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When Sarah Harris went in for surgery to remove her wisdom teeth in the summer of 2020, she must have thought she was in good hands. The oral surgeon she chose, Dr. James Ryan, had years of training, a good reputation and a thriving practice near her Washington, D.C.-area home. As a new patient at 23, she may never have dreamed he’d allegedly watched her when she was just 14. And Ryan would do more than take out Sarah’s teeth. Her family says he would take her self-control and eventually take her life. On the morning of Jan. 26, 2022,…

Anthony Lee is president of NTEU Chapter 282, the union representing close to 9,000 employees at the Food and Drug Administration. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR By late March, Anthony Lee should have gotten a heads up that mass layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration were about to begin. Instead the union president found out when he started getting panicked calls early one morning. Employees were learning they were being fired while swiping their badges to get into work. A green light meant go. A red light meant stop. “For dozens, hundreds of employees, it just…

The prices of strollers and car seats are skyrocketing as companies race to adjust to President Trump’s tariff policies. Federal support for a major campaign to promote safe infant sleep habits appears to have been cut. Measles outbreaks are terrifying parents of young children, even as the nation’s health secretary undermines vaccines.The Trump administration’s policies are reaching ever deeper into the lives of American families, transforming routine and apolitical parts of some parents’ days — trips to the pediatrician, conversations at swim classes, chatter on online baby gear forums — into scenes of anxiety and anger.For a Democratic Party still…

The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday. The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology.”It is an open question, however, how much data an AI developer needs, and the marginal effect of more data on a model’s capabilities,” the report read. “Not everyone agrees that further increases in data and…

A Trump-appointed federal judge rejected a bizarre GOP attempt to disenfranchise voters after they cast their ballots. Ad Policy Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs speaks to protesters at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Monday, April 14, 2025.(Makiya Seminera / AP) Republicans lost a high-stakes contest for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court in November. But the race was close, and so, in the great election-denying tradition of Donald Trump, Jefferson Griffin, the defeated Republican court candidate, refused to concede defeat. Instead, Griffin launched what legal scholar Nicholas Stephanopoulos referred to as “an unprecedented effort to change…

An Ohio man who over the past 10 months sent dozens of threatening messages to 34 people, including politicians and members of law enforcement, is facing criminal charges of cyberstalking and making threats, federal prosecutors said on Friday.The man, Ronald Lidderdale, sent 65 letters and emails, including some in which he said that he would send the recipients bullets with their names on them or said that he was prepared to kill them.Mr. Lidderdale, 39, who was described by officials as being from central Ohio, was arrested on Friday and appeared in federal court to face charges of making interstate…

C.C. Opanowski was just 18 years old when she was brutally attacked by someone she once loved — her ex-boyfriend Shawn Doyle. C.C. tried to put the traumatic incident behind her until she learned years later that Doyle murdered a mother of two young boys. For the first time, C.C. is speaking out publicly to” 48 Hours” and correspondent Anne-Marie Green about her story and how she was able to find the strength to testify against her attacker in court.It was Jan. 27, 1996 and C.C. Opanowski has just finished her first semester of college in upstate New York. She…

President Trump has floated changing the name of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of a trip to the Middle East next week, a move that infuriated Iran and its people.“I’ll have to make a decision,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. I don’t know if feelings are going to be hurt.”This past week, The Associated Press reported that Mr. Trump planned to announce the renaming on his tour of several Arab countries, which have been lobbying for the change for years.The turquoise blue water has been called…

Jeannette Ralston was at the Lion’s Den bar in San Jose, Calif., when she told her friends that she would be “back in 10 minutes.”She never returned.The next morning, on Feb. 1, 1977, police officers found the 24-year-old woman strangled with the long sleeve of a red women’s dress shirt and squeezed into the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle in a parking lot a few minutes away from the bar.Almost 50 years later, the authorities believe that they know who strangled her.Willie Eugene Sims, 69, of Jefferson, Ohio, was arraigned on Friday on a charge of murder in San…

Levittown, Pennsylvania — At a town hall Saturday in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona encouraged the Democratic party to return to its roots as the “big tent” party. “What happened the last election is that we got so pure, and we kept so pure that we started kicking people out of the tent,” Gallego said. “It ends up there aren’t enough people in the tent to win elections.” Gallego cited podcast host Joe Rogan as an example of someone “kicked out” of the tent because his message did not completely align with the party’s. “I’m sure you guys heard like,…