Report: Sexual assaults under-reported at immigration detention centers

By Laura Strickler, Patricia Alulema / CBS News / November 20, 2013, 6:20 PM The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) h...

Obese pilots to be grounded if they have sleep apnea

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wants to start screening obese pilots for obstructive sleep apnea, a medical condition that may be...

Alex Rodriguez walks out of own grievance hearing

NEW YORK Alex Rodriguez walked out of his own grievance hearing on Wednesday after arbitrator Fredric Horowitz refused to order baseball Co...

Deeds attack highlights mental health care problems

In a Sept. 25, 2009 photo, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds spends time with his son Gus, left, on the road to Halifax, Va., ...

Radel pleads guilty to cocaine possession, no jail time

Updated at 12:02 p.m. Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., was sentenced to a year of minimally supervised probation and ordered to pay a $250 fine to ...

Stun guns on smartphones offer new form of self-defense

November 20, 2013 11:10 AM Women around the country are arming themselves with new high-tech weapons attached to their smartphones. But som...

Billy Graham hospitalized for "respiratory congestion"

The Rev. Billy Graham has been hospitalized with "a respiratory congestion issue," a spokesman said Wednesday. Spokesman Mark DeMo...

Obama meets with key regulators about health law fix

Amid the continued rocky rollout of the new Obamacare marketplaces, President Obama on Wednesday is meeting with state regulators who have a...

White House sticking to Obamacare enrollment deadline

November 19, 2013 4:24 PM President Obama acknowledged Tuesday that the administration has lost time due to problems with HealthCare.gov bu...

Issa demands answers after report of fudged jobless data

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked the Census Bureau Tuesday for additional information after a report ac...

Quirky cars at the Tokyo Motor Show

Nissan BladeGlider A Nissan BladeGlider concept electric car is displayed at the media preview for the Tokyo Motor Show at Tokyo Big Sight c...

Tornado victims find keepsakes hundreds of miles away

(CBS News) Weather experts were on the ground in Illinois Wednesday morning, trying to pin down the exact number of tornadoes that struck Su...

Supreme Court allows Texas to keep enforcing abortion restrictions

WASHINGTON A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led...

Rep. Trey Radel arrested on cocaine charge

Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., is "profoundly sorry" after being arrested Oct. 29 and charged Tuesday in Washington, D.C., for misdemean...

Minister who married gay son becoming gay rights activist

SPRING CITY, Pa. The Rev. Frank Schaefer gets to keep calling himself a Methodist pastor - at least for the next 30 days. The United Method...

Court lifts stay of execution of serial killer in Missouri

BONNE TERRE, Mo. A federal appeals court has upheld the execution in Missouri of white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, rest...

San Diego mayoral race headed to runoff

SAN DIEGO Two Democrats locked in a tight battle Tuesday to advance to a runoff against a Republican city councilman in the race to replace...

Suicide blast kills 10 Egyptian troops in Sinai

CAIRO A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into one of two buses carrying off-duty soldiers in Egypt's turbulent region of n...

WH explains why Obama didn't say "under God" in Gettysburg Address

President Obama irked some conservatives with his recitation of the Gettysburg Address, which he read aloud as part of a project celebrating...

Albuquerque voters soundly reject late-term abortion ban

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico Voters in New Mexico's largest city soundly defeated a ban on late-term abortions in a municipal election that ...

Earlier warnings saved lives in tornado-ravaged town

(CBS News) WASHINGTON, Ill. -- Eight people were killed Sunday in the Midwest when dozens of tornadoes cut through seven states. No town wa...

Jet crashes off Florida coast en route to Mexico

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration says a Learjet has gone down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast on...

Cheney spat highlights GOP dilemma on same-sex marriage

WASHINGTON The dispute over same-sex marriage between Dick Cheney's daughters is shining a bright light on the Republican Party's ...

Iran embassy bombing may be linked to Syrian war

(CBS News) BEIRUT - There is an ominous development in the Middle East that raises concerns a religious war may be spreading beyond borders....

Lincoln photo claim sets off debate among scholars

(CBS News) ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Using the latest in computer technology, professor Christopher Oakley and his students at the University of No...