Ukraine and Fed
Stocks closed down for a second straight week in the U.S.— and sunk deeper into the red for 2022 so far — as investors assess the risks from escalating tensions in Ukraine and a shift in monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. After another day of turbulence, the Dow and the S&P …
Read More »Reports of sexual assault at U.S. military academies rose over the past year
There were 131 incidents of sexual assault reported at the military service academies in the 2020-2021 academic year, according to the Pentagon’s annual report on sexual harassment and violence that was released Thursday. It’s the highest number since the Pentagon began tracking the data. The report showed a 7% increase …
Read More »Paislee Shultis, 4
A girl who was 4 years old when she was reported missing in 2019 has been found, police in New York announced Tuesday. Authorities said they discovered Paislee Shultis under a staircase in a home with her non-custodial parents. Shultis was first reported missing from Cayuga Heights in New York …
Read More »Senate passes bill ending forced arbitration in sexual harassment and assault cases in workplace
Washington — The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to legislation guaranteeing that people who experience sexual harassment at work can seek recourse in the courts, a milestone for the #MeToo movement that prompted a national reckoning on the way sexual misconduct claims are handled. The measure, which passed the …
Read More »Jerry Harris pleads guilty in federal child pornography case
Jerry Harris, the former star of Netflix’s “Cheer” docuseries, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, the U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed to CBS Chicago. The 22-year-old has been held …
Read More »Male enhancement pills sold nationwide on Amazon recalled
Five brands of male sexual enhancement capsules sold nationwide on Amazon are being recalled after tests found samples tainted with an unapproved drug for treating male erectile dysfunction. In the last week alone, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has posted four separate recalls of products by little-known companies that …
Read More »Amy Schneider breaks Matt Amodio’s second
Amy Schneider broke yet another “Jeopardy!” record on Monday, knocking fellow star Matt Amodio out of the second-place spot for consecutive wins on the quiz show. Schneider, the first woman to earn $1 million in winnings on the show, has now won 39 games and $1,319,800. Like many of her …
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