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Attorneys representing a record label owned by Jason Derulo are asking a judge to remove them as a defendant in a lawsuit by a woman who alleges the singer signed her to his record company, then later threatened and fired her in 2022 after she resisted his sexual advances. Emaza Gibson claims in her Los Angeles Superior Court suit that Derulo hired her in 2021 and “promised to make multiple music albums” with her as part of a joint venture with Atlantic Recording Corp. and his label, Future History, which were named as co-defendants. Gibson was fired in September 2022, the suit states, and was never able to get a response from Atlantic executives about her allegations of “sexually, emotionally and physically inappropriate behavior.” In April, Lawyers for Derulo convinced Judge Kerry Bensinger that the parts of the case against the 34-year-old “Wiggle” singer and Atlantic Recording should have been brought in New York state rather than in California. “The artist agreement and the inducement agreement, both signed by plaintiff, each provide that they are deemed to have been made in New York, that they

Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will be among Tuesday’s participants at the Milken Institute’s 27th annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills, along with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Basketball Hall of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson and the “Sesame Street” Muppet Grover. Garcetti, now the U.S. ambassador to India, will be among the speakers for an 8:30 a.m. session titled “Charting India’s Emergence: Prosperous or Precarious?” Topics to be examined at the session include opportunities for business executives and investors in India given the subdued global economy and challenges the nation faces to greater market participation. The other speakers are Harshal Chaudhari, president and chief investments officer, GE Asset Management; Radhika Gupta, managing director and CEO, Edelweiss Mutual Fund; Asha Jadeja, president of the Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation; and Srini Sriniwasan, managing director, Kotak Alternate Asset Managers. The moderator will be Angela Chitkara, the founder and CEO of US-India Corridor LLC, a New York City-based strategic communications and advisory firm working with global enterprises, start-ups, and not-for-profits doing business between the U.S. and India and beyond. Garcetti is also set to participate in the 2:30

A Los Angeles police officer was hospitalized after a patrol vehicle was struck by a car in Echo Park Monday night. The collision was reported around 11:30 p.m. as the officer was in the process of impounding another vehicle near Stadium Way and Lilac Terrace. An officer was injured in a crash in Echo Park on May 6, 2024. (KNN) It was unclear why the car ran into the patrol vehicle. Video shows an officer being treated in an ambulance and then transported to a local hospital in unknown condition. The video also shows a person being detained at the scene but it was unclear if it was the person who ran into the officer’s vehicle or someone from the initial stop. Missing 21-year-old Southern California woman reunited with family There was also no immediate word on why the impounded vehicle had been stopped.

May 7, 2024 / 9:13 AM EDT / CBS/AP An Australian woman accused of feeding poisonous mushrooms to several members of her ex-husband’s family has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges and five attempted murder charges. Authorities allege that she served toxic wild mushrooms to four people at a lunch last year, killing three of them and leaving a fourth seriously ill. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by video link from a Melbourne prison, where she has been held since her arrest in November. She is accused of killing her former parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail Patterson’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66. All three died in a hospital days after consuming a meal at Patterson’s home in July. Patterson has insisted since the incident that she did not commit any crime.  “I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,” she said in a statement given to Australian media at the time. “I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt

By Li Cohen Edited By Stephen Smith Updated on: May 7, 2024 / 9:13 AM EDT / CBS News Inside the English pub’s comeback from COVID Inside the English pub’s comeback from COVID | 60 Minutes 13:19 Dutch brewing company Heineken is working on “transforming tired pubs” across the U.K. with a nearly $50 million investment meant to ease locals as the U.K. recovers from a 41-year inflation high.   The £39 million (nearly $50 million) investment is being made through Heineken UK’s Star Pubs, a network of 2,400 leased-out bars. Heineken said that the money will go toward 612 establishments, including 62 closed pubs that will now be reopened this year. Some of those soon-to-be-reopened pubs have been closed for more than four years, CBS News partner BBC reported.  The company said the investment is a demonstration of “confidence in the resilience of the great British local in the face of uncertainty.”  “With working from home more commonplace and people looking to save on travel, major refurbishments will concentrate on transforming tired pubs in suburban areas into premium locals,” the company said. “The revamps are

Trump held in contempt of court again as judge warns of jail for future gag order violations – CBS News Watch CBS News Former President Donald Trump was held in contempt of court again over gag order violations. The judge in his New York criminal trial warned Trump of possible jail time for future violations. Testimony resumes Tuesday morning. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Oprah Winfrey unveils “Long Island” as her latest book club pick – CBS News Watch CBS News Oprah Winfrey unveils “Long Island” as her latest book club pick on “CBS Mornings.” The sequel to Colm Tóibín’s best-selling novel “Brooklyn,” “Long Island” continues the story of Eilis Lacey more than two decades later now as a mother and wife in America. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Los Angeles adopted an array of ambitious climate and transportation goals years ago under former Mayor Eric Garcetti, who had the relatively easy job of setting long-range targets knowing he would be out of office when they came due. But now that some of those important deadlines are approaching, Mayor Karen Bass has the more difficult task of actually delivering on them. Already, there are signs of underperformance and delay. Plans for more than $40 billion in rail, highway and mobility projects that were supposed to be finished in time for the 2028 Olympics have been scaled back dramatically after Metro was unable to line up even half of the funds needed. A City Controller’s report last fall found that Garcetti’s Green New Deal plan has not accomplished much, lacks meaningful metrics of progress and doesn’t amount to a “comprehensive and actionable set of steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” It’s disappointing that these lofty efforts to make Los Angeles an environmental and transit model have yielded so little. In the latest instance of lowered expectations, Metro’s staff has for the second time in a

May 7, 2024 / 7:29 AM EDT / CBS/AFP American soldier arrested in Russia American soldier arrested in Russia 01:43 Moscow — A Moscow court said Tuesday that it had sentenced a U.S. citizen to 10 days in detention for petty hooliganism after he stumbled drunkenly into a children’s library and passed out. News of the American’s detention came just hours after Russian and U.S. authorities said a  U.S. soldier was being held in custody in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on suspicion of theft in a separate case. Russia’s REN TV said the man detained in Moscow had climbed through the window of a children’s library in the Russian capital and fallen asleep while drunk. Video aired by the network showed a person, partially clothed, laying in what appeared to be a courtyard of the building. It said the man had been staying with friends in Moscow on a tourist visa and ended up at the library after being out with friends at a bar. In a statement posted on its official channel on the Telegram messaging app, the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow

Updated on: May 7, 2024 / 7:19 AM EDT / CBS/AP Bodies of missing surfers identified Bodies of three surfers who went missing in Mexico identified, suspects in custody 01:42 Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California’s Pacific coast. Their last images on social media showed them sitting and gazing at the waves. What happened to end their lives may have been as random as a passing pickup truck full of people with ill intent. The surfers were shot in the head, their bodies dumped in a covered well miles away. Here’s what we know: Who were the victims? Brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad had apparently stopped to surf the breaks between Punta San José, about 50 miles south of Ensenada, and La Bocana, further north on the coast. Callum Robinson’s Instagram page showed several images from the trio’s Mexico trip: enjoying beers with their feet up in a bar, lazing in a jacuzzi, eating roadside tacos, looking out at the surf. The photos of the foreign

LAS VEGAS —  La celebración no había desvanecido aún y la atención rápidamente se fijó en el enfrentamiento más escurridizo de los últimos años. Saúl Álvarez acababa de derrotar a Jaime Munguía y la petición de enfrentar a David Benavídez en su siguiente combate retumbaba en el T-Mobile Arena de Las Vegas. Una petición que el campeón indiscutido de peso supermediano ha desestimado una y otra vez. “No puedo hacer nada más”, dijo Benavídez a LA Times en Español. “Ya tengo tres años esperando la oportunidad… la oportunidad que yo me gané”. El Consejo Mundial de Boxeo (CMB) señaló en noviembre del 2023 que Benavídez es el retador mandatorio para enfrentar a Canelo. El presidente del CMB, Mauricio Sulaimán, había dicho que esa pelea iba a ser ordenada para mayo, pero la verdadera orden llegó de Canelo y enfrentó a otro rival de su preferencia. “Me importa un carajo… Cuando peleé contra [Erislandy] Lara, con [Austin] Trout, con [Miguel] Cotto, con [Floyd] Mayweather Jr., con [Billy Joe] Saunders, con ‘GGG’, todos dijeron que no quería pelear contra ellos, y peleé contra todos ellos. Así que ahora

When Gian Neglia took over as sporting director of the Las Vegas Lights in February, it was a team in name only. That’s not a figure of speech but a literal description of the situation Neglia inherited. The Lights, who played in the second-tier USL Championship, had no coach, no players and no employees on the soccer side when he joined the team less than two weeks before training camp was scheduled to start. “We didn’t know where we were going to have training camp. So we needed to find a place, we needed to set up games,” Neglia said. “You really sit down and think about everything that we did and everything that needed to be done in the time frame that it needed to be done, you might think to yourself, well, maybe this isn’t the right move to make.” He certainly wouldn’t have thought that three months later the Lights would be preparing for arguably the biggest match in team history, a U.S. Open Cup round of 32 match against LAFC on Wednesday in Las Vegas. LAFC’s short-lived relationship with the Lights

The Rams, Chargers and Dallas Cowboys are here every summer, and now the New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders are on their way. Southern California has become to NFL training camps what Arizona and Florida are to MLB’s spring training. The Saints plan to hold training camp at UC Irvine this summer, and the Raiders are putting the finishing touches on a deal to move their camp to Costa Mesa. Both are one-year agreements. There is no other place in the country with such a cluster of training camps, especially notable considering the Los Angeles market went without an NFL team from 1995 through 2015. The proximity makes it more convenient for teams to hold joint practices, increasingly common in recent years. “It’s not a surprise, given the weather, the number of players from here and the overall experience that they would want to come back and hold training camp,” said Kevin Demoff, chief operating officer of the Rams. “There are not many places to practice in the summer, or in any time of the year, than Southern California.” The latest round of musical

Updated on: May 7, 2024 / 6:34 AM EDT / CBS/AP Hamas, Israel at odds over cease-fire proposal Hamas accepts Gaza cease-fire proposal, but Israel calls deal unacceptable 02:31 Jerusalem — An Israeli tank brigade took control Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities said, appearing to move forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge. The move came after hours of whiplash in the Israel-Hamas war , with the militant group saying Monday that it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated cease-fire proposal. Israel, however, insisted the deal didn’t meet its core demands and rejected it, though it has said it will continue discussing the proposal.  The high-stakes diplomatic moves and military brinkmanship left a glimmer of hope alive — but only barely — for an accord that could bring at least a pause in the 7-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip. Israel takes “operational control” of Rafah crossing   The Israeli 401st Brigade entered the Rafah crossing early Tuesday morning, the Israeli military said

Updated on: May 7, 2024 / 6:19 AM EDT / CBS/AP Drug use in Nazi Germany “Blitzed” details massive drug use in Nazi Germany 05:10 Polish prosecutors have discontinued an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because the advanced state of decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death, a spokesman said Monday.  The remains were found Feb. 24 at Wolf’s Lair , which served as Hitler’s chief headquarters from 1941-44 when the area was part of Germany. The compound of about 200 Nazi bunkers and military barracks hidden in deep woods was the site of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler by Col. Claus Stauffenberg on July 20, 1944. The spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in nearby Ketrzyn town, Daniel Brodowski, said police officers secured the remains after they were found by a local group, Latebra, which searches for historical objects. A forensic medical expert examined them under the supervision of the prosecutor’s office, which was trying to determine if manslaughter had occurred. It discontinued

Walt Disney Co. is making massive strides toward making its streaming business profitable, a milestone that comes none too soon as its traditional TV networks continue to decline. The Burbank media and entertainment giant reported overall streaming business revenue of $6.19 billion for the second fiscal quarter of 2024, up 12% compared with a year earlier. Disney’s streaming business — which includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ — reported an operating loss of $18 million for the three-month period that ended March 30, a 97% change from last year, when it reported losing $659 million. The company’s “entertainment streaming” business, which consists only of Disney+ and Hulu (and not ESPN+), was profitable during the quarter, notching operating income of $47 million, compared with a loss of $587 million a year earlier. Excluding ESPN+, streaming revenue of $5.64 billion was up 13% from a year earlier. Overall, Disney generated $22.1 billion in revenue that quarter, up 1% from the same period a year earlier. Sales came in roughly in line with analysts’ estimates, according to FactSet. Earnings, excluding certain items, were $1.21 per share, up from 93

This isn’t going to be more musing about whether America has reached “ peak woke .” But that is part of the story. So let’s start there. About a decade ago, many on the left embraced the word “woke,” a term with roots in African American culture and activism . It originally meant staying awake — that is, “woke” — to the dangers facing the Black community. But in the hands of the broader, and whiter, academic and journalistic left, it soon became a kind of cool catchall for progressive politics, alongside other buzzwords like “intersectionality.” The combined effects of the Trump presidency, the death of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic pushed wokeness into overdrive. This was the era of “defund the police” and other radical inanities. The right soon took up the word, using “woke” as a catchall for everything — woke or not, real or not — it hated about the left. The novelty of wokeness as a concept lent an equal edginess, for a time, to anti-wokeness. It’s a familiar tale, really: The same thing happened with “political correctness” in the

On the Shelf Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me By Whoopi GoldbergBlackstone: 258 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores. It wasn’t until Whoopi Goldberg tried to shut off her late brother’s phone, years after he had died, that she realized how long he’d been gone. “I told the phone company, I’ve been trying to shut this phone off for 11 years. It wasn’t until my assistant then told me, ‘It’s actually been 16 years.’ That’s when I thought, ‘Let me get my feet on solid ground,’” says Goldberg when asked why now was the time for her to write about grief. To encapsulate the memory of her brother, Clyde, and her mother, Emma, who died five years apart, in 2015 and 2010, respectively, Goldberg chronicles their lives in “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me.” Emma Johnson, Whoopi and Clyde’s mom, instilled in her children a great deal of character. She taught them to own the consequences of their actions and to

It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week. The mob violence was captured on live television, but it took three hours for police to bring it to an end. Those involved left, and no arrests were made. But the trail is not cold. UCLA detectives are now scanning hundreds of images in an attempt to identify the attackers. They intend to use technology that captures facial images and compares them to other photos on the internet and social media to put names to faces, according to law enforcement sources. The same technology has allowed police to identify suspects in smash-and-grab retail burglaries. It also was the heart of the Jan. 6 investigation, in which videos of those storming the U.S. Capitol helped the FBI identify many of the assailants and led federal prosecutors to charge more than 1,300 people. In those cases, investigators often were able to find social media images of the assailant wearing the same

Donald Trump took his dog whistle down to Florida last weekend, where he reportedly told a room full of donors: “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40% because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare.” He then drove home this point: “And don’t underestimate welfare. They get welfare to vote, and then they cheat on top of that — they cheat.” It’s hard to believe that trope still works on people. It has always been nonsense. Opinion Columnist LZ Granderson LZ Granderson writes about culture, politics, sports and navigating life in America. Of the 341 counties experiencing persistent poverty, the U.S. Census says roughly 80% are in Southern states that voted for Trump. In fact, most of our poorest states have voted Republican in every election since 2000 and have had Republican-controlled state legislatures for years . The “welfare vote,” if there were such a thing, is not going to Democrats. Lord knows I’m not suggesting blue cities and states don’t have their problems. But with so many Americans living check to check nowadays, the problem of

get the free app By Graham Kates, Taurean Small Updated on: May 7, 2024 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News Donald Trump’s criminal trial resumes Tuesday, the day after jurors were given a deep look at accounting inside the former president’s company and the judge warned Trump he’s at risk of being jailed. Prosecutors on Monday called two longtime Trump Organization bookkeepers who explained the raw mechanics of processing an invoice, from bill to general ledger entry to signed check. Jurors were then shown a series of checks paid to Michael Cohen in 2017 and signed by either Trump or two of his adult sons. The payments totaled $420,000 over the course of the year.  Former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney also reviewed a copy of handwritten notes from seven years ago. Prosecutors say it showed how Trump’s staff accounted for the $130,000 Cohen paid adult film star Stormy Daniels for her silence the year before about an alleged sexual encounter. They added another $50,000 owed to Cohen, totaling $180,000. They then doubled that figure to offset an expected tax hit, and added on