Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress and a central figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump, died on Thursday in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 68.

Widely considered Tupac Shakur’s (died in September , 1996 at 25) greatest single hit (the song sold seven million copies at the time of release) and one of the greatest hip-hop songs ever, “Dear Mama” was one of 25 songs that in 2010 were added to the National Recording Registry — a list of sound r

Toni Morrison is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Litera...

A special report from CBS News on the mass shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. August 3 and 4, 2019.

She was born 90 years ago born, 0n 12 June 1929.

The Hollywood mainstay died Monday at the age of 97 and is being remembered for her music and movies. She was an animal rights advocate. She was in more than 41 movies and was nominated for an Oscar. Doris Day Received the Cecil B. Demil Lifetime Achievement Award during the 1989 Golden Globes.

In 2019 the world will descend on New York City for the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall in conjunction with WorldPride. Be a part of history.

In this profile which originally aired on October 20, 1982, Charles Osgood meets the subway graffiti artist whose paintings took Soho by storm.

New Zealand Picks Up the Pieces After the Worst Massacre in Its History. New Zealand’s low-slung second city was cloaked in mourning, shops shuttered and residents zombified, struggling to comprehend the mass shooting that claimed 50 lives — the worst massacre in the history of this nation of five m

The lights of the Eiffel Tower were turned off in tribute to the victims of two mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand that left at least 49 people dead. "Our gun laws will change," Ardern promised in a news conference on Saturday morning, local time. She said the shooter had five guns, two s...