Two Russian jets "repeatedly and dangerously" intercepted a British surveillance aircraft over the Black Sea last month, the defense ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

"This incident is another example of dangerous and unacceptable behaviour by Russian pilots, towards an unarmed aircraft operating in international airspace. These actions create a serious risk of accidents and potential escalation," Defense Minister John Healey said in the communique.

The incident comes as relations between the two countries remain at a historic low over the Ukraine war and longstanding spying allegations.

The Russian Su-35 and Su-27 jets intercepted the Royal Air Force (RAF) Rivet Joint aircraft last month with the Su-27 at one point flying as close as six meters (19 feet) to the British plane's nose, the statement added, along with a 12-second video of...More

The national average for a gallon of gasoline has been ticking up since the start of the war with Iran. In Killeen, Texas, it's up $1.28, which comes to about $90 more every month for Charles Rice to fill up his truck.

"$3.96 instead of $4.12 or $4.20 or what have you, so that's what brought me in here today," Rice said while filling up at Casey's General Stores. It's the nation's third-largest convenience store chain, with nearly 300 locations across 19 states. Two-thirds of Casey's locations are in towns of 20,000 people or less.

Store visits at Casey's are expected to jump 20% Memorial Day weekend, the kickoff of the chain's 100 days of summer, said Casey's CEO Darren Rebelez.

"The consumers have been hanging in there, and we tend to price our fuel at the lower end," Rebelez said.

Before the Middle East conflict erupted in February, the national average for a gallon of gas hovered just...More

Forget "no shirt, no shoes, no service" across the ballparks of America this summer, apparently


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If you've watched or attended a Major League Baseball game in recent days, you may have noticed a curious abundance of exposed skin among game-goers. We speak, of course, of the "tarps off" trend that is, well, trending across a growing number of MLB ballparks.

While the sight of the occasional shirtless fan during the warmer months of the season is hardly uncommon, seeing throngs of shirtless fans is something new. That is "tarps off," and it's an example of spontaneous, if occasionally blinding to the view, fan engagement that may have staying power. As such, the uninitiated may have questions about tarps off, how it came about, and where the rooting ritual has spread. Let's undertake those questions now, while fittingly stripped to the...More

TV, film and Broadway star Beanie Feldstein revealed on "CBS Mornings" that she and her wife Bonnie-Chance Roberts are expecting a baby girl.

"It's a girl baby," she announced on Tuesday when "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King asked about photos showing the couple dressed in pink. Feldstein said her baby will be the first granddaughter of the family. Her brother, actor Jonah Hill, is a father to two boys.

The 32-year-old, who became an aunt when she was 13, said she feels "so lucky" to become a parent soon and thinks "you learn so much from watching everyone in your family parent."

Feldstein said she used to nanny and work with kids, but as a soon-to-be mom she's most looking forward to "the way that … a child reaches for their parent in a different way than their caretaker of another...More

Federal fraud charges were unsealed Wednesday against a Minnesota daycare owner who prosecutors allege tried to flee the country just two days after shutting the daycare center down.

Federal prosecutors said Future Leaders Early Learning — a site sponsored by Feeding Our Future — pretended to feed children during the pandemic, but pocketed much of the money instead.

Fahima Mahamud, the daycare's owner, was charged with one count each of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States through Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program, or CCAP, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Mahamud is currently under house arrest.

She is accused of stealing taxpayer money that was meant to help families feed their children. Prosecutors allege her center at one point was claiming to serve 60,000 children monthly and falsifying...More

A medical worker checks the temperature of a local resident as part of Ebola screening in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 19, 2026. Stringer/Xinhua/Getty

The World Health Organization on Wednesday said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide.

WHO experts said that while investigations into its origins were ongoing, given the scale of the situation in the eastern DRC, the outbreak probably began a couple of months ago.

But the UN health agency's emergency committee said it did not currently meet the pandemic emergency threshold.

"WHO assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level," said the organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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A pair of humpback whales swam between the eastern shores of Australia and breeding grounds in Brazil, research published on Wednesday found. The distances of the journeys are the greatest ever recorded.

The work by a team of international scientists used tens of thousands of images taken of whale tales to identify the two vast sea-dwelling mammals and reveal they had popped up on both sides of the world.

One was spotted in Queensland in 2007 and then appeared near Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2019 — a distance across oceans of about 8,823 miles.

Another was seen off the coast of Bahia in Brazil before being sighted 22 years later in Hervey Bay, Australia, about 9,383 miles away, according to the study published in Royal Society Open Science.

The pictures represent the longest distance ever seen between two pictures of the same humpback whale, researchers...More

The U.S. intelligence community has been exploring how Cuba might respond to an American military action, CBS News has learned.

Earlier this month, as the U.S. intelligence community tracked the Universal, a sanctioned Russian-flagged oil tanker bound for Cuba, analysts at the Pentagon and Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. military's intelligence arm, started to analyze what the Cuban response would be to an American attack on the Caribbean country. Work on developing military options for President Trump has begun, according to two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. Both requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

These types of intelligence forecasts attempt not only to show the immediate consequences of an American action, but the chain of reactions that may follow. U.S. military planners frequently incorporate such analysis into developing...More