The Republican National Committee raised $14.2 million in July — the most it has ever raised in that month in a non-presidential year — bringing its total haul for the cycle to $227.2 million. Despite historic odds and voter enthusiasm favoring Democrats, the RNC is finding record-setting support among its donors, according to numbers shared first with CBS News. The…
Emily Graslie comes alive talking about dead things. As the star of her own YouTube channel, “The Brain Scoop,” the 29-year-old is part comedian and part science tutor. Her warm and witty delivery turns the most unappealing topics into entertaining science lessons, and her channel as almost half-a-million subscribers. She also holds one of the coolest job titles: chief curiosity…
The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally for the first amendment in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. The Satanic Temple wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds as a symbol for religious freedom after a monument of the Biblical Ten Commandments was installed in 2017. Hannah Grabenstein / AP LITTLE…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has worked to portray himself as a major antagonist to President Trump, offered an alternative to the president’s famous campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” at a bill signing Wednesday. “We are not going to make America great again. It was never that great,” he said. The audience, which was there to watch Cuomo…
You know that Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” is one of the greatest Soul tracks of all time. You might not know the loaded gender history behind its lyrics. Or that Otis Redding actually wrote and released the song first. Or that, by flipping the song on its head, Franklin gracefully pulled off one of the most important pop music reinventions in…
Some Chicago residents are outraged by a police operation that deployed a so-called “bait truck” to nab thieves in the city’s Englewood neighborhood last week. Angry residents allege police from a major railroad line left tractor trailers filled with expensive merchandise to lure people into stealing, but police say the operation was necessary to bust thieves who have broken into…
President Trump is in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday night to stump for GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis, who is running for governor. DeSantis has been a vocal advocate of Mr. Trump and his policies, as well as a vocal critic of the Justice Department and intelligence agencies. Florida’s primary is Aug. 28. It remains to be seen how much Mr. Trump will…
Failed Republican senate candidate Roy Moore is the latest target of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new satirical TV show “Who is America?”
“There are a lot of social injustices occurring in our communities, and the problem needs to be rectified,” he said.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow aired a segment Tuesday night in which she claimed the White House misleadingly edited the official U.S. government transcript and video of President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press conference in Helsinki, Finland
At least 1.2 million people watched the Adventure Park’s YouTube stream of April’s 2017 delivery.
Jeanine Pirro of FOX News makes remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland, February 23, 2017. Mike Theiler / AFP/Getty Images Fox News host Jeanine Pirro said her argument with “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg was no less fierce off camera. Pirro, who was a guest on “The View” on Thursday, claimed Goldberg kicked…
Video of two toddlers in Savage, Minnesota, playing an unconventional game of catch has gone viral online. The boys aren’t playing catch with each other, but instead they’re seen throwing a ball over their neighbor’s fence. Normally that would mean it’s game over and your ball is lost. But in these videos, the neighbor’s dog is on the other side…
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During the pursuit, the two suspects fired nearly three dozen rounds out of their vehicle at the officers, police said.
It’s Croatia against France in today’s final round of the World Cup in Russia. “The Beautiful Game,” is what soccer fans call it. And as Jim Axelrod now tells us, you don’t have to travel far to find them: If you didn’t know any better, watching crazed fans packing bars to yell at TV screens showing soccer games, you might…
An image capture from a body camera video from the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office, via KLPZ/ParkerLiveOnline, shows Arizona state Rep. Paul Mosley during a traffic stop outside Parker, Arizona, on March 27, 2018. La Paz County Sheriff’s Office/KLPZ/ParkerLiveOnline via AP PHOENIX — An Arizona state lawmaker was seen telling a sheriff’s deputy he sometimes drives as fast as 130…
COVER STORY: Adolescence + social media = 😢The new dramedy “Eighth Grade,” about a painfully shy 13-year old stumbling through her last week of middle school, is the first film for writer-director Bo Burnham and for its young star, Elsie Fisher. But there’s more to the movie than the usual teen angst and acne. There’s the loneliness that, research tells…
CBS News’ Erin Donaghue and David Begnaud contributed to this report. Authorities have shed light on a police officer who resigned this week amid an investigation into his response to a woman who said she was being harassed in a Chicago forest preserve for wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rican flag. Arnold Randall, general superintendent of the Forest Preserve…
Former President Barack Obama stars in a promotional video against gerrymandering released Wednesday by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), an organization formed by former Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder’s group aims to fight partisan redistricting. In the nearly three-minute video, Obama advocates for “protecting” democracy through “rethinking the way we draw our congressional districts.” President Obama on Gerrymandering, Redistricting,…
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the head of U.S. intelligence to assess whether North Korea’s posture and actions regarding denuclearization match up with the Trump administration’s claims. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Virginia, wrote to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Thursday, asking him to answer a number of questions related to North…
Jonathan Crenshaw’s mugshot. A homeless artist in Miami Beach who has no arms managed to stab a tourist with a pair a scissors, police said. Jonathan Crenshaw, who is known in the touristy South Beach area for painting with his feet on the streets, allegedly attacked a visitor from Chicago after midnight on Tuesday. Crenshaw and the tourist, Cesar…
Authorities say former UCLA basketball player Billy Knight has died in Phoenix. One of Knight’s last acts appears to be posting a message to YouTube in which he said that he lived “a life of sin,” was hearing voices and that his time was up.
Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, citing the environmental threat to oceans. The company becomes the largest food and beverage company to do so as calls to cut waste globally grow louder. Plastic straws have become one of the biggest targets. Viral videos – including one depicting researchers extracting a plastic straw from…