Jo Ling Kent

School districts around the country have put over 4,500 electric buses​ on the road, but more funding is needed.

The son of immigrant parents, who immersed himself in American culture growing up, built a career as a filmmaker with hits such as "Crazy Rich Asians" and "In the Heights," tapping into his own identity and translating stories of struggle and ambition to the screen.

Kayla Mills spent most of this year driving a Honda HRV, but last month she decided to return the vehicle to the dealership. Her reason? The $520 a month car insurance bill no longer fit her budget. “I can pay it, but being able to afford it while also affording the rising costs of everything else going on, I made an executive decision to let go of my car,” the Massachusetts resident said. Mills isn’t the only one feeling the pinch of car insurance payments. Not only has overall inflation grew 3…

Two voice actors are suing an artificial intelligence startup in a proposed federal class action lawsuit for violating trademark laws, to train their AI.Paul Skey Lehrman and Linnea Sage were hired by Lovo, an AI company, back in 2019 and 2020 to provide voice clips for what they were told would be internal research.“On three occasions in writing they had given me assurances of how and where it would be used for internal purposes only and never forward facing,” Lehrman said.But two years later,…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a bill into law targeting addictive social media feeds for children and teens, saying ahead of the bill’s signing that “our kids are in distress.” “They’re not living carefree lives because they are being held captive to powerful forces outside their own control — algorithms that are intentionally addictive, intended to pull them in and keep their attention,” Hochul told CBS News in an exclusive interview ahead of the bill’s signing. The “Safe for Ki…

When Joy Sharp built a new home in the small coastal community of Wilmington, North Carolina, about eight years ago, her homeowners insurance cost was a relatively modest $1,400. That was then.Now, and after a series of violent storms slammed the Atlantic coast in recent years, her annual premiums have more than quadrupled. “Now I’ve been given renewal rates of $6,000,” Sharp, 39, herself an insurance agent, told CBS News. “So, it’s just every year, it goes up and up and up, and it’s not coming…

After hosting “Wheel of Fortune” for 41 years, Pat Sajak is taking his final spin on Friday.Last year, the now 77-year-old announced this would be his final season after being part of more than 8,000 episodes.“It’s been an incredible privilege to be invited into millions of homes night after night, year after year,” Sajak said.Sajak’s turn as the affable host, with Vanna White by his side, made him a TV legend.“When I first started, I was so green. You made me so comfortable, you made me so conf…

Last year, there were more than 21,000 deepfake pornographic videos online — up more than 460% over the year prior. But Congress could soon make it illegal to share the doctored images.Leading the charge are New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican, who co-authored bipartisan legislation aimed at cracking down on people who share non-consensual intimate deepfake images online. The legislation proposes criminal penalties that include a fine and up to…

Police were waiting at a motel room in Gallup, New Mexico, on Tuesday when 52-year-old Fernando Clyde showed up to meet someone he was expecting to be a 12-year-old girl. Police body camera video obtained exclusively by CBS News showed Clyde being arrested on charges that he sent unsolicited sexual messages on Facebook Messenger to who he thought was a girl, but was actually an undercover special agent for the New Mexico Justice Department. “These are individuals who explicitly use this platform…

With the clock ticking on TikTok in the U.S., millions of users, including small business owners, are scrambling to figure out what to do. One of them is Brandon Hurst, who says TikTok has changed his life through his plant delivery business. “It allows me to go live, share who I am, but it also makes it easy for people to buy,” Hurst said. Since he started selling plants on TikTok last year, Hurst, better known as “Brandon the Plant Guy,” says he has tripled his business.“In the last year we’ve…