A White mother from Los Angeles says she was questioned about human trafficking while she was traveling with her biracial daughter. Mary MacCarthy says she was questioned by two police officers and a Southwest Airlines employee after flying from San Jose to Denver. She believes she would not have been …

A 74-year-old man was arraigned Wednesday on a murder charge in connection with the death of a World War I veteran who disappeared almost 45 years ago and whose remains were found buried in a New York City backyard in 2019, authorities said. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Martin …

Washington — The House will not vote Thursday night on the infrastructure bill, hours after progressives said they would not vote on President Biden’s revamped social policy and climate change plan. In unveiling the bill earlier Thursday, Mr. Biden urged Democrats to unite.  The White House released details of the …

A ransomware gang believed to operate out of Russia says it hacked the National Rifle Association, the most powerful gun-rights group in the United States. The gang, which calls itself Grief, published a handful of what appear to be the NRA files on a so-called dark web site. The files, …

The U.S. Treasury is amending a plan to track more Americans’ bank accounts to limit tax evasion by the wealthy after the proposal garnered severe pushback from the finance industry and conservative politicians. Under the proposal, first introduced in May, banks would report to the Internal Revenue Service several new …

Residents of a dead-end San Francisco street are used to hearing the hum of autonomous vehicles — telling CBS San Francisco they’ve seen a recent influx of Waymo’s self-driving cars turn down 15th Avenue in the city’s Richmond District before turning around and leaving again. The cars — equipped with …

Adele will release her fourth album on November 19, the British superstar announced Wednesday. The album, called “30,” will be the singer’s first album since 2015. “I’ve learned a lot of blistering home truths about myself along the way. I’ve shed many layers but also wrapped myself in new ones,” …

Lawyers for an ailing, elderly Iranian-American who has been detained by Iran since 2016 are appealing to the United Nations for immediate intervention to evacuate him for lifesaving emergency surgery. In a letter addressed to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health within the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human …

Murders rose nearly 30% nationwide last year, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Report data released Monday, which revealed the greatest percentage of  homicides involving guns on record, amid the pandemic’s onset. Homicides and manslaughter jumped 29.4% from 2019 to 2020, the largest year-to-year spike since …

Angelina Jolie stopped by the White House on Wednesday, speaking briefly to reporters in the White House briefing room, and she also visited the Capitol on Tuesday.  The actress and filmmaker is in Washington working on children’s health issues and trying to encourage the reauthorization of the Clinton-era Violence Against …