In the wake of two mass shootings in California, President Joe Biden on Tuesday again called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, just a few months after he signed into law bipartisan gun control legislation that fell short of banning the deadly weapons.  On Saturday night, a gunman opened fire at a …

An attorney for Abby Zwerner, the first-grade teacher shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student earlier this month in Newport News, Virginia, said that the administrators of Richneck Elementary School had multiple warnings that the unidentified boy was armed, but “failed to act” on those reports.  In a news conference on …

Microsoft says it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images. The tech giant on Monday described its new agreement as the third stage of a growing partnership with San …

At the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, D.C., an immersive play of light and shadows tells a tale of the beginning of time. “I’ve come, now, to think about the shadows as kind of a spirit within the piece,” said artist Preston Singletary. “It’s something that, you …

The body of a missing Pennsylvania mother was found wrapped in plastic in a shallow grave on Wednesday, CBS Philadelphia reports. Jennifer Brown, 43, of Limerick Township, was reported missing more than two weeks ago after she failed to pick up her young son from his bus stop. Montgomery County …

FTX Arena, the sports stadium in South Florida that the NBA’s Miami Heat calls home, will now be called Miami-Dade Arena, the team said Friday.  The change comes just days after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey ruled in favor of Miami-Dade County, which had asked to have FTX’s name stripped from …

Federal authorities announced a blitz of arrests and indictments Wednesday against more than 100 people charged with gun and drug crimes in three U.S. states. The flurry of charges from the Justice Department in Georgia, West Virginia and New York comes as federal officials work to combat an uptick in …

The Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has launched an investigation into the documents marked classified that were found at a private office once used by President Joe Biden. CBS News has learned those documents were marked with varying levels of classification including some that were designated highly classified. …

Delta Air Lines will provide free Wi-Fi service on most of its U.S. flights starting in February. The airline said Thursday that by the end of the year it will outfit more than 700 planes with high-speed, satellite-based broadband service from T-Mobile and plans to expand free Wi-Fi to international …

Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S., Missouri Governor Mike Parson has confirmed. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003. Parson announced that the execution would proceed as planned in a statement issued by the …