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House panel releases report on Trump shooting Breaking down the House panel report on Trump rally shooting 04:04 Washington — Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe is set to testify Thursday before the bipartisan House task force investigating the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump as the panel prepares to wrap its investigation into the incidents that sent shockwaves through the country in the lead up to the presidential election.  The panel, which the House voted to establish earlier this year, is tasked with looking into the security failures during the July 13 assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the foiled attempt in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15. The lawmakers will also make recommendations to prevent future attacks. Thursday’s hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Capitol Hill. The Secret Service came under intense scrutiny in the wake of the initial attack, and its director at the time, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned in July after a bruising day of testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Rowe’s testimony on Thursday marks his first public appearance before the task force, which heard

Updated on: December 5, 2024 / 5:44 AM EST / AFP French lawmakers oust prime minister French lawmakers oust prime minister in no-confidence vote 01:31 Paris — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday was meeting Emmanuel Macron to submit his resignation after losing a vote of no confidence in parliament, with the president urgently seeking ways to halt growing political and financial chaos. Poised to be contemporary France’s shortest-serving premier, Barnier arrived at the Elysee Palace just after 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern) for the resignation formality, with the outgoing premier and government constitutionally obliged to step down after the defeat in parliament. A majority of lawmakers supported the no-confidence vote Wednesday that was proposed by the hard-left and backed by the far-right, headed by Marine Le Pen. Barnier’s record-quick ejection comes after snap parliamentary elections this summer that resulted in a hung parliament , with no political force able to form an overall majority and the far-right holding the key to the government’s survival. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier speaks during a no-confidence debate at the National Assembly in Paris, France, Dec.

December 5, 2024 / 4:51 AM EST / CBS/AP Manila, Philippines — Philippine police officials said Thursday they were checking reports that a kidnapped American died after being shot twice while resisting his Oct. 17 abduction by gunmen in the country’s south. Elliot Eastman , 26, from Vermont, was shot twice with an M16 rifle while trying to fight off his four kidnappers, who posed as police officers, in the coastal town of Sibuco in Zamboanga del Norte province, police said. The kidnappers dragged him to a motorboat and sped off, according to earlier police reports. A massive search for Eastman and his abductors led to the arrest of a number of suspects, but he has not been found. Three suspects were killed in a gunbattle with police in the south last month. A man points to a suspected bloodstain in the sand in Sibuco, Zamboanga del Norte province, Philippines, Oct. 18, 2024, where abducted American YouTuber Elliot Eastman was shot by gunmen. STR/AFP/Getty Regional police spokesperson Lt. Col. Ramoncelio Sawan said investigators received information from a relative of one of the suspects that Eastman died

Little about the first month of his first season at USC had gone as Eric Musselman hoped. His USC offense struggled to score. His defense struggled to get stops. And on the glass, only a few of the 355 teams in Division I college basketball had been worse than the Trojans, who struggled to dispatch the likes of Grambling and Texas Arlington. The shortcomings of a rapidly constructed roster had become evident to USC’s coach during that eight-game stretch. But after stumbling its way through the first month of the Muss era, here was a chance, in its Big Ten debut, for USC to stem the tide of those early-season struggles. The Trojans seemed well on their way to seizing that opportunity Wednesday against Oregon, which sat atop the conference after a spotless 8-0 start. Then, in the final minutes, everything unraveled for USC in a 68-60 loss to the No. 12 Ducks. A defense that, for most of the game, appeared transformed crumbled during the final 10 minutes, as Oregon got to the line again and again — 16 times in that stretch. Oregon

An 18-year-old man and a boy suspected in the fatal shooting of a man in Coachella were arrested, authorities announced Wednesday. Deputies from the Central Homicide Unit, with assistance from the Major Crime Unit and the Thermal Station Coachella Community Action Team, located Gael Silva and a 17-year-old male suspect Tuesday. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Silva was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of murder, while the 17-year-old was booked into juvenile hall. The name of the juvenile suspect will not be released because of his age. Deputies responded to the 51800 block of Shady Lane shortly after 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 12 to reports regarding shots fired. “Upon arrival, deputies located a deceased male suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Responding deputies secured the scene with crime scene tape and closed the area to all vehicle and foot traffic,” sheriff’s officials said in a statement. Investigators later identified the victim as 44-year-old Roman Gamboa, who was pronounced dead at the scene. An ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting continued Wednesday evening. Anyone with information regarding the case was urged

The annual Santa Maria Parade of Lights is set to grace the city’s streets on Dec. 7, and officials say several closures will be in effect as a result. According to Caltrans, Highway 135 (S Broadway) between Battles Road and Main Street will be closed on Saturday from 2 to 10 pm. Parade organizers add that W Stowell Road between S Broadway and S Depot Street will close at 3 p.m. for parade participants to gather. Detour and road closure signs will reportedly be in place to direct travelers. The Santa Maria Parade of Lights is scheduled to start at 5:20 p.m. The annual event is presented by the Rotary Clubs of Santa Maria and Nipomo.

On Friday people will gather along the streets in downtown San Luis Obispo to watch the annual holiday parade. This is everything you need to know if you are planning on heading to the parade. “The holiday parade brings thousands of people to downtown,” said Maggie Kovach, the events manager for Downtown SLO, a nonprofit organization that supports downtown businesses. Last year, she says the parade drew an estimated 15,000 people to downtown San Luis Obispo. She says that this year they are expecting the same. “People that are coming downtown, they’re coming not just to watch the parade,” said Kovach. “They’re coming to eat, drink, shop, and just enjoy a full day. So we can expect to see some happy businesses.” KSBY spoke to some local businesses who tell me they are ready for the crowds. “Usually we’re closed for the parade, but this year, since we are the Christmas store, we decided to open up and let people shop, and take a break from watching the parade,” said Erica Hamilton, the co-owner of Blackwater. Across the street, a cashier at Rocket Fizz says

A local hospital needs help identifying a woman who was found injured in downtown Los Angeles the day before Thanksgiving. The unconscious woman was discovered on Nov. 27 and was transported to the Los Angeles General Medical Center where she remains hospitalized. No personal belongings were found at the time to help hospital staff identify her. She is described as a Black woman in her 60s who stands 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs around 123 pounds. She has brown eyes, short dark hair and two tattoos. Hospital workers have released a photo of the woman in hopes someone may recognize her. An unidentified female patient in her 60s has been hospitalized at the Los Angeles General Medical Center since Nov. 27, 2024. (Los Angeles General Medical Center) Anyone who knows the woman or has information that may help identify her is asked to call clinical social worker Cesar Robles at 323-409-6884.  During after-hours, the public can call the L.A. General Medical Center at 323-409-6883.

Little about the first month of his first season at USC had gone as Eric Musselman hoped. His USC offense had struggled to score. His defense struggled to get stops. And on the glass, only a few of college basketball’s 355 teams had been worse than the Trojans, who struggled to dispatch the likes of Grambling and Texas Arlington. The shortcomings of a rapidly constructed roster had become evident to USC’s coach during that eight-game stretch. But after stumbling its way through the first month of the Muss era, here was a chance, in its Big Ten debut, for USC to stem the tide of those early-season struggles. Until late Wednesday, the Trojans seemed well on their way to seizing that opportunity against Oregon, which sat atop the conference after a spotless 8-0 start. Then, in the final minutes, everything unraveled for USC in a 68-60 loss to No. 12 Oregon. A defense that, for most of the game, appeared transformed from its early-season iteration crumbled during the final 10 minutes, as Oregon got to the line again and again — 16 times during that

The story for the Clippers on Wednesday night was their list of injured players. Yet even without four key players, the Clippers had no choice but to push on against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Intuit Dome. The problem was the Timberwolves pushed back harder, leading by as many as 41 in a 108-80 win. Playing seven games in 11 days hasn’t helped the Clippers weather their injury issues. So when Clippers coach Tyronn Lue sat down at the podium to speak to the media, he smiled and quickly said this about the 28-point beatdown: “I’m flushing it,” Lue said. His team was playing its third game in four nights, and this one was a back-to-back. “We just didn’t have a lot of pop,” Lue said. “Missing three of our four rotation guys. [Minnesota] came out and played well.” Kawhi Leonard has yet to play this season as his right knee recovers. He was joined on the bench Wednesday by Terance Mann, Norman Powell, Kevin Porter Jr. and Kobe Brown. The Clippers said Mann has a fractured left middle finger and will have surgery Thursday

The woman caught on camera aboard an LAX shuttle bus hurling racist insults at a young Indian American family has started lobbing her own accusations about the incident, including that a brain injury she suffered last year is partly to blame for her agitation, according to multiple reports.   The incident, according to Pervez Taufiq whose family was the target of the hateful remarks, occurred on a United Airlines shuttle bus at LAX the week of the Thanksgiving holiday.   A well-known photographer, Taufiq recorded the incident as he, his wife and kids returned from a long week of travel and the woman, identified by the Daily Mail as 64-year-old Arlene Bunch, began telling his two young sons to shut up.   “That really made me snap,” Taufiq told KTLA. “I said, ‘You can’t talk to my sons that way.’”  In footage of the upsetting tirade, Bunch is seen flipping the family off, calling them “f*****g crazy,” “tandoori stinky” and saying Indian people “are gross, man.”  “You are racist toward me, I’m American,” she told Taufiq who was born in the U.S.   A woman

Police are searching for two suspects in connection with a violent robbery in Santa Ana.  Surveillance cameras captured the men entering a massage parlor. One suspect attempted to access an employee’s back office area, but was stopped.  The suspect noticed the employee was holding a large amount of cash in her hands.  He struck her with his cell phone and continued to punch her as she fell to the ground while demanding she hand over the money.  During the beating, a second suspect entered the business to assist in the robbery. They escaped with $1,500 in cash and fled in a dark-colored 2012 BMW 3 Series sedan with California license plate 6VRB731. The first suspect is described as a Black man who is possibly in his mid-20s. He stands around 6 feet tall and has a thin build. He was last seen wearing a green Adidas hooded sweatshirt. Southern California woman accused of operating brothels disguised as skin care spas Two men are wanted by police for a violent robbery of a massage parlor in Santa Ana. (Santa Ana Police Department) Two men are wanted

MIAMI —  Rui Hachimura stopped. Anthony Davis stood. Tyler Herro moved. Tyler Herro scored. One game after being badly embarrassed on the offensive end in Minnesota, the Lakers were clobbered on the other end in Miami — their body language, their lack of energy and worst of all, their general lack of fight all reasons for serious concern. After winning six straight games, the Lakers blew a game to Orlando at the free-throw line. They were embarrassed in the second half against Denver, outclassed by Phoenix, out-toughed by Oklahoma City and completely destroyed in Minnesota. And still, somehow, they never were worse than they were Wednesday. They looked too old. Too unskilled. Too undisciplined. Too unserious. The Heat blew out the Lakers 134-93, a new low in a season in which losses are starting to stack up rapidly. Miami (10-10) made 24 three-pointers, the third-most given up by a Lakers team. They’ve lost six of their last eight games by an average of more than 21 points. “I’m embarrassed; we’re all embarrassed. It’s not a game that I thought we had the right fight, the right

The Los Angeles City Council formally adopted a “sanctuary city” ordinance Wednesday, prohibiting city resources or personnel from being used to help federal enforcement of immigration laws. Council members voted 12-0 in favor of the proposal which includes an urgency clause, meaning it will go into effect immediately upon being signed by Mayor Karen Bass, instead of 30 days later. The council initially approved the proposal Nov. 19, but it required a second vote after being amended. Council members John Lee, Traci Park and Nithya Raman were absent during the vote. There was no discussion on the matter. Elected officials previously said such an ordinance codified protections for migrants in the country illegally and close a gap in past policies by prohibiting the direct or indirect sharing of data with federal immigration authorities. Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez, who co-authored the proposal with Raman and Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez, explained that immigrants and their families should be able to go to work, report serious crimes and send their children to school without fear that their family will be ripped apart. “These are people like my own parents, who

While concluding that a dog’s attack on a woman in Burbank earlier this year was unprovoked and that the animal is vicious, a judge has ordered the dog returned to its owners under specific conditions — and not euthanized. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison MacKenzie issued her ruling Tuesday in the petition brought Aug. 21 by Nelson Grande and Sylvia Franco, owners of an 8-year-old pitbull/Labrador mix named Conan, against the city of Burbank. In July, the city of Burbank deemed Conan dangerous and called for him to be euthanized, prompting the dog’s owners to file their petition. “While the court concludes that Conan is a vicious dog, it does not find that the city has established by a preponderance of the evidence that releasing Conan to Grande and Franco would create a significant threat to the public health, safety and welfare such that Conan should be euthanized,” MacKenzie wrote. The conditions set by MacKenzie for giving back the dog to Grande and Franco include proof of rabies vaccination and licensing; that he be properly designated as a vicious animal; that he only be

When thinking of holiday traditions this time of year, building a gingerbread house may come to mind as one of the most popular activities, albeit sometimes time-consuming. In fact, a gingerbread house at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California took two weeks to prep and five days to build, according to a spokesperson. In celebration of the holiday season, the resort’s executive pastry chief Deden Putra and his team built a 10-foot-tall gingerbread house that can now be found in the hotel atrium. According to a press release sent out by the resort Wednesday, the construction involved 1,500 pounds of gingerbread, 500 eclairs, 35 pounds of cinnamon sticks and 150 pounds of chocolate. A 10-foot gingerbread house can be found inside the hotel atrium. (Pechanga Resort Casino) To top off the design, a giant candy cane was used to serve as the front door’s handle. The bakers did not stop there — they also assembled a village comprised of 11 separate gingerbread houses, each individually unique, along with 30 trees made of dark and white chocolate and other confections. The edible holiday village is

PALERMO, Calif. (AP) — Two children were in “extremely critical condition” Wednesday after being shot at a tiny religious K-8 school in Northern California and the gunman died at the scene, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said. The gunman may have targeted the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Palermo because of its religious affiliation, but isn’t believed to have had a prior connection to the victims or the school, Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea said. He didn’t explain further. “Whether or not this is a hate crime or whether or not it’s part of some sort of larger scheme at this point I don’t have enough information to provide an answer to that,” he said. The wounded children, boys ages 5 and 6, are kindergarteners at the school and are being treated at a trauma center in the Sacramento area, officials said. “I am thankful that they’re still alive, but they’ve got a long road ahead of them,” Honea said. The shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. at the private Christian school with fewer than three dozen students in Palermo, which

December 4, 2024 / 10:51 PM EST / CBS/AP Why Bitcoin surged after Trump’s 2024 win Why Bitcoin stock surged after Trump’s 2024 election win 04:13 Bitcoin has topped the $100,000 mark as a massive rally in the world’s most popular cryptocurrency sparked by the election of Donald Trump rolls on. The milestone comes just hours after the president-elect signaled a lighter regulatory approach to the crypto industry with his choice of Paul Atkins to be the next chair the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump said Wednesday that he intends to nominate Atkins, a former SEC commissioner during the presidency of George W. Bush. In the years since leaving the agency, Atkins has made the case against too much market regulation. Bitcoin has soared to unprecedented heights since Trump won the election Nov. 5. The cryptocurrency has climbed dramatically from $69,374 on Election Day and rose as high as $101,512 Wednesday, just two years after dropping below $17,000 following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX . How long bitcoin will stay above the coveted $100,000 mark is uncertain. As with everything in the volatile cryptoverse

By James LaPorta, Rhona Tarrant Updated on: December 4, 2024 / 9:20 PM EST / CBS News Hegseth defiant as Trump floats replacements Pete Hegseth vows to fight on as Trump considers replacements 08:46 Pete Hegseth , President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick for secretary of defense, received a six-figure severance payment and signed a non-disclosure agreement when he exited the organization Concerned Veterans of America. The payment came amid allegations of financial mismanagement, repeated incidents of intoxication and sexual impropriety, as well as dissension among its leaders over Hegseth’s foreign policy views. The Army veteran turned Fox News host signed a non-disclosure agreement when he stepped down as CEO in January 2016, two sources associated with Concerned Veterans of America told CBS News, with one source saying the agreement included a financial payout. The CVA sources spoke to CBS News under conditions of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss legally-binding contracts, while also fearing professional reprisal.  Public tax filings reviewed by CBS News confirm that Hegseth was paid more than $172,000 between October 2016 and September 2017 – well after Hegseth’s formal

A Ventura County man was sentenced to prison Wednesday for torturing and murdering his girlfriend. Saul Nava, 24, of Thousand Oaks, was sentenced to 50 years and 8 months to life in prison for the murder of Alisen Takacs-Escobar, and the torture and kidnapping of a previous girlfriend who survived his abuse, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. On Christmas Eve in 2021, Nava called authorities after several days of beating and torturing Takacs-Escobar in an apartment they shared in Thousand Oaks. Arriving officers found the woman with injuries all over her body including extensive bruising, a large laceration on her head, and “degrading words” that were freshly tattooed on her chest. Nava was taken into custody at the scene. Inside the apartment, authorities found baseball bats, a hammer, a screwdriver and tattoo equipment that were all used on Takacs-Escobar. Saul Nava, 24, of Thousand Oaks, was sentenced to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Alisen Takacs-Escobar, and the torture and kidnapping of a previous girlfriend. (Ventura County District Attorney’s Office) On the suspect’s cell phone, deputies found videos that were taken

PALERMO, Calif. (AP) — Two children were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a tiny religious K-8 school in Northern California and deputies arrived to find the gunman on the ground near the playground, dead after apparently shooting himself, sheriff’s officials said. The children, boys aged 5 and 6, were hospitalized in “extremely critical condition,” officials said. The shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, a private school in Palermo with fewer than three dozen students. Palermo has about 5,500 people and is about 65 miles (104 km) north of Sacramento. It was the the latest among dozens of school shootings across the U.S. in recent years, including especially deadly ones in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida; and Uvalde, Texas. The shootings have set off fervent debates about gun control and frayed the nerves of parents whose children are growing up accustomed to doing active shooter drills in their classrooms. But school shootings have done little to move the needle on national gun laws. Firearms were the leading cause of death among children in 2020 and 2021, according to