National: Breaking US News from CBS News

Cops: Stepmom who scalded boy charged with murder
Police say a four-year-old Ohio boy died after his stepmother put him in 130-degree water for at least 20 minutes as punishment

Are you an “approval junkie”?
According to Faith Salie, developing confidence without seeking validation from others was an uphill battle

Man killed jumping out of ambulance, running on highway
Police say the patient bolted across five lanes of traffic before being killed, shutting down one of metro Atlanta’s busiest interstates

Female NBA union chief breaks basketball’s glass ceiling
The NBA brought in more than $5 billion in revenue last season, a more than 60 percent jump over the past decade

AP: Pentagon misled Congress on sexual assaults
Debate over stripping senior officers of their responsibilities to decide whether to prosecute sexual assault cases continues in D.C.

Secretive Harvard club leader resigns after sex assault comments
Charlie Storey, president of Boston’s Harpoon Brewery, apologized twice for his initial defense of keeping women out of the 225-year-old club

Ex-cop plans to sue over conviction in 1957 killing of girl
Jack McCullough, convicted of killing a little girl in Illinois more than half a century after the crime, was released on Friday

Tiger to stay at Florida zoo after zookeeper’s death
The Palm Beach Zoo says it doesn’t blame the male Malayan tiger – one of only 250 in the world – for killing Stacey Konwiser

Free food for paying your taxes; another drop in oil prices; and Amazon’s new Prime deal: #CBSNBusiness headlines
It’s Tax Day — and taxpayers can find discounts and even free food at certain chains

S.C. inmate convicted in killing seeks sex change
The corrections department has rejected a request from 44-year-old Edmonds Tennent Brown IV, who now uses the name Katheryn Brown

NBA union chief: “I have 450 kids”
She’s only five-foot-five, but Michele Roberts makes big decisions for NBA players

“Blackmail”: Obama under pressure to declassify secret 9/11 report
Outraged families of 9/11 victims want president to back legislation allowing them to sue the Saudi government over possible links to hijackers

Torrential rain, severe flooding bombard Texas
A spring storm is hammering large areas of the country’s mid-section

Storms bring “life-threatening” flooding to Texas
Heavy rain in wide swath of Texas prompts some high-water rescues in the Austin area

This Morning from CBS News, April 18, 2016
Ecuador struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, “60 Minutes” finds some U.S. insurers are cheating, and SCOTUS tackles immigration reform

Heavy security in Boston as 2016 marathon begins
An estimated one million people are expected to show up

9/11 victims’ families pressure Obama to allow lawsuits against Saudis
The controversy picked up new urgency after “60 Minutes” investigated possible links between Saudi officials and 9/11 hijackers

Will a woman’s face be on $20 bill instead of $10?
Controversy behind the agency’s original plan to redesign the $10 bill got a redesign of its own

4/17: Hundreds killed by massive earthquake in Ecuador; Restaurant staffs kitchen with refugees
The full episode of the CBS Evening News from the April 17, 2016 edition

LAPD task force aims to put the brakes on street racing
Police in Los Angeles are dedicating at least a dozen officers with the sole task of stopping races before they start

Thousands of voters, celebrities, register to wrong political party
Survey found nearly 3 of 4 people did not realize they had enrolled in California political party that opposes abortion rights and same sex marriage

Oldest Sumatran tiger in captivity euthanized at Honolulu Zoo
Djelita, a female Sumatran tiger, came to the Honolulu Zoo from the San Diego Wild Animal Park in 1992

Philadelphia man charged in fatal shooting of 4-year-old girl
Investigators initially said the girl was shot by her 5-year-old sibling and they were searching for the child’s father or stepfather

UC Davis’ pepper-spray PR appears to backfire badly
Many upset over news UC paid more than $175,000 to repair online image after campus police pepper-sprayed protesters in 2011

Central U.S. sees heavy snow and rain
Severe weather is making a run across the country with the Rockies seeing heavy snowfall and the Central Plains seeing major flooding. Barry Peterson has more

Who will see severe weather in the U.S. next?
WVZT meteorologist Eric Fisher forecasts where those severe storms could make an impact next

Boston police ready for everything on eve of marathon
Runners and spectators at Monday’s Boston Marathon will see 5,000 police officers lining the route

LAPD begins new task force to stop street racing
Los Angeles police officers say they’ve seen an uptick in car crashes attributed to street racing

Bank regulators give failing grades to five of country’s biggest banks
Federal regulators judging bank contingency plans for bankruptcy gave failing grades this week to five of the country’s biggest financial institutions

Restaurant staffs kitchen with refugees
A business is giving asylum seekers in New York the opportunity to connect through a universal language: food

LAPD task force aims to put the breaks on street racing
Police in Los Angeles are dedicating at least a dozen officers with the sole task of stopping races before they start

Search ends for 2 teens swept to sea by wave at San Francisco beach
Teens were carried out to sea after they succumbed to a large wave that separated them from three of their friends

University in N.Y. mistakenly sends 5,000 students acceptance emails
University at Buffalo says the mistaken email was sent to students whose applications hadn’t been fully reviewed

04/17: Sanders, Priebus, Fauci
With the New York primaries on Tuesday, “Face the Nation” brings you the latest from the campaign trail

FTN: Page 2
Missed the second half of the show? The latest on the upcoming New York presidential primary.

Ex-Syracuse football player accused of stabbing two current ones
Naesean Howard, 20, knew his victims, police say, so the school has suspended him “indefinitely”

Why Bernie Sanders needs to win New York to have a chance
Bernie Sanders has won a handful of states in the past month, but he is still far behind rival Hillary Clinton in delegates

Pa. becomes 24th state with legal medical marijuana
Citing opioid abuse, Gov. Tom Wolf says medical marijuana “is the healer,” as a jubilant crowd cheers bill’s signing

The truth about the Tooth Fairy
Charles Osgood addresses viewers’ comments over a recent segment in which comedian Jim Gaffigan took issue with the Tooth Fairy

Action star Eric Bana may be the funniest guy in the room
Australian Eric Bana likes being a working actor in Hollywood

The game of Quidditch takes flight
A championship tournament underway this weekend has its origin in the magical of world where Harry Potter resides

Crooked cop pairs up with man he framed
Jameel McGee and former police officer Andrew Collins’ lives became intertwined when Collins put McGee in jail for a crime he didn’t commit

Approval junkies: Always looking for validation
Many people perform actions for approval

On The Trail: Biscayne National Park
Contuning his year-long exploration of America’s National Parks, Conor Knighton’s latest destination is Biscayne National Park

Kathy Bates beats the odds, on screen and in real life
She became a star, at age 42, with her Oscar-winning role in “Misery.”

Confessions of an approval junkie
Faith Salie says there are good reasons why you SHOULD care too much about getting affirmation from others

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