Police broke up a demonstration againstIsrael’s war against Hamas in Gazaon Thursday at Emory University in Atlanta, the latest flashpoint in a growing movement on college campuses around the country. Hundreds of people have been arrested in California, Massachusetts, Texas and other states during the tense protests, following several rounds of arrests in New York in recent days. Several dozen …

Washington — President Biden on Wednesday met 4-year-old Abigail Mor Edan, an American girl who was taken hostage by Hamas after both her parents were killed in the group’s Oct. 7 attack. The president met with Abigail at the White House, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. Her parents were killed by militants when she was kidnapped. Her mother was …

For the first time, surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant, helping a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure. Before the two procedures, which took place earlier this month, New Jersey native Lisa Pisano faced heart failure and end-stage kidney disease that required routine dialysis, and she was not a …

The Agriculture Department is ordering the dairy industry to test milk-producing cows for infections from highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI H5N1, before they’re moved between states, federal officials announced Wednesday. USDA’s move to ramp up testing requirements for HPAI H5N1 comes after the Food and Drug Administration disclosed Tuesday that samples of pasteurized milk that had been sold on …

Brushing your teeth is good for you, right? Well, not all the time. According to experts, there are a few instances where you want to avoid brushing your teeth in order to protect the enamel. TikTok user@drshaadimanouchehri, a London-based dentist, raised eyebrows for posting about this in December, garnering over 12 million views on her video that advised people not …

Gold prices have been on a rollercoaster ride in recent weeks, reflecting the economic uncertainties and inflationary pressures that have been gripping the nation. The precious metal saw its value surge to record highs, skyrocketing from about $1,990 per ounce in mid-February to a then-record high of $2,160 per ounce in late March. That uptick in gold prices continued, with …

Debt is often stressful. After all, life comes with plenty of expenses. And when you use credit to address those expenses, they typically become larger as a result of interest and finance charges. If left unchecked, growing debt can lead to financial hardship. That’s especially true in today’s economic environment, in which high interest rates have become the norm. But, …

Hamas released a video Wednesday appearing to show one of its Israeli hostages delivering an address in captivity. In the video, a man identifies himself as Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin before delivering a long statement clearly crafted by Hamas, which has long been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel. The video may give the young man’s family hope, …

When the Federal Trade Commission began investigating problems related to romance scams five years ago, the consumer watchdog agency’s analysts gained access to internal data from one of the biggest players in the online dating space — Match.com. “It was incredibly troubling,” a former FTC analyst told CBS News, speaking on the condition of anonymity because portions of the case …

Everyone but the judge and jurors are seated before Donald Trump and his team enter the courtroom each day in his New York criminal trial. Reporters and other members of the public have passed through two layers of screening. They, prosecutors and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg himself, are all in place, and quiet, as Trump approaches the room. The …