Canada on Wednesday became only the second country in the world to legalize marijuana nationally. Although Uruguay started selling cannabis products last year under a 2013 law, Canada's foray is considered more significant because of its economic status and much…
Members of Somalia's al-Shabaab jihadist movement are seen in a 2008 file photo during exercises at a training camp outside Mogadishu. AP NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali intelligence officials say the largest U.S. military airstrike against al-Shabaab extremists in Somalia in…
COPENHAGEN -- In Noma's three kitchens, 55 chefs pour every ounce of energy into each dish. But beyond the bustle is a room running on patience. Welcome to Noma's fermentation lab, where microbes and mold make magic over a period…
Even as debilitating U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's oil industry remain slated to snap back in November, Tehran may seek to maintain a status-quo arrangement with the West until the fate of the Trump presidency becomes clearer, according to top Iran…
ANKARA, Turkey -- A pro-government Turkish newspaper on Wednesday published a gruesome recounting of the alleged slaying of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, just as America's top diplomat arrived in the country for talks over…
An American artist is being accused of stealing works by South African photographers, who captured the atrocities of apartheid. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta reports one of South Africa's most revered photographers is Peter Magubane, who documented life in…
BEIJING -- China on Tuesday characterized its mass internment of Muslims as a push to bring into the "modern, civilized" world a destitute people who are easily led astray -- a depiction that analysts said bore troubling colonial overtones. The…
JERUSALEM -- A rocket fired from Gaza struck a residential home in southern Israel early Wednesday and the Israeli military began attacking militant sites in Gaza in response after days of rising tensions. The Magen David Adom medical service said…
MOSCOW -- A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself. The comments by Sergei Aksyonov, the regional leader…
Stephen Hawking warned in his final book that the greatest threat facing the world was climate change, according to Vox. The scientist, who died in March at 76, wrote that humanity was behaving with "reckless indifference to our future on…
Did Kay Ivey suffer a stroke three years ago?
Father suspected of killing their mother in Jackson and bringing the children to Chattanooga
NANGARHAR, Afghanistan — Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan are just days away, and the Taliban and ISIS fighters, countered by Afghan and U.S. troops, are doing all they can to disrupt voters. Nangarhar in Eastern Afghanistan was the deadliest province for…
Robert Jordan, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia under George W. Bush, has advice for President Trump as the kingdom faces allegations of being behind the alleged murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi. "Use the leverage that you have,"…
Almost half the world's population -- 3.4 billion people -- live on less than $5.50 a day, the World Bank reported Wednesday. That's about the cost of a Starbucks Venti Caffe Latte in New York City. About a quarter of…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters Tuesday attacks on journalists are an "unacceptable trend," saying the world has not "reacted sufficiently" to the killings of journalists in countries such as Mexico. Sessions also responded to the disappearance of Saudi journalist…
WALKER COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF) - Two days into early voting, and so far in Walker County 540 residents have early voted. That's 282 on Monday and 258 on Tuesday. "The numbers we have seen yesterday and today far exceed what…
EPB shared its best practices for sustainability by having a green business expo Tuesday morning.
GBI not identifying officer or the accusations
She teaches 3rd grade at the LaFayette school.
High school gets new alert system.
The Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport will soon have more parking spaces to accommodate an increasing amount of passengers.
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tenn. (WDEF) - A warning for drivers travelling Signal Mountain Road. Construction work will continue on a road project for the next few months, when it was expected to be complete last week. News 12 spoke with several…
ATLANTA (AP) - Voting rights groups say officials in one of Georgia's most diverse counties are improperly rejecting absentee ballots cast in the state's nationally watched governor's race. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that 390 absentee ballots have been rejected in…