Before a coup in Niger in July 2023 led to the demand that American troops leave the country, the U.S. used two Niger airbases to fly drones on counterterrorism missions in the Sahel region of Africa.

The EU has announced an aid package of about $1.06 billion for Lebanon, which will largely go to boosting border control in order to halt the flow of migrants and asylum seekers to Italy and Cyprus.

Last year, Patti Peeples' home was taken over by squatters. Since their eviction, which happened 36 days after they arrived at the house, Peeples has fought for property owners' rights.

May the 4th be with you! Like many 'Star Wars' fans, we have loved and loathed the various parts of the space franchise. Here's what we've written over the last half a century or so.

Indianapolis police shot and critically injured a suspect Thursday after he was seen pointing a weapon at people, threatening to shoot them.

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche nodded in agreement while the former president said that a gag order prevented his testimony.

Former New York Gov. George Pataki called out President Biden for being largely silent on anti-Israel protests and said Iranian television in running with images of campus unrest.

Derick Myron, 44, has been taken into federal custody under suspicion he killed one person and wounded two others in a shooting earlier this week.

Adapted from Heather Morris' bestselling novel, this Peacock miniseries stars Harvey Keitel as a man who recounts how he fell in love with a fellow prisoner at Auschwitz.

Kyra Sedgwick said she and her husband of 35 years, Kevin Bacon, have "absolutely" fooled around inside her trailer while working on a movie together.

College kids—they protest. And guess what? They should!

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, an exiled opposition leader in Belarus, said she has not heard from her imprisoned husband Siarhei Tsikhanouski for 421 days; he has been behind bars since 2020.

Veteran and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii., offered a dark vision of America's future if Biden and Harris win again in 2024 and continue their current agenda.

Are you better off than you were four years ago? Yes.

The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order.

Warner Bros. Discovery is negotiating to retain TNT's NBA package after 2024-25. If it can't, reports suggest the heralded "Inside the NBA" crew would break up.

Jason McKenzie, the associate director of philanthropy at Augusta University, has been reported dead after his single-engine aircraft crashed in a residential part of the Georgia city.

Hamas said it was sending to Egypt a delegation for cease-fire talks, marking a sign of progress in attempts by mediators to work out an agreement between the militant group and Israel.

With the help of bulldozers, items including tents, chairs and yoga mats were removed Thursday morning from the UCLA encampment occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters and shoved into a large gray dumpster.

Jerry Boylan, the captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off Santa Cruz Island in California in 2019, killing 34 people, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

California Republicans slam Gov. Gavin Newsom's UCLA riot response and consider cutting grants to universities that are tolerating violence.

Josh Rebholz, UCLA senior associate athletic director and fundraising force whose 13 years at the school were tinged with controversy, has resigned.

Bystanders screamed for a motorist to turn around before they drove into floodwater in College Station, Texas. The vehicle got stuck, but as the video shows, the driver was OK.

The retired basketball star revealed his beauty secrets, sparing no expense to combat his smelly feet.

Dozens of protesters were arrested on the University of California, Los Angeles campus as CBS News Radio affiliate KNX reporter Jon Baird reported live from the scene. Baird joins CBS News with more on how violence erupted in the middle of the night.

Britney Spears has taken to Instagram after getting into a fight with her on-and-off boyfriend Paul Richard Soliz at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.

Doug Mills/ReutersThe B-list celebrity lawyer who scored two hush-money deals for a porn star and a former Playboy model came off as an even shadier character on Thursday, as Donald Trump’s team worked hard to show that the prosecution’s witness was actually engaged in a scheme to extort the politician in the weeks before the 2016 election.The third week of the former president’s criminal trial in New York has focused mostly on the dirty world of scandal coverups, with a Beverly Hills lawyer describing how worried stars, conniving publicists, and unscrupulous entertainment “journalists” manage the underground market for embarrassing information.But while the trial on Tuesday served as a primer, Thursday showed how even now—nearly eight years after these Trump deals were put into place—a key player still couldn’t come to grips with reality over exactly what he did.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The unscheduled remarks were Biden’s most extensive yet on the weeks of contagious pro-Palestinian demonstrations disrupting college life in many parts of the country.

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NATO on Thursday accused Russia of "recent malign activities on Allied territory."

Allen Media Group, the company owned by TV mogul Byron Allen, is set to undergo layoffs that will affect 'all divisions' of the business.

Jalen Brunson developed into a one-man show after Randle suffered his dislocated shoulder, and that’s only been magnified in the playoffs.

Small imperfections in the thin-walled structure may have become more damaged with every trip the vessel took to visit the Titanic's final resting place.

According to the recent April national poll of 1,000 likely voters for McLaughlin & Associates, among all voters, Donald Trump leads Joe Biden 49% to 45%.

Buena Park Police Department officers Bobby Colon and Jennifer Tran used excessive lethal force against a teenager in 2019, a Santa Ana jury found.

The on-and-off relationship between Marcus Jordan and Larsa Pippen is something NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley has described as "messy."

Country star Walker Hayes talks about his new collection of songs, "Sober Thoughts," and his journey toward sobriety.

There were some big April shockers, but absolutely no one saw such mastery coming from the Red Sox rotation, not after Boston practically sat out the winter. 

De acuerdo a la carta enviada al boxeador por la VADA, García dio positivo por una droga prohibida para mejorar el rendimiento.

OscilloscopeWildcat, the Ethan Hawke-directed, Maya Hawke-starring Flannery O’Connor biopic, begins with a trailer for an entirely different movie, a black-and-white drama about “Star Drake,” the alias of a character from O’Connor’s short story “The Comforts of Home.” Star Drake was dubbed the town floozy who pays for everything with bad checks. The trailer feverishly describes the plot as “the outspoken story of an indiscreet woman,” a phrase that could indeed describe a movie about the author herself. But the film that follows is muted, restrained, even dreamlike, a portrait of an artist that paints her life—controversial, complicated—according to her work.Maya Hawke plays Flannery at the cusp of her battle with lupus, the disease that took her father’s life when she was a teenager, and that will claim her own at 39. The film follows along as her mother Regina (Laura Linney) transfers her from her short stay in New York amongst the literary luminaries of the time, back home to Georgia and the childhood farmhouse in which Flannery will spend the rest of her life. Hawke and Linney circle each other, as mothers and daughters with prickly relationships do. Regina has read her daughter’s stories but isn’t exactly a fan: “I don’t understand,” she says mincingly. “Why you don’t want to write something that people would like to read?”Between these scenes, the film dramatizes a few of O’Connor’s short stories, including “Revelation,” “The Enduring Chill,” "Everything that Rises Must Converge,” and “Good Country People.” In a burst of stylistic flair, Hawke and Linney and the rest of the film’s main cast appear as the characters in them. They appear almost as visions, with Hawke as Flannery “playing” her analogs—a young college student, an aspiring writer with a loudly racist mother, an easily charmed girl with a wooden leg. Linney appears as the mothers, the spinsters, and, in one of the film’s better sections, the woman at the center of “Revelation,” who reacts in horror when her vision of Jesus Christ says he is able to reincarnate her as either white trash or a Black person, before choosing the Black person (for which she uses a different word).Read more at The Daily Beast.

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Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election,

American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.

A new horror movie is coming to the big screen.

Pat McAfee couldn’t help but throw shade at ESPN Bet during a segment on the World Wide Leader on Thursday. 

The Boone County Sheriff’s Office in Burlington, Kentucky, is celebrating a big "baby boom" as more than 15 officers welcomed a child within a one-year span.

An incident involving Britney Spears on Thursday morning at a hotel on the famed Sunset strip had authorities called to the Chateau Marmont.

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