
Massive Iranian missile attack on US bases in Kuwait as IRGC issues ultimatum warning of war's fire
The situation in the Persian Gulf remains tense, as Iran on Saturday, August 1, 2026, launched a heavy attack on...
The National Weather Service has issued a first-ever “particularly dangerous situation” warning for extreme fire weather across Eastern Washington. The alert is categorized one level above a standard red flag warning. The warning applies to Spokane, the Waterville Plateau, the Okanogan Valley, the Western Columbia Basin, the Colville Reservation, the...
Donald Trump is now offering early access to his Truth Social posts in a move that has been seen as corruption benefitting a sitting president. Trump Media and Technology Group officially rolled out its new subscription-based data service on Saturday, giving paying customers faster, real-time access to Truth Social posts from...
A dangerous heat wave swept across parts of the Western United States, bringing record-breaking temperatures and heightening wildfire risks. A strong ridge of high pressure, identified by meteorologists as a heat dome, settled over a region stretching from Arizona to Montana. The National Weather Service reported extreme temperature forecasts...
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician at AI company Anthropic in San Francisco, reports finding a counterexample to the long-standing Jacobian conjecture in higher dimensions, using the firm’s large language model Claude Fable 5. The conjecture, posed 87 years ago, concerns polynomial functions whose Jacobian determinant is a non-zero constant and asks...
The Milwaukee Brewers bolstered their catching depth Saturday by acquiring Canadian catcher Bo Naylor from the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for reliever Craig Yoho. Right-handed pitcher Codi Heuer also joins Milwaukee, while outfielder Blake Perkins heads to Cleveland. Naylor, from Mississauga, Ontario, has played 28 MLB games this season, batting...
Singer Chris Brown filed a legal notice in Los Angeles on Friday, August 1, 2026, requesting that a judge toss a $12.9 million verdict and grant a new trial in a high-profile civil lawsuit. The filing was submitted by Brown's legal team in Los Angeles Superior Court following a judgment...
The United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve intervened directly in global foreign exchange markets to support the Japanese yen, executing outright purchases to rescue the currency from near 40-year lows. The rare coordinated intervention—facilitated through major Wall Street financial institutions—delivered one of the sharpest single-day rebounds for the...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, breaking news and issues including substance use. "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie asked again for answers in the disappearance of...

Las Vegas hosts a key lightweight showdown this Saturday as Lamont Roach Jr. faces William Zepeda for the vacant WBC lightweight championship. Both fighters look to rebound after recent setbacks against elite opposition. Zepeda is returning from his first professional defeat to Shakur Stevenson in July 2025, while Roach seeks...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venezuela is gearing up for the launch of US-backed political transition talks on Saturday, but the absence of Nobel Peace Prize-winning opposition figure Maria Corina Machado has left her base skeptical. Leftists are meanwhile distrustful of a process,...