A city councilwoman in California is fighting back against what she says is an extortion attempt to shame her on the internet. Sonoma City Councilwoman Rachel Hundley provided screengrabs to CBS News from a website featuring pictures of her she says was emailed to her. The sender threatened to make the website public to harm her image unless she dropped…
Last Updated Aug 30, 2018 6:07 PM EDT The FBI has released a new fitness app for people who want to train to be an agent — or just want to see if they could be, even if they don’t want to join the intelligence agency. “Do you have what it takes?” asks the FBI’s website, where users can download…
Guest Host: Lee Cowan COVER STORY: The growing acceptance of autism in the workplaceNearly three years ago, after tech giant Microsoft announced that it was starting a pilot program to hire autistic workers, they received more than 700 resumes within a few weeks. German software maker SAP has instituted a program to bring people with autism into its workforce,…
Here’s a look at the week ahead on our “Sunday Morning” Calendar: On Monday, the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament begins in Flushing Meadows, New York. American Sloane Stephens and Spaniard Rafael Nadal defend their titles. Tuesday, an early taste of fall: Starbucks launches its annual Pumpkin Spice Latte. Wednesday sees the…
Last week, Natasha Aponte gained national attention as the woman who tricked thousands of men on Tinder. Aponte used the dating app to invite men to meet her in New York City’s Union Square last Saturday. When they all got there at the same time, Aponte revealed that they were actually invited to take part in her public dating competition….
DENVER — Christopher Watts, who is charged with killing his family and dumping their bodies at an oil worksite, taped a video presentation six years ago about saving or abandoning relationships. A YouTube video posted in April 2012 shows Watts giving a PowerPoint presentation that he titled, “Communication Speech, Relationship Deterioration and Repair.” He opened the presentation by saying it…
“Get some popcorn,” Twitter user @bvdhai tweeted on Sunday. What followed was a Twitter thread chronicling his odd Tinder interaction and the calamity that ensued when he showed up for a “date.” The story he told was so cinematic, some may think it’s fictional. But this Tinder tale is real — and there are dozens of other men who can…
A police video from Sacramento shows a swerving police cruiser striking a 16-year-old boy on a sidewalk, sending him into the air and onto the hood of the car. CBS Sacramento reports the teen was riding his bike without a light on the night of July 22. An officer attempted to stop him, but the teen took off running and…
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…