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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate committee he is more convinced than ever that Russians hacked the DNC during the election; When a child has been hurt, sexually abused or witnessed a horrible crime, dogs often help start the investigation if the child is too traumatized to talk.
Lawmakers agree to end government shutdown; Stricter TSA scrutiny for cargo planes amid terror concerns
"While we rejoice at this release, our hearts are with the fifteen people who are still being held," the church group said.
Hope was fading after the 4-year-old vanished from her family's tent on a camping trip. When they found her, one senior officer said there wasn't "a dry eye in the house."
Linda O'Keefe was murdered in 1973 while the 11-year-old girl was on her way home from school. After decades of trying to solve the case, one California police department turned to an unusual tactic — telling her story in her own voice on Twitter. CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith joins CBSN to share her reporting.
An unverified video posted online appears to feature the leader of the "400 Mawozo" gang threatening to shoot all 17 of the hostages if $17 million in ransom isn't paid.
Residents in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince remain in a constant state of fear after criminal gangs have swept the area to fill the void of an unstable government.
A high-ranking Haitian government official says a gang that kidnapped 17 missionaries, including 16 Americans, is looking for $17 million for their release. Former U.S. Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend joins Elaine Quijano on CBSN's "Red & Blue" to discuss what to expect from this request.
Rampant poverty is at the heart of the chaotic crimewave sweeping the Caribbean nation, and the fate of 16 Americans now hangs in the balance.
The State Department and FBI are working to free missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti. Sixteen of them are American and one is Canadian. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano from Port-au-Prince.
American officials and authorities in Haiti are working to rescue 17 kidnapped missionaries. CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports from Port-au-Prince on the latest news from Haiti.
The group of 17 missionaries that was kidnapped by a gang is affiliated with Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.
The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage, according to a message from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.
A Haitian gang has kidnapped 17 missionaries, including three children, who are associated with the Ohio-based group Christian Aid Ministries. Garry Pierre-Pierre, founder of the Haitian Times, joins Lana Zak on CBSN to explain what we know about the kidnapping.
Japan's Prime Minster Yoshihide Suga to step down later this month. In New Zealand, six people were stabbed in a supermarket attack. Dozens of students have been abducted in Nigeria. And North Korean leader Kim Jong Un demands a remedy to the country's food shortages. CBS News' Lucy Craft joined "CBSN AM" from Tokyo with more on these world headlines.
Garbin told prosecutors six men trained at his property, constructing a "shoot house" to resemble Whitmer's vacation home and "assaulting it with firearms."
48 Hours Live To Tell: Two young college students were on a peaceful date until the evening took a horrific turn. Both shot in the face at a river's edge, these teens outsmarted their would-be killer.
After years of heartbreaking anticipation, a Chinese couple reunited with their kidnapped son who was abducted 24 years ago. The parents' relentless search inspired a movie in 2015, and the family is now living a happy ending of their own. Ramy Inocencio reports.
A mother thwarted a brazen attempt to kidnap her 5-year-old son in Queens, New York when she pulled her son out of the kidnappers' vehicle. The suspect, who has no connection to the boy or his family, was arrested and remains in custody. Michael George reports.
It's the fourth mass school kidnap to hit Nigeria's northwest Kaduna state since December.
A London police officer has pleaded guilty to the rape and kidnapping of Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old marketing executive whose killing in March touched off national anger across the U.K. at male violence against women. Roxana Saberi brings the latest on the officer’s murder trial.
Alyssa Bonal was waiting for the school bus when a man jumped out of his vehicle and charged her with a knife. The 11-year-old fought back, saying she learned a trick from watching “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.” Jonathan Vigliotti has the details.
Boko Haram released nearly all of the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped last month. Upon their return home, the group warned parents and neighbors not to send the girls back to school. The Nigerian government says they used a "back channel" to negotiate the release. Karen Attiah, Global Opinions editor at The Washington Post, and discusses the release and Boko Haram's previous kidnappings.
Congress passes measure to end government shutdown; Study says children's diet is critical to brain development
An 8-year-old Iraqi boy is back in his home country after he was kidnapped by ISIS militants nearly three years ago. While living under ISIS rule, he says he also lived with an American family. CBS News foreign correspondent Holly Williams has his story.
In President Trump's speech Wednesday night, he touted new military bonuses, his tariffs and economic policies.
The House has passed a GOP health care bill that does not include an extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Pope Leo XIV has named Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, to succeed retiring Timothy Cardinal Dolan as archbishop of New York.
As the search entered its fifth day, authorities have so far been unable to identify a person of interest in the shooting that killed two students and wounded nine others over the weekend.
North Carolina was among the GOP-led states this year that redrew congressional lines mid-decade in an attempt to benefit Republicans.
President Trump is expected to sign an order that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, according to two sources, in one of the most significant changes to drug policy in decades.
The father and son suspects in the Bondi Beach terror attack spent most of November in a hotel in the Philippines, but the reason for their visit remains unclear.
President Trump's media company is joining forces with a company working to commercialize fusion energy.
"Things That Matter," a series of planned town halls and debates sponsored by Bank of America, will launch early next year.
President Trump's media company is joining forces with a company working to commercialize fusion energy.
"Things That Matter," a series of planned town halls and debates sponsored by Bank of America, will launch early next year.
The White House says encampment sweeps have enhanced the capital, but city leaders estimate nearly 700 homeless people roam by day and bed down outdoors by night.
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died. He was 91.
The Powerball jackpot leaped to an estimated $1.5 billion after no one won Wednesday night's pot of gold of approximately $1.25 billion.
President Trump's media company is joining forces with a company working to commercialize fusion energy.
Onions used to make the salad dressings could contain "black plastic planting material," according to food regulators.
Negative views of the nation's economy persist as 2025 draws to a close.
The recall affects So Delicious Dairy Free's Salted Caramel Cluster ice cream with best by dates of Aug. 8, 2027.
The Oscars ceremony is moving to YouTube starting in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday.
North Carolina was among the GOP-led states this year that redrew congressional lines mid-decade in an attempt to benefit Republicans.
The White House says encampment sweeps have enhanced the capital, but city leaders estimate nearly 700 homeless people roam by day and bed down outdoors by night.
The U.S. military says it has conducted 26 strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific or Caribbean since early September, killing at least 99 people.
President Trump's speech Wednesday night looked back on his first year and ahead to the next three. He touted new military bonuses, his tariffs and economic policies in a brief address.
Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to vacate her 2021 conviction on sex trafficking charges, just two days before the federal government is expected to release a massive trove of documents on Jeffrey Epstein.
Nationally, the measles case count is nearing 2,000 for a disease that has been considered eliminated in the U.S. since 2000, a result of routine childhood vaccinations.
Kevin Murray was his family's health watchdog. His vigilance helped his brothers "avoid a real catastrophe."
"I don't know how I'm going to pay for this," said one person with an Affordable Care Act plan that will cost her $1,100 a month starting in January.
Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, preventable disease.
Health officials say an infant botulism outbreak tied to ByHeart baby formula has been expanded to include all illnesses reported since the company began production in 2022.
The Trump administration's announcement of plan to sell Taiwan a record $10 billion worth of weapons draws an angry response from China.
The father and son suspects in the Bondi Beach terror attack spent most of November in a hotel in the Philippines, but the reason for their visit remains unclear.
Frederic Pechier's youngest victim, 4-year-old Teddy, survived two cardiac arrests during routine surgery in 2016. The oldest victim was 89.
Guayaquil has become a hotspot for gang violence linked to drug trafficking and several soccer players in Ecuador have been targeted in recent months.
Police intercepted two vehicles in a Sydney suburb based on "information received that a violent act was possibly being planned."
Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner died of "multiple sharp force injuries," the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday.
Meg Ryan starred in Rob Reiner's "When Harry Met Sally...," a breakout role that catapulted her career in romantic comedies.
The special features interviews with Kathy Bates, Annette Bening, Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry O'Connell and Mandy Patinkin.
Jake and Romy Reiner released a statement on Wednesday, remembering their parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, as their best friends.
The Oscars ceremony is moving to YouTube starting in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday.
In 2025, the integration of artificial intelligence into the U.S. economy and people's everyday lives grew to historic levels. CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent joins to recap how the transformative technology expanded over the past year, and what we can expect in 2026.
OpenAI, the developer for ChatGPT, and Amazon are in talks over a possible $10 billion investment. Mark DeCambre, editor-in-chief for MarketWatch, joins with more.
From labor shortages to environmental impacts, farmers are looking to AI to help revolutionize the agriculture industry. One California startup, Farm-ng, is tapping into the power of AI and robotics to perform a wide range of tasks, including seeding, weeding and harvesting.
A frenzy of development to support the artificial intelligence boom is prompting pushback from communities who say they don't want data centers in their backyards. Technology journalist Jacob Ward joins CBS News to discuss.
Global internet traffic rose 19% this year as people rely more on tech for daily communication and entertainment, a new report finds.
The Trump administration intends to dismantle one of the world's leading climate research institutions, in Boulder, Colorado, over what it said were concerns about "climate alarmism."
The footage of a bear caring for an adopted cub was captured during the annual polar bear migration along the Western Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba.
Most of the footprints are elongated and made by bipeds. The best-preserved ones bear traces of at least four toes.
NASA continues to aim its space telescopes at the visiting ice ball, estimated to be up to 3.5 miles in size.
Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.
Frederic Pechier's youngest victim, 4-year-old Teddy, survived two cardiac arrests during routine surgery in 2016. The oldest victim was 89.
Guayaquil has become a hotspot for gang violence linked to drug trafficking and several soccer players in Ecuador have been targeted in recent months.
The manhunt for the gunman who killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University last weekend is now in its fifth day. CBS News legal reporter Katrina Kaufman has the latest from Providence, Rhode Island.
Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner died of "multiple sharp force injuries," the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday.
Nick Reiner made his first court appearance on Wednesday since being arrested for the killings of his parents, Rob and Michele. CBS News correspondent Adam Yamaguchi has more.
President Trump withdrew Isaacman's nomination for NASA administrator in April, before nominating him again in November.
NASA continues to aim its space telescopes at the visiting ice ball, estimated to be up to 3.5 miles in size.
Super-Earth TOI-561b is about 40 times closer to its host star than Mercury is to the sun.
NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade.
The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.
A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
Christy Salters-Martin dominated in the boxing ring but faced her toughest challenger at home.
Family seeks answers in death of newlywed who disappeared in 2005 while on Mediterranean honeymoon cruise.
Meet the tattooed beauty charged in the death of Google executive Forrest Hayes.
Calling himself the "Son of Sam" in a letter left at one of the crime scenes, David Berkowitz claimed voices were ordering him to kill -- starting in the summer of 1976, he went on a 13-month spree of impulse killings in New York City that left six dead and seven injured
Visit a Uyghur restaurant in Southern California, where culture is shared and the food is made with love. Plus, a man who wanted to save his friends life by donating a kidney ends up saving his own life.
"Things That Matter," a series of planned town halls and debates sponsored by Bank of America, will launch early next year.
President Trump addressed the nation from the White House on Wednesday night in a speech looking back on the first 11 months of his second term. Political strategists Joel Payne and Kevin Sheridan join with analysis. Then, CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes joins to unpack Mr. Trump's remarks further.
President Trump delivered remarks Wednesday night looking back at his first year back in office. Nancy Cordes reports.
President Trump delivered a prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night, touting the administration's actions during the first 11 months of his second term and outlining his goals for the next three years. CBS News' Norah O'Donnell anchors a special report.