Archives: 2018

Right-wing activists Patriot Prayer, antifa clash at Portland protests

  Patriot Prayer members arrive in Portland on Saturday, June 30, 2018. KOIN PORTLAND, Ore. — Two opposing protest groups — Patriot Prayer and antifa —  clashed in downtown Portland Saturday, CBS Portland affiliate KOIN reports. Portland police said failure to leave the area could leave to arrests, calling the demonstration a riot. More than 100 members of Patriot Prayer group…

Baby boom at Texas hospital: 48 babies born in 41 hours

FORT WORTH — The nursery at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth has never been as full as it has in the last 41 hours. And the halls have never been so busy. Since June 26, 48 babies were born in less than 2 days, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth reports. That’s an average of more…

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Silicon Valley among the many areas with backyard chicken coops

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Trump will announce SCOTUS nominee on July 9

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Blistering heat wave hits the East Coast and Midwest

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Half a million acres burned in western wildfires

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Neighbors call police on 12-year-old who mowed the wrong lawn

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Protesters flood U.S. cities to fight Trump immigration policy

WASHINGTON — They wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: “No more children in cages,” and “What’s next? Concentration Camps?” In major cities and tiny towns, hundreds of thousands of marchers gathered Saturday across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, in the latest act of mass…

Nationwide rallies also call to abolish ICE

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“CBS Evening News” headlines for Saturday, June 30, 2018

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Neighbor calls police on boy cutting grass in Ohio

Facebook video shows the moment police arrived at the scene after a neighbor called police on a 12-year-old cutting grass in Ohio.  Lucille Holt/Facebook Business is booming for a 12-year-old who owns his own lawn cutting business in Maple Heights, Ohio. But the boost comes after someone called the cops on him while he was moving lawns in the city,…

ICE gets new acting director

Ronald Vitiello  John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new acting director, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Saturday. Ronald D. Vitiello, who has been serving as the acting deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is now ICE’s acting director and deputy director. Vitiello replaces Thomas Homan, who announced in…

Storms Continue Through the Week

SATURDAY NIGHT: Warm with lows in the low 70s. An overnight storm is possible, but most staying dry.  Look for light winds out of the north 3-7 mph. SUNDAY: Hot and humid with scattered to numerous thunderstorms each day.  Better chances appear to be in the Golden Triangle and West Alabama, but storms are expected area-wide.  Highs in the low to mid 90s, with…

Trump contradicts himself on immigration

President Trump on Saturday claimed he never pushed congressional Republicans to pass either of the two immigration bills the House considered in recent days. But only three days earlier, he urged Republicans to pass a GOP compromise bill on immigration in an all-caps tweet.  The Republicans’ bill failed Wednesday, with more than 100 Republicans voting against it.  “I never pushed…

Virginia GOP chairman announces resignation

John Whitbeck, the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, is resigning after more than three years in his post. His resignation is effective July 21.  Neither Whitbeck’s statement, nor the Virginia GOP, offered an explanation for the resignation. His departure comes just weeks after Corey Stewart, the controversial Republican who has pushed the Confederate flag, won the GOP primary….

U.S. ambassador to Estonia says he's resigning over Trump comments

The U.S. ambassador to Estonia has resigned over frustrations with President Trump’s comments about the European Union and his treatment of Washington’s European allies. In a private Facebook message posted Friday, James D. Melville wrote: “For the President to say EU was ‘set up to take advantage of the United States, to attack our piggy bank,’ or that ‘NATO is…

Signs from protests in cities across U.S. over immigration policy

Thousands of protesters across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, marched Saturday to demand President Donald Trump’s administration reunite the divided families. More than 700 planned marches were expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people across the country under the banner “Families Belong Together.” Here is a look at some of the demonstrations…

Thousands protest Trump immigration policies across U.S.– live updates

​Over 15,000 attend NYC rallies More than 15,000 people turned out to the protests in New York City, CBS News correspondent Kenneth Craig reports. Thousands of people began showing up since 10 a.m. Saturday morning to protest family separations. Protesters marched from the courthouse in downtown Manhattan and made their way across the Brooklyn Bridge to join another rally in…

Trump on Democrats calling to abolish ICE: “I love that issue”

President Trump said he hopes that Democrats who are calling to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “keep thinking about it.” “Because they’re going to get beaten so badly,” he said. Mr. Trump made the comments to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview that will air on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Features” with Maria Bartiromo at 10…

With 2020 approaching, some Democrats call to “abolish ICE”

ATLANTA — Several prominent Democrats who are mulling a bid for the White House in 2020 have sought to bolster their progressive credentials by calling for major changes to immigration enforcement, with some pressing for the outright abolition of the federal government’s chief immigration enforcement agency. President Trump responded on Twitter Saturday that it will “never happen!” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand…