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Updated on: December 18, 2019 / 5:58 PM / CBS News A federal appeals court has determined the individual mandate in the nation's health care law is unconstitutional. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals announced the decision on Obamacare Wednesday,…

A 17-year-old girl attempted to steal a small plane at a Fresno, California, airport Wednesday morning before crashing it into a building and a fence, officials said. No one was injured during the incident. The incident began at approximately 7:30…

Washington — On the same day that the House is expected to impeach President Trump for soliciting a foreign country's help in the 2020 election, the Senate advanced a bill to punish Russia for meddling in America's 2016 election. The…

Kansas City is seven hours behind Luxembourg, but the U.S. city and small European country are in sync on one issue: Starting next year, public transportation will be free in both places. Missouri's biggest city earlier this month approved a…

Uber has agreed to pay $4.4 million to settle a government investigation about sexual harassment at the company. The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission announced the deal Wednesday. The EEOC started investigating Uber in 2017, the commission said in a…

An attorney for the grandfather of a toddler who fell to her death on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship tells CBS News that prosecutors are offering a plea deal. Sam Anello, who appeared in court in Puerto Rico Tuesday, is…

Law enforcement officials have arrested a Virginia lawyer involved in litigation over the health risks of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer product, with prosecutors accusing him of trying to extort an unnamed company into a $200 million consulting fee with his…

Charleston, W.Va. — A former Miss Kentucky who worked as a teacher in West Virginia has admitted to exchanging sexual photos with a 15-year-old student. Ramsey Bearse, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of possessing material depicting minors in…

A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge published an unusual and harsh rebuke of the FBI over its handling of wiretap applications and demanded that the bureau respond to the court by next month with a plan to ensure that…

They say there's no place like home for the holidays — and a dog named Zeus had quite the journey to make it back in time for Santa's trip down the chimney. In late October, the pitbull-mix was discovered in…

A Russian spy ship was spotted operating in an "unsafe" manner on Tuesday off the southeast coast of the United States, according to the Jacksonville, Florida, branch of the U.S. Coast Guard. The USCG said it has received reports from…

Four U.S. cities were hit with ransomware in December, capping off a year of cyberattacks that one cybersecurity firm called an "unprecedented and unrelenting barrage." The malicious software that hijacks computers and encrypts files snarled essential government services in Pensacola,…

An overnight shooting Tuesday at a Montana casino left three people dead and another person injured, officials said. The suspect was later tracked down and killed by police. The shooting happened about 2 a.m. at the Emerald City Casino in…

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has been serving a seven-year prison sentence in Pennsylvania, has been hospitalized, CBS News confirmed Tuesday. His lawyer, Todd Blanche, said in a statement that Manafort's "family and friends are extremely concerned about…

President Trump listed no new arguments or requests but vented his frustrations with the impeachment process in a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday. In a letter filled with exclamation marks and Trumpian verbiage, he offered his…

A 16-year-old girl who was reportedly kidnapped in front of her mother on Monday night in the Bronx is now safe, New York City police said Tuesday. Karol Sanchez was reunited with her mother on Tuesday. "Thank you to all…

379 large, profitable U.S. companies in 2018 paid an effective tax rate of 11.3%, the first year the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was in force, a new study finds. That's slightly more than half of the nominal corporate tax…

The police chief of Burlington, Vermont resigned Monday, four days after admitting that he set up a Twitter account under a fake name and used it to attack a local community activist who criticized him. Hours later, his replacement was…

The House on Tuesday passed a $1.4 trillion spending package that would fund federal agencies through September 2020 and avoid a government shutdown. The sweeping measure, which is divided into two legislative packages, now heads to the Senate to clear…

Fifteen deaths have so far been attributed to a winter storm system plowing through the South, Midwest and Northeast United States. Icy road conditions in the Midwest are being blamed for at least 12 deaths, while at least 27 tornadoes…

A federal judge in Georgia permitted the state on Monday to move forward with a planned purge of its voter rolls. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones denied an emergency request to stop Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger from removing more…

A 14-year-old boy considered a second suspect in the stabbing death of Tessa Majors bolted from a car in Harlem on the way to meet with police Monday night, a law enforcement source told CBS News' Pat Milton. A manhunt…