Millions of Americans needing to renew their passports can now do so online instead of mailing the State Department paper documents with a check.

Paxton applying to be Trumps Attorney General

David Lochridge tells hearing he alerted company to safety fears over submersible that imploded but was ignored

You married a landlord.

Surveillance video exclusively obtained by CBS News New York Investigates shows NYPD officers repeatedly punching a man working at a Brooklyn homeless shelter last February. Jason Salters says officers attacked him when he was just trying to follow orders to do his job. Salters said NYPD officers showed up in the early morning looking for a domestic violence suspect who had been staying at the shelter. He says the police didn't have a warrant so, according to an internal DHS report, he called a director of social services for the city, and put her on speaker phone. "She said, in front of the sergeant and officers, 'No Jason, absolutely not. Do not let them in. They do not have a warrant?' I said 'No, ma'am.' 'Absolutely not, do not let them in,'" Salters said.

Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault. A few months ago, a man crawling along a rooftop in Pennsylvania tried to murder Donald Trump at a campaign rally. Hours later, press releases started to circulate, from analysts, think tanks, politicians, and pundits, all offering to cut through the swell of confusion and misinformation. One of the people who washed up in my inbox was Ben Swann, whom a New York–based PR team presented as a journalist, and a source “to separate the conspiracy theories from the facts behind Trump’s assassination attempt.” This was curious for several reasons, the main being that Swann is himself an energetic conspiracy theorist, who first attracted notice in 2017 by touting Pizza­gate, a lurid conspiracy about child trafficking, while working for Atlanta’s CBS affiliate. Swann was ultimately fired, but quickly launched a new career as a star of the most conspiracy-addled corner of the online universe, posting to his website Truth in Media. He also began accepting millions of dollars in funding from a Kremlin-backed broadcaster to produce pro-Russian propaganda, according to disclosure forms he filed with the federal government when registering as a foreign agent. While Swann has prospered by confidently and cynically presenting himself as a force for truth, legitimate researchers of disinformation—the kind he’s spread for much of his professional life—are struggling. Over the last several years, the field has undergone a broadscale attack from politicians, right-wing media, and tech industry giants. As a result, research has been curtailed, people have been laid off, and academics working in the space even fear talking to one another, lest it leave them open to charges of “conspiring” by their adversaries.

A church in Mexico is helping people prep for eternity by selling plots of land in heaven.

Victims of traffic violence in D.C. say the city needs to get drivers who rack up tickets off the roads. Most afternoons, Paisley Brodie calls her mother when she gets to the public library four blocks from her middle school on Capitol Hill. On Sept. 9, the call came when Deirdre Allen expected it, but her 12-year-old daughter was crying. “Mommy,” she said, “I just got hit by a car...” Allen never saw the man who hit her daughter with a black Land Rover. A witness told police, and later The Washington Post, that the driver did not stop in time for the red light. After he hit Paisley, witnesses said, the man berated her for being in the crosswalk, claiming she had a red signal. Paisley, unable to walk, was taken to Children’s National Hospital. The driver left with a citation for colliding with a pedestrian, which can lead to up to 30 days in jail. The driver, Earl Darryl Curtis, of District Heights, Md., said in an interview that he stopped in the crosswalk once he realized the light was red and that it was Paisley who collided with his car, not the other way around. “If I had ran the light, I would have run her over,” he said. “She damaged my car.” He went on to say, “I didn’t even see the girl. … The only thing they got me on is the crosswalk.” It wasn’t the first ticket or even the 50th tied to the car. Allen, who was given a photo of the license plate by a witness, learned that the Land Rover has 94 unpaid tickets worth $19,770 from D.C. traffic cameras, six for speeding just this month and four for running red lights since July. It’s not clear who was driving each time; the cameras capture only the license plate. When it comes to tickets linked to the Land Rover, Curtis said that “you can’t prove” who was driving and that his traffic-related record is “irrelevant” to the incident that left Paisley injured.

Police first claimed a knife was recovered Sunday but reversed course Monday, saying they were searching for a man seen taking the weapon from the scene.

Lebanese health officials warned the public to avoid using handheld communication devices on Tuesday after powerful Iran-backed militant and political group Hezbollah said pagers had exploded throughout the country. Al-Manar, a Lebanese television station run by Hezbollah, said the devices “exploded in the hands of their holders in a number of Lebanese regions.” “Large numbers of people with various injuries are arriving at Lebanese hospitals,” the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said, according to the state-run Lebanese National News Agency.

The arrest comes amid a wave of lawsuits filed against the music mogul alleging sexual assault.

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.

[b]You hadn’t been drinking?[/b] DIANA: I had two glasses of wine. Everybody there knows I pour water in my wine. I’m not really drinking two glasses of wine. Everybody knows that. … Believe me, when we’re talking, we know we sound crazy. My friends talk about it. We’re like, “I know we all sound insane.”

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.

Millersville is gaining national attention for an approach to governing that democracy advocates fear. Conspiracy theorists carry guns and badges.

Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the beloved pop group the Jackson 5, has died at age 70. Tito was the third of nine Jackson children, which include global superstars Michael and sister Janet, part of a music-making family whose songs are still beloved today. “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce that our beloved father, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Tito Jackson is no longer with us. We are shocked, saddened and heartbroken. Our father was an incredible man who cared about everyone and their well-being,” his sons TJ, Taj and Taryll said in a statement posted on Instagram late Sunday.

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

One person is in custody after shots were fired near former President Donald Trump and an AR-style rifle was recovered near his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The 24-hour snapshot of Musk’s posts, which are largely representative of his average daily output, are a revealing look into how the world’s richest man spends a large part of his day, almost every day.