The armed father who was hailed for his heroic actions during a deadly shooting at his daughters’ elementary school in Oregon frantically called authorities before he went after the shooter, according to a recording of the 911 call released Tuesday. “Someone’s at the school, at my daughters’ school with a gun. I have a gun,…
Washington — President Trump has been asking advisers around him and on the phone whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should stay in his job, following Republicans’ catastrophic losses Tuesday night, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. Some White House aides have predicted some of the blame for GOP midterm losses will be…
17m ago Four tankers catch fire while transiting Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s military says Four oil tankers caught fire after hitting mines while attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s military said Wednesday, after it warned no one would benefit from a return to war. “Four non-compliant oil tankers attempting to pass…
President Trump congratulated Democrats on their midterm election victories in a phone call with CBS News. “My message is, congratulations to the Democrats, and I look forward to working with you for the good of our country,” he said. The president said he plans to work with the opposing party, saying, “I know a lot…
Tennessee National Guard troops in Memphis last summer trained their handguns on a man as he lay dying on a sidewalk after a guard member shot him in the back, video released Monday by county prosecutors shows. A Memphis police officer can be heard in the footage from an officer’s body camera calling for an…
Sioux City, Iowa — Democratic Senate hopeful Josh Turek was standing with former Sen. Tom Harkin in a driveway in a small Western Iowa town when the former senator pulled out his phone to show the candidate something. “Oh my God,” Turek said as he leaned over to glance at Harkin’s phone, which appeared to…
Prosecutors in Lindsay Clancy’s case said Monday they plan to have her stand trial a second time for the murders of her three children, with the judge leaning toward a possible March retrial. What isn’t known yet is what charges Clancy would face. In her first trial, Clancy’s attorney admitted she killed 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan…
It began with a phone call. A grassroots write-in campaign had been launched weeks before Tuesday’s midterm election in an effort to keep longtime Alabama Sheriff Jay Jones in office. Jones was ousted in May by about 300 votes in a bitterly fought Republican primary in Lee County by a former sheriff’s deputy, Cameron Hunt. …
Dutch authorities are offering a record reward of 2 million euros ($2.2 million) for information leading to the arrest of Jos Leijdekkers, one of Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers, currently hiding in Sierra Leone. The arrest of Leijdekkers, also known as “Bolle Jos” (“Chubby Jos”), is “the highest priority for the Public Prosecution Service and the…
Attorneys for Lindsay Clancy told CBS News in an exclusive interview that she’s been on constant suicide watch since she allegedly killed her children three and a half years ago. “She doesn’t want to be here,” Rosemary Scapicchio, one of Clancy’s attorneys, told CBS News. “She wants to be with her children. …And if given…
