Archives: 2018

Avalanche kills 4 skiers, leaves another missing

File photo shows snow in the French Alps. PARIS — French authorities say four skiers have been killed, one is injured and another is missing after an avalanche in the southern Alps. The French gendarmerie said the avalanche happened Friday in Entraunes, near the Italian border. The cause of the avalanche is unknown. During a visit to the southern city…

NBA superstar smashes hotel room with golf swing

Stephen Curry plays a shot during round two of the Ellie Mae Classic at TCP Stonebrae on August 4, 2017 in Hayward, California. Lachlan Cunningham / Getty Images Apparently Stephen Curry’s golf swing is not up to par with his three-point shooting. On Thursday, the Golden State Warriors superstar posted an image of a hotel room in shambles after an…

Suspect in killing of Va. mom describes fatal confrontation

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, Va. – A 23-year-old man was charged with the murder of Middlesex mother TerriLynn St. John, hours after he led detectives to her body, reports CBS affiliate WTVR. Alvin B. Keyser is charged with first-degree murder and concealing a dead body. Officers said there could be more charges. St. John, 23, vanished from her driveway around 7:30 Tuesday morning,…

Islamic extremists attack French embassy in West Africa

Security personnel take cover as smoke billows from The Institute Francais in Ouagadougou, March 2, 2018, as the capital of Burkina Faso came under multiple attacks targeting the French embassy, the French cultural center and the country’s military headquarters. Getty Burkina Faso’s communications minister said four Islamic extremists were killed Friday after they attacked the French Embassy in Ouagadougou, the…

John Kelly's comment about God punishing him aggravated Trump

White House chief of staff John Kelly’s comment that God punished him when he left the Department of Homeland Security for the West Wing aggravated President Trump and was not well received, CBS News’ chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports.  Kelly made the remark, in a joking fashion, Thursday morning at at an event marking the 15th anniversary of…

How two young football players are preparing for life after the NFL

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SEC dropped probe shortly after company gave loan to Jared Kushner's family firm: AP

The Securities and Exchange Commission late last year dropped its inquiry into a financial company that a month earlier had given White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm a $180 million loan. While there’s no evidence that Kushner or any other Trump administration official had a role in the agency’s decision to drop the inquiry into Apollo Global…

Immigration focus fades as Congress turns to gun reforms

It’s taken just two weeks for Washington’s immigration battle to fade from blistering to back-burner. Lawmakers now seem likely to do little or nothing this election year on an effort that’s been eclipsed by Congress’ new focus on guns, bloodied by Senate defeats and relegated to B-level urgency by a Supreme Court ruling. Talks have gone dormant that sought a…

China expresses “grave concern” about Trump trade policy

China on Friday expressed “grave concern” about a U.S. trade policy report that pledges to pressure Beijing, but had no immediate response to President Trump’s plan to hike tariffs on steel and aluminum. The report Thursday accused China of moving away from market principles and pledged to prevent Beijing from disrupting global trade. “The Chinese side expresses grave concern,” said…

The Good Girl: Did a model student murder her ex-boyfriend?

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Eye Opener at 8: Trump and the NRA back on track?

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Trump agenda and message rattled by turnover, investigations

Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, President Trump is facing a shrinking circle of trusted advisers and a staff that’s grim about any prospect of a reset. Even by the standards of Mr. Trump’s often chaotic administration, the announcement of communications director Hope Hicks’ imminent exit spread…

New details about woman accused of having sex with former student

62 Photos Stephanie Peterson, 26, is seen in a police booking photo released by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office in Florida after she was arrested on Feb. 28, 2018. Volusia County Sheriff’s Office via WKMG-TV DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. –  A 26-year-old woman who had just quit her job as a middle school teacher who was arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship…

Inside a school still running on the edge of rebel-held Syria

DAMASCUS — A monitoring group said Syrian warplanes struck several areas in the decimated rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Friday morning before the fourth daily Russian “humanitarian pause” began. There was no immediate word on casualties in the latest violence, but the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said since President Bashar al-Assad’s offensive in the eastern Ghouta suburbs ramped…

Report: Internal DOJ review to be critical of FBI's Andrew McCabe

The Justice Department’s inspector general is expected to criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as part of its investigation into the bureau’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press Thursday night. McCabe, a frequent target of President Trump’s ire, left his position in January as the FBI’s No. 2…

Calif. north and south feeling wrath of intense rain, snowstorm

LOS ANGELES — Deputies went door-to-door ordering residents to evacuate from coastal Southern California neighborhoods ahead of a powerful winter storm sweeping in Friday after bringing heavy snow and whiteout conditions to northern mountains and steady rain elsewhere. As many as 30,000 people were under evacuation orders in foothills of Santa Barbara County, which were stripped bare by recent wildfires….

Congress struggles to adapt to Trump's shifting gun stances

Action on gun legislation has skidded to a halt in Congress — not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because President Trump’s stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scrambling to figure out what to do next. Republicans squirmed over Mr. Trump’s call for stricter gun laws after the assault on a Florida…

Huge penguin colony discovered on remote Antarctic islands

A thriving hotspot of some 1.5 million Adelie penguins has been discovered on the remote Danger Islands in the east Antarctic, surprised scientists announced Friday. Just 100 miles away in the west Antarctic, the same species is in decline due to sea ice melt blamed on global warming, they said. The first complete census revealed that the Danger Islands host…

Couple arrested after kids found living in filthy shack

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