Last Updated Mar 9, 2018 12:31 PM EST President Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on steel imports, in keeping with his key campaign platform to make fair trade deals, may inadvertently hurt a promise even more central to his campaign — his pledge to build a wall along the southern […]
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Officials: Student accidentally shoots self at Ky. school
Last Updated Mar 9, 2018 8:07 AM EST LEXINGTON, Ky. — Authorities say a student accidentally shot himself Friday morning at a high school in Kentucky. A statement from Fayette County Public Schools spokeswoman Lisa Deffendall says it happened at Frederick Douglass High School in Lexington. No one else was […]
Admitted drunk driver speaks out on crash that killed man, unborn baby
A woman who has pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter in Texas was seen trying to hide a liquor bottle after the crash that killed a man and his unborn baby, CBS Austin affiliate KEYE-TV reports. Shana Elliott took the witness stand on Thursday as a jury deliberates her punishment. A […]
Martin Shkreli hears sentence for defrauding investors
Last Updated Mar 9, 2018 2:30 PM EST Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli wept and apologized before being sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday for securities fraud. A U.S. District Court judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence after a jury in August found him guilty of defrauding […]
Mississippi will soon have the most restrictive abortion ban in U.S.
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi bill to make most abortions illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy is now awaiting the governor’s signature, a step likely to trigger a tough legal challenge against what would become the nation’s most restrictive abortion law. Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Legislature sent the bill on Thursday […]
Red carpet, and protests, greet Saudi crown prince in Britain
LONDON — The leader of the Anglican church says Saudi Arabia‘s crown prince is committed to the flourishing of different faiths in his strict Sunni Muslim kingdom. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Thursday in London, the third day of the prince’s visit to Britain […]
U.S. warning over Mexican resort town draws mixed reaction
The State Department abruptly closed the U.S. Consulate in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and is prohibiting all U.S. government employees from traveling to the popular resort town. Government sources tell CBS News the measures were taken because of a “real crime threat” connected to warring drug cartels. A security alert […]
The economy added 313,000 jobs in February, beating forecasts
The American economy’s steady expansion stepped up in February as U.S. companies added to their head count at a surprisingly robust pace and the labor-force participation rate rose. The Labor Department on Friday reported the U.S. economy created 313,000 jobs last month, far exceeding Wall Street expectations for 200,000 new jobs. The unemployment […]
Eye Opener: Trump agrees to an unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un
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Mom speaks out as remains of daughter found after 4-year search
PLANO, Texas — Plano police have announced skeletal human remains found in a brush area along a creek in nearby Anna, Texas, are those of Christina Morris, a 23-year-old Fort Worth woman who’s been missing since 2014. Police Chief Gregory Rushin’s Thursday announcement comes one day after a construction crew […]