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Rahul Rai, a 24-year-old crypto hedge fund founder, believes ether could overtake bitcoin in the next six or so months.

The Diem Association, which oversees development of the Diem digital currency, is considering a sale of its assets, according to a Bloomberg report.

The Syrian Democratic Forces deploy around Ghwayran prison in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on January 25, 2022

Newspaper headlines in Greece lamented a 'fiasco' and 'mistakes that brought chaos' to the snowy streets of the capital Athens

Downtown Detroit just got a whole lot sweeter. Sugar Factory, a chain most notable for its candy-colored fishbowl style drinks, is coming to downtown Detroit....

Veteran breeder Zbigniew Oleksiak says the best pigeons can go for up to 6,000 zlotys (1,300 euros) on the Polish market

An Australian lungfish, what biologists call an evolutionary link between fish and amphibians, living in a San Francisco museum is believed to be 90 years old. (Jan. 26)

The cost of everything from food to toiletries is up, and it may stay that way for a while. A Michigan Congresswoman says she’s feeling the pinch too, and she’s tracking prices in the area.

Facebook/Alicia WittA month after her parents’ shock deaths from hypothermia, actor Alicia Witt took to Facebook Tuesday to detail how the preventable tragedy has left her reeling and struggling with what she could have done to save them. In a raw statement released Tuesday, the 1984 Dune actor and Orange Is the New Black star wrote that “i had no idea that their heat had gone out. i will never understand how or why they made the choice not to tell me this, not to let me help them with this. my

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Brick Road Pizza Co. announced on Facebook it will permanently close Jan. 30 because of staffing and other challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “As the pandemic raged on we did not come close to the patrons we once had,” the restaurant wrote. As much as we’d like to hang on, emotionally and financially we’re spent.”Brick Road Pizza, 1017 Wealthy St. It was a good run.”The restaurant will be open for takeout Tuesday through Sunday, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. However, that too “could be cut short depending on our remaining staff,” Brick Road’s Facebook message said.

via Facebook Vachik Mangassarian, a veteran character actor known for his roles on NCIS, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has died at the age of 78 from COVID-19 complications. Representatives for Mangassarian confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he passed away in Burbank, California.The Iran-born Armenian star moved to the U.S. at age 23 and landed his first Hollywood role in 1978. In the decades since, he held a slew of roles, starring as the architect Qasim Zaghlul in Marv

Facebook's parent company Meta says it has created what it believes is among the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers running today.

“Every time someone passes by, his little head perks up.”

Public radio’s This American Life launched an in-depth, two-part series over the weekend about the white Muskegon cop who came under fire for displaying KKK...

Jean-Jacques Savin, who was 75, had previously made the voyage in a large barrel.

"There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation!" the superintendent wrote. "There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools."

Supporters of Ukraine gathered on the Charles Bridge in Prague on Saturday to show their allegiance with the country during heightened tensions with Russia. (Jan. 22)

Over the past two years, food insecurity has been on the rise, but so has the amount of food being wasted. Crops headed from farm to table have been rotting in the fields due to disrupted demand. But some young people had a vision to shortcut the supply chain and directly link those food products with the people who need them most. Catherine Herridge has the details.

Jillian Angeline was in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where powerful winter weather left the town and nearby beaches covered in snow and ice.

Cabo Frio, a seaside city of 230,000 people in Rio de Janeiro state, has been dubbed "New Egypt", due to a high number of alleged pyramid schemes defrauding thousands of small-scale investors who believed they were getting rich off Bitcoin’s steep appreciation. (Jan. 22)

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid listens to questions during an interview with AFP in Kabul

Kelsey Barnard Clark opens up to Jamie Wax about her journey from Alabama to the Culinary Institute of America, to some of New York's top restaurants.

Actor Brian Cox plays the billionaire father of one of the most dysfunctional families on television. You might be surprised to hear how he compares himself to his character on the HBO show “Succession." Jeff Glor spoke with him about that and his autobiography.

Johann Hari's "Stolen Focus" examines how technology robs us of our attention, and how to get it back.

Until last week, the remote island nation of Kiribati had recorded just two Covid cases.

AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Shallotte, North Carolina, on the night of Jan. 21, taking a look at driving conditions in the area.

A touring exhibit dedicated to Tupac Shakur has opened in downtown Los Angeles, featuring his handwritten lyrics for songs like "California Love" and "Dear Mama." (Jan. 21)

Extreme Meteorologist Reed Timmer reported from Wrightsville Beach on the night of Jan. 21, where freezing rain was beginning to accumulate in what could turn into a dangerous situation.

Tammy Rodriguez alleges her daughter's suicide stemmed from an "extreme addiction" to the social media apps.

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The Pentagon said the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and its strike group will participate in a NATO maritime exercise in the Mediterranean, which will continue through Feb. 4 - something that has been planned since 2020. (Jan. 21)

It's a love it or hate it food, but why?

COVID-19 hospitalizations for children are climbing, with an average of more than 900 kids admitted a day. CBS News' Michael George reports, then Dr. Gigi Chawla, chief of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, joins CBSN to discuss the latest.

More than a dozen people were killed when a truck carrying explosives crashed in western Ghana. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta reports.

ABC News' Phil Lipoff speaks to allergy expert Dr. James Baker about a promising new study finding that toddlers can overcome peanut allergies and how the human immune system is changing.

The makeover is part of a broader push towards inclusivity.

Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots. (Jan. 22)

This item will help remove coffee stains from mugs.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared videos of property damage on Jan. 20 left behind by severe weather and tornadoes.

The fruit has a compound that improves muscle strength, explain researchers out of the University of Washington.

California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents' consent, the youngest age of any state, under a proposal by a state senator. (Jan. 21)

Follow these safety tips for cooking, lighting candles, using a portable space heater, and more.

ABC News' Kaylee Hartung reports on a Texas judge who blocked President Joe Biden's federal worker vaccine mandate, and the second anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in the U.S.

2002 gave us some extraordinary movies! Here are 6 that are turning 20 in 2022.

Dentists weigh in.

Is this rescue a dog or coyote? You be the judge.

Eastern Ukraine has been dogged by fighting since 2014, when Moscow seized control of the Crimean peninsula and Russian-backed separatists launched insurgencies in regions around the eastern cities of Donetsk and Lugansk. Now residents fear what the future holds as troops amass at the border with tensions at a boiling point.

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Blinken said the U.S. and its allies remain resolute in rejecting Russia’s most important demands and supporting Ukraine's sovereignty.

“A few days later, I was looking for a missing email from someone, so I checked the spam folder in my email account. “That’s when I saw an email from the Lottery saying I had won a prize. “I definitely added the Michigan Lottery to my safe senders list just in case I ever get lucky enough to receive another email about a huge prize,” Spears said. For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games. If you’d like to be the next player from Michigan to win a huge lottery prize, take a look at these tips from lottery expert Richard Lustig.

Speaking exclusively with CBS Morning's co-anchor Tony Dokoupil, Underwood Jacobs said her brother, federal Officer Pat Underwood, would still be alive today if it wasn't for Facebook.

European Union lawmakers are weighing rules that would require online companies to ramp up efforts to keep harmful content off their platforms and take other steps to protect users.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

Police in Novi arrested a man accused of trying to lure someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl to a hotel.

A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission's revised antitrust suit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, can proceed, shutting down the social media company's request for a dismissal.

Push yourself to enjoy the great outdoors this season with U-M's annual challenge.

French regulators have fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros for not making it as easy for users to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it.

A Moscow court has fined Google nearly $100 million and Facebook's parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law.

The Klemmer family debuts a new Christmas rap ahead of the holiday season.

The former Facebook manager who startled the world this fall by leaking tens of thousands of internal documents and accusing her former employer of caring more about money than about public safety has a book deal.

A group of lawmakers say proposed British rules aimed at cracking down on harmful online content should be beefed up with tougher measures.

A photo from a tornado-damaged home in Kentucky landed almost 130 miles away in Indiana.

For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that they broadcast on social media before, during and after the riot are influencing even the sentences in their criminal cases.

The head of a Senate panel examining social media’s negative effects on young people dismissed as a public relations tactic some safety measures announced by Facebook’s popular Instagram platform.

Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced a new ban on postings linked to Myanmar’s military to include all pages, groups, and accounts representing military-controlled businesses.

A spokesperson for the company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said the company is investing up to $3.4 billion to advance human health over 10 to 15 years.

Rohingya refugees are suing Facebook parent Meta Platforms for more than $150 billion over what they say was the company’s failure to stop hateful posts that incited violence against the Muslim ethnic group by Myanmar’s military rulers and their supporters.

Instagram has launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed at protecting young users from harmful content on the Facebook-owned service.

Facebook says it removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to an effort to spread unfounded claims that the U.S. was pressuring scientists to blame the coronavirus on China.

Longtime WDIV anchor and reporter Steve Garagiola has announced his retirement after 27 years with the station.

The United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog has blocked Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy and ordered the social network to sell off the GIF-sharing platform.

WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging the information for European users.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is joining a coalition of attorneys general from across the U.S. as they launch an investigation into the impact Instagram has on young people.

Attorneys general across the country are examining whether the company violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at risk.

Ohio's largest public employee pension fund has sued Facebook, alleging that it broke federal securities law by purposely misleading the public about its product's negative effect on children.

Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, joined some world leaders to issue a global call to better protect children online at a Paris summit on Thursday.

Before she became one of the most popular Argentine singers of the last year, María Becerra was a YouTuber whose funny videos, in which she appeared bathing her cat or even shaving her face with foam, generated millions of views.

Facebook's parent company Meta says it will remove sensitive ad targeting options related to health, race or ethnicity, political affiliation, religion or sexual orientation beginning on Jan. 19.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is warning that the virtual reality world at the heart of the social media giant’s growth strategy will be addictive and rob people of personal information while giving the company another monopoly online.

European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world.

Mark Zuckerberg promises that the virtual-reality “metaverse” he’s planning to build will “let you do almost anything.”.

Ethiopia’s government is marking a year of war by lashing out in response to international alarm about hate speech.

Facebook says it has removed a post by Ethiopia’s prime minister that urged citizens to rise up and “bury” the rival Tigray forces who now threaten the capital as the country’s war reaches the one-year mark.

Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete faceprints of more than 1 billion people.

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The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination _ so much so that one of the best-known internet platforms is rebranding to embrace the futuristic idea.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future.

British lawmakers have grilled Facebook and other tech giants over how they handle online safety.

With a click of a mouse or a swipe of a screen you can connect with businesses, family and old friends all over the world -- but with Facebook now under fire, it has people looking at social media differently.

Facebook and Instagram have removed from their platforms a live broadcast that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro delivered in which he said people in the U.K. who have received two coronavirus vaccine doses are developing AIDS faster than expected.

Congressional investigators say two Border Patrol agents were fired from among 60 found to have committed misconduct for participating in a private Facebook group that mocked migrants and lawmakers.

Australia plans to crack down on online advertisers targeting children by making social media platforms seek parental consent for users younger than 16 years old to join or face fines of $7.5 million under a draft law.

Social media and tech giant Facebook is reportedly changing its name in an effort to rebrand itself.

Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centers on the edge of a small Oregon town represent an emerging 21st century concern.

Facebook’s semi-independent oversight board says the company has failed to fully disclose information on its internal system that exempts high-profile users from some or all of its content rules.

Syria's Justice Ministry says authorities have executed 24 people for igniting deadly wildfires last year.

Facebook says it's struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that are shared by people on the social network.

The senator leading a probe of Facebook’s Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the Senate.

Britain’s competition watchdog fined Facebook 50.5 million pounds ($69.4 million) on Wednesday for violating rules during the UK investigation into the social media giant’s purchase of Giphy.