Last Updated Nov 15, 2017 8:29 PM EST NEW YORK — A 500-year-old da Vinci painting once belonged to a king who died on the chopping block. On Wednesday, it fetched a king’s ransom — on the auction block. It sold for $450 million late Wednesday — which included the […]
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Roy Moore’s attorney disputes accuser’s yearbook note
Last Updated Nov 15, 2017 8:09 PM EST An attorney for Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore went before the cameras Wednesday evening to defend his client on the sexual misconduct allegations against him. Flanked by campaign chairman Bill Armistead, Moore’s attorney Phillip L. Jauregui disputed what he called “serious, serious […]
Firefighters battle 5-alarm fire in St. Louis
Last Updated Nov 15, 2017 10:39 PM EST A five-alarm fire burned for much of the day and into the night at a warehouse in St. Louis where at least 80 firefighters responded to battle the flames. At least four people — including two firefighters — were rushed to the […]
U.S. monitoring “fluid” situation in Zimbabwe
The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it has no knowledge of any citizens being injured or arrested in Zimbabwe one day after it appeared the military had taken over the capital and the state broadcaster. A State Department official told CBS News they are monitoring the situation, which remains “fluid,” […]
House Republicans set to pass massive tax cuts
House Republicans are set to pass a massive package of corporate and individual tax cuts on Thursday. On Wednesday, Democrats were fuming when Republicans in the Senate put out their own tax plan, which would repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate. The mandate requires most Americans to have health insurance or pay a […]
House Republicans set to pass massive package of tax cuts
House Republicans are set to pass a massive package of corporate and individual tax cuts on Thursday. On Wednesday, Democrats were fuming when Republicans in the Senate put out their own tax plan, which would repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate. The mandate requires most Americans to have health insurance or pay a […]
Yankees star on the devastating toll of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is the world’s toughest cancer to treat, with a five-year survival rate of just 9 percent in the United States. It kills more people every year than breast cancer and is the third leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. Yet, unless it touches someone close to […]
Workers at Calif. school averted “horrific bloodbath”
Last Updated Nov 15, 2017 5:55 PM EST CORNING, Calif. — A tiny Northern California elementary school would have turned into a “bloodbath” if not for quick action by school workers who rushed small children inside and locked down the building, thwarting a gunman on a deadly mission, authorities said. […]
Shooter in deadly California rampage wasn’t allowed to have guns
RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. — A judge had barred the Northern California man who went on a deadly shooting rampage from having guns after he was charged with stabbing a neighbor earlier this year. Tehama County sheriff’s officials say Kevin Neal killed four people in a shooting rampage across seven locations […]
Wrongfully convicted man walks free after 45 years
Last Updated Nov 15, 2017 7:44 PM EST BATON ROUGE, La. — As Wilbert Jones emerged from a Louisiana prison, free for the first time in more than 45 years, he was asked by a reporter if he harbors resentment against the authorities who withheld evidence in his case all those […]