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U.S. closer to formally blaming North Korea for Sony hack

Amid threats from hackers, studio cancels Dec. 25 opening of "The Interview"; sources say U.S. has determined Pyongyang is behind the hack

• U.S.-Cuba Relations

  Out of captivity in Cuba, ex-prisoner breathes in freedom

  

  Jailed five years in Cuba, Alan Gross celebrated his return to the U.S. with a favorite meal and excitement about the holidays

  • Watch: Gross makes first remarks after being freed

• Scott Pelley, in Havana, describes Cubans' reaction to new policy

  

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  "CBS Evening News" anchor reports on what Cubans have been saying about U.S., Cuban moves to normalize relations

  • Watch: Bob Schieffer on unexpected thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations

• Flash Points: How will restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba affect the U.S. economy?

  

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  Juan Zarate breaks down America’s move to open diplomatic relations with Cuba, and what may occur as a result

  • Read: Bank cards, trade and travel to open up between Cuba, U.S.
  • Watch: Will you be able to travel to Cuba soon?

• The Season To Be Wary

  The new front on fraud? Your credit card

  

  As tech-savvy thieves target your credit card data, everyone from the U.S. Secret Service to Apple is fighting back

  • Read: This fraud may be "friendly," but costs are high
  • Related: Holidays: Fighting Fraud

• Iconic War Story

  Did WWI really stop for a Christmas Day soccer game?

  

  We asked historians if there's evidence that British and German soldiers stopped fighting to play soccer during a Christmas truce

• Evolving Tech

  Evolution of the phone: From the first call to the next frontier

  

  A look at how the telephone has changed over the years, and how it's changed us

  • Read: Smaller, smarter: The power grid evolves to fuel the future
  • Related: Evolving Technology

• Challenge Academy

  Troubled teens' transformation moves parents to tears

  

  Months of hard work at the Youth Challenge Academy have paid off in a way few would have imagined

  • Related: A Last Second Chance

• Holiday Finances

  Saving money with holiday shopping apps

  

  Are you behind on your holiday shopping? Use your phone and shopping apps to score last-minute deals

  • Read: How to stop stressing over holiday spending
  • Related: Your Holiday Financial Guide

• Syria In Crisis

  Inside Homs

  

  Eyewitness accounts and video from inside the besieged city of Homs offer a rare and disturbing window into the cruel realities of the Syrian civil war

  • Read: Raw reporting from the Syrian civil war
  • Related: Syria Crisis

• Paying Attention

  Mindfulness

  

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  Anderson Cooper reports on what it's like to try to achieve "mindfulness," a self-awareness scientists say is very healthy, but rarely achieved in today's world of digital distractions

  • Read: The newly mindful Anderson Cooper

• Mental Health

  Denied

  

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  When insurance companies deny the mentally ill the treatment their doctors prescribe, seriously ill people are often discharged, and can be a danger to themselves or others

• Bizarre Courtroom Outburst

  The two faces of Todd Winkler

  

  A former jet fighter pilot with a secret, dark past kills his wife -- but swears it wasn't murder

  • Watch: Suspect's bizarre outburst stuns courtroom
  • Photos: Todd Winkler: The case against man who killed wife with scissors

• The Living Past

  ​Preserving our nation's film heritage

  

  Built in a former bomb shelter, the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center stores 1.4M films, TV and video recordings that tell America's story

  • Photos: Lost films

Latest News

• December 18 1:31 AM

  About 12 pedestrians struck in L.A. County hit-and-run

  

  At least one of them, 81, died; vehicle kept on going, then hit another vehicle head-on, police say
• December 17 5:16 PM

  Sony Pictures cancels release of "The Interview" in wake of hacker threats

  

  The move comes after numerous theater chains in North America dropped the film in wake of threatened terrorist attacks
  • Read: Stars react to Sony scrapping "The Interview" release
  • Read: Chicago film critic slams Sony for pulling "The Interview"
• December 17 7:36 PM

  Russia's future with Cuba uncertain after new U.S.-Cuba policy

  

  America's new relationship with Cuba could complicate the island nation's ties with Russia

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  Cuba today

• December 17 11:04 PM

  ​Eric Garner case: New York pushes for settlement in chokehold death

  

  "There are advantages of settling early and not going to court," city comptroller says of family's $75 million civil rights claim
  • In ERIC GARNER CASE
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• December 17 11:27 PM

  Will the U.S.-Cuba policy shift mean access to Cuban cigars?

  

  Wednesday's move to normalize relations with the island means Americans may soon have access to the banned stogies
• December 17 9:56 PM

  Former NFL players may appeal after painkillers lawsuit dismissed

  

  Judge rules collective bargaining agreement covers claims by 1,300 players that they were damaged by teams routinely dispensing painkillers
  • Read: $75M settlement of head injury suit vs. NCAA rejected
• December 17 5:58 PM

  Is Jeb Bush ready to run?

  

  John Dickerson: Bush's early moves are smart, but does he have the temperament for the modern campaign?
• December 17 5:05 PM

  The Fed powers a monster rally on Wall Street

  

  Stocks enjoyed their biggest one-day gains of the year as the Fed stuck to its interest rate plan and oil prices rebounded a bit
  • Read: Fed to be "patient" in hiking interest rates
• December 17 5:51 PM

  Colorado to spend millions on medical marijuana research

  

  State at the forefront of legalized pot will fund studies to look at marijuana's potential health benefits
• December 17 9:29 PM

  N.Y. woman: Police should have arrested DWI son before deadly crash

  

  Long Island mother says officers brought her son home after drunk driving crash, shortly before he got into second accident and died
• December 17 6:09 PM

  Arctic temperatures rising twice as fast as those in rest of world

  

  Report's findings bode well for algae worldwide, less so for polar bears
• December 17 3:47 PM

  Montana man convicted in German exchange student's death

  

  A man who shot and killed a German exchange student caught trespassing in his garage was convicted of deliberate homicide
• December 17 4:37 PM

  "Person of interest" in custody after TV meteorologist shot

  

  Authorities say they have taken a "person of interest" into custody in connection with the shooting of a Central Texas television meteorologist
• December 17 4:56 PM

  ​Rikers Island guard convicted in NYC inmate's 2012 death

  

  Guards testified captain refused to call for help after inmate swallowed toxic substance: "Don't bother me unless someone is dead"
• December 17 9:26 PM

  Southern California hit with intense storms

  

  Lightning, snow, heavy downpours and mudslides were all part of the fierce weather people in Los Angeles and nearby counties dealt with

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  National Film Registry adds movies

• December 17 10:14 PM

  Marvel editor on black Captain America, other diverse characters

  

  Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso talks with CBSN about some of the ways the company is transforming its iconic superheroes
• December 17 2:51 PM

  S.C. boy executed for 1944 murder is exonerated

  

  Judge calls trial, execution of black teen George Stinney, Jr. for beating deaths of two white girls a "truly unfortunate episode in our history"
• December 17 1:48 PM

  New theory behind 1962 Alcatraz prison break

  

  Three men escaped from an un-escapable prison and were largely assumed dead, but now scientists think the inmates could have floated to their freedom
• December 17 4:43 PM

  ​See Navy's new underwater shark drone

  

  If Jaws were a robot that worked for the U.S. military, this is what it would look like

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  City lights from space

• December 17 12:29 PM

  Richard C. Hottelet, the last living member of the famed CBS News "Murrow's Boys," dies at 97

  

  World War II radio reports for CBS News under the direction of Edward R. Murrow set the standard for broadcast journalism
• December 17 2:02 PM

  Missing 1927 Walt Disney Christmas film discovered in Norway

  

  ​An old Disney film, featuring Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, has been discovered just in time for the holidays