SEOUL, South Korea — Envoys for South Korean President Moon Jae-in planned to meet Monday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the start of a rare two-day visit to Pyongyang that’s expected to focus on how to ease a standoff over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and restart talks between Pyongyang and Washington. The 10-member South Korean delegation is…
MELBOURNE, Australia — The most senior Catholic Church leader to be charged with sexual abuse came close to confronting his accusers on Monday in a video-linked Australian court hearing to test the strength of the prosecution’s case. Cardinal George Pell’s alleged victims began testifying in the Melbourne Magistrates Court against Pope Francis’ former finance minister in testimony that cannot be made…
A recent study reveals nearly half of adults in the U.S. sometimes or often use social media as a news source. But both Facebook and Twitter acknowledged that Russian propaganda reached millions of Americans through their platforms around the 2016 election — 126 million on Facebook alone. Now, a new venture aims to help people navigate through fake news on…
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University has placed a professor on administrative leave following a series of sexual misconduct allegations. In an email sent to students Sunday, the university’s Faculty of the Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael Smith said Professor Jorge Dominguez is on leave effective immediately pending a “full and fair review of the facts.” Smith says the FAS…
LOS ANGELES — When Frances McDormand capped her Oscar acceptance speech with a rousing call for inclusion riders, the general reaction was more “huh?” than “hooray!” She was referring to using business contracts as a vehicle to further gender and racial diversity in Hollywood by adding a clause that mandates it. McDormand, honored as best actress for “Three Billboards Outside…
People stand in front of the accident and emergency wing of Kenya’s oldest hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) on January 23, 2018 in Nairobi. Getty Hundreds of doctors have walked off the job in Kenya, demanding systemic changes at a hospital where the wrong patient was recently subjected to brain surgery. It has been more than a week since a…
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President Trump is welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Monday for a day of meetings while he’s under investigation at home and the top U.S. negotiator for Middle East peace, Jared Kushner, is under increased scrutiny here. Netanyahu’s visit coincides with the American Israel Public Affairs Conference, where he is slated to deliver remarks to the…
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President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, in New York. Evan Vucci / AP There’s much to celebrate but plenty of cause for trepidation, too, as President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet Monday at the White House. For all his…
Newly-released video showing the deadly ambush of American soldiers is raising new questions about the U.S. military mission in the African country of Niger. Four Americans were killed in the October ambush. ISIS has released the disturbing and graphic video as part of a propaganda campaign. This video is hard to watch because it shows the final moments of American…
Jeep in lower right acgted as wedge, kept tree from falling on Wareham, Mass. home during March 2, 2018 Nor’easter CBS Boston WAREHAM, Mass. — A Wareham man is grateful that a large tree smashed into his Jeep during a powerful Nor’easter that hit the East Coast on March 2, 2018, reports CBS Boston. The reason? The SUV may have…
President Xi is expected to be granted broad new powers by China’s National People’s Congress, which kicked off its annual session today. For more than two decades Chinese presidents have been limited to two five-year terms, said CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy, reporting from Beijing. But Xi Jinping apparently wants to stick around longer than that, and the People’s Congress…
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Holocaust survivor says she was a victim of a “very demeaning body search” by U.S. Transportation Security Administration agents after a visit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eva Mozes Kor tweeted on Sunday in Albuquerque that she had to undergo the intrusive body search before boarding a plane and that it ruined her experience following a lecture….
A CBS News investigation has found child labor being used in the dangerous mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mineral cobalt is used in virtually all batteries in common devices, including cell phones, laptops and even electric vehicles. A report by Amnesty International first revealed that cobalt mined by children was ending up in products from…
A homeowner reportedly fired shots at the jeep, and deputies tried to stop the vehicle before the chase began.
Surveillance video shows five women leaving with a bag. A group of women is suspected of stealing a bag containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and jewelry from professional boxer Jermall Charlo, police said. CBS New York NEW YORK — The NYPD is trying to track down a group of women suspected of stealing a bag containing tens…
Russian soldiers stand guard as Syrian Arab Reb Crescent trucks carrying aid drive at the al-Wafideen checkpoint on the outskirts of the rebel-held Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta, as they head towards the rebel-held enclave on March 5, 2018. Getty BEIRUT — Desperate for food and basic medicines, many of the besieged and bombarded Syrian civilians in Damascus’ eastern suburbs…
227-year old Canadian hemlock on George Washington’s Mt. Vernon estate was toppled by Nor’easter on March 2, 2018, the estate says Mt. Vernon estate / Facebook The Nor’easter that battered the East Coast Friday blew down a tree from George Washington’s day on his famed Mt. Vernon estate in Virginia. The estate says it was a 227-year old Canadian hemlock:…
TODAY: We’ll be watching some scattered showers through the day, but we expect some drier weather if not even a taste of sunshine in the afternoon. Later this evening into tonight, a cold front will push through bringing more showers and storms. These likely will be below severe limits, but some gusty winds and heavy rain are not out of the…