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Wildfires break out in California amid power outage

Last Updated Oct 10, 2019 7:14 PM EDT Despite an unprecedented effort to prevent wildfires, at least three of them erupted in Southern California on Thursday afternoon fueled by strong winds and dry conditions. Fifty miles east of Los Angeles,…

GM strike has already cost automaker more than $1 billion

With the strike at General Motors stretching into a fourth week, the automaker's financial losses are piling up. GM will have lost out on $1.1 billion in income if the labor dispute continues through this weekend, Anderson Economic Group estimates…

2 Giuliani associates who helped him with Ukraine probe arrested

Two foreign-born men who aided Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, in his efforts to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have been arrested on campaign-finance charges. The men, Ukrainian-born Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, originally from Belarus, have been…

Social Security benefits to rise by $24 a month

Almost 70 million retirees will see a 1.6% cost-of-living increase from Social Security in 2020, an uptick with potential political consequences in an election year when Democrats are pushing for more protection from inflation. The increase amounts to $24 a…

Evacuations ordered as wildfire spreads in Bay Area town

October 10, 2019 / 7:36 AM / CBS/AP Moraga, Calif. – Police have ordered evacuations as a fast-moving wildfire spreads in the hills of a San Francisco Bay Area community. Moraga-Orinda firefighters responded to the scene near the St. Mary's…

U.S. and China restart trade talks amid modest hopes

Washington — U.S. and Chinese negotiators are set to kick off the latest round of talks aimed at ending a trade war that has dented the countries' economies and rattled investors. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will lead a delegation…

U.S. accused of abandoning Kurds to face Turkish onslaught

Erbil, Iraq — Turkish forces are bombarding territory held by America's Kurdish allies in northern Syria. President Trump has called the Turkish offensive "a bad idea," but it comes just days after his administration pulled back U.S. troops from the border…

Matt Lauer accused of rape by NBC News colleague, book claims

Two years after Matt Lauer's fall from grace, a new report sheds light on more explosive details from sexual assault allegations against the former NBC News anchor and a cover-up accusation, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan. Variety magazine reveals…

Montgomery, Alabama elects its first black mayor

Montgomery Alabama: Mayor elect Steven Reed speaks to his supporters at a rally following his election as the first black mayor in Montgomery, Alabama.  Montgomery, Alabama — Alabama's capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later…

20 new moons were discovered around Saturn

Twenty new moons have been found to be orbiting Saturn — and scientists want the public's help in naming them, according to a Carnegie Institution for Science news release. The new discovery brings the total moons around the "jewel of our solar…

Toys R Us launches new website and teams with Target

Toys R Us is back in time for the holidays, but the bankrupt retailer's newly launched website is more of an online experience given that consumers can't use it to make purchases. Instead, those ready to spend money are redirected…

White House says it will not cooperate with impeachment inquiry

The White House will not cooperate with House Democrats' impeachment inquiry against President Trump, White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and three committee chairmen on Tuesday. Cipollone argued that the investigation "violates fundamental…

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