WNBA star Brittney Griner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the American embassy in Russia on the couple’s fourth anniversary Saturday, but they never connected since the phone line at the embassy was not staffed, Cherelle Griner said Monday. The couple has not spoken by phone …
Read More »Apple workers at Maryland store vote to unionize
More than 100 employees of an Apple store in a suburb of Baltimore voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, joining a growing U.S. push across tech, retail and service industries to organize for greater workplace protections, a union said. The workers in Towson, Maryland, voted by a …
Read More »Biden names Julie Chavez Rodriguez as White House senior adviser
President Biden is naming Julie Chavez Rodriguez to serve as a White House senior adviser, putting her on par with some of his most senior and longest-serving aides and making her one of the rare Latinas to hold a top West Wing staffing role. Rodriguez currently serves as director of …
Read More »Britney Spears and Sam Asghari tie the knot at her home
Britney Spears and Sam Asghari tied the knot at her home in Thousand Oaks, California on Thursday. The pair had an intimate ceremony with a star-studded guest list, according to Entertainment Tonight. Spears wore a Versace dress. Celebrity guests in attendance included designer Donatella Versace, in addition to Paris Hilton …
Read More »Investigators dig up wrong body seeking to crack nearly half
Authorities exhumed a body in a Connecticut cemetery Wednesday in hopes of identifying the victim of a nearly half-century-old homicide only to find that they’d dug up someone else’s remains. But East Haven Police Chief Joseph Murgo told WTNH News 8 they will keep investigating and try to pinpoint the …
Read More »CEOs push Congress to pass stricter gun control legislation
Chief executives at some of the nation’s largest companies are urging federal lawmakers to pass stronger gun safety laws amid a recent outbreak of mass shootings across the U.S. In a letter signed by more than 200 CEOs and sent to the U.S. Senate, business leaders referenced the recent massacres at …
Read More »Transcript: Dr. Walter Koroshetz on “Face the Nation,” June 5, 2022
The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Walter Koroshetz, co-chair of the National Institutes of Health’s long COVID initiative, airing Sunday, June 5, 2022, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Dr. Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke …
Read More »McDonald’s intentionally sold Muslim family bacon, complaint alleges
Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts deliberately put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on the woman’s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. …
Read More »Biden to sign executive order on policing two years after George Floyd’s death
President Biden is expected to sign an executive order on federal policing Wednesday at the White House, multiple sources tell CBS News, two years after George Floyd died at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The executive order comes after bipartisan negotiations in Congress to reform policing …
Read More »Mother charged after her 6
A Minnesota mother has been charged in the death of her 6-year-old son after police found his body in the trunk of her car, CBS Minnesota reports. The 28-year-old, Julissa Thaler, was charged with second-degree murder, according to CBS Minnesota. Orono police say they stopped a car Friday morning after …
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