Amazon introduced it's new delivery program "Prime Now." The idea is that consumers can have packages within an hour. Right now the program is only available in certain parts of New York, but Amazon says it will expand next year. CNET senior editor Dan Ackerman tells CBSN about the pilot program.
In 2011 France agreed to make two Mistral navy ships for Russia, but with increased military tension and Russia's involvement with the Ukraine crisis, France is backing out of the deal.
Each year, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference to address the concerns of the Russian people. This year's event ran four hours and Putin covered topics ranging from the "growing" Russian economy, to his love life.
Movie fans and filmmakers are condemning Sony's decision to shelve "The Interview," starring James Franco and Seth Rogen, as "un-American." Sony decided to not release the film after hackers made threats to theaters and moviegoers. John Blackstone reports.
When America put signs up ridiculing communism in Cuba, the island's government fought back to block them from sight. Now, as Scott Pelley reports, the old propaganda battles seems to no longer matter.
A storied era in broadcast journalism has come to an end. Former CBS News correspondent Richard C. Hottelet died yesterday. He was 97.
Lower oil prices are buoying Louisiana's fishermen, but putting the squeeze on others. Manuel Bojorquez reports on the threat to jobs in the state's oil industry.
Russia's economy is in free-fall, but you wouldn't know it listening to President Vladimir Putin. As Charlie D'Agata reports from Moscow, Putin used his end of the year press conference Thursday to defend himself and attack the west.
The White House is now weighing its response to the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. The federal investigation suggests that North Korea's digital fingerprints are on the computer breach. Bob Orr reports.
If Congress were to lift the trade embargo, businesses will be ready to take advantage of it. Vicente Arenas reports from Miami, where the tourism industry is especially eager to reap the benefits of a new relationship with Cuba.
Lawmakers are gearing up for a fight over the future of the filibuster as Democrats seek to advance voting legislation that would overhaul U.S. election law. CBS News White House reporter Bo Erickson and Politico congressional correspondent Olivia Beavers join CBSN's Lana Zak with more.
Opening arguments for the former Minneapolis police officer involved in George Floyd's death begin Monday. Derek Chauvin faces three charges, including second-degree murder. In anticipation of widespread protests, National Guard troops have been activated around the courthouse. Brandt Williams, a criminal justice and public safety correspondent for Minnesota Public Radio, joins CBSN's Lana Zak with a preview.
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully transplanted both lungs on a COVID-19 patient using them from a donor who previously recovered from the virus. Dr. Samuel Kim, a thoracic surgeon at Northwestern Medicine involved in that procedure, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss one of the first-known "COVID to COVID" double-lung transplants.
Only Congress can lift the trade embargo it imposed in 1960, but some prominent members of Congress said Thursday they'll try to keep that from happening. Nancy Cordes reports.
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley spoke with Cubans in Havana about the impact of America's new stance on their country. One Cuban told Pelley living for decades under the U.S. embargo makes it hard to imagine a different future.
A review concluded that the Secret Service is in dire need of a complete "top-to-bottom" overhaul of the agency. Earlier this year, the Secret Service experienced White House security snafus that led to the resignation of then-Secret Service Director Julia Pierson. CBS News' Senior White House correspondent Bill Plante joins CBSN with the details.
"Serial," the wildly popular podcast averaging more than a million downloads an episode, has posted the finale to its first season.
CBS News Homeland Security Correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate about how the drop in oil prices is affecting Russia's economy, and whether a downturn could prompt political changes in that country.
Details are still emerging, but the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is suspected of kidnapping more than 100 women and children in an attack on a remote Nigerian village. And as CBS News correspondent Debora Patta reports, questions still loom as to the whereabouts of more than 200 girls taken earlier this year.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn says he's proud of the U.S. for electing Barack Obama president. Watch Lesley Stahl's profile on Coburn this Sunday, Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.
In this July 2000 report, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone hears drivers complain about gas prices and reports on one politician's "unusual" solution.
Recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq have killed several senior ISIS military leaders, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin confirms. Martin joins CBSN from Washington D.C.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, voices support for President Obama's decision to normalize relations with Cuba, saying the decades-old U.S. embargo against Cuba "just hasn't worked."
It was a time when the worlds of movies, television and music were transformed by a creative explosion centered in Los Angeles. Ronald Brownstein, author of "Rock Me on the Water," talks with correspondent John Blackstone about the year Los Angeles transformed both entertainment and politics. Blackstone also talks with singer-songwriter Jackson Browne about creative collaborations in the mid-1970s that fostered a unique period in pop culture history.
Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in violence overnight after a grand jury declined to press charges against Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. CBS News Producer Jonathan Blakely was there overnight and joins "CBSN" with more from the scene.
