Terrorism charges filed against NYC attack suspect

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Last Updated Nov 1, 2017 6:54 PM EDT NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed terrorism charges against bike path attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov, who is accused of killing eight people and injuring a dozen others when he drove his car along a bike path in lower Manhattan Tuesday. […]

NYC attack suspect was known to U.S. authorities

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NEW YORK — The suspect in Tuesday’s deadly terror attack in New York City was known to U.S. authorities because his name was associated with the subjects of other FBI counterterrorism investigations in 2015, an intelligence source said, CBS News’ Pat Milton reports. The intelligence source said the suspect, 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic […]

Social media sites balk at notifying users fed fake ads

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Lawyers for Facebook, Twitter and Google balked Wednesday when asked by a senator if in the future their companies would consider notifying users who had seen advertising posted by fake accounts tied to foreign governments, primarily Russian operatives. The idea, posed by Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, came after nearly […]

More U.S. babies born preterm as progress stalls

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After nearly a decade of decline, the U.S. rate of preterm birth — the largest contributor to infant death in the country — increased again in 2016 for the second year in a row, according to a new report from the March of Dimes. More than 380,000 babies are born […]

Hoffman apologizes after sexual harassment accusation

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Dustin Hoffman has apologized after a woman accused him of groping and sexually harassing her when she was 17.  Anna Graham Hunter wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, in which she claimed Hoffman groped her buttocks and made numerous lewd comments toward her when she was a teenage […]

Women’s parity takes a small step back

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For the first time in over a decade, the progress toward women’s equality worldwide has slipped. Since 2006, the World Economic Forum has been tracking the global gender gap, as measured in the difference between men’s and women’s lifespans, access to education, economic participation and representation in government. “Every year, […]