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Honda recalling 1.2 million vehicles for second time

MoneyWatch: Malaysia Airlines, Honda recall Honda is recalling around 1.2 million older vehicles in the U.S., Canada and Central America because the Takata driver's air bag inflators that were installed during previous recalls could still be dangerous – exploding and…

Facebook sues hackers who stole info through personality quizzes

Facebook sued two Ukrainian nationals Friday, claiming they used personality quizzes to steal user information The quiz apps required social media users to download malicious browser extensions that scraped personal and private data from Facebook profiles The scheme affected 63,000…

McConnell schedules vote on Trump's national emergency

McConnell: Trump likely to use veto The Senate will vote on a resolution disapproving of the president's national emergency declaration Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced in a brief news conference Tuesday, teeing up the first veto of Donald…

Feds launch multi-state search for stolen firearms

Washington — The Justice Department launched a multi-state search Tuesday for firearms and firearms parts stolen from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) facility, sources familiar with the situation told CBS News. The chief concern, the sources…

Lumber Liquidators to pay $33 million for misleading investors

Lumber Liquidators has agreed to pay $33 million in fines for misleading investors about dangerous levels of formaldehyde in its Chinese-made laminate flooring, federal officials said Tuesday. The probe and settlement with the company -- one of the largest biggest…

Democrats split on Pelosi’s dismissal of impeachment

House Democrats are split on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's pronouncement that she opposed impeachment because it is too divisive, and that President Trump is "not worth" the effort. "I'm not for impeachment. This is news. I'm going to give you some…

How is the Boeing 737 Max 8 different from 737s?

The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on Sunday — five months after the Lion Air crash of the same type of plane in Indonesia — has raised many questions about the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. There are currently…

Public Ed Foundation picks awards finalists

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) - The Public Education Foundation will honor the educators who made the biggest impact to our area over the last year on April 10th. Today, they announced the finalists in each category. One winner from each category will…

Woman killed boyfriend while re-enacting movie, police say

Police say a Missouri woman killed her boyfriend in a gun accident while re-enacting a movie scene, reports CBS affiliate KRCG. 37-year-old Kalesha Peterson told police she was drinking alcohol and watching a movie with her boyfriend David Dalton at…

Hollywood stars among dozens charged in college bribery scheme

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people indicted Tuesday in a widespread alleged college admission bribery scheme. The racketeering conspiracy case includes the parents of applicants, as well coaches at universities including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the…

Tucker Carlson won't apologize to "mob" for women comments

Fox News host Tucker Carlson made past derogatory comments about women in an interview with radio shock jock "Bubba the Love Sponge," according to a liberal media watchdog Transcripts of other interviews also have Carlson questioning Barack Obama's race and…

Verizon texting outage hits East Coast

Verizon on Tuesday said service has been restored to "a ton of customers" affected by a texting outage on the East Coast. "We experienced an issue impacting texting services for some customers this morning. Our  engineers were able to identify…

Trump: Modern planes becoming "too complex to fly"

President Trump bemoaned the complexity of modern airplane technology on Tuesday, after a second deadly crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 over the weekend left no survivors. Another plane of the same model crashed five months ago. Mr. Trump did…

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