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Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of anti-camping ordinances – CBS News Watch CBS News The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over local laws to combat homeless encampments in Grants Pass, Oregon. The court will weigh whether the laws banning public camping violate the Eighth Amendment. CBS News’ Carter Evans reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

By Rachel Center Updated on: April 22, 2024 / 3:53 PM 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. Wayfair To cover up this summer you’ll need two things: a great sunscreen and a solid patio umbrella. The best patio umbrellas protect you from the sun by offering adequate coverage for you and your loved ones while you bask in the warmth of the season. They also feature covers that won’t get damaged by the heat or rain, and are easy to operate.  We rounded up the best patio umbrellas that fit this criteria, impress thousands of customers, come in a wide range of color options and fit in outdoor spaces big and small. What’s more, they’re all under $150. If you’re looking for more ideas on how to liven up your patio for the warmer seasons, check out our 10 tips on how to upgrade your patio . We’ve also found the best places to buy outdoor furniture

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani holds the Major League Baseball record for the most home runs hit by a Japanese-born player. He does not, however, hold that record on his own team. That one still belongs to manager Dave Roberts — at least for the time being. During the third inning of the Dodgers’ 10-0 win over the New York Mets on Sunday, Ohtani blasted a shot off pitcher Adrian Houser over the right-field fence for a two-run home run. It was the 176th home run of Ohtani’s MLB career and represented a milestone for the player born in Oshu, Iwate, Japan. It put him on top of the list of home run leaders among players born in Japan, ahead of Hideki Matsui, who had the nickname “Godzilla” and hit 175 homers during a 10-year career spent mostly with the New York Yankees and included stints with the Angels, Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays. “Honestly, I’m just happy and relieved,” Ohtani said after the game through translator Will Ireton. “It took a while to get to this point, since my last home run.” Ohtani’s previous

LAS VEGAS —  The massive LED video screen that forms the interior surface of Sphere can be used to transport audiences to the tops of mountains, to outer space, to beneath the feet of an elephant standing as tall as a 20-story building. On Friday night, Phish turned the place into a car wash. Playing the second date in a sold-out four-night stand at this state-of-the-art venue just off the Las Vegas Strip, the veteran jam band from Vermont took full advantage of the technological capabilities that cost the building’s mastermind, Madison Square Garden Entertainment Chief Executive James Dolan, five years and more than $2 billion to bring to life last fall. At one point in the nearly four-hour gig, the 160,000-square-foot screen — said to be the highest-resolution in the world — became a starry night sky so crisply rendered that you could almost believe the roof had retracted; at another point, Sphere transformed into an underwater kelp forest with sunlight streaming down from the top of the dome. The venue’s sound system was just as impressive, with a finely detailed mix and seatback haptics

WASHINGTON —  Supreme Court justices sounded deeply divided Monday over whether to give cities in the West more authority to restrict homeless encampments on sidewalks and other public property. The court’s three liberals said they were wary of giving cities a broad and unchecked power to use arrests and fines to punish homeless people who are sleeping outside. “Sleeping is a biological necessity,” said Justice Elena Kagan. It “seems like you are criminalizing the status of homelessness,” she told a lawyer representing the city of Grants Pass, Ore. But conservatives, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., said they were skeptical of treating homelessness as a status that deserves constitutional protection. People can be homeless for one week and find shelter the next week. “You can move into and out of that status,” he said. For more than two hours, the justices and attorneys argued back and forth on whether homeless people should be protected from city laws that could punish them because they have nowhere to sleep. Los Angeles-based attorney Theane Evangelis, representing the Oregon city, said the problem of homelessness has been made

A day long feared by local officials appears to be here: Courts are upholding a law that allows developers to build housing without city approval. The “builder’s remedy,” which lets developers ignore zoning rules if cities don’t meet state-mandated housing plans, was upheld in two recent Los Angeles County court rulings and partially upheld in a third, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. And that third ruling did not bode well for supporters of local zoning laws, as it only excluded “projects in California’s protected ‘Coastal Zone,'” the Daily News added. For years, state officials have threatened lawsuits against cities who refuse to comply with state requirements that would allow for new housing to be built. With judicial support of the builder’s remedy, developers can seemingly build a wide variety of housing projects in areas that city officials would normally deem off limits as long as the proposed projects contain a significant amount of affordable housing. A huge number of locations in California could be affected. “Just eight of Southern California’s 197 cities and counties met their February 2022 deadline to have approved housing plans,”

A California bill could prohibit third-party airport security vendors from operating in state airports unless they utilize their own security lanes. The bill, formally known as SB 1372, would prohibit vendors like Clear Secure from using standard security or the Transportation Security Administration PreCheck security lanes for their expedited services. California bill aims to address AI-generated child sexual abuse material Frequent filers with a Clear membership can skip airports’ security lines entirely. An annual membership costs $189. Vendors would be required to use their own dedicated security lane or lose the ability to operate in California airports beginning in 2025, according to the bill’s text. The bill was introduced by Sen. Josh Newman, a Democrat representing portions of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. The bill has also received backing from lawmakers across the aisle. “The least you can expect when you have to go through the security line at the airport is that you don’t suffer the indignity of somebody pushing you out of the way to let the rich person pass you,” Newman told Politico. Critics say the bill would ban Clear

Los Angeles saw a record number of traffic fatalities in 2023, and 2024 is off to a troubling start, according to data compiled by Crosstown L.A. Based on publicly available police reports, the nonprofit news outlet found there were 343 traffic deaths in 2023, the third consecutive year of increases, and 77 deaths through the first three months of 2024. The data includes fatal vehicle collisions and pedestrians. Road fatalities in Los Angeles 2017 through March 2024. (CrosstownLA) While this year’s pace is slightly behind last year, it is still substantially higher than in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Hit-and-run deaths in L.A. have nearly doubled in recent years, the data shows, from 56 in 2020 to 108 in 2023. Through April 6, there have been 31 fatal hit-and-runs in the city. “Los Angeles is not alone, as traffic deaths have increased in other cities and states,” Crosstown L.A. notes. “The rise has been attributed to multiple factors, including people driving larger, heavier vehicles, which inflict greater damage, particularly when a pedestrian is struck … Additionally, there have been more deaths of people not wearing seatbelts.”