HOUSTON, Texas — An emergency room nurse from Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital came forward and claimed that Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who brought Ebola into the U.S., lied to hospital staff about his exposure to the virus. On
Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blamed Republicans for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa by suggesting funding cuts to certain programs were the culprit. “Instead of making those investments up front, we wait until people die,”
A Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy and POP (or problem-oriented policing) officer who was shot and killed on Friday, allegedly by a twice-deported Mexican illegal alien, was remembered by his community on Sunday. A candlelight vigil was held in honor of
Egypt has called upon its allies and the international community at large to help the country combat threats, both internally and externally, from terror groups such as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis and Hamas. On Friday, an attack in one of Egypt’s
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was hacked using software that is proprietary to U.S. government agencies. The computer analyst who discovered evidence of the hacking described it as, “Worse than anything Nixon ever did.” Today the New York Post reports details
On “CBS This Morning” on Monday, network White House senior correspondent Bill Plante reported the Obama administration was pushing back against efforts to impose quarantines on some health care workers that had encountered the Ebola virus. “Over the weekend, the
Antonio Holmes, the 38-year-old car salesman allegedly shot Friday by suspect Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte–who had been deported twice from the U.S.–has been upgraded to “fair” condition after being wounded in the head and enduring eight hours of surgery. “Anthony Holmes is a
Charlie Crist, the Democratic candidate for governor in Florida, refused to give about $90,000 he received from strip club owners during a preview of an interview on CBS Miami’s “Facing South Florida” set to air Sunday. When Crist was asked
A Silicon Valley tech company that reportedly made $200 million last quarter was importing foreign workers from India and paying them $1.21 an hour. According to the Labor Department, “about eight employees of Fremont-based Electronics For Imaging [EFI] were flown
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Wendy Williams Show,” Nicolle Wallace, a co-host of “The View” and former campaign staffer for the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign admitted it was proper former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president,
Wednesday on CBS Boston’s WBZ, political analyst Jon Keller called Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-NH) support of 99 percent of President Barack Obama’s policies the “Achilles heel” of the senator’s re-election campaign. “Earlier in that debate [with Republican opponent Scott Brown],
Three young black men viciously beat a woman in Brooklyn in an attempt to rob her of her purse and cell phone and it was all caught on video. 21-year-old Gwendolyn Reyes, an Hispanic woman and aspiring model, was walking
Teen Yazidi sex slaves under control of the Islamic State; North Korea’s torture camps for “re-education” of political dissidents; electric shock torture in the prisons of Uzbekistan— the world is teeming with a wide variety of human rights violations. But this
No one knows for certain what Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston intends to do in the face of an alleged sexual assault on a classmate and possible autograph violations, however, the best advice to him may come from one source who
The Girl Scouts USA has just ended its 53rd Convention amid sharply declining membership numbers, serious financial problems, cookie boycotts due to the organization’s known ties to Planned Parenthood, and now, the threat that those who want the group to retain its
George Lucas knows a Force more sinister than the Death Star or Darth Maul: Hollywood studios. The Star Wars creator told CBS News his iconic space western would never be made today due to the corporate nature of the modern film
In an interview that aired on Huntsville, AL CBS affiliate WHNT, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) emphasized the need for the United States to get a grasp on its immigration policy, particularly because of the potential for the spread of infectious
Sunday on CBS’ “Face The Nation,” Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) slammed President Obama’s Ebola Czar as a spin doctor. Blackburn said, “I think what we were hopeful was that we were going to have someone who had the experience, not
Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United begged President Barack Obama to set a uniform national standard to help health care workers deal with Ebola. Ross said nurses have been “begging for since the
San Diego State University student Sara Stelzer remained on life support systems on Friday night after the University announced that she had died on Friday morning from bacterial meningitis. According to CBS Los Angeles, University spokesman Greg Block said that Stelzer’s parents
A college campus in San Diego was cordoned off by the county Department of Health on Thursday after a female student who may have had contact with an Ebola patient vomited in the middle of class. A teacher at Southwestern
Just one day after news broke that HBO would go over-the-top with a live-streaming service, the evil that is bundled cable received another potential death blow with an announcement from CBS that the network would offer its own live-streaming subscription
Wednesday during the White House press briefing, Major Garrett, the chief White House correspondent for CBS News took White House press secretary Josh Earnest to task light of a second American getting Ebola after caring for the late Thomas Eric
The October 10 episode of CBS’ Tom Selleck vehicle Blue Bloods has drawn criticism from Catholics after the lead character proclaimed that the Catholic Church was “behind the times” on gay issues. The episode, entitled “Burning Bridges,” presented New York
A California farmer made history on Monday after submitting a 2,058-pound pumpkin to a growing competition, breaking the record for largest pumpkin grown in North America. Organizers of the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival told the Los Angeles Times that
