The murders of four teenage girls have haunted Austin, Texas, for more than 30 years. Could new information lead to a killer? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-yogurt-shop-murders-2/
The 1991 murder of four teenage girls in a Texas yogurt shop remains unsolved, but there's hope that advancing DNA technology will change that.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yogurt-shop-murder-case-dna-sample-austin-texas/
Two men were seen in a Texas yogurt shop just before four teenage girls were killed there in 1991, and some wonder whether identifying them will lead to answers in the unsolved case.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yogurt-shop-murders-are-two-never-identified-customers-key-to-solving-austin-texas-case/
Like Zohran Mamdani in New York, the rise of Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh highlights the Democratic Party’s diverging centrist establishment and progressive wing.https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/socialist-democrats-candidates-mamdani-fateh-7e95c475
The video of 24-year-old Israeli hostage Evyatar David is one of a series released by Palestinian militants in recent days of emaciated Israeli hostages.https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-releases-video-of-hostage-digging-his-own-grave-in-a-tunnel-28f012d5
In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn’t like and promote his own version of reality.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html
Erika McEntarfer led the agency that produced key data on jobs and inflation. Then July’s report showed a weakening economy, and President Trump accused her of “rigging” the numbers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/until-trump-fired-her-she-was-an-economist-with-bipartisan-support.html
The tariffs are a substantial new source of revenue for the federal government. The budget may start to depend on it.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-tariffs-how-much-money-debt.html
The apparent shift in tone comes as cease-fire negotiations have hit a wall and pressure is mounting on Israel over the hunger crisis in Gaza. But Israel and Hamas remain far apart on the terms of any deal.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-ceasefire.html
The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret treaty Britain and France signed more than a century ago. Many consider it to have seeded a legacy of strife in the Middle East.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/world/middleeast/britan-france-palestine-sykes-picot-agreement.html
The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/climate/trump-epa-endangerment-finding-climate-change.html
President Trump and Republicans in Congress are eliminating federal incentives to buy electric vehicles, but carmakers need to keep selling and investing in them.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-electric-vehicles.html
Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/health/maid-medical-assistance-dying-colombia.html
Even low-level government employees like elementary school teachers and nurses have been ordered to hand in their passports, to enforce “discipline.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/world/asia/china-passports-civil-servants.html
Over the past two years, Chinese immigrants have constituted one of the largest groups entering the United States. Some fear fines or even imprisonment if they are sent home.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/chinese-stay-flee-united-states-trump.html
The introduction of a state-approved messaging app has raised fears that Russia could be preparing to block WhatsApp and Telegram.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/world/europe/russia-putin-internet.html
The arrests came days after President Volodymyr Zelensky’s U-turn on an effort to neuter anticorruption agencies.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/world/europe/ukraine-corruption-zelensky.html
Campus Reform was founded years ago to expose what it calls leftist bias on college campuses. The online site’s cause has gone from fringe to mainstream.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/campus-reform-college-protests-antisemitism-zachary-marschall.html
On a steamy Monday evening, no one inside the Manhattan office building noticed the dark BMW pull up outside. The driver entered the lobby with a rifle in his hand.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/nyregion/park-avenue-shooting-manhattan.html
Leavenworth, Kan., was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are divided over plans for a privately operated immigration detention site in town.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/leavenworth-kansas-prison-immigration-detention-ice-trump.html