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National security law dating from military rule has been used to detain or investigate critics of Brazil's president Protesters against Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, have defied police in the capital after the late...

President Biden's stimulus package expands Medicaid coverage for new mothers from 60 days after delivery to a year after delivery. Jamie Daw, an assistant professor of health policy and management at Columbia University,...

The U.S. has met the Biden administration's goal of administering 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses in his first 100 days -- and did so weeks ahead of schedule. The president celebrated this milestone at CDC headquar...

The weekend is projected to bring multiple days of severe weather from Texas to Nebraska. The system will be slow-moving bringing hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and the risk of tornadoes. CBS Chicago station WBBM's met...

Texas' environmental regulator on Friday barred most uses of the water at an oilfield camp converted into a holding center for immigrant teenagers, raising alarms about the safety of more than 400 youths detained there. ...

What began as a survival story of a stowaway boy has quickly escalated into a debate about the safety of our nation's airports. Jeff Pegues reports.

In the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk, Ukrainian soldiers attacked a checkpoint, determined to take control, but hours later, it was back in the hands of the separatists. For Slavyansk residents, many of whom suppor...

A volcano in Iceland put on a show Friday.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the nation's wealthiest officeholder, gave his campaign fund $35 million as he has dodged questions about whether he officially plans to seek election to a second term in 2022. The Illinois...

A child shooting victim was dropped off at a South Side hospital on Friday night, police said.

Some 21 million people in France are affected, while in Poland shops and hotels are shut nationwide.

President Obama was invited by Japan's prime minister to dine at one of the world's best sushi restaurants in Tokyo's Ginza district. Norah O'Donnell reports.

Protesters angry with a potential agreement to increase US military presence in the Philippines clashed with police outside the U.S. embassy in Manila.

After a diplomatic truce was broken in Ukraine, the government is relaunching what it calls an active anti-terrorist operation against pro-Russian separatists. Despite the government's new offensive, Russian-speaking sep...

In a sign of solidarity, Ukrainian-American children in New York City are remembering those who died in Ukraine's deadly demonstrations by painting the country's symbols onto hard hats resembling the makeshift helmets of...

"I can’t help but … ask, does that make sense?" Randy Park said.

Two western lowland gorillas were born at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo. Julia (33 years old) gave birth on March 10 and Tuti (19 years old) had her baby on April 17. Ernie (31 years old) is the father of...

The discovery of 329 people, including 114 unaccompanied minors, shows people are ignoring Joe Biden's call to stay at home Three trailer trucks packed with hundreds of migrants have been found in Mexico in the latest si...

A massive fireworks explosion that left two people dead in Southern California earlier this week caused at least $3.2 million worth of damage

"CBS This Morning" takes a look at some of the headlines from around the globe.

The protest comes after an avalanche near a base camp killed 16 fellow guides Friday. It addresses the issue of why the guides, who assume a disproportionately large part of the risk in climbing Mount Everest, get a disp...

A group of alumni has banded together to sue the San Francisco school system in hopes of permanently blocking any chance that supposedly "racist" names -- including Abraham Lincoln and Dianne Feinstein -- will be scrubbe...