Month: September 2023

Meet the first master sommelier in professional sports – CBS News Watch CBS News Evan Goldstein is a first in the world of professional sports: He’s the master sommelier for the San Francisco Giants, responsible for the players, stadium employees and fans. He oversees all wine served at Oracle Park, and sources local wines from

House passes 45-day funding bill, sends it to Senate for final approval – CBS News Watch CBS News The House on Saturday passed a last-minute stopgap measure that would fund the government for 45-days and likely avoid a government shutdown. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it will need to be passed before

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Through all her years alongside Jonquel Jones, from becoming her legal guardian to coaching her in high school and college, Diane Richardson never needed to have a conversation like this before. Jones was struggling. Really struggling. The pressure of playing for a new team — following her offseason trade request from the

Undersea explorers used remote submersibles to capture the first footage of three WWII aircraft carriers sunk in the Pacific during the Battle of Midway.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy scored a shocking victory over the deep state Saturday by securing House passage of a 45-day stopgap bill to keep the government open and cut off funding for Ukraine. McCarthy’s victory seemed almost impossible as recently as this morning amid disagreements inside his own conference and a willingness among Democrats to shut

A U.S. military plane was flying the body of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C., to San Francisco on Saturday, accompanied by the senator’s longtime friend and colleague Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi boarded the flight for the journey home with the senator’s daughter, Katherine Feinstein, and chief of

The Texas high school athletic association is investigating an incident between a referee and student athlete during a football game Friday night. Whitney High School was competing against James Madison High School at Seagoville Stadium in Dallas when a Whitney football player, Trey Haynes, collided with the referee. The sports official aggressively pushed back and

“I think it is a surrender,” said Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), one of multiple conservatives who warned McCarthy not to accept Democratic help to avoid a shutdown. In the end, the 45-day funding patch that is on track to keep the government open passed with more Democratic than GOP votes, in a repeat of the

U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said this week multiculturalism has “failed” as she faced Europe’s migrant crisis head-on and called for a change to what she described as outdated asylum and refugee rules. Braverman, the U.K.’s top immigration minister, spoke in Washington at the American Enterprise Institute, where she challenged multiculturalism as a “misguided dogma”

In 2009, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) became the first woman to lead the storied Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — just as Barack Obama became the second president to oversee the massively expanded national security establishment that America developed after the 9/11 terror attacks. Both Democrats had condemned the way President George W. Bush handled security

In her basement on the South Side of Chicago, Crystal Vance beamed a flashlight onto the water source for her home: a rusted and leaking lead pipe. Ms. Vance, 35, knows well the dangers of lead contamination. Her 5-year-old son tested for elevated levels of lead as a baby, something that still weighs on her

Saturday, September 30, 2023 9:51PM HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston Police Department is investigating an apparent hit-and-run in north Houston on Saturday. The video above is from ABC13’s Live Streaming Channel. The crash happened near Bauman Road and 243 Julia Street just before 4 p.m. Officers with HPD responded to a reported fatality crash.

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The cross country course at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve, the site of Saturday’s St. Charles North Invitational, is known for its uneven terrain. Wheaton Warrenville South practiced running hills this week to get ready for the meet. That training paid off. Running together as pack, Tigers’ Josiah Narayanan and Aiden Noel and Elgin’s Cole Tupper

CHICAGO — Police are offering a warning to businesses on the South Side after a string of burglaries over the past two weeks. According to Chicago police, seven businesses were burglarized in the city’s Englewood neighborhood between Sept. 17 and Sept. 29. ‘We are all in shock’: 3 dead after being found unresponsive in Edgewater

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) – San Marcos Police closed in both directions a portion of Highway 123 early Saturday morning due to an ongoing homicide investigation.  The portion of the highway, between Redwood Road and Old Bastrop Road, was reopened after 5 a.m. Saturday, but police have yet to release additional details about the homicide