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Thousands of sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have reportedly faced food shortages and broken plumbing, with some considering jumping overboard.
BBC News
Senate Democrats are demanding answers about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln during the aircraft carrier's record-setting deployment.
CBS News2 sources
A preliminary report by US investigators says an engine fan blade broke on last month's flight from Greece to Germany.
BBC News
The U.S. is sending a new aircraft carrier to the Middle East amid reports of poor conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been long deployed to the theater in support of the war against Iran.  The USS George Washington, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, departed a port in Vietnam last week and was spotted…
The Hill
The University of Michigan plans to forgo letter grades for some first-semester freshmen next year, prompting debate over the usefulness and impact of grades. Abbie Everett, senior director of teaching and learning at KnowledgeWorks, joins CBS News to discuss.
CBS News
Bryan Betancur was found guilty in a Washington, D.C., Superior Court of one count of simple assault for the incident on the Metro at the NOMA-Gallaudet station in the D.C. area.
Global News
Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.
Ars Technica
The baby at the center of a surrogacy dispute was born in Texas Wednesday and has hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare heart defect.
CBS News
Despite growing opposition to the death penalty, one state is behind the rising numbers.
BBC News
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent departed from the NATO summit in Turkey last month aboard the same plane President Trump had been secretly moved off of before takeoff, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press that Rubio was aware of the switch and the potential…
The Hill
Police in Tacoma, Washington, say they have rescued 60 cats and kittens from an abandoned sailboat that was found anchored off a city beach last week.
CBS News
A petition to declare U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra "persona non grata" and have him removed from his post has received more than 104,000 signatures.
ABC News: Top Stories
Recent data compiled by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission shows 19 pedestrians were killed across the US in crashes with ebike riders from 2017 to 2024. That’s roughly the average number of pedestrians killed by motorists every day of 2024 Continue reading...
The Guardian
A Virginia woman said an ICE agent pointed a firearm at her head and falsely claimed she tried to run over agents during an encounter in Falls Church.
ABC News: Top Stories
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