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Beverly Hills-based talent agency Gersh is acquiring Madrid-based sports representation firm You First in a major expansion that marks the firm’s entry into the highly competitive business of working with athletes. The deal, announced Tuesday, doubles the agency’s staff to more than 600 people. Additionally, the pact expands Gersh’s footprint to 22 offices in 14 countries. You First has more than 1,000 clients, including Spanish soccer player Fabián Ruiz and NBA player Jarrett Allen. Prior to the acquisition, Gersh did not represent athletes, but rather focused on actors, directors, writers and other talent. “It felt essential for the agency to grow, change and evolve, and growth into the sports representation vertical was a central pillar and focus of where we felt we wanted to take the agency,” said managing partner Steve Gersh in an interview. “The area that we were where we felt there were the strongest tailwinds and biggest opportunity for growth, not only domestically but globally, was in sports and sports representation.” Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. You First Chief Executive Juan Aísa said the Gersh partnership allows his business

Updated on: December 3, 2024 / 10:15 AM EST / CBS/AFP Biden says South Korea, Japan alliance is key Biden says South Korea, Japan alliance is key to countering North Korea, Russia 02:02 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law” Tuesday, accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities. “To safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea’s communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements… I hereby declare emergency martial law,” Yoon said in a live televised address to the nation. “With no regard for the livelihoods of the people, the opposition party has paralyzed governance solely for the sake of impeachments, special investigations, and shielding their leader from justice,” he added. South Korea’s National Assembly was sealed Tuesday after Yoon’s declaration, the country’s Yonhap news agency reported.  Helicopters were seen landing on the roof of the building in Seoul, in live television footage aired by broadcasters. Police stand guard in front of the main gate of the National Assembly in Seoul on December 3, 2024

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche on reuniting for “The Return” after nearly 30 years – CBS News Watch CBS News Actors Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche star in “The Return,” a retelling of Homer’s “The Odyssey.” Fiennes plays Odysseus, returning to reclaim his home and wife, Penelope, played by Binoche. They join “CBS Mornings Plus.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

The first look inside Notre Dame after the fire The first look inside the Notre Dame cathedral after the fire 01:57 President-elect Donald Trump said late Monday that he will travel to Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral , a grand celebration set to take place this weekend.  “It is an honor to announce that I will be traveling to Paris, France, on Saturday to attend the re-opening of the Magnificent and Historic Notre Dame Cathedral, which has been fully restored after a devastating fire five years ago,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “President Emmanuel Macron has done a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so. It will be a very special day for all!” Notre Dame was damaged in a fire that raged for 12 hours on April 15, 2019, nearly destroying the iconic 1,200-year-old church. Although experts said at the time that the restoration could take up to 40 years, Macron vowed to rebuild in five years. “The decision to rebuild Notre Dame was about

Missouri is set to execute a man Tuesday night for the sexual assault and murder of a fourth-grade girl who called him “Uncle Chris” in 2007. Gov. Mike Parson denied his clemency petition earlier this week and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request to hear an appeal, clearing the way for the procedure to go forward. Christopher Collings, 49, will receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Missouri uses high doses of a single drug, pentobarbital, to carry out executions. The heavy sedative is typically used to euthanize animals. Collings was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Rowan Ford, his friend David Spears’ 9-year-old stepdaughter, in a crime that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and others have described as “vile, horrible and inhumane.” On the evening of Nov. 2, 2007, Spears was drinking with Collings and another friend, Nathan Mahurin, at his home in Stella, a small village in southwestern Missouri, while the young girl slept and her mother worked an overnight shift at Walmart, court records show. The men relocated at one point to Collings’ trailer in

Why the Syrian civil war is reigniting now – CBS News Watch CBS News Syria’s army and its allies are reported to have confronted an attack by forces affiliated with the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces in the north of the country. This comes after rebel fighters over the weekend took control of most of Aleppo. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D’Agata has more on why the fighting in Syria is heating up again. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Deputies in Illinois rescue pregnant woman whose car wouldn’t stop – CBS News Watch CBS News Video shows sheriff deputies in Illinois helped rescue a pregnant woman who called 911 after her car would not stop as she pressed the brakes. The runaway car was traveling about 30 mph toward a lake as a 911 dispatcher tried to guide the woman to safety before a deputy could stop her vehicle. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for DUI crash that killed bride on her wedding night – CBS News Watch CBS News A drunk driver pleaded guilty and was sentenced for a car crash that killed a bride on her wedding night in South Carolina in 2023. Investigators say Jamie Komoroski was driving 65 mph in a 25 mph zone when she crashed into the newlyweds’ golf cart. A toxicology report found her blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

What to know about Travel Tuesday deals – CBS News Watch CBS News In another round of post-Thanksgiving deals, an airfare tracking site says there’s an opportunity to save on your next trip. According to Hopper, last year there were nearly twice as many travel deals available on Travel Tuesday than there were on Cyber Monday or Black Friday. Transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has details on the deals. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Select Taco Bell drive-thrus nationwide will be transformed into a “one of a kind” photo booth experience to capture fans’ everyday “Live Mas” moments. Taco Bell rewards members in California, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Florida will be able to participate in the drive-thru photo booth experience. Some of the photos could end up in Taco Bell’s upcoming commercial during the Super Bowl, according to the chain. Iconic Taco Bell items from previous decades returning to 3 Southern California stores “Every day in our drive-thrus, we see moments that are so uniquely ‘our fans’ – the moments, the memories, and the energy that makes Taco Bell who we are,” Taco Bell’s Chief Marketing Officer Taylor Montgomery said in a statement. “That’s why, for our return to football’s biggest stage, we’re sidelining the celebrities and turning the camera on the fans who already make Taco Bell what it is.” The photo booth experience will be available at these locations for a limited time: Dec. 3 to Dec. 5: 1604 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90019 Dec. 4 to Dec. 6: 17565 E. Bagley Road, Middleburg

An investigation is underway after a Tesla crashed head-on into a Metro bus in the Rancho Park neighborhood of Los Angeles early Tuesday morning. Video taken shortly after midnight showed both the Tesla and the bus with major front-end damage. Witnesses said the Metro bus was parked on the street when the Tesla slammed into it. A Tesla crashed head-on into an MTA bus in Los Angeles on Dec. 3, 2024. (TNLA) The bus driver was believed to be the only person on the bus at the time of the crash. The conditions of both drivers were unclear. There was no immediate word on what may have caused the crash.

One person died and four others were injured when a pursuit came to a tragic end in Orange County’s Fountain Valley Monday night. It was unclear when the chase began but around 10 p.m. the suspect’s pickup truck slammed into another vehicle and overturned at Ellis Avenue and Magnolia Street. Video from the scene showed a white BMW was badly damaged in the crash. A pursuit ended in a rollover crash in Fountain Valley on Dec. 2, 2024. (TNLA) Fountain Valley police confirmed that one person was killed with at least four others injured and taken to area hospitals. It was unclear which vehicle the deceased person was in at the time of the crash. The driver of the pickup truck was taken into custody. There was no immediate word on what prompted the pursuit.

Some Californians were carving Halloween pumpkins and taking their kids trick-or-treating when they cast their ballots in this year’s election. Now they’re putting up Christmas trees while officials are still tallying votes in some places. With the vast majority of ballots counted, most of the races have been called by media organizations anyway, including some very close ones. In Orange County, Democrat Derek Tran was declared the winner in his race against incumbent Michelle Steel last week. With that and a race in Iowa called the same week, California now claims the distinction of being home to the last congressional race in the country that has yet to be called. That’s in the Central Valley’s 13th District, where, with an estimated 99% of the votes counted as of Monday afternoon, Democratic challenger Adam Gray was leading Republican Rep. John Duarte by 143 votes. That doesn’t mean everyone should keep hating on California for taking so long. First of all, we have more people than any other state. Second, every voter in the state is automatically mailed a ballot starting about a month before election day.

December 3, 2024 / 6:57 AM EST / CBS/AP Renewed fighting threatens Hezbollah truce Renewed fighting threatens fragile Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire 03:56 Israel unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people on Monday after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce violations. The projectiles were apparently the first time that Hezbollah took aim at Israeli forces after the 60-day ceasefire went into effect last Wednesday. The increasingly fragile truce aimed to end more than a year of war between Hezbollah and Israel – part of a wider regional conflict sparked by the devastating Israel-Hamas war in Gaza . In a possible sign of the ceasefire’s frailty — and a clear warning of the implications for Lebanon of it failing — Israeli Defense Minister Israeli Katz was cited by the country’s Army Radio network on Tuesday as warning that if the truce “collapses, we will act strongly and stop separating Hezbollah from the state of Lebanon.” Airstrikes, missile launches test shaky

Updated on: December 3, 2024 / 6:40 AM EST / CBS/AP Remains found on Mount Everest Remains found on Mount Everest could help solve 100-year-old mystery 00:33 Three mountain climbers from the U.S. and Canada are missing after they failed to return from a planned ascent of New Zealand’s highest peak, Aoraki, authorities said Tuesday, and rescue teams looking for them have found equipment belonging to the trio. The Americans – Kurt Blair, 56, from Colorado and Carlos Romero, 50, of California – are certified alpine guides, according to the website of the American Mountain Guides Association. A statement by New Zealand’s police did not name the Canadian climber, citing the need to notify his family. In a social media post, Silverton Avalanche School in Colorado said it had been notified by authorities in New Zealand that the climbers “appear to have taken a fatal fall from high upon the peak.” “It is with a heavy heart that we share that our friend and colleague Kurt Blair went missing and is presumed deceased while climbing Mt. Cook in New Zealand,” the school wrote. The men

MOSCOW —  Unlike during his first term in the White House, President-elect Donald Trump now appears determined to keep many of his campaign promises. His Cabinet nominations — from the Kremlin-friendly Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence to the conspiracy-loving vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services — confirm his commitment to a scorched-earth campaign against American institutions and perceived enemies “from within .” His victory speech suggests that he is serious about “stopping wars.” Trump has long asserted that he would end the Ukraine war within 24 hours of taking office. There has been much speculation about a negotiated settlement , and the scenarios all have one thing in common: Ukraine’s dismemberment. If this has to be the cost of peace, it is worth considering the grim history of territorial partition. Few events create such long-lasting enmity; fewer still have caused more devastating violence. The three partitions of Poland that took place in the late 18th century are perhaps Europe’s closest parallel to what may befall Ukraine. Beginning in 1772, Austria’s Habsburg monarchy, the Kingdom of Prussia and

My mom died at the end of 2023, right after her 83rd birthday. Which doesn’t sound all that remarkable — until I mention that she had been a victim of domestic partner abuse up until the year before her death. Mom hadn’t exactly been lucky in love. She had already buried four husbands (cancer, heart attack, COPD, cancer) by the time she met This Guy, who doesn’t deserve to be named here. But Mom never wanted to be alone. It was her deepest fear. She would get the look I get when I talk about sharks. She powered through her lack of computer skills and met This Guy online about eight years ago. We would joke that she had to import him from Tennessee because there were no good men left in western North Carolina. It was a long-distance relationship at first: She would cook for him at the house I’d helped her buy outside of Asheville, and drive to Tennessee to go to church with him. Eventually, he brought his two cats and moved into Mom’s house. I’d watched her go through this phase

The outcome of the 2024 election has resulted in no shortage of Democratic finger-pointing. While the postmortem and soul-searching are necessary, the tone and tenor of the blame game have begun to morph into something more insidious. In the last weeks we have seen an increasing demand for the Democratic party to abandon its association with political issues reflecting the “identity” of marginalized or vulnerable communities. While few constituencies have been spared recrimination, some of the most cynical and pernicious scapegoating has been reserved for the transgender community. This is deeply troubling because trans people are particularly vulnerable; with an estimated population of 1.6 million people nationwide , they are barely half of 1% of the U.S. adult population. Transgender people face a disproportionate amount of discrimination. In the last year, more than 500 anti-trans laws were introduced in state legislatures. Over $215 million was spent on political ads demonizing trans people — despite polling showing trans-related issues were not a top priority for most voters. And even Congress is forming its own anti-trans brigade to ban the country’s first trans congresswoman from using the

Before leaving office in January, President Biden can still do much to bolster Ukraine’s security, and our own. The need for greater U.S. aid is obvious from reports from the war zone. Last month, Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine crossed the 1,000-day mark. And just as it has since the first day of its invasion, the Russian military this past week relentlessly bombed not only Ukrainian army positions along the 600-mile front, but also houses, clinics, schools, power plants and factories all across Ukraine. You’ve seen footage of the utter destruction in Gaza from bombing campaigns: Imagine that on a scale of Texas, and you’ll have a sense of Ukrainians’ daily life. The attacks keep coming. In just one night last week, Russia launched a barrage of 188 missiles and drones aimed at 17 regions of Ukraine . The Kremlin also keeps waging disinformation. It has grossly misrepresented that overnight blitz as a “response” to new Western aid and made overblown claims about Russia’s experimental ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, that hit Ukraine’s major industrial city of Dnipro a few days earlier. And Ukraine is reporting

Crews search Monday night for a person believed missing in a crash that went unreported for nearly two days. (OnScene.TV) Authorities launched a search for a missing person Monday afternoon after learning that a car had tumbled hundreds of feet down a steep cliff near Point Mugu two days earlier. It’s unclear why one of the occupants of the vehicle waited days to report the incident, which took place off of Deer Creek Road northwest of the Malibu border on Saturday, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. The individual who eventually reported the crash managed to self-extricate from the mangled car and leave the scene in another vehicle — but did not call 911 that night, the Fire Department said. Firefighters told OnScene.TV that a white Cadillac SUV rolled over multiple times before coming to rest on its roof 1,000 feet below the road. On Monday afternoon, the occupant reported that two people who were in the car during the incident were missing, and a search was launched. Shortly after the search began, one of the passengers was located at home, the Fire Department

Updated on: December 3, 2024 / 6:13 AM EST / CBS/AFP Snake catcher removes snake from child’s bed Snake catcher removes venomous snake from child’s bed 00:34 A driver cruising down a highway in eastern Australia felt something on her foot and discovered a deadly tiger snake “slithering up her leg,” police said Sunday. Officers found her on the side of the Monash Freeway near Melbourne, barefoot and in a state of shock after her Friday morning encounter with the reptile, Victoria state police said in a news release titled: “Fangs on the freeway.” “The woman explained that she had been travelling at 80kph (50 mph) on the freeway when she felt something on foot and looked down to find a deadly tiger snake slithering up her leg,” police said in a statement. “Remarkably, she was able to fend the snake off her and weave through traffic before pulling over and leaping out of her car to safety.” A driver cruising down a highway in eastern Australia discovered a deadly tiger snake “slithering up her leg,” police said. Victoria State Police Tiger snakes, named after