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From spitefully blocking others' views to evading property taxes, the builders of these thin homes make a statement

Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, who won the International Booker Prize in 2020, has withdrawn from a project to translate Black American poet Amanda Gorman's work following a backlash against the commission.

Sen. Mitt Romney was knocked unconscious when he fell in Boston over the weekend, leaving him with "a lot of stitches" and a black eye. "I took a fall. Knocked me unconscious. But I'm doing better," Romney told reporters...

A Nike executive resigned from the company Monday after her son used one of her credit cards to purchase $132,000 worth of limited-edition sneakers for his own resale company.

Did a mortician kill and freeze a widow to live off of her millions or was it a desperate act to end abuse? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates.

The number of people expected to be cashing in on the next round of pandemic stimulus checks is likely to be pared down this week. COVID-19 updates.      

Hundreds arrested, including journalists, and more than 20 killed, but protesters are refusing to let volleys of tear gas and even bullets silence their demands.

A mother and daughter in the U.K. have died after all 11 members of a family caught coronavirus during a Christmas gathering.

​Former CIA Director John Brennan says he is “increasingly embarrassed” to be a white man. The comment was made on MSNBC Monday, during a conversation about the weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference,...

Since Seresto pet collars were introduced, the EPA has received more than 75,000 reports related to the collars, including 907 involving human harm.      

The girls were the latest victims in a series of student kidnappings that Nigeria's president warns will continue if regional authorities keep paying ransoms.

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) apparently doesn't hold back against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in his new book — and one particularly brutal quote made the back cover. The former Republican leader has a new me...

Financial and medical concerns are weighing on family planning during the coronavirus pandemic. But the so-called "baby bust" is just an acceleration of a longer-term trend. Tony Dokoupil reports.

Pamela Cabriales was sitting in her Land Rover on West Colfax and I-25 about 10:45 p.m. on Feb. 20 when a person standing next to a Honda sedan fired a gun six times into her SUV before taking off.

The new FDA-authorized Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is arriving at hospitals across the country Tuesday to help with the fight against the pandemic. CBS News spoke to a doctor in Michigan who has been driving vacci...

Investigations in France and Germany could lead to prosecutions of President Bashar al-Assad and members of his upper echelon over one of the Syrian war's signature atrocities.

It says it will use a "strike system" to remove accounts that repeatedly violate its vaccine misinformation rules

The first detailed studies of the so-called P.1 variant show how it devastated a Brazilian city. Now scientists want to know what it will do elsewhere.

This is the heart-stopping moment a 2-year-old Vietnamese girl plunged off a 12th-floor balcony - right into the hands of a delivery driver who is being hailed as a hero for saving the tot's life. Nguyen Ngoc Manh, 31, w...

Texas threatened to slash Dallas County's vaccine doses if it prioritized vaccines for the mostly Black and Latino people in medically vulnerable zip codes

A Swedish professor of epidemiology has quit researching COVID-19 after facing fierce backlash over his findings that the illness poses a low threat to children - undermining the political argument that schools can't reo...

The Winter Olympics in Beijing are under growing calls for a boycott because of China's policy on the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the western region of Xinjiang, policy that the US government has deemed "genoc...