Boeing admits likely factor in deadly crashes After regulators around the world grounded the 737 Max, Boeing has been scrambling to address the problems believed to have led to two fatal crashes. The plane maker is now making test flights…
Columbus, Ohio — A bill imposing one of the most stringent abortion restrictions in the nation was signed into law in Ohio. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed the heartbeat bill Thursday, breaking with his predecessor, Republican John Kasich, who vetoed the…
Natural disasters often cause serious personal financial harm that can last for years, according to a new study by the Urban Institute. People affected by hurricanes, floods and other events often see their credit scores drop and debts rise. A…
President Trump is greeting World War II veterans at the White House, hours after meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in to discuss "potential future meetings" with North Korea. Four World War II veterans, most of them centenarians, met with…
Wheeler on biggest environmental threat The U.S. Senate confirmed David Bernhardt as the new Secretary of the Interior on Thursday, amid concerns about his conduct when he was a lobbyist for oil, mining and extractive industries. Democrats have called for…
Congress can sometimes manage to agree on some wrongs to try to right, and one of those is the robocall. The Senate held a hearing Thursday to find a way forward on cracking down on the practice, which plagues just…
More Americans are showing up for work high or with marijuana in their system, according to a new analysis released Thursday by Quest Diagnostics. Roughly 4.4 percent of more than 10 million workplace drug tests in 2018 showed positive results,…
Amazon hikes minimum wage to $15 for U.S. workers Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is challenging other retailers to match or even top the ecommerce giant's $15 an hour minimum wage. In an annual letter to shareholders, Bezos said Amazon wants…
The Justice Department has unsealed charges of conspiracy against Julian Assange, after the founder of WikiLeaks was arrested by London's Metropolitan Police Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the city. Assange, who has not left the embassy since 2012, recently…
More than 4,500 Amazon employees say they aren't happy with what they say is a lack of climate leadership from CEO Jeff Bezos -- as well as the company's ties to the oil industry. The online shopping giant, which already…
The IRS commissioner, who is overseeing the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in a generation, says the $2,833 average refund in this year's tax-filing season is working out to be close to last year's. Taxes and returns…
As part of our School Matters series, "CBS This Morning" examines what some are calling a growing national crisis: the shortage of school nurses. Only three out of five schools across the country have full-time school nurses often forcing school…
A spring blizzard blasting some Rockies and Plains states early Thursday was already out-doing ominous forecasts in some spots -- and was just getting started. Driving was extremely hazardous and many major highways were closed. It was the second major…
Mount Baldy Village, Calif. -- Two hikers who vanished in snowy Southern California mountains were found safe Wednesday by rescuers who spent days searching the rugged terrain. Gabrielle Wallace, 31, of Rancho Cucamonga and Eric Desplinter, 33, of Chino Hills…
The son of a deputy sheriff is in custody in connection to a string of fires over 10 days at three black churches in Louisiana, CBS News' Pat Milton reports. The three historically black churches are just a few miles…
Firefighters responding to a natural gas leak were evacuating people from a Durham, North Carolina, building Wednesday morning when it exploded, killing one and injuring more than a dozen others, officials said. Durham Fire Chief Robert Zoldos said the blast at…
San Francisco - Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential restitution in a legal settlement valued at $117.5 million. The deal disclosed in…
Citing a worsening "crisis of faith in government," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren released her 2018 tax returns, becoming part of a small group of candidates in the crowded Democratic primary field to do so. "The American people think the government…
Spring blizzard threatens millions in Midwest Blizzard warnings have been posted from Colorado to Minnesota as a storm develops that could rival last month's bomb cyclone. The National Weather Service says up to 2.5 feet of snow could fall in…
A century after Einstein's equations predicted the existence of black holes, a virtual telescope the size of planet Earth has captured the first direct image of a black hole, or rather the mysterious region defined by the hole's event horizon,…
Conroe, Texas -- A woman from a Houston suburb is suing the Houston Astros for more than $1 million. She claims a T-shirt cannon fired at a game by the baseball team's mascot, Orbit, severely broke her finger, the Houston…
Norfolk, Va. -- An 80-year-old New York man has been arrested on charges that he killed two young women in a beach cottage nearly half a century ago in Virginia, police said Tuesday. Ernest Broadnax was arrested in New York…
Bernie Sanders is leading the polls in the packed field of 2020 Democratic candidates and while it's more likely to see him out on the campaign trail these days, he's back in the halls of Congress Wednesday to unveil an…
Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle seen in the Dominican Republic. Social Media A couple from New York who have not been heard from since late March in the Dominican Republic are presumed dead, according to the country's national police spokesperson.…