Archives: 2018

Live: White House briefing June 14, 2018 — live stream

How to watch today’s White House press briefing live: Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2018 Time: 2:30 p.m. ET Who: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Online: Watch live stream on CBSN, or in the player above Potential briefing topics: Sarah Sanders, Raj Shah leaving: Sanders takes the podium for the first time after CBS News’ Jaqueline Alemany reported that she, along with principal deputy…

Police: Teen found in abandoned house died during “Russian roulette”

LAS VEGAS — A teenager found dead in an abandoned house in a Las Vegas suburb last week was killed while playing “Russian roulette,” investigators have concluded. Las Vegas resident Matthew Minkler, 17, was with two other teenagers when the gun went off Friday, according to a probable cause report obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The two other teenagers, Jaiden Caruso,…

Home of giant sequoia trees reopens to public

The home of some of the world’s largest and oldest sequoia trees will re-open to the public Friday for the first time in three years. Some of the trees in Yosemite National Park’s Mariposa Grove have been growing for close to 2,000 years – some of the oldest living things on earth. But after decades of visitors and their cars,…

Einstein’s diaries from 1920s reveal racist views, “unpleasant” comments

  Physicist Albert Einstein delivers a lecture at the offices of the Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, Calif., in 1930. Getty Albert Einstein’s travel diaries from the early 1920s include racist and xenophobic remarks, according to multiple reports. The writings record his experiences in the Middle East and Asia between October 1922 and March the following year. He makes sweeping…

Man delivers pizza to immigrants found in truck

After one Texas man saw the news that more than 50 undocumented immigrants found in the back of a semi-truck Tuesday night were left waiting without food, he decided to help by bringing them a hot meal. Armando Colunga, a tow-truck driver on San Antonio’s east side,  tells CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS that he didn’t know all the details of…