“Tears were running down my face,” El-Fadel Arbab told CBS News of his joyous reunion with his wife and two young sons. “I just wanted to cry from all the happiness.” After 332 anxious days brought on by the war that has now raged in Sudan for a year, the Sudanese-American’s worry, work, and wait … Read more
A college student was found dead in a parking lot Sunday near the Frank J. Woods Bridge in Topsham, Maine, according to officials. Topsham Police said the victim was a 20-year-old woman from California who was attending Bowdoin College. Police did not release the woman’s name, but Bowdoin College President Safa Zaki released a statement … Read more
For decades, Cecile Thornton had little motivation to speak French. Born into the minority francophone community in Lewiston, Maine, she says she and her family were often the target of ridicule. “I was ashamed of my francophone roots,” she recalled in a recent phone interview in French. “There were a lot of people who laughed … Read more
Maine gunman Robert Card told police he was “capable” of doing “something” during a welfare check three months before he gunned down 18 people inside a bar and bowling alley in the state’s deadliest mass shooting to date. The cryptic remarks came as New York State troopers enforced a directive to bring Card to counseling … Read more
Norma Anderson traces her long involvement in Colorado politics from her roots as a “Love girl” in the 1960s, working on the campaign of Republican Gov. John Arthur Love, to winning the post of Republican majority leader of the state Senate in the 2000s. Now 91, she says with a laugh that her political journey … Read more
Trump ballot eligibility challenge in Maine Maine court faces deadline on Trump ballot eligibility 08:42 Maine’s top court Wednesday evening declined to weigh in on whether former President Donald Trump can stay on the state’s ballot, keeping intact a judge’s decision that the U.S. Supreme Court must first rule on a similar case in Colorado. … Read more
Legal expert on Trump ballot challenges Legal expert on Trump ballot challenges in Maine, Colorado 05:31 Washington — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows asked the state’s highest court to review her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot, seeking its intervention after a Maine superior court judge … Read more
Governors from New York to Louisiana declared states of emergency ahead of predicted snow and bone-chilling temperatures. Signs along US Highway 75, looking south from F Street, advise against travel due to snow, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP) St. Louis: Brutally cold weather could prove a deadly challenge … Read more
Former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a ruling by Maine’s Democratic secretary of state barring him from the ballot over his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. He was expected to also ask the US Supreme Court to rule on his eligibility to return to the presidency in … Read more
What happened on the 2024 campaign trail over the holidays – CBS News Watch CBS News Nikki Haley didn’t mention slavery when reflecting on the cause of the Civil War, Donald Trump was ruled ineligible for the ballot in Maine and Ron DeSantis seems to have staked his entire campaign in Iowa. CBS News campaign … Read more
