Last Updated Apr 10, 2018 1:58 PM EDT PORTLAND, Ore. – Hours before the bodies of three Washington state siblings and their parents were discovered at the bottom of a coastal California cliff, a Child Protective Services investigator called 911 to report “concerns that the children aren’t being fed,” reports […]
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TV host’s show canceled after Parkland survivor threat
Last Updated Apr 10, 2018 4:15 PM EDT ST. LOUIS — A conservative commentator who sent a violent and vulgar tweet saying he would use “a hot poker” to sexually assault a 17-year-old survivor of a Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station after several […]
Madeleine Albright on fascism and the “most undemocratic president”
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is warning of a looming worldwide political threat. In her new book, “Fascism: A Warning,” she argues contemporary world leaders are turning to the same tactics used by fascists like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini nearly a century ago. “We should be awake to […]
Video shows girls leaping from balcony to escape dance studio fire
EDGEWATER, N.J. — Authorities in New Jersey say several girls jumped from a balcony to escape a fire at a dance studio. The fire happened around 7 p.m. Monday at a multiuse building in Edgewater. CBS New York reports that video from the scene showed children trapped on the fiery balcony […]
Va. woman accused of beheading man, then making bizarre request
PRINCETON, W.Va. — A Virginia woman has been charged in the death of a West Virginia man who was decapitated, authorities said Monday. CBS affiliate WVNS-TV reports 29-year-old Bo White’s body was found April 1 in his home in the Lerona area and his head in some woods. Court documents […]
Does it matter what kind of gas was used in the latest Syria attack?
What kind of gas was used in the latest attack in Syria? It appears that dozens of Syrian civilians were killed on Saturday in an attack using chemical weapons. Initial reports from the humanitarian group known as the White Helmets and Syrian American Medical Society indicated that chlorine gas might […]
China making concessions in trade standoff with Trump?
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping promised Tuesday to cut China’s auto tariffs and improve intellectual property protection in possible concessions aimed at defusing a worsening dispute with Washington over trade and technology that investors worry could set back the global economic recovery. Speaking at a business conference, Xi made no […]
6 killed in fiery plane crash on golf course
A small plane crashed onto an Arizona golf course Monday evening, bursting into flames and leaving all six people on board dead, police said. CBS News affiliate KPHO said more than half a dozen emergency vehicles quickly arrived at the scene of the crash. Scottsdale Police confirmed in a statement […]
Small plane crashes onto Arizona golf course
A small plane crashed onto an Arizona golf course Monday evening, bursting into flames. CBS News affiliate KPHO said more than half a dozen emergency vehicles were at the scene of the crash. Scottsdale Police confirmed in a tweet that officers were responding to a plane crash at the TPC […]
Live blog: Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Senate committees
Who’s asking the questions? Here are the committee members that are set to pose questions to Facebook’s Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill: Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, Ranking Member **serves on both committees Republicans Sen. Orrin Hatch R-Utah, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, […]