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Inside Notre Dame Cathedral’s recovery from its 2019 fire to Saturday’s reopening – CBS News Watch CBS News Saturday was a special day in Paris as Notre Dame Cathedral held its first mass in more than five years after a fire in April 2019 destroyed much of the cathedral’s roof. Senior foreign correspondent Seth Doane has been following the renovation over the years. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Updated on: December 9, 2024 / 9:04 AM EST / CBS News Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut are giving us a preview of awards season on Monday as they announce the 2025 Golden Globes nominees for each of the 27 award categories — with 10 of the nominations exclusively revealed on “CBS Mornings.” It’s another big year for TV and film, filled with gripping seasons, popular sequels and record-breaking achievements. Over the summer, “Inside Out 2” topped “Frozen 2” to become the highest-grossing animated film ever. Meanwhile, Disney’s “Moana 2” just set a Thanksgiving box office record while “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” battled for ticket sales.  In 2024, “Barbie” and “Succession” were the big names — each tied with nine nominations , followed by “Oppenheimer” scoring eight. Nikki Glaser will be the first woman to solo host the Golden Globes, which will air live on CBS on Sunday, Jan. 5 at 8 p.m. ET and stream on Paramount+. Glaser called the opportunity “scary” but “thrilling” but said she was up to the challenge. “I’m extremely appreciative of this role I play. It’s the pinnacle of

December 9, 2024 / 9:02 AM EST / CBS/AFP Manila — A volcano briefly erupted in the central Philippines on Monday, sending a huge ash column high into the sky as the government ordered the evacuation of surrounding villages. Rising more than 8,000 feet above sea level on the central island of Negros, Kanlaon is one of 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines . A nearly four-minute eruption Monday afternoon sending a 2.5-mile ash column above the crater and a deadly spurt of hot ash, gases and fragmented volcanic rock about 2 miles down the mountain’s southeast flank, officials told a news conference. They warned that more explosive eruptions could follow shortly. “Getting hit by these pyroclastic density currents is like being run over by a high-speed vehicle,” said Maria Antonia Bornas, volcano monitoring chief of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. A screengrab from video shared by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology shows the Mt. Kanlaon volcano erupting on Dec. 9, 2024.  Philippine Information Agency/PHIVOLCS “If the ash enters your lungs it would cause asphyxiation,” she said, urging local officials to

Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” ends after 2-year run – CBS News Watch CBS News After a two-year run that brought in a record-breaking $2 billion, Taylor Swift wrapped up her “Eras Tour” on Sunday night in Vancouver. Nancy Chen looks back at the historic show. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A massive fire left the roof of a Denny’s restaurant partially collapsed in the City of Commerce early Monday morning. The blaze was reported shortly after 2 a.m. at the Denny’s located at 7268 E. Gage Ave., A Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson confirmed. Video showed flames burning through the roof of the restaurant, which was open at the time. A fire tears through the roof of a Denny’s in Commerce on Dec. 9, 2024. (KTLA) A Denny’s employee told KTLA two people were inside at the time of the fire and were able to get out safely. No customers were in the building and no injuries were reported. Guests staying at a Best Western Plus located on the same property had to temporarily evacuate the building, including one who said she heard an explosion. Witness Marie Whiting described the scene. “There were a lot of big orange flames shooting out the top … It took quite a while for them to get the fire out,” Whitting said. Firefighters extinguished the blaze shortly before 3:30 a.m. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

WASHINGTON —  President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that members of Congress who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection should be imprisoned. “Honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said of elected officials who led the investigation, speaking in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” One of those investigators, former Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), is slated to be sworn in Monday as California’s junior U.S. senator. Schiff served on the Jan. 6 committee and led the first impeachment trial of Trump. Trump said Sunday he would not direct his administration to pursue such prosecutions and would leave the decision up to Pam Bondi, his pick for attorney general. He also said he would “most likely” pardon his supporters who were convicted in the riot. President Biden is considering whether to issue preemptive pardons to protect potential targets of revenge prosecution, including Schiff. In a Sunday post on X accompanied by a clip of the interview, Schiff wrote: “Prosecuting the truth-tellers. Pardoning perpetrators of political violence. That’s not what democracies do. That’s what dictators do.” Schiff won the election to replace outgoing Sen. Laphonza Butler

In Los Angeles, a city desperate for homeless housing, one project that will fill some of that need has been unconscionably delayed for years. The City Council has already approved it twice, most recently two years ago. This week, city officials have a chance to show they are serious about getting that project built. On Wednesday, the California Coastal Commission will take up the Venice Dell Community project, which will provide 117 units, including 68 for homeless supportive housing and the remainder for low-income affordable housing, on a city-owned 2.65-acre parking lot in Venice not far from the beach. Commission staff already recommends the project receive a coastal development permit. The Coastal Commission should approve that. And any official from the city who shows up at that meeting should support the project. Not doing so would be a disgrace. The Venice Dell Community project has been in the works for seven years. After meeting with the community and taking their concerns into account, the nonprofit developers, Venice Community Housing and Hollywood Community Housing Corp., were approved by the L.A. City Council for a development agreement

A massive fire left the roof of a Denny’s restaurant partially collapsed in the City of Commerce early Monday morning. The blaze was reported shortly after 2 a.m. at the Denny’s located at 7268 E. Gage Ave., A Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson confirmed. Video showed flames burning through the roof of the restaurant, which was open at the time. A fire tears through the roof of a Denny’s in Commerce on Dec. 9, 2024. (KTLA) A Denny’s employee told KTLA two people were inside at the time of the fire and were able to get out safely. No customers were in the building and no injuries were reported. Guests staying at a Best Western Plus located on the same property had to temporarily evacuate the building, including one who said she heard an explosion. Witness Marie Whiting described the scene. “There were a lot of big orange flames shooting out the top … It took quite a while for them to get the fire out,” Whitting said. Firefighters extinguished the blaze shortly before 3:30 a.m. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Shortly after noon Sunday, the waters eight miles off the coast of Newport Beach were broken by an unusual, if not majestic, sight. A several-ton humpback whale broke through the surface and leaped into the sky, like a Pacific Life insurance commercial, scattering adjacent seabirds while opening its massive mouth to consume anchovies near the surface. Wildlife photographer Mark Girardeau captured the moment via a drone, something that has become more common in the last few weeks. For the last two months, Orange County waters have become Southern California’s own humpback hangout. “I’ve been working in this area for 10 years and I’ve never seen this crazy level of humpback whales,” Girardeau said. “But they’re here and it’s incredible.” Girardeau also works as a deckhand for Newport Coastal Adventure , which offers ocean tours and sightseeing excursions. In a normal year, Girardeau would be pointing out dolphins, along with fin and minke whales, to tourists in search of sea life. The humpbacks started popping up recently, following massive schools of anchovies, a typical food source. While it’s normal to see humpbacks in Monterey Bay or

Search continues for murder weapon in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting Search continues for murder weapon in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting 02:48 NEW YORK — The manhunt in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder continues to expand.  Police have been searching Central Park for clues , both on land and in water, as U.S. Marshals work to figure out where the person of interest boarded a bus to New York City.  Central Park dive teams looking for murder weapon NYPD divers searched the lake in Central Park on Dec. 7, 2024, looking for the weapon used in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, sources say. Citizen NYPD dive teams were seen near Central Park’s iconic Bethesda Fountain all weekend, searching for the murder weapon. They returned Monday and cordoned off the lake behind the fountain.  Police say the weapon is critical, because detectives can potentially find out where it was purchased and who owned it.  For now, police say the lack of concrete evidence is why they are referring to the man seen in surveillance images as a “person of interest.” A backpack found in New York City’s

WASHINGTON —  In a normal presidential transition, the president-elect spends weeks carefully considering candidates for the most important jobs in his Cabinet. Potential nominees undergo rigorous private vetting by trusted aides and lawyers, then by the FBI. It’s a painstaking process that often consumes the entire three months between the election and the inauguration. But when has Donald Trump ever recognized any value in traditional norms? He refused to authorize the FBI to begin its customary background checks, because he hoped to do without them or because he didn’t trust the G-men, or both. Instead of waiting for investigations, he announced most of his nominees in three weeks — apparently imagining that the tsunami would force the Senate to confirm them quickly. He even proposed skipping the constitutionally required step of Senate confirmation entirely, pushing to fill his Cabinet through the back door of “recess appointments.” He was apparently surprised when otherwise loyal GOP senators quietly refused to roll over for that audacious power grab. His nominations set a new record for speed, if not for quality. The outcome was predictable. His most controversial nominees —

As an international student at USC who had not been home for a year, Kevin Lu was excited to return over winter break to see his parents in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. But with President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration approaching, he changed his mind, choosing to remain in Los Angeles. “It’s too risky,” said Lu, a senior majoring in finance. Lu cited Trump’s hawkish stance on China, restrictions during his first term on Chinese student visas for scholars because they were a security “threat” and promises to sign another travel ban like the one nearly eight years ago that left many visa-holding students stranded at airports. “You don’t know what’s next,” Lu said. At USC, where more than a quarter of its 47,000 students are internationals, many are scrambling — with some changing their travel plans at the last-minute and others rethinking post-graduation work searches in the U.S. — ahead of an incoming administration that has sent mixed signals on its interest in foreign students and workers. The university is warning foreigners to follow in Lu’s footsteps by skipping or cutting short travel

Lots of impressive art turned up in 2024 museum exhibitions, whether or not the entire show was any good. Here are 10 memorable examples from shows at seven area museums. Lots of impressive art turned up in 2024 museum exhibitions. Sometimes the full show was notable, and sometimes it was less so, but sensational individual paintings, sculptures, installations and other works have a way of standing out from the crowd. Here are 10 memorable examples from shows at seven museums in the last year, listed in chronological order of the exhibitions’ openings: Lucas Cranach the Elder, ‘Adam and Eve’ (Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times) Lucas Cranach (Germany, 1472-1553) was in his late 50s when he painted this magnificent pair of life-size panels, which show the hapless biblical protagonists of humanity’s fall from grace. The artist, a pal of Martin Luther, had considerable life experience. He made Eve the shining star — a graceful beauty, her shapely body framed by an explosive sunburst of wavy hair. Apprehensive Adam looks upon her with a head-scratching degree of uneasy anticipation, an apple clutched low in his hand

In Southern California, the post-pandemic malaise finally started to lift. And the theater, quite unexpectedly, turned out to be 2024’s silver lining. The Mark Taper Forum reopened for business in the fall with a pedal-to-the-metal revival of “American Idiot,” a collaboration with Deaf West Theatre that marked Center Theatre Group artistic director Snehal Desai’s directing debut at his new home. The Tarell Alvin McCraney era began in earnest with a seismic production of “The Brothers Size,” the play that introduced the theater public to his unflinching, lyrical truth-telling. The most memorable productions may have involved classics of one kind or another, but these works were reborn in stagings that refused to play it safe. The just-wrapped “Pacific Overtures” and “Waiting for Godot” (running through Dec. 21) reclaimed their timelessness while the Old Globe’s “Henry 6” created what seemed like a Shakespeare history play hot off the press. Adam Kaokept, left, Brian Kim McCormick, Gedde Watanabe and Kavin Panmeechao in “Pacific Overtures” at East West Players. (Teolindo) Of the new and newish plays I saw in the region, James Ijames’ “Fat Ham” and Eboni Booth’s “Primary

The announcements came like a metronome at the start of last season, a steady stream of almost weekly news releases from the Dodgers announcing one Japanese sponsorship deal after the next. April 1: Dodgers and All Nippon Airways (Japan’s biggest airline) announce multi-year partnership. April 4: Dodgers and Toyo Tires (one of Japan’s biggest tire companies) agree to multi-year partnership. April 8: Dodgers and Kowa (a Japanese trading and manufacturing company) announce multi-year partnership. April 22: Dodgers and Daiso (a Japanese retailer) enter into multi-year partnership. On and on it went this year, with the Dodgers striking agreements with Japan-based companies producing everything from personal-care cosmetics (Kosé) to fermented dairy drinks (Yakult) to electric vehicles (Afeela). It was the kind of barrage the Dodgers were anticipating when they signed Shohei Ohtani a year ago today, recognizing the global attention — and lucrative marketing potential — the two-way star and three-time MVP had after signing a heavily deferred 10-year, $700-million contract. Twelve months later, however, top Dodgers executives have acknowledged that Ohtani’s influence exceeded even their lofty ambitions. In the same way Ohtani’s bat transformed the

December 9, 2024 / 5:37 AM EST / CBS/AFP Escalating gang violence in Haiti U.N. reportedly evacuating some staff from Haiti amid gang violence 04:10 The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the death toll from Haiti’s spiraling security crisis to at least 5,000. “Just this past weekend, at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, in the Cite Soleil area,” Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva. “These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people.” Volker appeared to be referring to a reported massacre carried out by a gang leader in the impoverished Cite Soleil neighborhood who targeted elderly people he suspected of sickening his own child by witchcraft. The Reuters news agency quoted the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) as saying on Sunday that Monel “Mikano” Felix, leader of the Wharf Jeremie gang, had ordered

Updated on: December 9, 2024 / 3:50 AM EST / CBS/AFP Nationwide effort to track antisemitic threats Group leads nationwide effort to track antisemitic threats 02:13 Melbourne — Australian police said Monday they are hunting for three suspects over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, designating it a terrorist act. Mask-wearing attackers set the Adass Israel Synagogue ablaze before dawn on Friday, police said, gutting much of the building. Some congregants were inside the single-story building at the time but no serious injuries were reported. The fire sparked international condemnation, including from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Police have “three suspects in that matter, who we are pursuing,” Victorian police chief commissioner Shane Patton told a news conference. Investigations over the weekend had made “significant progress,” Patton said, declining to provide further details of the operation. A member of the Jewish community staples a poster to the front of the damaged Adass Israel Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea, Australia, Dec. 9, 2024. MARTIN KEEP/AFP/Getty Officials from the federal and state police, as well as Australia’s intelligence agency, met on Monday and concluded

12/8: The Takeout: Camilo Montoya-Galvez – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez chats with Major Garrett about how President-elect Donald Trump could impose mass deportations and the economic impact those deportations may have across the U.S. on this week’s episode of “The Takeout.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

East West Players artistic director Lily Tung Crystal has unveiled the lineup for her inaugural season at the helm of the nation’s oldest and largest producer of Asian American theater. The company’s 60th anniversary season includes a blend of classic texts and bold new works, all which are from Asian American writers and will be presented at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo district. “I wanted the season to honor our elders who paved the way for the past 60 years, and also to uplift the new generation who are coming forward in the next 60 years,” Tung Crystal told The Times last week. “Throughout this season, I want people to see the power and artistry of Asian American theater in the United States: we’re not only creating the Asian American theater canon, but we’re creating the American theater canon.” The season launches with the L.A. premiere of Lauren Yee ’s “Cambodian Rock Band” (Feb. 13-March 9, 2025), about a Khmer Rouge survivor who returns to Cambodia after 30 years as his daughter prepares to prosecute one of the country’s most

Diana Flores, quien saltó a la fama por un comercial durante el entretiempo del Super Bowl 2023, junto a la reportera de la NFL, MJ Acosta-Ruiz, sostuvieron un campamento el miércoles pasado en Los Ángeles para promover tanto el deporte de fútbol bandera, así como la participación de la mujer en ella. Flores, capitana y mariscal de campo del equipo nacional de flag football de México, ha trabajado mucho en promover el fútbol bandera en su país y ahora por todo el mundo, mientras que Acosta-Ruiz es una de las pocas latinas que trabajan en la NFL y ha sido pionera al impulsar la representación de la mujer latina en una de las ligas más importantes del mundo. Acosta-Ruiz es una periodista deportiva bilingüe que se incorporó a ESPN en 2024 como presentadora de SportsCenter y reportera de Monday Night Football de ESPN Deportes. También trabaja como comentarista para la NFL Network. El campamento fue organizado y patrocinado por Neutrogena, el cual contó con varias jugadoras, reporteras e influencers que participaron en sesiones de flag football, una versión del fútbol americano en la que los

A pedestrian was fatally struck by at least one vehicle on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Torrance Sunday evening, causing all southbound lanes to be shut down. The crash occurred at 7:15 p.m. Sunday on the southbound 405 Freeway at Redondo Beach Boulevard, California Highway Patrol Officer Sean Lough told City News Service. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene, Lough said. The age, gender and name of the deceased was not available. An unknown number of vehicles were involved, he said. The CHP shut down all southbound lanes at 8:15 p.m. and Caltrans was expected to follow with barricades. The lanes were reopened about 11 p.m.