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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway unloaded its entire $850 million worth of General Motors (GM) stock last quarter, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Britain's interior minister escalated a dispute with London's police force on Thursday over the handling of a planned, large pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day, accusing officers of taking a softer stance towards left-wing causes. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has taken a tough line on the tens of thousands of protesters who have gathered in London since the Hamas group's Oct. 7 attack on Israel, calling them "hate marches" and "mobs" that threaten the Jewish community.

Brazilian authorities, working with Israeli intelligence, foiled a plot by Hezbollah to orchestrate attacks on Jews in the South American country, officials said Wednesday. Brazil's Federal Police arrested two people suspected of being financed by the Lebanon-based and Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group to commit domestic attacks and to recruit Brazilian citizens, Reuters reported.

A Minnesota judge has taken the rare move of rejecting a negotiated plea agreement that would have allowed a man to avoid prison time for his role in a deadly attempted carjacking in Minneapolis. Hennepin County District Judge Michael Burns said Monday that he didn't believe 20-year-old Husayn Braveheart was "particularly amenable to probation" or that Braveheart had a "significantly lesser role" in the crime, as prosecutors and his public defender said.

At more than one million hours of use and counting, this bulb proves that they really don't make things like they used to. The Centennial Bulb, as this light has come to be known, is the longest-lasting light bulb of all time. It has been burning continuously since 1901, excluding a short interval in 1976 when the bulb was disconnected from electricity for 22 minutes while the firestation was moved to a different location.

An employee tragically lost his life while attempting to thwart a robbery at Big Bob's Liquors and Market, located at the corner of Sunset and Point Avenue in West Covina. The shooting occurred shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday during what authorities described as an altercation while the employee attempted to stop a theft. Police said that two males entered the store and stole merchandise. The victim confronted the men at which time the shooting occurred.

Riverside police are searching for a person who has distributed letters directing residents to vacate their homes. Several residents in the Cook County suburb have reported seeing a male suspect giving out letters claiming to be from Governor J.B. Pritzker. The letter tells the property owner that their home has been selected to be taken over by the government as a part of the 2023 Homeless Housing Directive.

Criminals are using artificial intelligence technology in a scary new AI scam, but knowing the red flags can help you avoid becoming their next victim Picture this: You answer a phone call one day and hear a voice that sounds like your child. They tell you that they have been kidnapped and need cash for a ransom right away. You scramble to help—only to realize that the voice on the other end of the line isn’t your child but rather part of a sophisticated, terrifying new AI scam phone call.

Interested in an electric car, but finding current prices are a bit too high for your budget? Worry not, as the second-hand EV market is well garnished with a wide variety of appealing zero emission alternatives. But while it’s true that an electric vehicle requires less maintenance than a gasoline one, resulting in second-hand models that are in great mechanical shape, consumers must stay on the lookout for a rapidly spreading problem in the second-hand EV market: battery fraud.

Ever heard of the Italian Army during the Normandy Campaign? Few have, but in this film I examine the untold story of the 40,000 men that history has forgotten!

In a blow to the transparency of information and what could have been a treasure trove of evidence against a global sex trafficking ring, the Pentagon has announced the lost F-35 fighter jet was apparently carrying the only known copy of Jeffrey Epstein's client list.

We all know Steve Buscemi as an iconic actor who's been in some of the biggest blockbusters on the silver screen and critically acclaimed TV shows — "Armageddon," "The Big Lebowski," "The Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire," just to name a few. But, did you also know he is a former firefighter? Buscemi was a firefighter in the Little Italy area of Manhattan from 1980-1984, when he left to become a full-time actor. However, after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Buscemi found himself back at Engine Company 55. On September 12, 2001, the day after...

A burglar who can't see something can't steal it either – that is the idea behind a new method of deterring crime by using fog. As CBS 2's Tara Molina reported Tuesday, the technology behind the fog release is a brand-new way of fighting the mass retail thefts plaguing the city.

Police said a group of two to four people threatens their victims before stealing their belongings, all while riding Divvy bikes, in most cases. In one case, they even stole a victim's car. "I just think it's nuts, like, the whole idea. They just get on these bikes and go away," said Felicia Davis, who works downtown.

The title says it all.

Allen Funt’s son Peter has put hundreds of Candid Camera clips on YouTube. Funny stuff. I’ve yet to run into an ad that interrupts the clip.

The Mariner's Church of Detroit rang their bell 30 times in memory of Gordon Lightfoot — once for every man lost in the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and once for Lightfoot.

In this video Scotty talks about how expensive EVs are to maintain, and how quickly they lose value once they are driven off the dealer’s lot.

One of three Colorado teenagers accused of throwing large landscaping rocks toward at least seven cars allegedly took a photo of the final victim's car after hitting it "as a memento," according to court documents. Joseph Koenig, Nicholas "Mitch" Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, all 18-year-old high school seniors, were arrested this week in connection to the April 19 rock-throwing spree, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said. The final rock-throwing incident claimed the life of 20-year-old driver Alexa Bartell. In two of the seven incidents, drivers suffered minor injuries.

On April Fools’ Day 1957, BBC viewers watched a program about a "spaghetti tree" in Switzerland, and many were so convinced it was real that they wanted to grow their own. *snip* Adding believability to the hoax segment was the announcer, Richard Dimbleby. A veteran broadcaster, Dimbleby was the BBC’s first war correspondent and not at all known for silliness. In a perfect deadpan, Dimbleby noted that the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland would be particularly bountiful that year, thanks to the almost complete eradication of the spaghetti tree’s main predator, the “spaghetti weevil.”