LOS ANGELES, California — Over 50 protestors occupied and marched down a section of the off-ramp on the 10 Freeway at La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles to voice their anger, disdain and unrest with a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury’s
The FBI arrested two alleged New Black Panther members on Thursday on outstanding warrants, they’re “accused of purchasing explosives they apparently planned to use during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, a law enforcement source told CBS News.” It’s believed they planned to
After CBS News aired a damaging report which suggested Attorney General Eric Holder had lied to Congress, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) press director worked overtime to suppress reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s story and called her CBS superiors to complain. Attkisson
A series of threatening messages over anonymous social media app Yik Yak resulted in Manhattan Beach’s Costa High School decision to close for two days as authorities investigated the threats. The first message was posted on Monday and read, “If
A University of Southern California alumnus was among those killed in a terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue this week, the man’s relative confirmed to CBS Los Angeles’ KCAL9. Rabbi Cary William Levine, 55, was killed in a synagogue in
Wednesday at the White House Press briefing CBS News’ chief White House correspondent Major Garrett grilled White House press secretary Josh Earnest over if President Barack Obama is “intentionally” timing his executive action amnesty right next to the upcoming government
President Obama will be speaking in primetime Thursday regarding his planned executive action on immigration reform, but the major network TV stations won’t be airing it. CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that ABC, NBC, and CBS will not televise Obama’s speech.
Fashion retailer Victoria’s Secret broke the news Monday that Taylor Swift will perform at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which airs next month on CBS. This will mark Swift’s second time headlining the event. This time, fellow musicians Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran,
On November 17, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) says his state must do everything it can to keep kids safe and he is “open to [a] discussion” on arming teachers. According to CBS Denver, Hickelooper said: “The ability of people to defend
More allegations of rape have hit comedian Bill Cosby, as another woman has come forward, this time stating the events took place more than 40-years-ago. Joan Tarshis posted an essay on Hollywood Elsewhere, via the Hollywood Reporter, alleging that Cosby
CBS News is careful to note that the State Department shut down its unclassified email system to repair “possible” damage from a “suspected” hacker attack, but those suspicions must run pretty deep to justify the measures that were taken: A
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned President Barack Obama to not make deals with Iran because, “Iran is not your ally. Iran is not your friend. Iran is your enemy,” who is developing intercontinental
The Hollywood Film Awards, televised live for the first time Friday night, got its first ever highlight reel clip when an apparently drunk Johnny Depp sauntered up to the microphone and delivered a slurry, curse-filled award presentation speech for the
As preciously corrupt and profitable as bundled cable and satellite is, ignoring the future, which is all about streaming video on demand (SVOD) is not the answer, and the Big Boys know it. Financial analysts see a “structural TV decline”
A pregnant 14-year-old U.S. citizen was wounded after Mexican police shot at a truck she was riding in. The shooting happened late Monday night in Tamaulipas, a Mexican state located near the U.S. border. According to CBS, the incident took
Celebrity chef Guy Fieri abruptly closed down the Sacramento location of his Johnny Garlic’s chain of restaurants earlier this week, leaving one man who was hired just three days earlier out of a job. The Sacramento Johnny Garlic’s was only
With all the ballots from last week’s election nearly counted, California’s politicians can return to Sacramento, secure that the state’s massive spending can continue. And with that spending comes thousands of job openings in state government. The capital city’s local
A 91-year-old Air Force veteran of World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam died over the weekend from injuries he suffered in a brutal home invasion October 28, CBS Sacramento reports. John Masson was allegedly beaten savagely in his
President Obama still loves his job, even though his party lost both houses of Congress in the recent mid-term elections. When asked by CBS’s Bob Schieffer about his reaction to the Democrat’s drubbing by Republicans, Obama admitted that “we got
NEW YORK (AP) — Lara Logan of CBS News is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for three weeks as a precaution after visiting an American-run hospital treating Ebola patients in Liberia for a “60 Minutes” report that aired
Francisco Garcia, 22, an Army serviceman who was discharged from Afghanistan two weeks ago, was fatally shot early Sunday morning in the middle of a party celebrating his homecoming, according to LAPD Detective Juan Santa and CBS Los Angeles. The
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz,” investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson told the story of CBS executives intentionally hiding a clip from the day after the Benghazi attacks with President Barack Obama refusing to admit Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Host Howard Kurtz asked, “Let’s
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” President Barack Obama explained to host Bob Schieffer while he loves campaigning, how he feels about his responsibilities to govern is a “different thing.” Obama said, “Here is one thing that I will say — that
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” President Barack Obama admitted he has learned his long touted policy of removing all U.S. troops from Iraq caused the threat to comes back. Obama said, “What we learned from the previous engagement in
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” journalist Bob Woodward said President Barack Obama is not listening, after watching host Bob Schieffer’s interview with the president about his party’s defeat in last week’s midterm elections. Woodward said, “Obama is selling what
Nearly one year to the day after the grizzly discovery of the remains of the McStay family, authorities in California announced on Friday that they have arrested Joseph McStay’s former business partner, Charles “Chase” Merritt. Merritt was charged with four
Former CBS Investigative Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson claimed that CBS didn’t air an interview between President Obama and Steve Kroft to protect the president’s claim that he called the attacks on the US Consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 terrorism during
A rapper named Big Paybacc was fatally shot inside of a McDonald’s fast food restaurant in Palmdale, California at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday Nov. 6, reports CBS News. Law enforcement told reporters that the victim, whose real name is Habeeb Ameer
This week Sharyl Attkisson released Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington. The book offers an insiders perspective on some of the major stories she has been involved in over the last
Following on the heels of HBOGO and the CBS entertainment network, comes the launch of CBSN, a streaming network, which is yet another nail in the coffin of bundled cable and satellite. Available today on the Web, as well as
Wednesday during his post-election press conference CBS News’ chief White House correspondent Major Garrett took on President Barack Obama over his insistence he will can only accept the senate version of immigration bill or go ahead with his executive amnesty.
In a déjà vu situation that recalls his first narrow victory in 2010, the campaign of Connecticut’s Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) has asked a Superior Court judge to extend voting hours until 9:00 p.m. in Hartford precincts that reportedly failed
Former CBS Investigative Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reported that CBS prevented her from doing interviews with “almost everybody” who requested her on Tuesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Attkisson said that after she divulged that public affairs officials within the US government had
Though Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill (D) said on Monday that her office was ready for a successful Election Day, on Tuesday morning, her office said it appears the City of Hartford did not distribute voting lists to the
Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” PBS host Tavis Smiley commented on the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate from Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes refusing to admitting she voted for President Barack Obama said, “Peter only denied Jesus three times.” Smiley
Since a spat in 2010 over the release of an interview, C-Span has not been granted another interview with the President, Vice President, First Lady or lower level White House officials. The incident is reminiscent of what happened with another
On Friday, former CBS Investigative Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson released video to Politico appearing to show someone else remotely deleting text from her computer back in 2012. Attkisson claims in her recently released book “Stonewalled,” that her computers, phones, and TVs
A Pulitzer prize winning reporter, formerly with the Washington Post, says the major media has mostly given the Obama administration a pass. In a story published yesterday at the Daily Beast, 2006 Pulitzer winning reporter Susan Schmidt agrees that this administration
Two Massachusetts high school sweethearts–Tito Velez and Jamie Pereira–are suspended from school after posing with Airsoft toy guns for a photograph at home before attending a homecoming dance last week. Pereira and Velez are students at Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School.
The results of a two new polls suggest that Ron Klain, the president’s Ebola PR Czar, has his work cut out for him. A CBS News poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support quarantines for citizens returning from Ebola-effected countries –