The 19-year-old gunman who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and what appeared to be more than 600 rounds of ammunition, Police Commissioner Michael Sack said Tuesday. Orlando Harris also left behind a hand-written note offering his …

Billionaire investor Thomas Barrack testified Monday that his friend Donald Trump’s presidency was “disastrous” for his business.   Barrack made the comment while testifying in his own criminal trial in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.  He has pleaded not guilty to charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent, …

A jury sided with Cardi B on Friday in a copyright infringement case involving a man who claimed the Grammy-winning rapper misused his back tattoos for her sexually suggestive 2016 mixtape cover art. The federal jury in Southern California ruled Kevin Michael Brophy did not prove Cardi B misappropriated his …

Amazon workers in upstate New York voted by a roughly 2-to-1 ratio against unionizing, according to results tallied on Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board.  The vote is a setback for the Amazon Labor Union, or ALU, a small independent union that in April won a historic vote in Staten Island, …

Years after a California woman submitted a rape kit after she was sexually assaulted, her DNA was used to charge her with a crime. In an exclusive interview with “CBS Mornings,” the woman (who asked us not to identify her by name) says she gave her DNA to San Francisco …

Georgia’s Republican Lt. Gov. Geoffrey Duncan has spoken out against Herschel Walker, the current GOP Senate nominee in the state. Duncan criticized the Republican Party and said he isn’t voting for Walker after The Daily Beast reported Walker paid for an ex-girlfriend to get an abortion, which the candidate has …

Any 401(k) can help you save for retirement. A great 401(k) allows you to save a whole lot more. The difference between a mediocre plan and a great one could translate into tens of thousands of dollars more in future retirement money. Plus, a 401(k)’s quality can show how serious …

A New York City man was charged this week with smuggling three Burmese pythons in his pants at a U.S-Canadian border crossing. Calvin Bautista, 36, is accused of bringing the hidden snakes on a bus that crossed into northern New York on July 15, 2018. Importation of Burmese pythons is …

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who rarely speaks about his tenure as America’s top diplomat, on Monday described a White House where he was at times contradicted by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, even as Tillerson was supposed to be overseeing U.S. foreign policy during the first year of …

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday announced he’ll “proudly” support bipartisan legislation in the Senate to reform the Electoral Count Act, a move intended to prevent a recurrence of the events of Jan. 6, 2021.  A similar effort passed in the House last week. Eleven Senate Republicans have already …