Nicole Valdes
Correspondent at CBS News
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6 days ago |
cbsnews.com | Kerry Breen |Nicole Valdes
Elijah Heacock was a vibrant teen who made people smile. He "wasn't depressed, he wasn't sad, he wasn't angry," father John Burnett told CBS Saturday Morning. But when Elijah received a threatening text with an A.I.-generated nude photo of himself demanding he pay $3,000 to keep it from being sent to friends and family, everything changed. He died by suicide shortly after receiving the message, CBS affiliate KFDA reported.
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2 weeks ago |
cbsnews.com | Nicole Valdes
As potentially severe storms threaten parts of the Midwest and the South — which comes after a string of tornadoes have already left over two dozen dead — residents will likely have to turn to a weakened Federal Emergency Management Agency to aid recovery. In London, Kentucky, Michael Carnes clung to his family as they heard the walls crumbling around them when a tornado hit on Friday.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Emily Mae Czachor |Nicole Valdes
For nearly a decade, Bree Smith was a familiar face in Nashville. But, in January, the mom and former TV meteorologist stopped appearing on the local CBS-affiliated station — a decision she made after months of fighting against deepfakes, which are simulated online images or videos that can seem realistic. In Smith's case, an image of her was doctored to create explicit pictures and videos, with her face edited onto different, partly nude bodies, and then used to try to extort money from others.
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2 months ago |
cbsnews.com | Laura Geller |Nicole Valdes
How Baltimore is reducing violence on the streets Baltimore, once a poster child for big city crime, is now becoming the model for a turnaround as gun violence has fallen more rapidly than in any other major U.S. city, according to the Center for American Progress. One way the city has reduced crime is by tapping into the expertise of people who used to perpetrate it. Sean Wees grew up in Brooklyn, a neighborhood in south Baltimore, where he saw the violence firsthand.
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2 months ago |
kpax.com | Nicole Valdes
At Leiper's Fork Distillery outside Nashville, the notably small batch distiller produces only two and a half barrels of Tennessee whiskey a day, doing everything by hand, from distilling to bottling and labeling. The whiskey, bourbon and rye produced there are only sold in six states, the U.K. and Canada. But with tariffs in play on spirits like Tennessee whiskey, owner Lee Kennedy fears his export sales could soon run dry.
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