Police in Greenville, South Carolina, announced Wednesday that they have closed their investigation into the death of actor Hayden Panettiere and that her death has been ruled accidental. The department said its conclusion rests on the medi
A New York Times investigation reports that aides to Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) helped recruit candidates meant to draw votes away from Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, including a seco
Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer and civil rights leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers union, died Wednesday at 96, her family announced. Family spokesperson Erik Olvera told NBC Los Angeles she died of cancer at her home in Bak
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor of Alaska on Tuesday, one week before Election Day. The move bypasses the three Republicans on the ballot, including Bernadette Wilson, who has Presid
Eli Lilly said on Oct. 28 that its experimental drug retatrutide lowered blood sugar more and produced far greater weight loss than Ozempic at the highest approved dose in a Phase 3 trial of adults with type 2 diabetes. The drug is not appr
The U.S. military said it killed five people in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, Oct. 27. U.S. Southern Command, known as SOUTHCOM, announced the strike, which The Guardian and Fox News both
Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico and President Donald Trump held rival rallies in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday, a week before Election Day, in a contest that NBC News described as the biggest threat in years to Republican control of
Hundreds of people who made a cruise ship their permanent home are being told to leave it. The Odyssey, a U.S. residential cruise ship on a world voyage, has suspended operations in Cambodia because of rising fuel costs, according to ABC Ne
British prosecutors charged two 24-year-old men on Tuesday under the National Security Act over a September incident near RAF Fairford, the Royal Air Force base in England that U.S. heavy bombers have used. Counter Terrorism Policing said i
The Iran war has cost the U.S. military at least $47.1 billion as of mid-October, according to a new estimate from U.S. Central Command that CBS News obtained. The estimate was provided to lawmakers, CBS News reported. Most of that money ha
The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged when it announces its decision Wednesday, less than a week before the midterm elections, according to Fox Business and NBC News. The expected pause comes even though Septembe
President Donald Trump used a campaign rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday to promote an oil agreement with Venezuela, pointing to a tanker off the Texas coast that he said was carrying a million barrels of crude from the country, Th