Month: September 2024

By ALEXANDRA OLSON With up to 17 rooms to clean each shift, Fatima Amahmoud’s job at the Moxy hotel in downtown Boston sometimes feels impossible. There was the time she found three days worth of blond dog fur clinging to the curtains, the bedspread and the carpet. She knew she wouldn’t finish in the 30

Most people who ride Amtrak’s Empire Builder route between Chicago and Seattle watch the heartland whiz by. Our writer hopped off to explore a few remarkable places you might otherwise miss.

Hot, dry and hazy. That’s the weather forecast for today and Monday across Denver and the Front Range. The National Weather Service Boulder expects temperatures to be above normal with temperatures ranging between 85 and 90 degrees in the urban corridor and the plains. Temperatures in the mountains will be 63 to 78 degrees, according

“I’m half Asian,” 13-year-old Chris Wang (Izaac Wang) declares to his new skater friends in this summer’s buzzy coming-of-age film “Didi.” He’s not; he’s telling an absurd lie that he believes will impress his friends. They start chanting, “Half-Asian Chris! Half-Asian Chris!” Later, when they meet Chris’ mother and discover both his parents are Taiwanese,

Sports News By JOHN RABY and SAFIYAH RIDDLE, Associated Press September 1, 2024 | 11:24 AM HEWITT, W.Va. (AP) — Ryan Craddock had seen his share of tragedy during two decades as a coal miner and firefighter. Then came the toughest heartbreak of all: his own. Craddock and his family are mourning the loss of

San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot on Saturday during an attempted robbery. The incident took place in Union Square and the rookie wideout was considered to be in stable condition at the time the news broke. Read more: 49ers Rookie Ricky Pearsall in Stable Condition After Being Shot in San Francisco

JERUSALEM — Israel’s largest trade union called a general strike for Monday to pressure the government for a cease-fire in Gaza after Israel said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages, including a young Israeli-American man held by Hamas. The Histadrut represents some 800,000 workers in such areas as health care, transportation and banking,

The Giants enter a season with expectations of — once again — being one of the worst teams in the NFL.  Sportsbooks have Big Blue’s over/under set at 6.5 wins with +15000 odds to win the Super Bowl. While the expectations to hoist the Lombardi Trophy are absent this season, there are still plenty of

Creating a memorial to the horrors of World War I – CBS News Watch CBS News Washington, D.C., is home to numerous monuments, with a conspicuous omission: there has been no national memorial to the soldiers who’d fought and died in the First World War. After more than eight years of preparation, the completed World

Over the past 40 years, memorials to America’s 20th century wars have sprung up across Washington, D.C., with one conspicuous omission: There was no national memorial to veterans of World War I in our nation’s capital. “If you ask anybody on the streets where the World War I memorial is in D.C., most of them

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Supreme Court ethics, presidential immunity – CBS News Watch CBS News Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, has a new memoir out Tuesday called “Lovely One.” In her first broadcast interview since joining the nation’s highest court, Jackson talks with “CBS Evening

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — and she’s determined not to be the last. Jackson’s new memoir, “Lovely One,” which will be released Tuesday, chronicles her ascent to the nation’s highest court and is titled after the meaning of her name, Ketanji Onyika. The 53-year-old

Walking the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said, “I’m still just so floored being in this building.” In 2022 Jackson was named by President Joe Biden to the Supreme Court. In the two years since, the court’s newest and youngest member has become the most prolific questioner from the Bench.

Passage: In memoriam – CBS News Watch CBS News “Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who recently left us, including French actor Alain Delon, star of such classics as “Le Samouraï” and “The Leopard.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn

The following is a transcript of an interview with Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son is being held hostage by Hamas, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Sept. 1, 2024.  NANCY CORDES: We are joined now by Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of one of the Israeli-American hostages still being held by Hamas. He