Source: AP / CBS News WASHINGTON – Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces. Details of the [...]
Source: Stephanie Condon / CBS News Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked information about the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance programs, said Monday that the U.S. government “immediately and predictably” destroyed any chance that he’d receive a fair trial by declaring him guilty of treason. “The US Government, just as they did with [...]
Source: Michelle Castillo / CBS News People who eat red meat may be putting themselves at risk for Type 2 diabetes. A new study published June 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that eating red meat over time was associated with a higher chance of developing the most common form of diabetes. Diabetes is a disease in which [...]
Source: Lucy Madison / CBS News The House of Representatives on Friday passed a wide-ranging annual defense spending bill, authorizing appropriations for 2014 with an additional focus on the recent controversies surrounding sexual assault in the military. The bill, which authorizes all manners of funds toward keeping the Defense Department functional for the 2014 fiscal [...]
Source: Lucy Madison / CBS News A presidential trip to Africa this month could cost the government anywhere from $60 to $100 million dollars, according to the Washington Post, which obtained an internal planning document for the travel itinerary. At the end of June, Mr. Obama and his family will take an eight-day trip to sub-Saharan [...]
Source: AP / CBS News COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – A wildfire burning near Colorado Springs has destroyed at least 360 homes, making it the most destructive in the state’s history. El Paso County sheriff Terry Maketa said Thursday that deputies still haven’t been able to verify the condition of 79 homes as the wildfire continues [...]
Source: AP / CBS News SANFORD, Fla. – Once seated, the jury will be sequestered in the high-profile murder trial of George Zimmerman, the man accused in the 2012 shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, a judge said Thursday. The judge’s ruling came during the fourth day of questioning jury candidates about what media [...]
Source: AP / CBS News JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s president said Wednesday that Nelson Mandela was responding better to treatment after several days in the hospital. President Jacob Zuma told parliament he was happy with the progress that the international icon was making “following a difficult last few days.” Mandela spent a fifth straight day [...]
Source: AP / CBS News U.S. officials are in the process of filing charges against a government contractor after he admitted leaking secret government documents about controversial U.S. surveillance programs, CBS News correspondent John Miller has learned. Edward Snowden, 29, now a former employee of government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, says he provided documents about [...]
Source: CBS News CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks. The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department’s security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases [...]
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