SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Ten months after Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico’s electric grid, the local agency responsible for rebuilding it is in chaos and more than $1 billion in federal funds meant to strengthen the rickety system has gone unspent, according to contractors and U.S. officials who are anxious to make progress before the next hurricane. The Puerto…
Lane 8 performing. Matthew Enbar (Menbar Photos) for Made Event NEW YORK — Lane 8, an American DJ whose real name is Daniel Goldstein, launched a cellphone-free tour in 2016 called “This Never Happened.” He was recently reminded of the cellphone ban’s impact when he performed at a show in Brooklyn that didn’t impose one. “It definitely does change the…
President Trump’s legal team waived attorney-client privilege on the recording longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen made, a source with knowledge confirms to CBS News’ Sara Cook. Cohen secretly recorded a conversation he had with Mr. Trump shortly before the 2016 presidential election in which they discussed a possible payment to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who alleges she had an…
President Trump’s choice for the Supreme Court has given members of Congress a pile of material to help them start judging the judge. Judge Brett Kavanaugh responded to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire that probes his career as an attorney and jurist, his service in the executive branch, education, society memberships and more. Running 110 pages, plus appendices, his response…
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Facing condemnation from allies and foes alike on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump was outnumbered even in the Oval Office. Top aides gathered to convince the president to issue a rare walk-back of the comments he’d made raising doubts about U.S. intelligence conclusions of Russian election interference as he stood alongside Vladimir Putin. Vice President Mike Pence, National…
HOUSTON — A cardiologist who once treated former President George H.W. Bush was fatally shot by a fellow bicyclist Friday while riding through a Houston medical complex. Police were trying to determine if the shooting was random or a targeted act. It happened around 9 a.m. as Dr. Mark Hausknecht, 65, was going northbound through the Texas Medical Center, said…
BRANSON, Mo. — More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a lake in Missouri were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up. Others who died in the accident at Table Rock Lake included a Missouri couple who had…
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic candidate for Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent time campaigning last week in a state many progressives wouldn’t consider a campaign priority: Kansas. CBS News’ “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan sat down with Vermont’s Sanders, a well-known face in Democratic politics, and New York’s casio-Cortez, a rising star in the party after she defeated incumbent Rep. Joe…
If you don’t think curb appeal means much to people, you haven’t seen Rodney Smith Jr. in action. Fresh out of graduate school, Smith’s life mission these days is to cut grass – free of charge. If you’re elderly, disabled, a veteran or a single mom, Smith wants to help you out. The task may seem small, but it’s all…
The scene outside the home in Muscoy, California. CBS Los Angeles MUSCOY, Calif. — A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old cousin Friday in the town of Muscoy, California, authorities said. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said deputies and first responders arrived at the scene around 9 a.m. local time at a home on Duffy Street. They…
In this December 13, 2017, file photo, Offset arrives at the premiere of “Bright” in Los Angeles. Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File JONESBORO, Ga. — Offset, one-third of the rap trio Migos, is facing two felony gun charges after he and his bodyguard were pulled over outside of Atlanta. Clayton County Police Sgt. Ashanti Marbury told WXIA-TV that an officer…
About 12 years ago, a Philadelphia church thought athletics could be a form of outreach to young people. They had no idea how successful their effort would be. Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church is now producing college and professional athletes while also achieving its more important goal of teaching Christianity. “We like to say that we are unapologetically youth-oriented here at…
Sen. Bernie Sanders said President Donald Trump “sold the American people out” last week in Helsinki, Finland, during his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Vermont senator made the remarks in a joint interview with breakout Democratic Party star and candidate for Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The interview will air Sunday morning on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” Asked whether…
Investigators say all 31 people on board the duck boat that sank during a powerful storm on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, on Thursday have been accounted for. Sixteen passengers and one crew member were killed. All but the boat’s two crew members were tourists — visitors from somewhere else. But Branson is a town where, in some ways,…
President Trump responded for the first time Saturday to news that his longtime attorney Michael Cohen recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump discussing payment to a former Playboy model. The recording was seized by federal investigators during an April raid on Cohen’s office as a part of a criminal investigation into Cohen’s business dealings, according to The New York Times, which…
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ASPEN, Colo. — China is waging a “quiet kind of cold war” against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, a top CIA expert on Asia said Friday. Beijing doesn’t want to go to war, he said, but the current communist government, under President Xi Jingping, is subtly…
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