Federal regulators are considering a shift away from rules requiring a 20 percent down payment for government-backed home loans. Rising mortgage rates and fewer foreclosed properties selling at bargain prices have slowed the steep recovery in the housing market. Vicente Arenas reports.
President Barack Obama’s plan to remove all combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2016 hinges on the next Afghan president signing a security agreement this summer. Without the agreement, all U.S. troops would come home by end of the year. Major Garrett reports.
The outcome of Egypt's presidential election has been known from the start, with Abdul Fattah al-Sisi expected to win a landslide victory. But the big surprise is that there are no lines at polling stations, a development one opposition leader says is revealing. Clarissa Ward reports.
A new batch of severe weather is moving through the South, where flood watches and warnings are in place from Texas to Louisiana. In North Dakota, residents are cleaning up from a tornado that struck with little warning and was captured on video by oil workers as it roared toward their camp. Additional video provided by Ian Livingston. Manuel Bojorquez reports.
It was a day of hugs and tears around the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. Students visited a memorial in front of the Tri Delta sorority, where two women were killed in Friday's shooting rampage, while the college’s student body president is set to address her fellow students at a planned memorial service. Danielle Nottingham reports.
Communities across the country are struggling to control the heroin epidemic and the spike in deadly overdoses. One tool that's gaining ground with police departments is an emergency antidote that's already saving hundreds of lives. And, Alison Harmelin reports, New York City is signing on.
A group of doctors and medical experts have created a 3-D simulation of the human heart. They say it will revolutionize the way doctors diagnosis cardiac conditions and offer a way to personalize heart devices.
CBS News Homeland Security Correspondent Bob Orr and CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate discuss the president’s foreign policy ahead of his commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Kelly Wang and Johnny Chen, parents of George Chen - one of the victims of Elliot Rodger's shooting spree in Isla Vista, California - added their names in chalk to the memorial that stands in honor of their son and his friends James Hong and David Wong and spoke about their grief.
CBS News correspondent David Martin lays out the questions President Obama faces as he nears a decision to authorize a plan to train Syrian rebels.
As security conditions in Tripoli grow ever more alarming, CBS News correspondent David Martin reports, the United States is positioning troops to quickly evacuate Americans if necessary.
The president announced the United States’ combat mission in Afghanistan will be over by the end of 2014.
President Obama said he will reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 9,800 at the end of 2014; and that all combat troops will be out of the country by the end of 2016.
The president says U.S. military presence will be cut to 9,800 troops after this year, with a full withdrawal to occur by end of 2016.
The president announced the United States’ combat mission in Afghanistan will be over by the end of 2014.
The president welcomed students ages 6 to 19 who are excelling in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
The president during this year’s White House science fair placed special emphasis on girls and women who’ve excelled in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
CBS News Homeland Security Correspondent Bob Orr and CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate discuss the Nigerian military’s options for rescuing more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.
A Pennsylvania couple fought to be parents with the use of in vitro fertilization. Their baby was delivered 12 weeks early and weighed 13-ounces. Now, as WHP-TV's Donna Kirker-Morgan reports, "Warrior" is over five months old, weighs over seven pounds and is getting ready to go home.
If you've got 13 hours to kill you can watch the world's longest TV commercial: Arby's shows you every single minute of how it slow cooks the brisket for its new sandwich. The commercial aired this weekend on a station in Minnesota and snagged the Guinness world record for longest commercial. Jill Wagner has that story and more MoneyWatch headlines.
A RV park south of Watford City was destroyed yesterday when a dangerous tornado touched ground. All 15 RVs were destroyed and nine people were injured. Eyewitnesses describe the terror and recovery efforts.
More than 5,000 ships stormed France's Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944, to free Europe from the Nazis. Hundreds of those ships sank and created one of the largest underwater archeological sites, and now WWII veterans who fought at Normandy are returning to the site. Doug Hamilton, producer, director and writer behind the NOVA/PBS special talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about what he found.
President Obama acknowledged the Veterans Hospital scandal as he honored the nation's fallen heroes. Anthony Mason reports.
A new U.S. Custom "preclearance" facility in Abu Dhabi has riled representatives of major American air carriers because they believe the money would be better spent domestically. Peter Greenberg reports.
A 19-year-old is facing criminal charges after causing a 3-car crash inside a highway tunnel. Police say Daniel Calhon passed out at the wheel because he was holding his breath. Anthony Mason reports.
