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…
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…
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…
New research from AAA finds that people who regularly use advanced driver-assistance technology are far more likely to be distracted behind the wheel. These systems can make a car semi-autonomous, but the National Transportation Safety Board warns some drivers rely…
Scientists in Oklahoma are one step closer to finding possible evidence of mass graves linked to the deadly race riots of 1921. Researchers in Tulsa used ground penetrating radar to survey two sites and found irregularities that could be consistent…
United Nations — Russia and China proposed to the United Nations Security Council that it ease some economic sanctions against North Korea, according to a U.N. resolution obtained by CBS News on Monday. This comes despite the fact that North…
A San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Search and Rescue team member has died while searching for a missing hiker on Mount Baldy, CBS Los Angeles reported. Tim Staples, 32, was a nine-year veteran of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. "Our…
A South Florida man is facing federal charges for allegedly sending threatening messages online, reports CBS Miami. Investigators say 34-year-old Mostafa Hussaini posted a dozen videos saying he wanted to "burn" black people and kill people from different religions and…
Police in Austin are searching for a mother and her infant who went missing four days ago, CBS DFW reports. Police say Heidi Broussard, 33, was dropping off a child at Cowan Elementary School Thursday morning with her 2-week-old child,…
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.…
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.…
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.…
Beijing — China on Monday called the expulsion of diplomats from the U.S. a "mistake," following reports that Washington quietly expelled two embassy officials in September after they drove onto a sensitive military base in Virginia. The incident is the latest…
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…
The body of a 6-year-old girl who has been missing since a car carrying nine members of her family was swept away in floodwaters on November 29 near near Tonto Basin, Arizona, has been found. The Gila County Sheriff's Office…
The U.S. Geological Survey released a new seismic hazard map which puts areas of the East Bay and San Jose at a higher risk for damage, CBS station KPIX reports. Tall buildings in areas of the East and South Bay…
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…
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…
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…
NASA's OSIRIS-REx science probe, orbiting a small asteroid called Bennu for the past year, will move in for an attempt to snag rock and soil samples next summer, targeting a site known as Nightingale that offers the best balance of risk…
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…
Jersey City, New Jersey — The two killers who stormed a kosher market in Jersey City were driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement, New Jersey's attorney general said Thursday, adding that the case is being investigated as domestic…
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…
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…