Last Updated Dec 5, 2017 4:05 AM EST SANTA PAULA, Calif. — Ferocious winds in Southern California have whipped up an explosive wildfire, doubling its size, forcing the evacuation of thousands of homes and knocking out power to thousands more. The Ventura County Fire Department confirmed late Monday night that […]
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FBI Director Chris Wray sends internal email to boost employee morale
FBI Director Chris Wray sent an internal email to FBI employees Monday amid concerns about morale. On Sunday in a tweet President Trump had disparaged the Bureau as having a reputation “in tatters — worst in history.” In the email, which was obtained by CBS News, Wray told staff Monday […]
FBI director sends internal email to boost employee morale
FBI Director Chris Wray sent an internal email to FBI employees Monday amid concerns about morale. On Sunday in a tweet President Trump had disparaged the Bureau as having a reputation “in tatters — worst in history.” In the email, which was obtained by CBS News, Wray told staff Monday […]
Bodycam video shows police officer saving newborn’s life
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Savannah police are crediting an officer with saving the life of a choking newborn baby by racing to her apartment and then using chest compressions to restart the infant’s breathing. Dramatic video from an officer’s body-worn camera shows the infant’s desperate mother, Tina Adkins, holding her unresponsive […]
How a rescue center in Indiana cares for big cats
CENTER POINT, Ind. — Joe Taft has been rescuing big cats for 26 years. He’s been caring for some tigers since they were born. But not everyone at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Indiana is such a cool cat. That’s because most of the 200 big cats there were […]
Opposing views on Trump’s move to shrink 2 national monuments
BEARS EARS, Utah — President Trump flew to Utah on Monday to sign proclamations that shave nearly two million acres from national monuments in the state. That could open the land to mining and grazing. The view is breathtaking. A land of cultural richness — beauty and solitude, and for Mary […]
Opposing views on Trump’s move to shrink two national monuments
BEARS EARS, Utah — President Trump flew to Utah on Monday to sign proclamations that shave nearly two million acres from national monuments in the state. That could open the land to mining and grazing. The view is breathtaking. A land of cultural richness — beauty and solitude, and for Mary […]
Man travels 1,000 miles to meet Words with Friends pal
When Spencer Sleyon agreed to play a Words with Friends game with a random opponent over a year ago, the 22-year-old never expected that stranger — an 81-year-old woman named Rosalind “Roz” Guttman — to become his lifelong friend. Spencer Sleyon shares a screenshot of the pair’s Words with Friends […]
Winklevoss twins become first “bitcoin billionaires”
Last Updated Dec 4, 2017 5:34 PM EST Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, twins who made a prescient $11 million investment in bitcoin, are reportedly now billionaires, thanks to that 2013 bet. The brothers had first gained notoriety more than a decade ago when they unsuccessfully sued Facebook (FB) CEO Marc […]
Ex-Illinois congressman and 1980 presidential candidate dead at 95
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former longtime Illinois Congressman John Anderson, who ran for president as an independent in 1980, has died at age 95. His daughter, Diane Anderson, said her father died Sunday night in Washington, D.C. The 10-term GOP congressman originally sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, but he […]