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By Olivia Gazis, Margaret Brennan Updated on: April 25, 2024 / 5:46 PM EDT / CBS News Wife of American held by Taliban speaks out Wife of American held captive in Afghanistan says husband’s condition is worsening 07:34 Attorneys for Ryan Corbett, an American who has been imprisoned without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since August 2022, filed urgent petitions on Thursday with the United Nations in the latest push for his release.  The petitions include testimonies from two recently released, non-American detainees who described Corbett’s deteriorating mental and physical condition as well as descriptions of torture and other cruel and degrading treatment by the Taliban. Filed before the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and the U.N. Working Group for Arbitrary Detention, the petitions said the individuals who were jailed with Corbett expressed concerns that the 40-year-old father of three could die soon, due to medical problems, maltreatment or self-harm. The former detainees described Taliban holders’ threats of physical violence against Corbett, who they said was forced to listen to the torture of other prisoners in a cell where blood was visible on the

An outage cut power to more than 1,800 Imperial Irrigation District customers in the Coachella and Thermal area Thursday for about two hours after a vehicle came in contact with the district’s infrastructure. The utility alerted the public shortly after 6:30 a.m. Thursday that a power outage was affecting areas in Coachella and Thermal and that troubleshooters were responding to the scene. “The outage, affecting approximately 1,900 customers, started at 6:18 a.m. due a heavy equipment vehicle making contact with district infrastructure,” IID officials wrote in a statement shortly after 10 a.m. It was not immediately known where exactly contact was made. Power was restored to all customers by 8:20 a.m., IID officials said. Anyone who continued to have issues was asked to call the utility at 800-303-7756. The IID provides electricity to more than 150,000 customers in parts of Riverside and San Diego counties, and to all of Imperial County.

Calling her allegations a “thinly veiled attempt to extend her fame and to rebrand herself as the victim,” Tom Sandoval is seeking dismissal of most claims brought by former “Vanderpump Rules” cast member star Rachel Leviss, who alleges he and Ariana Madix produced and distributed revenge porn involving the plaintiff. In court papers brought Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Sandoval’s attorneys urge judge Daniel M. Crowley to toss out Leviss’ claims for eavesdropping, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The motion, scheduled to be heard May 24, does not challenge Leviss’ revenge porn claim. The 40-year-old Sandoval’s lawyers also are asking that the 29-year-old Leviss’ request for punitive damages be denied. “After thrusting the vicissitudes of her life into the limelight for ongoing public consumption and critique from 2016-23, Leviss has now filed the instant action against Sandoval and Madix, his 38-year-old former girlfriend, complaining of being an object of public scorn and ridicule,” Sandoval’s attorneys state in their pleadings. In reality, Leviss’ complaint is a “thinly veiled attempt to extend her fame and to rebrand herself as the victim instead

Sophia Bush finally feels like she can breathe after coming out as queer and opening up about her long-rumored relationship with soccer star Ashlyn Harris. “When I take stock of the last few years, I can tell you that I have never operated out of more integrity in my life. I hope that’s clear enough for everyone speculating out there,” the “One Tree Hill” alum wrote Thursday in an essay for the April issue of Glamour. The 41-year-old detailed how her one-year marriage to Grant Hughes felt phony and fell apart amid her grueling fertility issues. She also explained how her recovery from that relationship led her to Harris, who simultaneously had been going through her own divorce from former teammate Ali Krieger. Bush wrote that after her storybook wedding — which she doesn’t regret — she found herself “in the depths and heartbreak of the fertility process.” She kept all that private as she endured months of ultrasounds, hormone shots, blood draws that led to scar tissue in her veins and numerous egg retrievals, “while simultaneously realizing the person I had chosen to be

British actor Jessica Gunning said she usually has a “what will be, will be” attitude toward auditions. That, however, was not the case when she was trying out to play Martha in Netflix’s surprise hit series “Baby Reindeer.” “I really kind of fought for it,” she said in a video interview this week. “I really thought, if this gets into the wrong hands and it ever gets played by an actress who sees her as scary, or plays a kind of crazy version of a stalker, I think you’d absolutely ruin what is such nuanced, careful, delicate storytelling.” That storytelling was born out of creator and star Richard Gadd’s real-life experience with stalking that began as a one-man stage show and was woven into a darkly comic miniseries about isolation and the aftereffects of abuse. In the show, Gadd plays Donny Dunn, a struggling comedian working as a bartender, who offers a cup of tea one day to Martha (Gunning), a crying woman. What begins with some mutual flattery eventually turns grim when Martha’s affections turn to unrelenting harassment and threats. But Gunning’s performance never

If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic snarled by a car illegally parked in a bus lane at rush hour, Los Angeles Metro has some good news for you. Beginning this summer, Metro plans to use cameras powered by artificial intelligence to identify vehicles parked in bus lanes and ticket them. Testing is expected to begin this summer and full implementation by the end of this year, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, though a 60-day warning period will precede any ticketing. “The cameras will be mounted inside Metro bus windshields to check for vehicles parked in bus lanes and at bus stops, in order to help enforce new parking rules after the L.A. City Council approved a fine last year,” the Times reports. Hayden AI designed the program, which will cost Metro $11 million for 100 camera systems. The contract lasts about five years, the Times adds. When a potential violation is spotted by artificial intelligence, the system captures the license plate and records video that is then sent to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, where a human will decide

California lawmakers have once again introduced a universal health care bill after unsuccessful attempts in the past.   The bill’s latest iteration, formally known as AB 2200, would establish the framework for a single-payer, state-run coverage system called CalCare to control health care costs for all Californians. California to become first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented adults “The bill, among other things, would provide that CalCare cover a wide range of medical benefits and other services and would incorporate the health care benefits and standards of other existing federal and state provisions, including the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medi-Cal, ancillary health care or social services covered by regional centers for persons with developmental disabilities, Knox-Keene, and the federal Medicare,” according to the bill’s text. While the idea seems good on paper, in the past, previous versions of the bill have faced pushback mainly due to its expensive price tag. Legislative analysts have previously estimated it could cost between $494 billion and $552 billion to fund the program. The high price tag was one reason a similar CalCare bill couldn’t garner enough

A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to Thiago Oliveira, who recorded the apparent road rage incident. “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a father and son fighting a middle-aged man,” Oliveira told KTLA. A motorist is seen being held and punched by two people on the 10 Freeway in Santa Monica on April 23, 2024. (Thiago Oliveira) The video shows the man being held by one person while another punches him in the face. At one point the man spins free and swings wildly at one of the other men and the fight briefly resumes. Oliveira said both parties decided to get back in their vehicles and drive away when he stopped recording to try and de-escalate the situation, telling those involved to “call the cops for this fender bender or leave because there are 100 cars behind us.” Oliveira said the brawl started because the pickup truck

By Kate Gibson Edited By Anne Marie Lee April 25, 2024 / 1:56 PM EDT / CBS News Amazon’s Ring to stop allowing police to request camera footage from users’ Amazon’s Ring to stop allowing police to request camera footage from users’ 00:49 The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to people who purchased Amazon’s Ring camera during a time when the devices were potentially being used to violate their privacy. Payments are coming to 117,044 consumers who had certain types of Ring devices, the result of a settlement of allegations Amazon let employees and contractors access people’s videos, the FTC said in a statement earlier this week. Recipients will receive a PayPal payment of $150.00 or $47.70, the agency told CBS MoneyWatch. The refund amount depended on several factors, including the type of Ring device owned and when the consumer had the account. People should redeem their PayPal payment within 30 days, the FTC said. The refunds come nearly a year after the regulator and Amazon settled claims the company failed to protect customer security, leading in some cases to