The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate another three-quarters of a percentage point as it battles the hottest inflation in decades.  The move by the central bank’s rate-setting committee, announced Wednesday after a two-day meeting, marks the sixth rate hike this year and the fourth consecutive 0.75 percentage point …

11/2 Update: If no one has tonight’s Powerball numbers, the jackpot could grow to a record-breaking amount The winning numbers for Monday night’s Powerball drawing are: 13-19-36-39-59 and a Powerball 13. The estimated jackpot had surged to just under $1 billion, the second highest prize in the game’s history. People showed …

Tech giant Meta says it’s resolved a WhatsApp outage that turned out to be brief. It had prevented many of the billions of users of the popular service from connecting or sending messages. Meta issued a statement to CBS News saying, “We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp …

The father of Harmony Montgomery, a New Hampshire girl who disappeared in 2019 at age 5 but was not reported missing until late last year, has been arrested on a charge of second-degree murder, authorities said at a news conference Monday. The murder charge against Adam Montgomery alleges that he …

Starting Monday, consumers will be able to buy hearing aids directly off store shelves and at dramatically lower prices as a 2017 federal law finally takes effect. Where for decades it cost thousands of dollars to get a device that could be purchased only with a prescription from an audiologist …

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont was hospitalized Thursday after “not feeling well” at his McLean, Virginia, home, his office said. As a precaution Leahy, 82, was taken to a Washington-area hospital for tests. At the recommendation of his doctors, he was expected to remain in the hospital overnight for …

A professor at the University of Arizona was shot and killed on campus Wednesday by a former student, authorities said. The suspect has been taken into custody. The shooting occurred inside the Harshbarger Building on the university’s main campus in Tucson, University of Arizona Police Chief Paula Balafas said. At …

Federal safety regulators have recalled a slew of residential elevators over the years because of potentially deadly risks to children, and September is proving to be a case in point, with three such recalls issued this month alone.  All three recalls involve a problem that is relatively inexpensive to fix …

Washington — The U.S. Secret Service handed over the cellphones of two dozen agents involved in the agency’s response to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the summer, according to three sources familiar with the matter.  The …

A former suburban Chicago police officer who was fired after he shot into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and seriously wounding the man’s girlfriend, has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced on Thursday. In a news release, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s …