A tiny Nebraska startup awarded the first border wall construction project under President Trump is the offshoot of a construction firm that was sued repeatedly for failing to pay subcontractors and accused in a 2016 government audit of shady billing practices. SWF Constructors, which lists just one employee in its Omaha office, won the $11 million federal contract in November…
Florida’s upper chamber briefly approved a ban on AR-15-style rifles before immediately reversing that move Saturday. The Florida state Senate approved a two-year moratorium on the sale, delivery and transfer of AR-15-style rifles by a voice vote, the offices of the top Senate Democrat and Republican confirmed. But minutes later, that motion was reconsidered, and ultimately reversed by a roll…
BOSTON — People along the Northeast coast braced for more flooding during high tides Saturday, even as the powerful storm that inundated roads, snapped trees and knocked out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses moved hundreds of miles out to sea. Areas from Maryland to Maine remained under flood warnings. Officials in eastern Massachusetts, where dozens of…
President Trump says the U.S. “will simply apply a TAX” on cars made in Europe if the European Union retaliates against the trade penalties he’s seeking on imports of steel and aluminum. The EU is promising retaliation against American exports if Trump follows through — as he says he will next week. Earlier this week, the president made a surprise…
For more than 40 years, Daniel Ellsberg has been known as the man who exposed the U.S. government’s secrets about the Vietnam War. But there’s an even bigger secret he’s been keeping about his involvement in planning for an even bigger war. That plan, in his words, was a “crime against humanity.” “The plan was to hit every city in…
Last Updated Mar 3, 2018 1:02 PM EST A man apparently shot himself beyond the north fence line outside the White House Saturday, a law enforcement official told CBS News’ Pat Milton. U.S. Secret Service responded to the sound of shots fired. U.S. Secret Service tweeted they were responding to reports of a man “allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot…
HOUSTON — Rice University has confirmed the death of student Blain Padgett, a player for the school’s football team, CBS affiliate KHOU-TV reports. Padgett was found dead in his off-campus apartment on Friday. Padgett, 21, was a junior at the university and a defensive end on the university football team. The cause of death was not immediately known. Rice athletic…
Colorado state Rep. Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, Friday, March 2, 2018. David Zalubowski/AP DENVER — The state House of Representatives expelled state Rep. Steve Lebsock, accused of sexual misconduct, in a Friday afternoon vote, CBS Denver reports. It was the first time Colorado lawmakers voted to expel one of their own in over a century. The final vote was 52 in…
President Trump will venture into hostile territory Saturday night at the annual Gridiron dinner, mingling with members of the mainstream media he loves to lash out against. The white-tie gala is one of the city’s longest-running traditions, and the kind of establishment event that M. Trump has so far shunned. But what is supposed to be a lighthearted bread-breaking between…
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — The gun used in a shooting at a Central Michigan University dormitory that left a student’s parents dead was registered to the suspect’s dad, according to police. The 19-year-old student, James Eric Davis Jr., who is suspected of killing his parents, was arrested early Saturday morning after someone saw him on train tracks shortly after midnight,…
BALTIMORE — A man has received the maximum penalty allowed — three years in prison — after being found guilty of tying a cinder block to his dog and throwing him into Liberty Reservoir, in Maryland. Anthony “Tony” Muniz was convicted by a Carroll County jury of aggravated animal cruelty after a two-day trial, CBS Baltimore reports. In February 2017,…
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Some 600 computers used to “mine” bitcoin and other virtual currencies have been stolen from data centers in Iceland in what police say is the biggest series of thefts ever in the North Atlantic island nation. Some 11 people were arrested, including a security guard, in what Icelandic media have dubbed the “Big Bitcoin Heist.” A judge…
A Delta Air Lines spokesman confirmed that only 13 members of the National Rifle Association bought discounted tickets using a perk that the airline later withdrew, in the wake of Parkland, Florida, school shooting. Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter said Friday the discounted fares had been available for a short time and were only for NRA members purchasing flights to the…
In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, photo, Hialeah Park race track owner John Brunetti speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Hialeah, Fla. Wilfredo Lee/AP HIALEAH, Fla. — John Brunetti, a horse breeder and the owner of historic Hialeah Park since 1977, has died at 87. Hialeah said on its website that he died at his home Friday…
Under the best of circumstances, a Mideast peace deal is the Holy Grail of diplomacy, a goal that has eluded American presidents for generations. With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to visit Washington this coming week, the mix of politics, personalities and historical grievances that has stood in the way of Israeli-Palestinian peace is even more combustible than normal….
QUINCY, Mass. — Residents of a neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts, are thankful to be rescued — after a massive nor’easter pummeled the East Coast. On Saturday morning, the entire neighborhood was without power, and it wasn’t clear when residents would be able to return. A front loader was removing debris from the area, CBS Boston reports. At high tide during Friday’s storm, Quincy…
A truck heads west through the snow on Interstate 80, Thursday, March 1, 2018, near Donner Summit, Calif. A major winter storm swept south through California on Thursday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds to mountains and steady rain elsewhere. Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee via AP LOS ANGELES — Heather Turping was snowboarding with her boyfriend when she heard someone…
JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — The mounds of trash, old toys and furniture caught the attention of a Southern California sheriff’s deputy passing through the desert Thursday. As he approached, he spotted a hovel cobbled together with plywood and plastic sheeting. And then came the shocking discovery that a couple and their three children — ages 11 to 14 — had…
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — A 19-year-old student suspected of killing his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory before running from campus was apprehended early Saturday following an intensive daylong search that included more than 100 police officers, some heavily armed in camouflage uniforms, authorities said. James Eric Davis Jr. was arrested without incident after an individual spotted him on…
The site of shooting at Central Michigan University is seen, in Mount Pleasant, U.S., March 2, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. COURTESY of GRANT POLMANTEER /via REUTERS Central Michigan University said early Saturday they had in custody the suspect accused of shooting and killing his parents on campus on Friday. Central Michigan University police Lt. Larry Klaus…
A nor’easter pounded the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force winds and sideways rain and snow Friday, flooding streets, grounding flights, stopping trains and leaving 1.6 million customers without power from North Carolina to Maine. At least four people were killed by falling trees or branches. The storm submerged cars and toppled tractor-trailers, sent waves higher than a two-story house crashing into…