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Greta Thunberg is Time's 2019 Person of the Year

Time magazine on Wednesday announced teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is its 2019 Person of the Year. The 16-year-old Thunberg first made headlines last year with her solitary strike against climate change outside Sweden's parliament. JUST IN: Climate activist @GretaThunberg…

Trump to sign order targeting anti-Semitism on college campuses

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday targeting anti-Semitism on college campuses, the White House said. The order, which is likely to draw criticism from free speech advocates, will broaden the federal government's definition of…

Food-stamp cuts could hit 5.3 million U.S. households

The Trump administration has proposed three changes this year to the federal food stamp program, one of which was adopted last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and would deny food stamps to nearly 700,000 Americans. The two other…

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…

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