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Culver City Police Department officials are addressing the public after an incident in which two people waiting for a rideshare were robbed at gunpoint.  The armed robbery occurred around 2 a.m. Saturday as the passengers were waiting along Kreuger Street near Higuera Street, a residential area two blocks south of Washington Boulevard, according to CCPD officials.  19-year-old fatally shot near his Los Angeles home after dropping sister off at work, family says The victims reported that a man approached them and demanded their bags and threatened to kill them if they contacted police.  The intersection of Higuera and Kreuger streets in Culver City, where two people were robbed at gunpoint while waiting for a rideshare on Dec. 21, 2024. (KTLA) “He took the property and then fled on foot,” Culver City Police Department Public Information Officer Jennifer Atenza confirmed to KTLA. “We are asking the public if they have any additional information, or if they witnessed anything, to please reach out to the Culver City Police Department.”  No suspect information was released by authorities.  

A Southern California police department reminded the public that Proposition 36 went into effect last week by releasing a video from earlier this month of two shoplifting suspects talking about the new law while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. The video showing the Dec. 4 incident was posted Sunday night on the Seal Beach Police Department’s Instagram page. The two suspects were among three women seen on surveillance video walking into an Ulta Beauty store and then walking out with bags full of merchandise. Police indicated the suspects took $648 from the store. Two shoplifting suspects talk in the back of a patrol car on Dec. 4, 2024. (Seal Beach Police Department via Instagram) The same three women were seen in another video entering a Kohl’s department store where they allegedly took around $1,000 worth of goods. Dashcam video shows police chasing down the suspects and taking them into custody. While in the back of a patrol car, two of the suspects are overheard talking about the new shoplifting laws. “It’s a felony?” one of the women turns and says. The other

This column is the latest in a series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” Read the previous installment, about mourning the last first day of school, here . My children exist in part because of the University of California system. It was Gov. Pat Brown’s Master Plan for Higher Education, designed to guarantee every high school graduate in the state the opportunity to attend college, that helped my father-in-law convince his wife that they should move from her small hometown in Indiana to the planned community of Lakewood. There were, of course, a million factors that led me to meet my husband of 26 years. But one thing is for sure: It wouldn’t have happened if he had stayed in Indiana. So I have many reasons to be grateful to the UC system. Reasons I try to remember as our family faces, for the third and final time, the stomach-churning experience of attempting to be accepted into it. As millions of parents and students know, the college admissions process has become increasingly ghastly. Long gone are the days

The family of a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death is raising money for her funeral Monday through a GoFundMe page and having a car wash and bake sale this weekend. Angelina Camillia Gonzales was a cheerleader at Azusa High School and her family told ABC 7 she was found fatally stabbed at an ex-boyfriend’s house on Friday. The suspect, an 18-year-old man who has not been identified by police, is in custody and the case has been submitted to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. “When I got there, there was already crime scene tape up and forensics and all kinds of stuff. And I ran up to the officers like, hey, my daughter’s in there. You know, my daughter is in there I’m trying to find her. She’s not home. And that’s when they told me, sit aside for a minute,” Robert Caraballo, Angelina’s stepfather, told ABC 7. Angelina recently joined the Azusa High wrestling team and her 18th birthday was supposed to be on Jan. 7. “It’s unreal, like just the fact that you know, anyone could bring themselves to

A 5-year-old boy was reported dead, possibly from drowning in a backyard swimming pool, authorities said Monday. The emergency was reported at 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the 16000 block of Sigman Street at Stimson Avenue, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Deputy Jacob Sivley told City News Service. The initial call was about a child not breathing, possibly due to drowning, Sivley said. It was confirmed to news media at the scene that the child had died. Sheriff’s homicide detectives were dispatched to the scene, Sivley said.

James Beard Award winning chef Masako Morishita on path to success – CBS News Watch CBS News Masako Morishita, this year’s James Beard Award winner for emerging chef, has only been cooking professionally for a few years. Jan Crawford shows how her culinary journey in Washington, D.C., started with an unexpected twist. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

NFL playoff picture comes into focus as regular season nears its end – CBS News Watch CBS News James Brown, host of “The NFL Today” on CBS, breaks down the big NFL games over the weekend and what the AFC and NFC playoff pictures look like ahead of the final weeks of the season. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

After several years of decline, California’s population grew by almost a quarter of a million residents in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, a rebound that brings the Golden State almost back to its pre-pandemic numbers. The numbers are not all rosy. California experienced a slower growth rate than the country as a whole, particularly large states in the fast-growing South. It also experienced the nation’s largest domestic migration loss. But experts say California’s new population figures represent an important turnaround. “The big picture is California is growing again,” said Hans Johnson, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. “It shows California has a pretty healthy growth rate… The number of people who are coming into the state from abroad has increased, the number of people leaving for other states has decreased. There are still substantial flows to other states, but that’s not as large as it was.” While California’s population gain of 232,570 people from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, represents the largest numeric population increase in the nation’s West, it lagged behind Texas, which expanded its population

President Biden commutes sentences of most federal death row inmates to life without parole – CBS News Watch CBS News President Biden announced he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the nation’s 40 federal death row inmates to life without the possibility of parole. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe has the latest. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Updated on: December 23, 2024 / 7:28 AM EST / CBS/AFP Philippines, China clash could draw in U.S. U.S. could be drawn into clash between Philippines, China as tensions rise | 60 Minutes 13:27 FILE PHOTO: A Chinese Coast Guard ship with hull number 4203 is seen closely shadowing the convoy of Filipino fishing boats and a Philippine Coast Guard ship, on May 16, 2024, less 80 Nautical Miles from the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. Getty The Philippines said Monday it planned to acquire the U.S. Typhon missile system as part of a push to secure its maritime interests, sparking warnings from China of a regional “arms race.” The U.S. Army deployed the mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines earlier this year for annual joint military exercises with its longtime ally and decided to leave it there despite criticism by Beijing that it was destabilizing to Asia. Philippine Army Chief Lieutenant-General Roy Galido told a news conference on Monday that the missile system would be “acquired because we see its feasibility and its functionality in our concept of archipelagic defense implementation.” “I’m

An illegal fireworks show lit up the night sky in one Los Angeles County city over the weekend. The display occurred Saturday night in Compton and startled many unsuspecting residents. Several people lined the street near the city’s Department of Motor Vehicles as the show went off. Video showed multiple explosions that could be heard from miles away. Fireworks explode in the night sky above Compton on Dec. 21, 2024. (Citizen) One video showed a fire erupting nearby, although officials have not confirmed what was burning or whether it was related to the illegal show. There was no immediate word on who planned or paid for the display. It was unclear if anyone was injured or if any arrests were made.

Luigi Mangione due in New York court on state charges Luigi Mangione due in New York court on state charges 02:02 NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione is due in a New York courtroom Monday to face state charges in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month outside a Manhattan hotel.  State prosecutors allege Mangione was found in possession of what is believed to be the murder weapon , and surveillance videos show a man matching his description before and after the attack , including outside the Hilton where Thompson was shot in the back .  Mangione is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after he appeared in federal court last week . A key difference between the state and federal charges is that the state argues the shooting was an act of terrorism . Additionally, the federal charges open the possibility of the death penalty. Luigi Mangione facing both state and federal charges The 26-year-old was flanked by heavily armed guards as he was extradited from Pennsylvania to New York last Thursday . He then appeared in federal court on

Pablo Larraín practically sings when he talks about music. He was listening to John Coltrane on his walk over to the Beverly Hills Four Seasons to chat with The Envelope — he’s on a Coltrane kick — and lately he’s also been enjoying French prog-rock band Magma, opera singer Jessye Norman and some new interpretations of various classical masterworks. He picks up his AirPods case and says: “This is the most important weapon that I have.” The Chilean director of “Maria,” which stars Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas, is clearly a well-versed lover of cinema — but he says he wouldn’t actually consider himself a true cinephile. “I think I know more about music than movies,” he says. “It’s my life. Music, for me, is the most beautiful and poetic expression that humans have created. I have this fascination toward the exercise of music as the ultimate poetic act.” This was, in part, what drew him to making a prismatic study of Callas. His previous two films in English, “Jackie” and “Spencer,” similarly explored female icons of the 20th century, both also meditations

On Christmas Day in Great Britain, after the presents have been unwrapped, the crackers cracked and the figgy pudding done away with, the people have traditionally turned to television, where major series air special episodes and the monarch addresses the nation (and commonwealth). “Television has made it possible for many of you to see me in your homes on Christmas Day,” said Queen Elizabeth II on that first broadcast in 1957. “My own family also gather ’round to watch television, as they are at this moment, and that is how I imagine you now.” That speech was broadcast from Sandringham House, a royal residence in Norfolk, England. Perhaps not coincidentally, Sandringham is the name of a London hotel where much of the action of this year’s “Doctor Who” Christmas Day special, “Joy to the World” — coming to America on Disney+ — takes place. Not coincidentally, its main character is named Joy (Nicola Coughlan). Holiday episodes have been a feature of the series since 2014, when “The Christmas Invasion” gave Tenth Doctor David Tennant his first full episode, just as “The Church on Ruby Road”

When Adam Pearson was young, he rubbed elbows with celebrities. “I was at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, one of the best pediatric institutes in the world,” he recalls of the London facility, “and they often had famous people come in to meet the kids. I met Boyzone, a big Irish boy band in the ’90s. The other one was Princess Diana.” The British actor was 5 when he was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis Type 1, a condition that resulted in the growth of large tumors across his face. Those tumors would often cause passersby to gawk cruelly, which made Pearson feel an unlikely kinship with the notable figures who stopped by the hospital. “I was like, ‘Oh, these people get the same staring and pointing I do, but people seem to like them.’ I wasn’t resentful, it was just an observation I made as a 12-year-old: ‘Oh, OK, that’s fascinating.’” Decades later, Pearson, who turns 40 in January, is on a Zoom call from London alongside his co-star Sebastian Stan, beaming in from New York, to discuss their thought-provoking, satirical film “A Different Man,” which

No two filmmakers travel the same path to their chosen profession. RaMell Ross has traveled one unlike that of almost anyone else to direct his lauded feature debut, “Nickel Boys.” Before adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was a documentarian, and before that a photographer. His initial desire to pick up a camera was, as much as anything else, born of a need to make sense of heartbreak. “I was having so much depression and so much tragedy in my life,” recalls Ross, the wall-length windows at MGM’s Los Angeles offices looking out to the Hollywood Hills behind him. Now in his early 40s, he was 21 at the time, a young man who had always been into video games and basketball. “I was supposed to go to the NBA, but I had all these injuries. I lost basketball, and then I also lost my mom. You lose the two things that are your first loves, you can either go into drugs and eventually die or f— your life up … or maybe you can excel. That’s when I started taking photos.” Capturing images

My earliest memories of food are of family barbecues. My late father grew up on a cattle ranch in Uruguay, where there are three times as many cows as people. It’s one of the world’s top consumers of beef per capita ; Uruguayans eat an average of 200 pounds of meat a year. Meanwhile, my mother is from Kansas City, Mo., which is renowned for its slow-smoked barbecue. So when I decided to switch to a plant-based diet in 2007, it was an understatement to say that my parents and I were at odds. I wasn’t just cutting out a food group from my diet, but a significant aspect of my cultural identity. I was born in California in 1989. But when I was three, my family moved to Uruguay. I have an early memory at the butcher where my abuela placed two massive cow tongues — one in each of my hands — and asked me which one felt heavier. The tongue was for an asado, a cultural tradition started by gauchos (Uruguayan cowboy cattle ranchers) of grilling meat on a parrilla, which is

December 23, 2024 / 6:11 AM EST / CBS/AFP Russian, North Korean diplomats meet Russian, North Korean diplomats meet as troops move toward Ukraine 04:30 One thousand, one hundred North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine , and Pyongyang may be preparing to deploy more North Korean soldiers to the region , South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Monday. The information follows a report by Seoul’s spy agency last week that said at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed since entering combat in December. Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to reinforce the Russian military, including to the Kursk border region where Ukrainian forces seized territory earlier this year. “Through various sources of information and intelligence, we assess that North Korean troops who have recently engaged in combat with Ukrainian forces have suffered around 1,100 casualties,” the JCS said in a statement. “We are particularly interested in the possibility of additional deployments” of North Korean soldiers to aid Russia’s war effort, the JCS said, adding that Pyongyang is reportedly “preparing for the rotation or additional

By Darius Tahir December 23, 2024 / 5:00 AM EST / KFF Health News Eye on America: AI revolution Eye on America: AI advancements in health care, cosmetics and beyond 19:37 Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk about a patient’s treatment and end-of-life preferences by an artificially intelligent algorithm that predicts the chances of death. But it’s far from being a set-it-and-forget-it tool. A routine tech checkup revealed the algorithm decayed during the covid-19 pandemic, getting 7 percentage points worse at predicting who would die, according to a 2022 study. There were likely real-life impacts. Ravi Parikh, an Emory University oncologist who was the study’s lead author, told KFF Health News the tool failed hundreds of times to prompt doctors to initiate that important discussion — possibly heading off unnecessary chemotherapy — with patients who needed it. He believes several algorithms designed to enhance medical care weakened during the pandemic , not just the one at Penn Medicine. “Many institutions are

Tips to staying healthy this winter Doctor on how to avoid getting sick this winter 03:41 It’s that time of year! People are spreading holiday cheer — and germs, leading to sicknesses like COVID, flu, RSV , pneumonia and more. But how long are you contagious? Dr. Carla Garcia Carreno, Children’s Medical Center Plano director of infection prevention and control, is already seeing upticks in RSV, COVID and flu in her area, she told CBS News.  Luckily, there are ways to help prevent illness, including social distancing, washing our hands and getting vaccinated .  But if you do end up coming down with something, here’s what to know to keep others safe this holiday season.  How long is COVID contagious? People with COVID-19 can be infectious from one to two days before and up to eight to 10 days after symptoms begin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  “The majority of transmission appears to occur during the early periods of infection, particularly in the 1 to 2 days before symptoms start and within the first few days of symptom onset,” its website notes. 

By Michael Kaplan Updated on: December 23, 2024 / 8:49 AM EST / CBS News House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz Final draft of House ethics report alleges Matt Gaetz used drugs, paid for sex with a minor 01:57 Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News. Those were among the findings of the long-running investigation by the House Ethics Committee into Gaetz, which concluded the former Florida congressman violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office. “The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the 37-page report concludes. On Monday, Gaetz filed a lawsuit