Watch the new CBSN Original: “The Wall | A Nation Divided” on CBSN this Monday, January 29, at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. President Trump has requested $25 billion to build a wall that he says will secure our southern border. His critics say it’s unnecessary, that […]
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Oregon boy, 8, dies from flesh-eating bacteria
PENDLETON, Ore. — Liam Flanagan seemed a typical 8-year-old boy. The Pilot Rock second-grader rode his bike, scarfed down molasses cookies after school and roughhoused with his three step-brothers. He loved to wear camo and feed the animals on his family’s farm. But life, as the saying goes, can turn […]
Wynn shaken by sexual misconduct allegations against founder
LAS VEGAS – Wynn Resorts is denying multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault by founder Steve Wynn, detailed in a Wall Street Journal report that sent shares of the casino tumbling 9 percent Friday. Continue Reading Below The paper reported that a number of women say they were harassed […]
Casino mogul Steve Wynn accused of sexual misconduct
Last Updated Jan 26, 2018 2:54 PM EST LAS VEGAS – Wynn Resorts (WYNN) is denying multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault by its founder Steve Wynn, describing it as a smear campaign related to divorce proceedings from his ex-wife. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that a number […]
Cancer survivor aims to pilot jet-powered car to new record
RENO, Nev. — Ed Shadle’s first race was a soapbox derby in Puyallup, Washington, in 1955. Now, more than 60 years later, Shadle, 76, is preparing for what might be the biggest race of his life in Nevada’s Diamond Valley. Shadle’s plan is to pilot a jet-powered car across an […]
Analysis: Right now, the Trump economy is blasting off
Davos, Switzerland — It’s not Comey. Or Mueller. Or the Russians. Or Stormy Daniels. It’s the economy, stupid. And right now, the Trump economy is blasting off. Davos Man likes. In conversations with business and political leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, there is almost zero […]
Conservative Senate candidate says Trump immigration plan would amount to ‘amnesty’
A conservative candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona has come out against a new White House proposal on immigration, saying that giving permanent legal status to “Dreamers” before building a southern border wall would amount to “amnesty.” “I think that we need to secure the southern border and we […]
Flu season hitting one age group particularly hard, CDC says
The United States is currently being ravaged by a particularly nasty flu season, and health officials say we may not have seen the worst of it yet. The flu is currently widespread in 49 states and doctors across the country continue to see more cases, more hospitalizations, and more deaths […]
This mapmaker’s massive snow drawings have taken the internet by storm
It all started with a star in the snow. It was 2004 and Simon Beck, then 46, was living in Les Arcs, a ski resort in Savoie, France. He had just come off the slopes, and the idea came to him to draw out a pattern in the snow with […]
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange loses more than $500 million to hackers
Hackers stole several hundred million dollar’s worth of one lesser-known cryptocurrency from a major Japanese exchange Friday. Coincheck said that around 523 million of the exchange’s NEM coins were sent to another account around 3 a.m. local time (1 p.m. Thursday, ET), according to a Google translate of a Japanese […]