New York City taxi driver Noureddine Bitat was violently assaulted and his yellow cab was smashed in the mayhem following the Knicks’ Game 4 win. Grammy-nominated rapper French Montana shares how he joined others to help the cabbie get back on his feet. Source link
Heavy rain slams Texas, trapping drivers and damaging roads – CBS News Watch CBS News Millions of people in Texas and other areas of the Gulf Coast face a major flooding threat. Days of torrential rain have created dangerous driving conditions and left roads damaged in some areas. Jason Allen reports. Source link
Do you know who you’re opening your door to? A CBS News California consumer investigation uncovered food delivery drivers using rented or stolen app accounts to bypass background checks, exposing a loophole that could put customers at risk. Now, in a CBS California accountability follow-up, investigative correspondent Julie Watts went to the State Capitol to … Read more
Ready to hand over the car keys to a teenager for the first time? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Consumer Reports are out with a list of cars to help get them safely from point A to point B. The annual ranking, released Wednesday, lists 96 of the safest new and used vehicles … Read more
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida’s bid to file a lawsuit against Washington and California for allegedly providing commercial driver’s licenses to truck drivers who are in the U.S. illegally and not proficient in English. Florida sought to sue the two states following a fatal crash on a state highway in August … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a long-shot lawsuit in which Florida sought to sue the states of California and Washington for allegedly allowing people who entered the country illegally to obtain commercial truck driver licenses. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Florida’s … Read more
BOSTON — A man accused of wounding two drivers when he fired at least 70 rounds from an assault-style weapon on a busy street near Boston pleaded not guilty Thursday to assault and other charges. Tyler Brown, 46, who appeared in Cambridge District Court via video from a hospital bed, did not speak and appeared … Read more
NEW YORK — As steep fuel prices strain household budgets during the war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump wants to suspend his government’s tax on gasoline. It’s a move Trump can’t do on his own — and the president has yet to specify how long he’d like such pause to last. But lawmakers on … Read more
A move by the Trump administration to suspend the federal gasoline tax would offer only modest relief to U.S. drivers socked by soaring fuel costs, according to tax and energy experts. Americans face the highest prices at the pump since 2022, with a gallon of gas surging roughly $1.54 since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in … Read more
The surging cost of filling up her car is taking a toll on Melissa Miles’s finances — and her classroom attendance. A full-time student in social work at Eastern Michigan University, she commutes daily in her 2015 Chevrolet Sonic between school and her home 80 miles away in Hillsdale, Michigan. But with gasoline prices in … Read more