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It’s unclear what Vice President Kamala Harris will do after losing the presidential election, but should she run for California governor, support among state residents is seemingly strong, new polling suggests. In a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by The Los Angeles Times, nearly half of the state’s voters would be very or somewhat likely to support a Harris bid for governor. The poll found that 46% of likely voters were somewhat (13%) or very (33%) likely to support her for governor in 2026. The 2026 governor race is already crowded, with several well-known candidates already setting their eyes on the state’s top office.  Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, former state Controller Betty Yee, former Los Angeles Mayor and Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond have all entered the 2026 race. The race will be California’s first open gubernatorial race in eight years. The current state governor, Gavin Newsom, was elected in 2018 and is currently completing his second term. Due to term limits, he’s unable to run again. Harris

WASHINGTON —  Theodore B. Olson, the conservative attorney who helped win the right to gay marriage in California, died Wednesday at age 84. Olson was a good-spirited and gracious advocate who won landmark conservative rulings from the Supreme Court. They included the Bush vs. Gore decision that made George W. Bush the president, and the Citizens United ruling that struck down the bans on campaign spending. Four years ago, he represented so-called Dreamers in a Supreme Court immigration case and won a 5-4 ruling that blocked the first Trump administration from repealing protection for the young immigrants who came to this country with their parents. Olson surprised many when he agreed to lead the challenge to California’s Proposition 8 and its ban on same-sex marriages. “I wanted to convey the message that this was not Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, that this is about human rights and human decency,” he said in an interview with The Times. Olson sued on behalf of two gay couples, and Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that it was unconstitutional discrimination to deny them the right to marry. The proponents of

Rep. Ken Calvert, the longest-serving Republican member of California’s congressional delegation, will return to the U.S. House of Representatives next year after defeating Democrat Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor, in a hotly contested race to represent a Riverside County swing district. Calvert’s narrow victory comes amid a decisive rightward shift in American politics, with voters sending President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House and Republicans seizing control of the U.S. Senate from Democrats. The Associated Press called the race on Wednesday, though official results will take more time. Calvert’s win brought the House within one vote of Republican control, according to the Associated Press. The GOP captured control of the Senate last week. Calvert declared victory Monday, saying in a statement posted on social media that “this is a hard-fought victory that shows voters want someone who will put results over partisan politics.” “Together, we’ll continue working to secure our border, bring down prices for working families, and ensure law enforcement has all the tools they need to keep our communities safe,” he wrote. That night, Rollins did not concede, writing in a

Uno a uno los fue esperando y cada uno de ellos la recibió con los ojos bien abiertos acompañados de una gran sonrisa, como si los Reyes Magos hubieran llegado para darles su regalos. “¡Oh guau! ¡Muy bacano!”, expresó el capitán y líder de la Selección Colombia, James Rodríguez, mientras tomaba su versión del “balón pintado” de la artista María Rueda. “Está muy chevere, gracias”. Rueda aprovechó la presencia del seleccionado colombiano que se concentraba en Barranquilla, donde ella vive y en donde se ubica el Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, la casa del tricolor durante la eliminatoria de Conmebol al Mundial de 2026. El onceno enfrentaría a Chile, a quien goleó por un juego válido de la Jornada 10 para las Eliminatorias al Mundial de 2026 que se realizará en Estados Unidos, México y Canadá. Rueda había visitado previamente a varios miembros del equipo como Richard Rios, Daniel Muñoz y Luis Díaz para hacer entrega de unos balones pintados que se convirtieron en una sensación en las redes sociales. “¡Qué maravilla, qué maravilla!”, exclamó el entrenador de la Selección Colombia, Néstor Lorenzo. “¿Vos lo pintaste?

A two-week law enforcement “surge” operation in San Bernardino County resulted in dozens of arrests and the recovery of several illegal guns and stolen vehicles, officials announced Wednesday. The surge operation, conducted by the California Highway Patrol, led to 64 arrests, the recovery of 11 stolen vehicles, and the seizure of five illegal firearms. Five illegal firearms recovered during a November 2024 law enforcement surge in San Bernardino are displayed in an image from the California Highway Patrol. Surge operations like this one in the city of San Bernardino are meant to curb crime with the help of local law enforcement and additional support from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. “In just two weeks, the CHP surge in San Bernardino has taken aggressive action to arrest over 60 criminal suspects and take illegal firearms off the streets,” said Newsom. “I am encouraged by the quick progress we’ve seen.” San Bernardino has one of the highest violent crime rates in the state, with its homicide rate over three times the statewide average, state officials said. The city also struggles with elevated rates of vehicle theft and

President-elect Trump announced Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) will serve as his attorney general, tapping a loyal congressional ally who himself was the subject of a Justice Department investigation. “It is my Great Honor to announce that Congressman Matt Gaetz, of Florida, is hereby nominated to be The Attorney General of the United States. Matt is a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William & Mary College of Law, who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System. Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.”  Trump went on to highlight Gaetz playing “a key role in defeating the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax.” The Florida congressman is the latest in a string of nominations of those who aligned with Trump amid his first impeachment investigation. The announcement comes as Trump has called for retribution against numerous adversaries

By Robert Legare Updated on: November 13, 2024 / 5:35 PM EST / CBS News Trump to nominate Gaetz as attorney general Trump to nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general 16:58 President-elect Donald Trump will nominate longtime ally GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general , according to a social media post on his Truth Social account. “Matt is a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William & Mary College of Law, who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice,” Trump wrote Wednesday.  U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, is seen outside the U.S. Capitol after the last votes before the August recess on July 25, 2024. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Gaetz currently represents Florida’s 1st District in the House of Representatives, an office he’s held since 2017.  “Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump said.  Responding to Trump’s announcement, Gaetz said, “It will

Why millions of Americans could lose health insurance subsidies – CBS News Watch CBS News Millions of Americans could lose enhanced subsidies that currently help with the cost of health insurance purchased through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, according to experts. CBS MoneyWatch reporter Megan Cerullo has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

The Los Angeles Police Department announced Wednesday the arrest of a homeless man suspected of raping several women, prompting investigators to search for additional victims. Police officials said in a written statement that the suspect, identified as 37-year-old Kenneth Alan Woolfolk, has been linked to a total of at least four rape cases. His arrest comes more than a week after a woman reported to police that she had been raped by a man in a tent near the intersection of 1st and Judge John Aiso streets in Little Tokyo. Police said she described her attacker as an adult male, bald and with brown eyes, standing 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 160 lbs. As part of the investigation, the department said, detectives in the case returned to the area on Oct. 10 when they noticed a man fitting the description of the woman’s attacker. Detectives detained the man, later identified as Woolfolk, and placed him under arrest on suspicion of rape. During the investigation, detectives learned about three previous sexual assault investigations that had identified Woolfolk as a suspect. Police said they’re now

There’s a moment in the middle of “Red One,” the Christmas-themed action-comedy starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, where you witness the movie just roll over and die. Time of death? A slap contest during Krampusnacht, the alternative St. Nicholas Day, in which a bunch of extras wearing rubber monster masks foraged from the set of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” stand around and watch as an unrecognizable Kristofer Hivju (the “Game of Thrones” actor playing Krampus) and Johnson take turns walloping each other across the face. Momentum grinding to a halt, the absurdities and indignities that unfolded before this point are all but forgotten, lost in a swirl of badly rendered pixels. The rest of the film is a limp to the finish line, not that it was all that spry to begin with. But is it sinewy? Yes. “Red One,” with a story by Hiram Garcia (Johnson’s former brother-in-law and producing partner), is a movie premised upon the most trenchant of questions: What if Santa Claus was jacked? J.K. Simmons provides the biceps as the St. Nick in question, a buff Father Christmas. Every

Two years after its launch, Amazon’s free ad-supported streaming service Freevee is shutting down, the company confirmed this week. Shows that play on the app will be available for free on Amazon’s Prime Video service even if a viewer does not pay for a subscription. Freevee, which got its start as Amazon’s IMDb TV but adopted its current name in 2022, is one of a handful of streaming services that rely on ads for revenue instead of paying subscribers. Paramount Global’s Pluto TV and Fox Corp.’s Tubi have similar models. “To deliver a simpler viewing experience for customers, we have decided to phase out Freevee branding,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. “There will be no change to the content available for Prime members, and a vast offering of free streaming content will still be accessible for non-Prime members, including select Originals from Amazon MGM Studios, a variety of licensed movies and series, and a broad library of FAST Channels.” The change comes about 10 months after Prime Video launched a lower-cost option for subscribers that included advertisements. For an additional $3 per month

The cell phone ban at the country’s second-largest school district will begin early next year, and now officials are detailing just how the massive change will take effect. The Los Angeles Unified School District voted to ban cell phone use during the school day in June. It’s set to go into effect on Feb. 18, 2025, which is about a month later than the original implementation date. The headliner of the policy: cell phones won’t be permitted to be used on campus from the start of the school day through the end — not even during lunch or scheduled breaks. Bear cub spotted in tree outside Southern California high school The ban applies to all “smart” devices, like watches and tablets that have messaging and internet browsing capabilities. Each individual school will decide how phones are stored or locked up during the school day. Some, for example, may have students to place their phones inside of containers located in each classroom during instruction, while others could require them to be stowed inside of their backpacks. Examples of ways schools could force students to store their phones

Sales of Disneyland Magic Key passes have been paused once again after going on sale on Nov. 6. All four tiers of the annual passes, the Inspire key, the Believe key, the Enchant key, and the Imagine key, are only available for renewal. Disneyland offers specialty ticket deal for Disney+ subscribers The keys give park guests access to the parks on select dates, depending on availability and pass type. Passholders also receive select discounts on food and merchandise, as well as Lightning Lane Multi-Pass+, the park’s paid line-skipping service that replaced the FastPass program. In October, Magic Key prices increased from 14%. Disneyland launched the Magic Key program in August 2021 after retiring the popular annual passports during a yearlong shutdown of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will join forces to lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE, for short), President-elect Donald Trump announced. But what will the department do? Named in an apparent nod to the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin, DOGE is not actually a government agency. Instead, it will work outside the government to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement. The specifics of how the department will operate aren’t yet known, but it’s clear its two leads, Musk and Ramaswamy, will wield influence under the Trump administration, partnering with the Office of Management and Budget and advising the president. “It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” Trump said. Could financial struggles for 2 major airlines affect holiday travel? DOGE is on a deadline. It will finish work by July 4, 2026, according to Trump’s statement. “A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence,” he wrote. Musk, billionaire founder of Tesla and

A high school in Orange County closed Wednesday following an “unspecified threat,” and now school officials are looking for information surrounding it.  According to a release sent out to parents of students at Brea Olinda High School in Brea, the school stated that officials were first notified of the threat on Tuesday evening.  The threat, which was circulating on social media, contained an image of two firearms and the following text on the image: “look out for tomorrow, @bohs,” school officials said.  The school and district immediately reported the threat to local law enforcement, who have since launched an investigation.  Victims, suspect in deadly grocery store shooting in Los Angeles are all teenagers: LAPD “Ensuring the safety and well-being of students, staff and the community is the school’s highest priority,” BOHS said in their release, which was issued the same day as officials learned of the threat. “As a precaution, and since the threat could not be [immediately] confirmed as non-credible or credible, officials have made the decision to cancel all classes and school activities at BOHS scheduled for Nov. 13.”  No other schools in

By Nikki Nolan Updated on: November 13, 2024 / 4:17 PM EST / CBS News What the models agree on for November’s next tropical storm What the models agree on for November’s next tropical storm 03:34 The last day of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season is Nov. 30, but as we near that finishing line, the Caribbean has other thoughts in mind, with a potential tropical system brewing.   The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday afternoon that Potential Tropical Cyclone 19 has formed in the western Caribbean. If it reaches tropical storm strength, the  next name on the list  is Sara.  Hurricane hunters took off from Biloxi, Mississippi, at 12 p.m. ET Wednesday en route to investigate this area and determine the strength and structure of the developing weather system. Another flight is scheduled for Thursday morning for additional monitoring.  Map shows area in the western Caribbean with a 90% chance of tropical weather formation in the coming days, as of Nov. 13, 2024. CBS News With the low pressure system in place in the western Caribbean, conditions were favorable for the formation of a tropical

We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. A HELOC allows homeowners to access their home equity at today’s lower interest rates. AnastasiaNi/Getty Images If you were looking to access your home equity in recent years, you may have steered clear of home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) . And the reasoning was clear: HELOCs have variable interest rates subject to change for borrowers every month. That’s an advantage when interest rates are cooling but a distinct disadvantage when they’re on the rise, as they were for much of 2022 and 2023.  But as inflation cooled and other economic factors improved, interest rates came down again. The Federal Reserve issued its first cut to the federal funds rate in more than four years in September with a larger-than-anticipated 50 basis point reduction. And they issued another cut in November , albeit in a smaller 25 basis point amount. Expectations are also high that they’ll continue to cut rates in December, assuming this week’s inflation report was an outlier instead of the first of

The science behind our tears Why we cry when we’re sad, happy or stressed 05:08 Why do we weep? There are actually some good reasons for it — and an explanation for why a little blubbering can make us feel better.  On “CBS Mornings Plus” Wednesday, Dr. Gail Saltz, an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, shared there are actually different types of tears, which serve different purposes.  Some tears cleanse your eyes and keep them moist.  “Those are ophthalmological issues, and they’re very different from emotional tears — social-emotional tears — which can be related to sadness, stress, anxiety, but also overwhelming joy, something that’s poignant.” Those social-emotional tears, she said, “have to do with deep brain structure, emotional intensity and subsequently this release of tears, and they contain different compounds like stress hormones, like cortisol and endorphins.” These types of tears are helpful because they provide an emotional release — what some refer to as  “a good cry.” “Those risen hormones that make you so stressed and so upset, they decrease after the cry, so

November 13, 2024 / 3:03 PM EST / CBS/AP Idaho women denied abortions testify in trial Idaho women denied abortions testify in trial 02:10 Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion bans told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that pregnancy complications would put their own health in danger. “We felt like we were being made refugees, medical refugees,” said Jennifer Adkins, one of the plaintiffs in the case. The women, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, aren’t asking for the state’s abortion ban to be overturned. Instead, they want the judge to clarify and expand the exceptions to the strict ban so that people facing serious pregnancy complications can receive abortions before they are at death’s door. Currently, the state’s near-total ban makes performing an abortion a felony at any stage of pregnancy unless it is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.” Adkins’ fetus had a severe

A Lancaster teenager pleaded guilty Wednesday to making hundreds of “swatting” calls targeting religious institutions, schools and government officials with false threats of mass shootings, bombings and other violent crimes. Alan Filion, 18, entered his plea in federal court in Miami, Florida to four counts of making interstate threats to injure another person, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. “For well over a year, Alan Filion targeted religious institutions, schools, government officials, and other innocent victims with hundreds of false threats of imminent mass shootings, bombings and other violent crimes,” Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement. “He caused profound fear and chaos and will now face the consequences of his actions.” Filion faces up to 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to his plea agreement, Filion admitted making more than 375 threatening calls from August 2022 to last January, including calls in which he claimed to have planted bombs and/or would conduct mass shootings at the locations. Filion was 16 at the time he placed the majority of the calls, prosecutors said.

Former Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, edged ahead of state Sen. Richard Roth in the race to fill the soon-to-be-vacant seat on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, turning the contest into a dead heat as thousands of ballots remain uncounted. Medina and Roth are contending for the District 1 seat up for grabs with the year-end retirement of decade-long Supervisor Kevin Jeffries of Lakeland Village. Roth, D-Riverside, had enjoyed a nearly 10% margin over Medina on election night last week, but that spread compressed daily until the latest vote tabulation published Tuesday night by the Office of the Registrar of Voters showed Medina out front by roughly 350 votes, or .3%. An estimated 105,000 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots have yet to be tabulated. The next update on the count is slated for Wednesday night. Roth, who will term out of the state Senate in December, was an Air Force major general stationed in the area before entering politics. He spotlighted as accomplishments since 2012 securing funding for the UC Riverside School of Medicine and funds to increase the number of judicial officers countywide. “I’m running