J.J. Spaun turned a sloppy mess of a U.S. Open at wet and nasty Oakmont into a thing of beauty at the end Sunday with two stunning shots that carried him to his first major championship. First came his driver on the 314-yard 17th hole onto the green for a birdie …
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An Australian television journalist reporting live from downtown Los Angeles amid the large-scale protests over President Trump’s immigration crackdown was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet, her network said. Lauren Tomasi, a 9News correspondent, was reporting live on Sunday when an officer behind her suddenly raised their firearm …
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The Belmont Stakes hosted a rematch Saturday in New York of the top three finishing horses from the Kentucky Derby to close out horse racing’s Triple Crown for 2025. Five weeks after Sovereignty won the Derby over Journalism and Baeza, the three horses repeated what happened in Kentucky in the last …
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The last living grandson of the 10th U.S. President John Tyler has died at 96 years old — the end of a link to a bygone era of American history. Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday evening, May 25, his family said in a statement to CBS News. His grandfather, …
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A 3-year-old child accidentally shot and killed their 1-year-old sister on Monday with a handgun found in their San Diego home, police said. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department received a call at about 7:30 a.m. on July 17 regarding a shooting at a home in Fallbrook, the authorities said …
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A grand jury decided not to charge rapper Travis Scott for the deaths of ten people during his show at the Astroworld music festival in Houston in 2021, the Harris County District Attorney’s office said Thursday. The Harris County grand jury didn’t find enough evidence to criminally charge Scott or …
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Daniel Ellsberg, the anti-war activist who copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon Papers, has died, his family confirmed in a statement to CBS News on Friday. He was 92. Ellsberg died early Friday morning at …
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A Montana man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for hate crime and firearms charges stemming from his shooting into a home with the self-described intention of “ridding a town of LGBTQ+ residents,” the Department of Justice said in a statement. John Russell Howald of Basin, Montana, was …
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Police are investigating a shooting that left three people dead and five others injured at a motorcycle rally in Red River, New Mexico. On Saturday at about 5 p.m., gunshots were fired at the 2023 Red River Memorial Day Motorcycle Rally, the New Mexico Department of Public Safety said in …
Read More »A man walked free on Monday after spending nearly three decades behind bars for a rape he didn’t commit. Patrick Brown was convicted in 1994 of raping his then 6-year-old stepdaughter, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office in Louisiana said. The sexual assault survivor did not testify at Brown’s trial …
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