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Amazon bars sellers from using FedEx for some deliveries

Amazon is banning third-party merchants from using FedEx's ground service to deliver to Prime members, suggesting that it thinks the service is too slow to get packages to their destinations in time for Christmas. The temporary ban will block those…

Tessa Majors murder suspect bolts on way to police

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…

Thousands of Ohio absentee applications denied

Columbus, Ohio — Thousands of Ohio voters were held up or stymied in their efforts to get absentee ballots for last year's general election because of missing or mismatched signatures on their ballot applications, an Associated Press review has found.…

Two young children vanish from their front yard

A frantic search is on for two young children who were reported missing Sunday, reports CBS Jacksonville, Florida affiliate WJAX-TV. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said family members were inside a house while the two were playing in their front yard.…

Video shows officer slamming middle schooler to ground, twice

Henderson, North Carolina — Surveillance video from a North Carolina middle school shows a school resource officer walking a student down a hallway then suddenly stopping, slamming him to the ground twice, then dragging him, reports CBS Raleigh affiliate WNCN-TV.…

Schumer sends letter to set framework for impeachment trial

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday that details the witnesses and timeline Senate Democrats would like to see in an impeachment trial in January. The House of Representatives is expected to…

Small plane makes emergency landing on California interstate

A Cessna single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the center divider and far left lane of southbound Interstate 5 in Carlsbad, California Thursday night, reports CBS San Diego affiliate KFMB-TV. Smoke was filling up its cockpit, authorities said. There…

Outgoing Kentucky governor pardons convicted killers

Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin issued a slew of pardons on his way out of office, granting relief to a convicted killer whose brother raised money for Bevin and another man who was convicted of a grisly murder in eastern…

Last teen who escaped from Nashville detention facility captured

Authorities in Nashville, Tennessee, apprehended the last of four teens who escaped from a juvenile detention facility in late November, the Metro Nashville Police Department announced Thursday. The other three teens who escaped with 17-year-old Brandon Caruthers were apprehended earlier…

NYC freshman murdered steps away from campus

Police in New York City are investigating the murder of a college student who was brutally stabbed in a Manhattan park just steps away from her campus Wednesday evening. Tessa Majors, a freshman at Barnard College, was stabbed several times…

House OKs defense bill, parental leave for federal workers

Washington — The House on Wednesday passed its annual defense policy measure, which combined a $738 billion Pentagon price tag with legislation to provide federal employees with 12 weeks of paid parental leave. The sweeping 377-48 vote followed weeks of…

Trump pushes paid leave at White House summit

President Trump is pushing for paid family leave alongside his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump on Thursday. A number of lawmakers are at the White House for a summit, where the elder Trump daughter is promoting the administration's principles…

Cohen Wants Sentence Trimmed for Cooperating Against Trump

New York — Michael Cohen wants his three-year prison sentence reduced as a reward for providing authorities information about alleged misdeeds by President Donald Trump, according to court papers filed Wednesday in which he said his incarceration is "a powerful…

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