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Latest grid collapse follows a string of nationwide blackouts in recent months.Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed once again, leaving millions of people without electricity. The grid failed on Friday evening about 8:15pm (00:15 GMT) after a breakdown at Diezmero substation in the capital, Havana, kicked off a chain reaction that shut down power generation across the island, according to officials at operator Union Electrica (UNE). At sunrise on Saturday, UNE said it was generating only a trickle of electricity – about 225 MW, or less than 10 percent of total demand. Authorities said parallel circuits were helping provide electricity…

Trump makes rare visit to Justice Department headquarters – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump visited the headquarters of the Justice Department Friday, where he addressed employees in a campaign-style speech. The address comes amid a purge that’s accelerated inside the Justice Department, in which prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases and Trump investigations have been fired. Scott MacFarlane reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A Florida couple is behind bars for allegedly using an online dating app to lure a 16-year-old girl to their home, brutally torturing and murdering her before dismembering her remains. The body of Miranda Corsette was discarded in a dumpster days after she was reported missing on Feb. 24, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department. Authorities allege that Steven Gress, 35, used the online dating app Grindr to lure Corsette to his house, located approximately 20 miles southwest of Tampa, on Feb. 14. “After meeting him the first time, [Corsette] went home and then the next day she returned to [Gress’] home,”…

Despite calling for its demise for years, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she isn’t fazed by the new prime minister’s move to kill the consumer carbon levy. On Friday — moments after news broke that Prime Minister Mark Carney had eliminated the pricing scheme — Smith told reporters in Calgary the real test of the new federal government will be how it levies carbon pricing on industrial polluters.“Every time I have heard the new prime minister speak, he has said that he doesn’t think (industrial) prices are high enough,” she said.“I don’t think it does Alberta any good if we…

Russia and Ukraine have traded heavy aerial blows, with both sides reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories, as discussions about a ceasefire continue.The attacks come less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.Putin told a press conference on Thursday that he supported a truce in principle but set out a host of details that need to be clarified before it is agreed.Kyiv has already endorsed the truce proposal, although Ukrainian officials have publicly…

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicLady Gaga’s sixth solo pop album, “Mayhem,” was released last week, and its retro palette immediately connected with many of the singer’s most devoted longtime fans.Produced by Gaga, the rock revivalist Andrew Watt and the pop fixture Cirkut — with what Gaga has described as substantial input from her fiancé, Michael Polansky — the LP gestures pointedly back at the sounds of the pop star’s ascent in the late aughts and early 2010s. In a surprising amount of promotional interviews for a modern star of her caliber, Gaga has also cited a…

Saturday Sessions: Wilder Woods performs “Be Yourself” – CBS News Watch CBS News Wilder Woods makes a return visit to Saturday Sessions this week. Wilder Woods is a solo project from singer-songwriter Bear Rinehart, who is best known as the frontman of the Grammy-nominated band “Need to Breathe.” Just last month, Rinehart released “Curioso,” his third outing under the Wilder Woods moniker. The long-awaited LP mixes alt-rock and folk, inspired by memories of his grandmother’s curio cabinet. Now, from that new project, here is Wilder Wodos with “Be Yourself.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news,…

Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that operates ChatGPT. In a post on social media, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded, “[N]o thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” referring to the social media app Musk bought for $44 billion in 2022. Musk’s offer to buy ChatGPT was reported first by the Wall Street Journal.The offer comes amid years of conflict between Musk and Altman over the direction of OpenAI, which Musk helped to found in 2015. Musk, the world’s richest person…

Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on Feb. 18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesAlmost nothing is guaranteed in life. Certainly not weather, electricity, health, tariffs or eggs. But for more than 50 years, American consumers could count on Southwest Airlines letting them check bags for free.Dallas-based Southwest is ending the policy in May. Customers are not happy.”It was the only reason I flew Southwest,” said MaKensey Kaye Alford, a 21-year-old singer and actress who lives near Birmingham, Alabama.Alford, who is planning to move to New York City later this year, said…

A delegation of Syrian Druse made a rare trip to Israel this week and visited a shrine revered by the faith as Israel seeks to extend its influence inside Syria after the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.Both Israel and Syria have sizable communities of Druse — an Arabic-speaking religious minority scattered across the Levant region. But with the two countries formally at war for decades, Syrian Druse were generally unable to enter Israel to visit sites holy to their faith.Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif, a Druse leader in Israel who helped organize the two-day visit, said roughly 100 people arrived on…