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May 8, 2024 / 7:08 AM EDT / AP Cape Town, South Africa — Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after an apartment complex collapsed in South Africa brought out more survivors Tuesday as they entered a second night of desperate work to find anyone alive in the wreckage. At least seven people have been confirmed dead. Authorities said 26 workers had been rescued from the site where the five-story building collapsed Monday while under construction in George, about 250 miles east of Cape Town on South Africa’s south coast. An additional 42 people were still believed to be buried in the debris of concrete and metal scaffolding. Rescuers were hopeful of more people being found alive after saying earlier that they had made contact with at least 11 workers trapped in the rubble and were communicating with them. It wasn’t immediately clear how many of those had been rescued, but five survivors were brought out on Tuesday, adding to the 21 found on Monday, according to a count provided by city authorities. There were 75 construction workers on the site when the

Updated on: May 8, 2024 / 6:27 AM EDT / CBS/AP Crowded cruise ships setting sail Crowded cruise ships setting sail 05:48 A cruise ship worker from South Africa was arrested Tuesday in Alaska’s capital city, accused of attacking a woman and two security guards with scissors on board the vessel, according to authorities. The U.S. attorney’s office says the man, identified as 35-year-old Ntando Sogoni,  is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon within maritime and territorial jurisdiction. Online court records do not show an attorney for the 35-year-old man. According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Matthew Judy, the man was recently hired by a cruise line and joined the ship, the Norwegian Encore, in Seattle on Sunday. The ship set off that day for a weeklong trip with scheduled stops in Alaska ports, including the capital of Juneau, and British Columbia. The alleged incident happened west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, as the ship was sailing to Alaska. According to the affidavit, during the late evening on Sunday, ship personnel saw the man trying to deploy a lifeboat, and he was

If you’re alone in the forest, who would you rather run across: a man you don’t know or a bear? This question, posed to multiple women in a TikTok video last month , has taken the dilemma of man versus bear viral. And women online are nearly unanimous in favor of the stocky, shaggy, sleeps-through-the-winter one. Let me clarify in case you know guys who fit that description: the bear. They’re all choosing the bear. The question is a chance for women to compare fears, to figure out which danger looms larger. In the video that kicked off the trend, seven of the eight women who give “bear” responses lay out the same reasoning: A bear is appealing, they argue, precisely because it is not a man. “Men are scary,” one says. Looking at the data, these responses are reasonable. The World Health Organization reports that nearly one-third of women worldwide have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence, “ mostly perpetrated by men .” (Statistics also tell us that a man you don’t know isn’t actually the greatest threat you might run across in

SHAFTER, Calif.  —  California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Outside of Kern, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaire owners of the Wonderful Co., are better known for pomegranates and pistachios. But for more than a decade, they have also owned a master-planned industrial park in the city of Shafter, northwest of Bakersfield, that is home to distribution centers for Fortune 500 companies like Target, Amazon and Walmart. Now, looking to capitalize on the seismic shift to online shopping, the Resnicks want to position Kern County as a new frontier for the industrial-scale warehousing that is key to connecting customers with their goods. Wonderful is pushing to more than double the size of its industrial park by converting 1,800 acres of its own almond groves into additional warehousing space. And it’s pursuing costly infrastructure projects that company leaders say will mitigate the impacts of that expansion. Wonderful says its vision for a scaled-up Wonderful Industrial Park is wholly different from the thousands of sprawling distribution centers

Somewhere in my personal papers is a folded up, tattered poster of Mickey Mouse commemorating his long reign as the world’s most famous rodent. It shows scenes from some of his iconic shorts — “Steamboat Willie,” “The Band Concert,” “Brave Little Tailor” — above the legend “Thanks Mickey for 60 Years!” Signed, Disneyland. My fourth-grade classmates and I received the posters in the fall of 1988 at Patrick Henry Elementary School in Anaheim, along with a T-shirt of a tuxedoed Mickey wearing sneakers and a free trip to the Happiest Place on Earth for his birthday bash. We cheered alongside kids from around the world and rode rides until the evening. I can still hum parts of the gratingly cheery song from the parade held in Mickey’s honor. (A quick YouTube search confirmed I have the melody right.) The poster hung on my wall through junior high, even though I was more of a Donald Duck fan. It was a symbol for me that a company whose products and productions I loved cared about us Anaheim kids. How cool was it that one of the

For traveling musicians, there are two versions of life on the road. Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence from the 1930s onward, portraying the jaunts as being as amorous as they were glamorous, a veritable luxury cruise along bucolic byways jammed with adulatory fans and a femme fatale or two. Much of that might have been true, but they were also living the other version of the wayfaring life. Those trips, often through hostile territory, were a harsh crucible, keeping Ellington, Basie and Armstrong away from home and family for lonely months at a time. They became professional wanderers, driving all day, performing into the early morning, learning to eat from greasy paper sacks. On bad nights for the bandleaders and their players, they caught a little sleep on the bus or in the car, scrunched between sweaty orchestra mates. On good ones, they found a lodging house and raced upstairs, hoping to claim a catnap before that evening’s gig. The more savvy veterans would leave the lights on to keep the cockroaches

It’s been nearly 80 years since the parades, bonfires, Champagne toasts and sailors kissing random strangers in the streets signaled the end of World War II. But on television? The war still rages. Recently released miniseries like Apple TV+’s “Masters of the Air” and “The New Look,” Hulu’s “We Were the Lucky Ones,” Netflix’s “All the Light We Cannot See” and Peacock’s “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” all allow audiences to see different voices and stories about the war and the Holocaust. And we’ll see more of them in the coming weeks. In June, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, commonly known as D-day, National Geographic will run the limited series “Erased: WWII’s Heroes of Color,” executive produced and narrated by Idris Elba, and the special “The Real Red Tails,” narrated by “Abbott Elementary’s” Sheryl Lee Ralph. Although the successive release of these series is mostly coincidence, they have arrived at a significant moment when antisemitism has been on the rise and a new war — between Israel and Hamas — has roiled tensions. Protests at universities over the war have spread

By Scott MacFarlane May 8, 2024 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News New White House efforts to fight antisemitism Biden announces new measures to combat antisemitism 05:41 Leaders of some of the largest U.S. public school districts are facing questions from a House panel Wednesday about incidents of antisemitism in their schools.   A Republican-led House education subcommittee has called Berkeley Unified Schools Superintendent Ford Morthel of California, New York City School Chancellor David Banks and Montgomery County School Board President Karla Silvestre of Maryland to testify. “Antisemitic incidents have exploded in K-12 schools following Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attack . Jewish teachers, students, and faculty have been denied a safe learning environment and forced to contend with antisemitic agitators due to district leaders’ inaction,” Rep. Aaron Bean, a Florida Republican who chairs the House Education and Workforce subcommittee on elementary and secondary education, told CBS News. A senior committee aide told CBS News the panel didn’t issue subpoenas, but it did ask the school district leaders to appear voluntarily. In a written statement shared with CBS News, the Berkeley United School District said

By Meredith Gordon May 8, 2024 / 6:00 AM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena on April 09, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.  Ronald Martinez/Getty Images After a tense Game 1, the Indiana Pacers face the New York Knicks again tonight for Game 2 of the teams’ Eastern Conference semifinals series. While officials came under heavy criticism for their performance in Game 1, with some claiming officiating cost Indiana the game, both teams will have to put Game 1 behind them as they head into the remaining games of the series. A can’t miss game as rivals face off, the Pacers face the Knicks tonight. Keep reading to find out how and when to watch tonight’s game. How and when to watch the Indiana Pacers vs. New York Knicks Game 2 Game 2 of the Indiana Pacers vs. New York Nets NBA Playoffs series will be

By Dean Fioresi Updated on: May 8, 2024 / 1:43 AM EDT / KCAL News 2 young siblings die after getting swept away by San Bernardino County creek 2 young siblings die after getting swept away by San Bernardino County creek 01:30 Two children died after they were swept away in a San Bernardino County creek on Tuesday.  The siblings were 4 and 2 years old. The children’s mother brought them to the river near the Thurman Flats Picnic area near Mill Creek to play. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies said she was tending to her son when the creek swept her 4-year-old daughter away at about 3:00 p.m. The mother tried to find the girl but could not locate her. When she got back to where she left her 2-year-old son, he had disappeared. The mother frantically searched the area for her children, even asking another family to help her find her missing children, according to deputies.  At about 4 p.m., San Bernardino County deputies, along with firefighters and members from the US Forest Service Rescue Crew, canvassed the area, hoping to find

TAIPEI, Taiwan —  Shorthand for gainfully employed U.S. couples whose only responsibilities were to themselves, the acronym DINK — dual income, no kids — was coined to capture the unabashed materialism of the 1980s. Four decades later, the term has made a comeback, with millennials embracing it on social media to flaunt their free time, lavish spending habits and the other perks of choosing to be child-free. It has taken off far beyond United States, including in one country where it would have been hard to imagine just a decade ago: China. China infamously once limited couples to one child each to control population growth. That led to a shortage of young people, and in 2016 the government upped the limit to two children. In 2021, it became three. China’s population declined for the second year in a row last year; India overtook it as the world’s most populous nation. (Greg Baker / Associated Press) Amid deep economic uncertainty, a growing number of Chinese are opting for another number: zero. Many proudly refer to themselves as DINKs — using the acronym in English — or dingke