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Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders brought in pecan pies for the White House press corps, putting an end to what Twitter has deemed “#PieGate” and her running joke with reporter April Ryan of the American Urban Radio Network. “I believe, not just for me, but for all […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Charges have been upgraded for an Ohio man accused of driving into a crowd of counter-protesters during an August white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, killing a woman. James Fields, Jr, 20, now faces a first-degree murder charge following a Thursday preliminary hearing for the death of Heather Heyer, […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Charges have been upgraded for an Ohio man accused of driving into a crowd of counter-protesters during an August white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, killing a woman. James Fields, Jr, 20, now faces a first-degree murder charge following a Thursday preliminary hearing for the death of Heather Heyer, […]

BALTIMORE — When cameras arrived at Millersville Elementary School in Maryland, 9-year-old Eben Pardue thought CBS Baltimore was covering a story about his school’s cafeteria. But Wednesday’s lunch was extra special. What the third grader didn’t know was that his father was about to walk through the doors behind him. Master […]

Greg Gibson will never forget where he was five years ago. It’s where he’s been every Dec. 14 for the last 25 years.  “We were in the graveyard,” Gibson said. “Putting up a tree over our son’s grave.” His son Galen was a sweet, empathetic 18-year-old who was killed in […]

Last Updated Dec 14, 2017 4:51 PM EST LOS ANGELES — Police in Southern California raided a weed “fortress” on Wednesday, seizing 35,000 marijuana plants and shutting down an operation they believe was bringing in millions of dollars a month. San Bernardino Police say eight people were detained Wednesday when police […]

There are lessons to be learned in failure, and even a wise old Jedi master like Luke Skywalker can fail to appreciate them.  That’s the cutting irony of Episode VIII in the Skywalker saga, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” Picking up virtually after the final moments of 2015’s “The Force […]

Scientists using advanced “neural network” machine-learning software to sift through thousands of weak, previously unstudied signals from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft have identified two new worlds orbiting distant suns, researches announced Thursday. One of them is the eighth planet now known to be orbiting the star Kepler-90, the first solar […]

Last Updated Dec 14, 2017 3:19 PM EST White House staff show flow chart illustrating regulatory actions, which the president says “really explains the disaster.” https://t.co/YLTvxYwr9u pic.twitter.com/gHhD2qpgvz — CBS News (@CBSNews) December 14, 2017 President Trump talked up his deregulation efforts Thursday at the White House, saying his administration has […]

When Catherine Hubbard wasn’t in class at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the 6-year-old was most likely spending her time lining up her stuffed animals, playing with her 13-year-old yellow Lab named Sammy and running around her backyard attempting to catch (and release) butterflies. “It wasn’t like she […]