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The former principal of a Louisiana middle school has been arrested after confessing to having sex with a teen boy, authorities said. Ashleigh Landry, 44, of Raceland was the head of Lockport Middle School when she alleg...

Two teenage girls were charged with murder Wednesday in the death of an Uber Eats driver who they allegedly carjacked and assaulted with a stun gun in Washington, DC, a new report said. The suspects, ages 13 and 15, are ...

Louis James Walsh, who allegedly thought he was speaking with an underage girl, was arrested Wednesday by officials with the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Iraq to drum up international support for President Obama's plan to fight ISIS. Margaret Brennan reports from Baghdad.

Amnesty International reports that China's polices towards ethnic Uyghur Muslims have split up thousands of families, as some children are prevented from leaving China's Xinjiang region to be with their parents living ab...

The United States reached the grim milestone on Dec. 14, but has a larger population than Brazil

The 21-year-old accused of gunning down 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store is due in court Thursday.

An executive at a Chicago hospital allegedly gave early COVID-19 vaccines to employees at his jewelry store, steakhouse and at Trump Tower, where he lived.

The inmates who killed two penitentiary staffers and injured a third, as well as another inmate who tried to help, were staging an escape attempt, the Iowa Department of Corrections said Wednesday.

At the White House, Secret Service agents lined up shoulder to shoulder, combing the North Lawn and nearby areas for anything an intruder might have left behind beyond the questions of how such an egregious security brea...

On the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the city of New York is remembering and honoring the victims. NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton and deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism John Miller join "CBS...

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Rachel Levine, who served most recently as Pennsylvania's health secretary, as assistant secretary of health. The vote was 52 to 48, with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murko...

Local organizers and the IOC hope the relay will turn public opinion in Japan in favor of the Games

CIA Director John Brennan talks with CBS News' Bob Orr about the possibility that extremists with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria could plan and launch attacks against the U.S. and other western nations. The full int...

FBI, bomb squad, SWAT called to hazmat where man died earlier on Near North Side.

A Buffalo shock jock was fired from his gig after comparing his toast preferences to the skin tone of famous black women on Wednesday, a local report said. Rob Lederman, the “Morning Bull Show” host on Buffalo’s 97...

A couple in St. Petersburg, Florida, woke up to a burglar in their home, but quickly turned the tables on the intruder.

Some low-income families of color in Oakland will soon receive $500 a month in no-strings-attached cash as part of a privately funded program, Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a Tuesday announcement. The Oakland Resilient Fami...

The launches come a day after the North apparently fired weapons, presumed to be cruise missiles, into its western sea

Democrats characterized the far-reaching elections overhaul as the civil rights battle of modern times. Republicans called it a power grab that would put their party at a permanent disadvantage.

Oral Roberts University's Cinderella story need not be another battle in the culture wars.      

Stripping off a few layers when things heat up can often be the most natural thing in the world.