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Live updates | Day 6 of the latest Israel-Hamas war 10/12/2023 09:49pm • The Israeli military prepared for a possible ground invasion in Gaza on Thursday as it pounded the tiny coastal strip in retaliation for the unprecedented weekend attack on Israel by the militant group Hamas. In a deliberate show of support for Israel, a U.S. official confirmed that Defense Secreta Person accused in fatal shooting of 2 in Georgia dies by suicide while fleeing, police say 10/12/2023 09:42pm • SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) ��� A person suspected of fatally shooting two people on Thursday near a dental office northwest of Atlanta died by suicide when officers tried to stop the individual's vehicle, police said. The Cobb County Police Department said in a Facebook post that their major crimes unit is in South African authorities target coal-smuggling gang they say contributed to a power crisis 10/12/2023 08:42pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� South African authorities said they conducted raids across five provinces Thursday to break up a coal-smuggling syndicate they blamed for stealing more than $26 million in coal, degrading state-owned power plants and contributing to an electricity crisis. The crimina 13 Metrobus routes could provide 24-hour service by mid-December 10/12/2023 08:17pm • Metro is moving forward with plans to provide 24-hour bus service on 13 routes before the end of the year. D.C. would fund the service increase, which would see buses on 13 lines across the District running every 20 minutes or so from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Right now, service starts to ramp down fro Northwestern State football player shot and killed near campus, coach calls it 'a tremendous loss' 10/12/2023 06:50pm • NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) ��� A Northwestern State University football player was shot and killed early Thursday near an apartment complex not far from campus in Natchitoches, police said. Ronald Caldwell, a 21-year-old junior from Austin, Texas, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds by Natchitoc Attorney general investigates fatal police shooting of former elite fencer at his New York home 10/12/2023 06:30pm • A New York man killed after police said he came at them with swords in his hands was a former elite fencer who won a medal for the United States at the Pan American Games in 1995. The state attorney general's office said Thursday that it had opened a probe into the killing of Alan Weber, 54, who die An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder 10/12/2023 06:19pm • GREENWOOD, Ark. (AP) ��� Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son's family. It's a jarring change from where he was just several months ago, locked in a cell serving a life prison sentence at Oklahoma's Vermont police get more than 150 tips after sketch of person of interest released in trail killing 10/12/2023 06:17pm • CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) ��� More than 150 tips have come in since Vermont State Police released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean who was shot dead a week ago on a recreation trail in the small college town, authorities said Thursday. The composite sketch was mad U.S. cities bolster security as Israel-Hamas war continues 10/12/2023 05:48pm • ▶ Watch Video: Israel continues effort to "crush" Hamas While there is no reported credible threat, CBS News has reviewed multiple internal law enforcement bulletins and security assessments circulated in the last 48 hours that warn that homegrown and domestic South Carolina man pleads guilty to ambush that killed 2 officers and wounded 5 10/12/2023 05:36pm • AIKEN, S.C. (AP) ��� A 79-year-old South Carolina man avoided a possible death sentence Thursday by agreeing to plead guilty to ambushing police officers coming to his home, killing two of the officers and wounding five others. Frederick Hopkins court appearance was unannounced and reporters followi Ecuadorians are picking a new president, but their demands for safety will be hard to meet 10/12/2023 05:31pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� The contest comes Sunday, and whoever wins the prize ��� a job that starts on Christmas ��� will face a difficult, if not impossible, task. What awaits is a shorter-than-normal 15-month run as president of Ecuador, which is engulfed in a surge of violence tied to drug tra France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism 10/12/2023 05:30pm • PARIS (AP) ��� France���s interior minister on Thursday ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid a rise in antisemitic acts since Hamas attacked Israel over the weekend. President Emmanuel Macron urged French people not to allow the war in the Mideast erupt into tensi A doctors group calls its 'excited delirium' paper outdated and withdraws its approval 10/12/2023 05:20pm • A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on ���excited delirium,��� a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police. The American College of Emergency Physicians in a statement called the paper outdated and said the term excite Republican challenger uses forum to try to nationalize Kentucky governor's race 10/12/2023 05:08pm • Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron tried pushing national politics to the forefront of the governor's race in GOP-trending Kentucky, while Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear played up the state's record-setting economic growth under his leadership as the rivals squared off at a forum Thursday. In Man pleads guilty, gets 7 years in prison on charges related to Chicago officer's killing 10/12/2023 04:52pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A man pleaded guilty to charges Thursday in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of Chicago police officer Ella French and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Eric Morgan, 25, entered the plea to charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, battery and obstruction of justi