The sheriff of Suffolk County, N.Y. says more women sex workers have come forward claiming they’ve had contact with Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann, CBS New York reports. Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. told the station, “My staff is really going to vet these additional females to see if …

Although U.S. consumers have embraced “buy now, pay later” loans in part because of marketing claims that they offer zero-percent financing, shoppers should be on their guard. Some BNPL products charge exorbitant interest rates, along with heavy fees when you miss a payment, according to Consumer Reports. The loans allow consumers …

The World Health Organization has declared aspartame, a common artificial sweetener used in thousands of products, to be “possibly carcinogenic to humans” — while also noting that “safety is not a major concern” in the quantities people would normally consume. WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, or IARC, categorized …

Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius, has been arrested and charged with fraud, federal prosecutors said on Thursday. Mashinsky was charged with seven criminal counts, including securities, commodities and wire fraud, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. He is also accused of …

A driver struck and killed a 75-year-old man while fleeing from U.S. Secret Service officers after an attempted traffic stop near the White House in Washington, D.C., authorities said. The suspect remains at large. The Secret Service said the incident unfolded just before 1:30 p.m. when officers attempted to pull …

Several of YouTube star Colleen Ballinger’s live shows have apparently been canceled in the wake of accusations of inappropriate conduct with minors and other bad behavior online, and her podcast partner Trisha Paytas also said they would no longer work together, ending their podcast “Oversharing” after three episodes. Ballinger, who started posting …

Nieltje Gedney was half-asleep in her West Virginia home, watching murder mysteries over the hum of a bedside hemodialysis machine, when she felt something warm and wet in her armpit. A needle inserted into her arm had fallen loose, breaking a circuit that the machine used to clean her blood. …

Washington — A Jan. 6 defendant who was arrested near the home of former President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., with weapons and ammunition in his van had threatened to blow up the vehicle at a government facility the day before, federal prosecutors alleged in a new court filing. Taylor …

A major hotel workers’ strike continued Tuesday in Southern California, with about 15,000 housekeepers, cooks and bellhops walking off the job in the middle of the busy holiday weekend. The strike kicked off Sunday as members of the UNITE HERE Local 11 union began forming picket lines at some of …

CBS Baltimore obtained video showing people running as a mass shooting unfolded in the city’s Brooklyn neighborhood early Sunday. Police said they were searching for at least two suspects who opened fire on a group of people at a neighborhood block party. The “Brooklyn Day” cookout event has been held there …