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Merriam-Webster unveils its 2019 word of the year

A common but increasingly mighty and very busy little word, "they," has an accolade all its own. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based on a 313 percent increase in look-ups…

2 St. Louis police officers fired over social media posts

Two St. Louis police officers have been fired over social media posts, their lawyer told CBS affiliate KMOV-TV. Officers Thomas Mabrey and Ronald Hasty are appealing their terminations to the Civil Service Commission, their lawyer, Brian Millikan, told the station…

Bush grandson runs for Congress in Texas

Pierce Bush, a grandson of late President George H.W. Bush, announced that he would run for Congress on Monday. The nonprofit executive will be running for Texas' 22nd Congressional district in the Houston area, an open seat after Representative Pete…

Cyberattack hits Pensacola hours after navy base attack

Federal authorities are investigating a cyberattack on the city of Pensacola, Florida, home to the naval air station where a Saudi flight student killed three sailors and wounded eight others on Friday. A spokeswoman for the city said federal authorities…

Amazon: We lost Pentagon deal because of Trump pressure

Amazon claims that President Donald Trump pressured the Department of Defense to award a lucrative contract to a rival, according to a lawsuit made public Monday. Amazon and three other companies bid over the summer to provide cloud-computing services to…

Infowars host interrupts House impeachment hearing

Washington — An Infowars host interrupted the opening minutes of the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing on Monday, accusing Chairman Jerry Nadler and other Democrats of committing "treason" while declaring President Trump innocent. The protester, Owen Shroyer, began shouting just…

Tigers injure woman at Southern California animal sanctuary

Patty Perry, who founded the Wildlife Environmental Conservation, Inc., is seen with two lions in a photo from the organization's website. Wildlife Environmental Conservation, Inc. A California woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries when she was caught in the middle of two…

Three of four escaped Nashville teens arrested

Police arrested another one of the teens who escaped from a Nashville juvenile detention center last Saturday, CBS News affiliate WTVF reports. Morris Marsh, 17, was apprehended by Metro Police in Nashville on Friday, leaving only one of the four…

Judiciary Committee releases report on grounds for impeachment

The House Judiciary Committee on Saturday released a report explaining the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment, written by Democratic staff on the Judiciary Committee for the committee's use. "Impeachment is the Constitution's final answer to a President who mistakes himself…

3 people killed, shooter dead at Florida Navy base

Four people are dead, including the shooter, after a shooting Friday morning at Naval Air Station Pensacola, authorities said. Several other people were injured, including two sheriff's deputies who engaged the shooter. "The threat has been negated, our community is…

Uber: 3,000 sexual assaults reported in U.S. rides in 2018

Uber received 3,045 reports of sexual assault during U.S. rides in 2018, the company revealed in a wide-reaching safety report. The report comes as the ride-sharing company faces increased scrutiny over the safety of riders — and drivers — who…

North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970

Over the last 50 years, the U.S. and Canada have slowly but surely lost 29% of their bird populations — amounting to nearly 3 billion birds. The shocking loss could be a sign of an ecological crisis, scientists said Thursday. According…

Feds take action against Russian hacking group

The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned a Russian hacking group called Evil Corp, which used malware to infect computers and collect login credentials from hundreds of financial institutions worldwide, stealing more than $100 million. The action by the Treasury Department…

United Airline's Oscar Munoz giving up CEO seat

United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz is stepping down from his post and will become executive chairman. The airline said Thursday that President J. Scott Kirby will be its new CEO. Kirby was recruited to United Airlines by Munoz in August…

Climate models have been right all along, study finds

Even the rather primitive climate computer models of the 1970s, 80s and 90s were impressively accurate, lending extra credibility to the much more advanced climate models of today. That's the conclusion of a paper released Wednesday in Geophysical Research Letters,…

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