Last Updated Nov 3, 2017 1:50 AM EDT NEW YORK — Sources tell CBS News that New York City police have brought prosecutors new rape allegations against Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Actress Paz de la Huerta says that in October of 2010, Weinstein offered to give her a ride […]
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HBO star alleges Harvey Weinstein raped her
Last Updated Nov 2, 2017 7:39 PM EDT NEW YORK — Sources tell CBS News that New York City police have brought prosecutors new rape allegations against Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Actress Paz de la Huerta says that in October of 2010, Weinstein offered to give her a ride […]
Hiring bounces back in October as effects of hurricanes fade
Last Updated Nov 3, 2017 10:59 AM EDT U.S. businesses hired robustly in October, partly reversing the depressed hiring in September thanks to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Some 261,000 jobs were added and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent. That’s less than the approximately 300,000 economists had been […]
Uber passenger recalls ride with Saipov days before NYC attack
NEW YORK — Damian Erskine, a 34-year-old British graphic designer, came to the United States with his girlfriend last weekend to attend a friend’s wedding in New York. Little did the couple know that the Uber they ordered Oct. 26 from Newark International Airport would be driven by Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov […]
Ex-coach guilty in abduction, rape, killing of Mo. girl
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A former middle school football coach was found guilty on Thursday of snatching a 10-year-old girl from a quiet Missouri neighborhood in front of horrified witnesses and then raping and killing her. Jurors convicted Craig Wood of first-degree murder in the February 2014 death of Hailey Owens. […]
Alleged cop impersonator pulls over off-duty cop
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man appeared in court Wednesday after he was arrested over the weekend for allegedly impersonating a police officer and pulling over a real one. CBS affiliate WLKY reports that Brandon Hurley, 24, did a U-turn and pulled up behind a vehicle driven by an off-duty officer […]
As SF skyscraper sinks and leans, the number of lawsuits rises
As the cracks in its basement walls slowly widen, a visual clue to the slow sinking of the 645-ft. skyscraper, the residents of Millennium Tower file lawsuits and wonder how far their homes – and their investments in those homes — will sink. Jon Wertheim went to San Francisco to […]
Trump taps Jerome Powell for Fed chair
President Trump on Thursday announced he has tapped Jerome Powell to lead the Federal Reserve, a move he said will make sure the Fed stays “vigilant and prepared to respond to changes” in the market. Mr. Trump introduced Powell in the White House Rose Garden, after teasing the press about […]
Boyfriend of long-missing woman booked on murder charge
SPANISH FORK, Utah – The boyfriend of a woman who went missing 28 years ago has been booked in Utah on a murder charge, reports CBS affiliate KUTV. Michael Ignatius Kufrin was arrested in Illinois in July and charged for the murder of Peggy Sue Case, who went missing in […]
NYC terror attack: Man FBI was seeking speaks out
NEW YORK — The man the FBI said at one point it was seeking as a person of interest in the New York truck attack has condemned the plot and says it was “not from our religion.” The man, Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, has not been detained or arrested. On Wednesday, the […]