A police accountability office and the Chicago police superintendent have agreed to double the 90-day suspension that had been proposed for a Chicago police sergeant found to have unjustifiably shot an unarmed 18-year-old with developmental disabilities. The longer six-month suspension,…
Parris Island, S.C. — Michael Campofiori recently went through one of this country's great rights of passage: Marine boot camp at Parris Island. The final test is called the crucible and includes 54 hours on very little food or sleep,…
U.S. immigration authorities say over 2,200 people exposed to a mumps outbreak in at least two detention facilities have been quarantined. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday that the 25-day quarantine began March 7 at facilities in Pine Prairie, Louisiana,…
Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack said the company is removing guns from 125 of its stores Last year it had stopped selling guns in 10 stores as a test The company's shares fell 11.2 percent in Tuesday trading Dick's…
The Utah Jazz has permanently banned a fan who was at the center of a verbal altercation with Russell Westbrook Monday night. The team said Tuesday the ban is effective immediately and includes all arena events. The NBA star is also…
MoneyWatch: Malaysia Airlines, Honda recall Honda is recalling around 1.2 million older vehicles in the U.S., Canada and Central America because the Takata driver's air bag inflators that were installed during previous recalls could still be dangerous – exploding and…
Los Angeles prosecutors have charged a 38-year-old man with the murder of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found a week ago in a duffel bag along a suburban horse trail in Hacienda Heights, California, about 19 miles east of…
Facebook sued two Ukrainian nationals Friday, claiming they used personality quizzes to steal user information The quiz apps required social media users to download malicious browser extensions that scraped personal and private data from Facebook profiles The scheme affected 63,000…
McConnell: Trump likely to use veto The Senate will vote on a resolution disapproving of the president's national emergency declaration Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced in a brief news conference Tuesday, teeing up the first veto of Donald…
Boeing has lost roughly $28 billion in value since Sunday's crash of an Ethiopian Air 737 Max 8 The 737 Max 8 was the same plane that went down in a deadly Lion Air crash last year Sales of the…
A longtime police officer forced women to have sex with him under the guise of an arrest, pressured others to help cover up crimes, and lied to federal investigators when he said he'd never had sex with prostitutes, according to…
Brothers "regret" involvement with Smollett Cameras will be allowed at Thursday's hearing in the criminal trial of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, a judge ruled Tuesday. Smollett has been accused of staging a hate crime against himself and was indicted last…
Washington — The Justice Department launched a multi-state search Tuesday for firearms and firearms parts stolen from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) facility, sources familiar with the situation told CBS News. The chief concern, the sources…
Lumber Liquidators has agreed to pay $33 million in fines for misleading investors about dangerous levels of formaldehyde in its Chinese-made laminate flooring, federal officials said Tuesday. The probe and settlement with the company -- one of the largest biggest…
Joe Biden has not definitively said he will be running for president in 2020 but many expect him to announce soon. Former Arizona Republican senator and CBS News contributor Jeff Flake said on Tuesday that the idea of Biden running…
U.S. immigration officials have sent 240 asylum seekers back to Mexico to await their court hearings as part of the Trump administration's new "Migrant Protection Protocol" initiative. Department of Homeland Security officials shared the update on a call with reporters…
House Democrats are split on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's pronouncement that she opposed impeachment because it is too divisive, and that President Trump is "not worth" the effort. "I'm not for impeachment. This is news. I'm going to give you some…
The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on Sunday — five months after the Lion Air crash of the same type of plane in Indonesia — has raised many questions about the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. There are currently…
Police say a Missouri woman killed her boyfriend in a gun accident while re-enacting a movie scene, reports CBS affiliate KRCG. 37-year-old Kalesha Peterson told police she was drinking alcohol and watching a movie with her boyfriend David Dalton at…
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people indicted Tuesday in a widespread alleged college admission bribery scheme. The racketeering conspiracy case includes the parents of applicants, as well coaches at universities including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the…
Fox News host Tucker Carlson made past derogatory comments about women in an interview with radio shock jock "Bubba the Love Sponge," according to a liberal media watchdog Transcripts of other interviews also have Carlson questioning Barack Obama's race and…
Verizon on Tuesday said service has been restored to "a ton of customers" affected by a texting outage on the East Coast. "We experienced an issue impacting texting services for some customers this morning. Our engineers were able to identify…
President Trump bemoaned the complexity of modern airplane technology on Tuesday, after a second deadly crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 over the weekend left no survivors. Another plane of the same model crashed five months ago. Mr. Trump did…
Fast facts: More than 12,000 cases of the recalled flour was sold at groceries including Publix nationwide Winn-Dixie has also sold the potentially affected flour The Food and Drug Administration has tweeted a warning to consumers: "Do not eat" Pillsbury…