Last Updated Mar 8, 2018 2:53 PM EST President Trump is signing a proclamation on steel and aluminum tariffs at the White House Thursday afternoon, after announcing the tariffs last week. According to the Associated Press, all countries will be invited to attempt to negotiate individual exclusions from the tariffs. In a meeting with his Cabinet earlier Thursday Mr. Trump…
LSU running back Derrius Guice runs a drill during the NFL football scouting combine, Friday, March 2, 2018, in Indianapolis. Darron Cummings / AP Derrius Guice, considered one of the best running backs in the 2018 NFL Draft class, spent last week in Indianapolis with other NFL hopefuls as they participated in the combine. In addition physical tests — the…
LONDON — British police now say a total of roughly 21 people have sought treatment after a nerve agent was used to attack an ex-Russian spy and his daughter. Wiltshire acting police chief Kier Pritchard told Sky News on Thursday that “a number” of those people got blood tests, support and hospital advice. He says only three people remain hospitalized….
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Police say a 45-year-old man managed to sign a 16-year-old girl out of her Pennsylvania school 10 times in the last few months and now the two are missing. Allentown police issued a missing person alert Wednesday for Kevin Esterly and Amy Yu. They say the pair was last seen Monday. The Morning Call reports police filed…
Lumberton’s Board of Alderman voted unanimously to accept the resignation.
Local volunteers awarded in 2018 Governors initiative for Volunteer Excellence.
BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. Forest Service chief Tony Tooke has stepped down just days after an investigation was launched into sexual misconduct allegations against him and amid reports of rampant misbehavior including rape within the agency’s ranks. A Forest Service spokesman on Thursday confirmed Tooke’s sudden retirement less than seven months after he was named to the post by Agriculture…
Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle issued a statement condemning the attack, saying a child is dead because of “an argument among reckless adults.”
Investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the school.
RALEIGH, N.C. – Federal agents have opened a criminal investigation into a white North Carolina police officer shown on body camera footage beating a black man accused of jaywalking. State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Patty McQuillan said in an email Wednesday that an FBI criminal investigation was launched into the actions of Asheville police officer Christopher Hickman on Aug. 25,…
The measure is headed to a conference between the House and Senate to work out differences.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is examining whether a January 2017 meeting in Seychelles involving the founder of the security firm Blackwater, Erik Prince, and a Russian official constituted an effort to create a back channel for talks with the Kremlin, and whether any foreign money was passed along to Trump campaign efforts, a former government official tells CBS News’…
Amazon confirmed Wednesday that devices enabled with its smart assistant are emitting disturbing cackles.
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VICTORVILLE, Calif. – A 14-year-old is behind bars after police say he used an SUV retrofitted with emergency lights and a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department uniform with a firearm in the belt holster to impersonate a police officer. According to the sheriff’s department, on March 5, a teen driving a Ford Explorer without license plates but with red and…
One passenger was pronounced dead at the scene while the other is in critical condition.
In an embarrassing case of mistaken identity, many Americans appear to be confusing the controversial National Rifle Association (NRA) with an organization in the restaurant industry that has the same initials, CBS Chicago reports. The National Restaurant Association (also known as the NRA) was subsequently drawn into the national debate on gun control. Several people, including politicians, have had to…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Police have arrested a man they’d been searching for since the mother of his child said he took the baby last month, reports CBS affiliate KOTV. Victor Minjarez is facing charges of murder and desecration of a corpse. Investigators say that after they arrested Minjarez on Wednesday afternoon they found a body they believe is 7-month-old Jody…
MADRID — Women across Europe and Asia shouted their demands for equality, respect and empowerment Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, with protesters in Spain launching a 24-hour strike and crowds of demonstrators filling the streets of Manila, Seoul and New Delhi. Spanish women were staging dozens of protests across the country against the wage gap and gender violence. In…
CBS News has been behind the scenes with the Florida school shooting survivors and their parents as they bring the “Never Again” movement nationwide. Student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took a long-term step by moving into their first official office space. “This is definitely not going to be our last. We’re probably going to need a bigger…
People gather during a nationwide feminist strike on International Women’s Day at Cibeles Square in Madrid, Spain, March 8, 2018. Born out of the fight for women’s suffrage in the early 20th century and by the activism of the Socialist movement in the U.S. and Europe, International Women’s Day has been recognized on March 8 for more than a century. …
BEIRUT — A second convoy with desperately needed aid for the besieged rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus was postponed on Thursday because of the violence and a rapidly evolving situation on the ground as Syrian government forces effectively split the eastern Ghouta enclave into two parts. In rapid advances overnight, troops and allied militiamen seized more than half of the…
A fatal hit-and-run crash closed Interstate 5 near Lakewood, Wash. Washington State Patrol LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Authorities say a hit-and-run crash that killed three people has closed all lanes of Interstate 5 southbound and three lanes northbound near Lakewood. The Washington State Patrol says a 23-year-old man was swerving across the southbound lanes when he struck a car at about…
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a joint U.S.-Iraqi military operation in 2010, is seen in a file photo provided by the Iraqi government. HANDOUT BAGHDAD — A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq who was killed in 2010 and sentenced her to death on…