Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Under President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, America is safer than it has been in over a century — and brand new data proves it. A new report shows the murder rate across the nation’s biggest cities ...

Most analysts predict a drop of about a quarter to a half a percentage point in mortgage rates. "I think psychologically it will help," said Ivy Zelman, executive vice president of research and ...

Overall crime in New Orleans has continued to trend downward, with city leaders pointing to 2022 as a turning point, when the city was labeled the murder capital of the United States. “Since 2022, ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An explosion during the New Year’s Eve Potato Drop event in Downtown Boise appeared to shatter windows on a building on Bannock ...

As overall crime continued to drop in Chicago in 2025, the city ended the year with the fewest homicides in 60 years. Preliminary crime data from the Chicago Police Department showed the number of ...

For 50 years, Lake Superior State University has presented a New Year’s tradition of linguistic commentary and the evolution of language. According to LSSU officials, the annual Banished Words List ...

Update at 12:27 p.m.: Seven inches of heavy lake effect snow is expected in northern Onondaga County starting Friday morning. The National Weather Service has issued a snow warning for that part of ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hundreds of revelers gathered along Second Street Wednesday night to welcome 2026 with Harrisburg’s signature New Year’s Eve celebration — the annual strawberry drop on Second Street ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A 15-foot red chile will drop at midnight in Nob Hill, marking a uniquely New Mexican way to celebrate the New Year. Crews have been preparing for hours to ensure everything is ...

The lake effect snow machine lived up to its reputation Wednesday, delivering more than a foot of snow across Genesee County on New Year's Eve and putting the county among some of the highest snowfall ...