Lines built up at major hubs as the glitch happened right at the end of the holiday season Major airports across the U.S. saw long lines, packed waiting areas and grumbling passengers on Monday, as a nationwide system crash at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) caused extended delays right as the…

PASADENA, Calif. — Monday’s Rose Bowl was not a College Football Playoff game. It didn’t feature the highest-ranked teams in the Pac-12 or the Big Ten. It also didn’t get constant TV promotion during the other 30-plus bowl games. But if you think USC’s 52-49 victory over Penn State wasn’t…

Severe storms in Alabama on Monday Jan. 2, 2017. CBS affiliate WKRG HOUSTON COUNTY, Ala. – Four people are dead in the Rehobeth area of Houston County, Alabama, Sheriff Donald Valenza confirms, CBS affiliate WHNT reported. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he spoke with Valenza, who confirmed four…

A federal judge on Monday ruled that Dylann Roof , the white supremacist found guilty last month of shooting nine parishioners at a Charleston, S.C., Bible study class, is competent to stand trial and represent himself in the sentencing part of his death penalty trial. Judge Richard Gergel’s…

House Republicans, defying their top leaders, voted Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail. The move to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics was not public until…

Syrian rebel groups say they are halting preparations for peace talks planned by Russia and Turkey for later this month. A statement, signed by a number of groups, cited "many big breaches" of the ceasefire by the Syrian government and its allies as the reason. The ceasefire deal was brokered by…

It’s that time again: the holidays are over, a fresh year is on the calendar, and it’s time for the annual gadget bacchanalia of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The show officially starts on Thursday, but we’re already here on the ground and will be having plenty of CES content as early…

moodboard via Getty Images By Miri Forbes, Robert Krueger, Nicholas Eaton Aging is generally associated with improvements in our quality of life : We become more proficient in our work, learn how to manage our finances better, and our bonds with loved ones deepen. With time and practice, most of the…

Facebook Former Michigan lawmaker Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday announced her plans to run for governor in 2018. Michigan won’t elect a new governor until 2018, but the race is already heating up. Democrat Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday that she had filed paperwork to run for governor, making her…

By Kira M. Newman, Tom Jacobs, Mariah Flynn, Summer Allen, Jill Suttie, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith, Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas At the start of 2016, Barbara Ehrenreich published an essay in The New York Times that took aim at the science of gratitude, criticizing it for focusing solely on benefits…

The Republican-led U.S. Congress had a rough start to its first session of the Donald Trump era on Tuesday when a public outcry that included a dressing-down from the president-elect prompted the House of Representatives to backtrack on its plans to defang an ethics watchdog. It was supposed to have…

Making a New Year’s resolution is the easy part. But keeping that New Year’s resolution? That can be a little more tricky. In fact, it’s often said that 80 percent of all New Year’s resolutions end in failure. But wait ― there’s hope! It is 2017 after all, and there’s a good chance that when it…

As fans continue to mourn the losses and celebrate the lives of Debbie Reynolds and daughter Carrie Fisher , one thing is clear: The bond between mother and daughter was truly special. As both screen legends had acknowledged over the years, they had a complicated relationship at times. But, during a…

By Kira M. Newman If your life were a movie, where would the plot be headed right now? You may not be immortalized in film anytime soon, but your life is still a story. According to psychologists , we all have an internalized narrative that explains how we became the person we are today and where we…

DON EMMERT via Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump answers questions from reporters as he and his wife, Melania, attend a New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. WASHINGTON ― The incoming president is once more creating foreign policy 140 characters at a time, with tweets…

Bloomberg via Getty Images Rep. Bob Goodlatte's amendment will change the Office of Congressional Ethics, leaving it far less powerful than it was before. WASHINGTON ― As one of their first actions in the new Congress, House Republicans are planning to significantly change the Office of…

Reuters Shortly after Donald Trump enters the White House we should get an answer to a key question from his campaign: what does he actually intend to do about trade? Trade was one of his main issues when he campaigned in the key industrial states that he won in November. Trump argued that past…

A large fire broke out in the coastal Chilean city of Valparaiso on Monday evening, burning at least 100 homes, prompting the evacuation of about 400 people and sending plumes of smoke high in the air. Chilean Interior Minister Mahmud Aleuy said in televised remarks that 19 people had been slightly…

Randall Hill / Reuters John Pinckney (in wheelchair), the father of Dylann Roof shooting victim Rev. Clementa Pinckney, leaves the Charleston Federal Courthouse after Roof was found guilty on 33 murder and hate crime counts in Charleston in December. A South Carolina judge ruled Monday that Dylann…

Joshua Roberts / Reuters On January 20, President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office and he promises to hit the ground running with a flurry of actions that will undo regulations enacted by President Barack Obama. "Regulations are coming off," he said to the crowd gathered at his New…

Kudos to the professional @united flight crew on our flight from Sydney to San Francisco that was rerouted to Auckland to arrest this bigot. pic.twitter.com/Iwkf9ta8rS — Neil Kay (@neilmmmkay) January 1, 2017 A U.S.-bound flight from Australia was diverted to New Zealand on Sunday over a passenger…

Adam Bettcher via Getty Images A Dakota Access Pipeline protester hangs from the ceiling of the U.S. Bank Stadium during the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears game. Spectators at a Minneapolis Vikings football game were treated to an unexpected aerial act when a pair of Dakota Access Pipeline…

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Disney As 2016 came to a close, the year’s box office statistics were cemented: Disney reigned supreme. “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” maintained the No. 1 spot. Its estimated $50 million New Year’s weekend intake brings the movie’s total domestic grosses to about $439 million, making it the…

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday left open the possibility of meeting with Taiwan’s president if she visits the United States after he is sworn in on Jan. 20 and also expressed continued skepticism over whether Russia was responsible…

Mariana Bazo / Reuters It's not clear, however, what religion he practices. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has eschewed his atheist beliefs and now asserts that “religion is very important.” Zuckerberg, whose Facebook profile once identified him as an atheist , revealed his change of…

Bill Clark via Getty Images (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services. The decision…

Donald Trump is nowhere mentioned in Chief Justice John Roberts ’ latest year-end report on the federal judiciary. But if you read between the lines, the reality that the next president will soon be filling a bevy of court vacancies across the country could very well have been weighing on the…

Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters The anger by President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows no sign of abating. Both railed at the Obama administration's abstention on a UN Security Council resolution condemning Jewish settlements on the Arab West Bank. Neither leader is and…

Pritchett Real Estate Eagle Cam The first of two eggs hatches in a bald eagle nest in Fort Meyers, Florida, captured on live-stream video. A Florida eaglet made its big debut before an audience of thousands of transfixed humans when it finally pecked its way out of its egg on a live “Eagle Cam”…