Barr promises to release Mueller report Reporting by Paula Reid Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to investigate how the Russia investigation and other counterintelligence probes began, a U.S. official told CBS News. Barr said in a Congressional…
A 15-year veteran of the New York Fire Department was one of three U.S. Marines killed Monday in an attack on a vehicle near a major American military base in Afghanistan, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office confirmed…
A lawmaker sponsoring a bill in South Carolina requiring Uber, Lyft and other ride sharing drivers to have a lighted sign said he knows it isn't a foolproof way to keep riders safe. But Rep. Seth Rose said it is…
A man who had just bought an $8 million island off of Key West was arrested Saturday for participating in what police described as a scheme to steal $300 in household items from Kmart. Officials at Kmart called Key West…
The Department of Defense has awarded nearly $1 billion in contracts to two companies for construction related to a wall along the southern border, the first such contracts to be awarded since President Trump declared a national emergency. According to a…
U.S. immigration authorities apprehended more than 103,000 migrants — including approximately 53,000 families and nearly 9,000 unaccompanied children — along the U.S.-Mexico border last month, further overwhelming the Trump administration's efforts to address the unprecedented surge in migrant families from…
Climate change making allergies worse? Shots taken over North Carolina on Monday captured pollen haze that made the landscape look yellow. The images taken by Jeremy Gilchrist and obtained by the Reuters new agency show an area in the city…
Federal authorities say they've broken up a $1.2 billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors via foreign call centers. The Justice Department announced charges Tuesday against 24 people across the U.S., including doctors…
Bank of America said it will raise its minimum wage from $15 an hour to $20 by 2021. The hike will be phased in starting in May, when pay for 22,000 workers will rise to $17 an hour. Move comes…
Washington, D.C.'s Tidal Basin is transformed every spring as nearly 4,000 cherry trees bloom, drawing about 1.5 million visitors during March and April. But the crowds, as well as erosion and a lack of repairs, are overwhelming, and the national…
Flood, snow, avalanche and fire alerts popped up Monday from Idaho to Colorado, as parts of the U.S. interior that were paralyzed by blizzards and floods last month braced for round two of an unusual weather phenomenon involving what's known…
New York — New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak and ordered mandatory vaccinations in one neighborhood for people who may have been exposed to the virus. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the unusual…
UAW Tries Again for Union Election for Maintenance and Production Employees
A South Carolina university student who died while attending a fraternity event was drinking alcohol when she told her boyfriend she didn't feel well, collapsed and died. A Beaufort County Sheriff's Office report says Caroline Smith, a 20-year-old Furman University…
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing to regulate trampoline parks amid mounting concern over their risks. A California police officer filed a lawsuit last week after he was temporarily paralyzed at a trampoline park outside San Francisco in 2013. A…
A Maryland man inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) plotted to ram a stolen U-Haul truck into as many pedestrians as possible at a popular convention and tourist destination just outside the nation's capital, federal prosecutors…
A federal judge issued an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from implementing and expanding its "Remain in Mexico" policy, which requires certain non-Mexican migrants who claim asylum at ports of entry along the border to wait in Mexico while…
"Gaping hole" for espionage at Mar-a-Lago? A federal prosecutor says a Chinese woman who was arrested for illegally entering President Trump's Mar-a-Lago club had a device to detect hidden cameras in her hotel room when Secret Service agents searched it.…
Nielsen out after clashes over immigration More top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are leaving the Trump administration, two senior administration officials said Monday, as Washington grapples with the news of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's resignation. U.S. Secret Service…
A drug-resistant superbug fungus has sickened nearly 600 people across the United States in recent years, including more than 300 patients in New York State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Candida auris, which preys on people with…
The United States has designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, effective Monday. The group, formed by an order of Ayatollah Khomeini, is a branch of Iran's Armed Forces founded after the 1979 Revolution. President Trump…
Massive python found in Florida wildlife preserve Officials at a South Florida wildlife preserve say they've captured the largest python ever found in the park. Officials discovered the female python, more than 17 feet long and weighing 140 pounds, on…
Just three weeks after one of the most intense storms on record pounded the Plains and Midwest, another "bomb cyclone" of similar strength is in the forecast. The spring storm seems poised to dump even heavier snow and could be followed…
Individual tax refunds this year have been only slightly smaller than last year, but those shortfalls are adding up. At the end of last month, the amount of money the government refunded was $6 billion below this time last year,…