Health

Live Updates: Massive blast ruled out at California chemical leak in Orange County as officials say crisis is "not over"

Updated on: May 25, 2026 / 8:24 PM PDT / CBS LA

‘My head spins with the heat’: India’s gig workers battle exhaustion amid soaring temperatures

Cities across south and south-east Asia are becoming places where informal workers can no longer recover from the heat

California residents near dangerous chemical tank forced to flee homes: "You're freaking out"

Updated on: May 25, 2026 / 7:31 PM EDT / CBS News

California officials say threat of chemical explosion eliminated

Officials in Orange County, California, announced that the threat of a catastrophic explosion of a toxic chemical tank in Garden Grove has been eliminated but warned that a threat to the public still exists and evacuation orders remained in effect.

'It saved my couch': 10 must-have items cat owners swear by to pet-proof their home

A calming diffuser, a built-in scratching post and more tools to persuade your cat to stop scratching your nicest couch

Experts from Thai rescue join efforts to save 7 gold prospectors trapped in Laos cave

Cave rescue experts from Thailand who aided the dramatic 2018 retrieval of a youth football team joined efforts Monday to extract seven people trapped in a flooded cave in neighboring Laos, Laotian state media said.

Ebola outbreak death toll climbs in Congo as new infections confirmed in Uganda

Updated on: May 25, 2026 / 8:15 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Minibus crashes into elephant crossing road in Uganda national park, killing 3 people

Updated on: May 25, 2026 / 8:03 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for kimchi tofu noodles with chilli peanuts

Simple and spicy, this dish is adaptable enough to become a firm favourite with all the family – and it will fill lunchboxes the next day, too

The U.S. Brain Surgeon Volunteering at Ukraine’s Most Frantic Hospital

Rocco Armonda is treating far more brutal injuries than he did in Iraq.

The flawed policies driving Medicare waste

Medicare hemorrhages about $60 billion a year in waste, fraud, and abuse — money lost from a program serving 69 million Americans. Fraud reflects deliberate deception, but much of Medicare’s waste stems from flawed policy and perverse incentives.

The one change that worked: I struggled to get any work done

After years of procrastination, even the most trivial task felt like climbing a mountain. Then I discovered the pomodoro technique – and how much I could achieve in just 25 minutes