How to check if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica said in a statement Wednesday that it had data for only 30 million Facebook users.
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Pentagon takes down troop numbers in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan: Report
The Pentagon has quietly eliminated troop statistics for Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria from its website, according to the Military Times. The Department of Defense’s quarterly troop statistics, released in December, now has blank spaces for those Middle Eastern countries. The Military Times in December reported that the now-missing Defense Manpower Data Center data showed the U.S. had 26,000 troops total…
Bill Cosby’s lawyer launches blistering attack on “con artist” accuser
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby’s lawyer launched a blistering courtroom attack on the comedian’s accuser Tuesday, branding her a con artist whose goal was “money, money and lots more money.” Tom Mesereau told jurors in his opening statement at the former TV star’s sex-assault trial that Andrea Constand wasn’t attracted to Cosby but was “madly in love” with his fame and…
Defense: Dismembered student died accidentally during sex
FORT WORTH, Texas – The attorney for a man charged with murdering a Texas college student in 2016 says the woman died accidentally during sex. Charles Dean Bryant’s attorney says her client then panicked and dismembered and burned the body of 24-year-old Texas Woman’s University student Jacqueline Vandagriff. Defense attorney Glynis McGinty laid out the defense in her opening…
Catholic school accused of covering up wrestling coaches’ abuse
ORADELL, N.J. — A former wrestler has sued his Catholic high school, claiming the New Jersey school and church officials conspired to cover up sexual and verbal abuse in its nationally recognized wrestling program, CBS New York reports. The suit filed Monday alleges Bergen Catholic High School wrestling coaches shared pornographic images with team members, watched wrestlers strip naked and sent…
In US-China tariff fight, German autos are unlikely victims
Mercedes ships up to 75,000 more from Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
13 humanities grants in 4 Deep South states
It’s among 199 grants totaling $18.6 million nationwide announced Monday by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Concerns over Hart children called in to 911 hours before crash
Last Updated Apr 10, 2018 1:58 PM EDT PORTLAND, Ore. – Hours before the bodies of three Washington state siblings and their parents were discovered at the bottom of a coastal California cliff, a Child Protective Services investigator called 911 to report “concerns that the children aren’t being fed,” reports CBS affiliate KOIN. Three Hart children remain missing. KOIN obtained…
Weather warning sirens installed in Mississippi county
All of the sirens are refurbished and cost about $16,000 each.
Man charged with possessing the guns police returned to him
Pascagoula police aren’t commenting, but Cooper says authorities should have been aware of the previous commitment.
Rapper Boosie beefs with Biloxi Black Beach Weekend, calls for boycott
The event’s organizers responded with a post, since deleted, saying it won’t play Boosie’s music at any “official events.”
Nursing home accused of dumping patient at homeless shelter
WILLOWBROOK, Calif. — An assisted living center in Southern California is facing serious allegations. CBS Los Angeles reports a diabetic man who uses a wheelchair claims the center dumped him on Skid Row. Ronald Anderson says he was recently kicked out of the nursing facility and was dropped off in front of the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles with…
Arizona court rules DACA students not eligible for lower in-state tuition
Liz Luna, right, hugs Norma Jimenez as they react to the Arizona Supreme Court ruling against young immigrants granted deferred deportation status under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, during a demonstration at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Monday, April 9, 2018. Ross D. Franklin/AP PHOENIX — Arizona’s three state universities and its largest community college district…
Conservative TV host’s show canceled after Parkland survivor threat
Last Updated Apr 10, 2018 10:55 AM EDT NEW YORK — A conservative commentator who tweeted that he would use “a hot poker” to sexually assault a 17-year-old survivor of a Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station. Sinclair Broadcast Group spokesman Ronn Torossian said in a statement Monday that Jamie Allman’s resignation has been…
Silver Alert Issued For New Albany Man
Elderly Man Suffering From Medical Condition
Live blog: Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Senate committees
Thune: “It’s time for Congress to exercise some oversight” Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, says its time for Congress to step in and “exercise some oversight” on the issue of data privacy as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify on Capitol Hill on the protection of its users’ data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. While…
SUV plows into 7-Eleven, hit man, narrowly misses woman
Surveillance video captures the moment an SUV plowed through the front of a 7-Eleven in Lawrence, Massachusetts, narrowly missing one customer and hitting another. 7-Eleven A 31-year-old man is accused of driving drunk after he crashed his SUV into a 7-Eleven in Lawrence, Massachusetts, early Sunday morning, CBS Boston reports. Surveillance video from inside the store shows a female customer…
3 ex-Michigan State basketball players accused of raping woman
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A woman who attends Michigan State University filed a federal lawsuit against the school Monday alleging that three former men’s basketball players sexually assaulted her at an off-campus apartment in 2015 and that she was discouraged from reporting what happened. The woman and players are not named in the suit, which was filed in U.S. District…
Sen. Tammy Duckworth reflects on the hardships that have defined her
Sen. Tammy Duckworth became the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office with the arrival of Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, her second child, on Monday. But before she gave birth to Maile, the 50-year-old double amputee and junior senator from Illinois reflected on some of her life’s milestones, in a note to her younger self. Sen. Tammy Duckworth CBS…
Patrick Reed explains his “motto” throughout the Masters
Patrick Reed clinched the 2018 Masters Tournament on Sunday by just one stroke. The 27-year-old held off one of the strongest fields in the tournament’s history including a late charge from Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler to win his first major victory. “It was just a sigh of relief. To dream about winning the green jacket as a child growing…
Ackerman Receives A $5,000 Dollar Grant
The five-thousand dollar award will be used to build new playground equipment at the downtown park.
Why two Silicon Valley CEOs support regulating Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony Tuesday could lead to new calls for oversight from Congress. The company faces outrage over the exposure of profile information from most of its two billion users to third parties. A new poll by CBS News and YouGov shows 61 percent of Americans say Congress should do more to regulate social media and tech companies and as CBS…
Video shows girls leaping from balcony to escape dance studio fire
A fast moving fire tore through a multi-use building in Edgewater, New Jersey Monday evening, April 9, 2018. CBS New York EDGEWATER, N.J. — Authorities in New Jersey say several girls jumped from a balcony to escape a fire at a dance studio. The fire happened around 7 p.m. Monday at a multiuse building in Edgewater. CBS New York reports that…
Hannity says he accepts Kimmel’s apology, even if it seemed “forced”
Sean Hannity (L), Jimmy Kimmel (R) Getty/AP NEW YORK — Fox News host Sean Hannity has said he accepts an apology from ABC late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel and is ready to “move on” from a feud with that began over a joke about first lady Melania Trump’s accent. But he didn’t do so without a last dig, suggesting the…