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For decades, Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. worked as an environmental lawyer, filing lawsuits against polluters. He helped found a global green group that fought for clean water and helped defeat dam projects in Chile and Peru. Yet even before he announced Friday that he was suspending his presidential campaign and supporting former President Trump, Kennedy had repeatedly disappointed and angered dozens of environmentalists, who said he had abandoned his green roots. “It’s a shock to me knowing the Bobby I used to know,” said Dan Reicher, senior scholar at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability. “I could not have imagined him supporting former President Trump.” Reicher, a former U.S. assistant secretary of Energy, once worked with Kennedy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, and spent time kayaking with him on rivers in Chile and the U.S. He said he had become increasingly dismayed by Kennedy’s campaign positions and statements on the environment. He pointed to how Kennedy had not presented any meaningful plans for cutting greenhouse gases. Instead, Reicher said, he had criticized the size of the hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies

SAN FRANCISCO —  San Francisco and Humboldt County officials are trading jabs over Mayor London Breed’s plans to more aggressively promote a city program that pays to relocate homeless people to other communities where they have family or other ties. During their Tuesday meeting, Humboldt County supervisors debated sending a draft letter, addressed to Breed, questioning whether San Francisco was making sure the homeless people it’s busing out actually land housing and jobs. “We are concerned that providing bus tickets to other jurisdictions without verifying access to housing, family support or employment does not alleviate homelessness; it simply shifts the person to another county,” the letter states. The supervisors were responding to a recent report in the San Francisco Standard that found the counties of Sacramento, Los Angeles and Humboldt were the top three destinations for homeless people bused out of San Francisco since September 2023. “We don’t need to be a dumping ground,” Humboldt County Supervisor Rex Bohn said at the meeting. “Our cost for taking care of a homeless person that has nothing up here … it’s expensive.” Breed’s office says the notion that

No one knew the burning construction vehicle could become a bomb. Not the driver who tried to douse it with an extinguisher. Not the workers who sent water gushing onto the engine. And not Andrew Pontious, an L.A. County firefighter dispatched to the Palmdale quarry on June 14. Pontious had sprayed water near the vehicle for about two minutes when one of its nearly 7-foot tires exploded, according to a Fire Department analysis completed this month. Hunks of rubber and steel shot the length of a football field. Pontious, 53, died instantly. L.A. County fire fighter Andrew Pontious died while on duty on June 4. (L.A. County Fire Facebook) “It was like an IED,” David Pontious, Andrew’s brother who worked at the same Palmdale fire station before retiring this spring, said, referring to an improvised explosive device, as a roadside bomb in a war zone is known. It’s common for tires to blow out in a fire, with pressure building until the air whooshes out with a loud pop. But, sometimes, the tire doesn’t blow — it explodes. The air inside the tire combines with

Just when the $8.4-billion deal for David Ellison’s Skydance Media to buy Paramount Global was gliding toward the finish line, Shari Redstone’s roller-coaster sale took another sharp turn. Seagram liquor company heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. this week persuaded Paramount’s independent board members to consider his rival bid for the Redstone family’s investment firm, National Amusements Inc., and a minority stake in Paramount. After spending weeks rounding up investors, Bronfman submitted his proposal late Monday — two days before the bidding window closed — and then sweetened the offer to $6 billion. Now the stage is set for more jockeying until Paramount’s Sept. 5 deadline to decide who will win the beleaguered media company that owns CBS, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV and the historic Melrose Avenue film studio. “This has been a very strange process,” Charles Elson, founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at University of Delaware, said Friday. “This company has provided more ‘theater’ than any other company I can think of. … It’s just remarkable that here we are.” Paramount’s decision to extend the deadline for Bronfman did not sit well

When he was a boy of 12 or so, and his parents were busy running the family restaurant, Norm Langer spent hours across the street in MacArthur Park. It was, at the time, an elegant urban oasis, with lollipop palms standing over a lake fed by natural springs. “I grew up in the park,” Langer said, seated in a booth at the famous deli he now owns at 7th and Alvarado streets. “I’d play in the park, go for boat rides, take naps. There was this whole area on the 7th Street side where older people played shuffleboard, backgammon, gin, all kinds of card games.” Today, that carefree boy of yesteryear is 79. Langer’s Deli is 77, with the number in bold yellow on the backs of employee uniforms. California is about to be hit by an aging population wave, and Steve Lopez is riding it. His column focuses on the blessings and burdens of advancing age — and how some folks are challenging the stigma associated with older adults. And the park of Langer’s childhood, which dates to the 1880s, no longer exists. It

By Meredith Gordon, Fox Van Allen Edited By Fox Van Allen August 24, 2024 / 4:47 AM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Wide receiver DK Metcalf #14 of the Seattle Seahawks during the first half of the NFL game at State Farm Stadium on January 07, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona.  Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Cleveland Browns take on the Seattle Seahakawks today for an NFL preseason Week 3  showdown. Both teams are rebounding from losses in Week 2. Keep reading to find out how and when to watch the Cleveland Browns vs. Seattle Seahawks NFL preseason game on Saturday, even if you don’t have cable. How and when to watch today’s Cleveland Browns vs. Seattle Seahawks game The Cleveland Browns vs. Seattle Seahawks NFL preseason Week 3 game will be played on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 10:00 p.m. ET (7:00 p.m. PT). The game will air on NFL Network and stream on  Sling TV  and

At least two burglars robbed a multi-million dollar home in the Hollywood Hills Friday evening while the homeowners hid inside a bathroom. The home invasion was reported at around 10 p.m. in the 1300 block of Sierra Alta Way, near Sunset Boulevard and Doheny Drive, CBS2 reported, citing information from the Los Angeles Police Department. According to ABC 7, the suspects broke in through a side window, leaving glass scattered throughout the back of the home,. The suspects fled before LAPD officers arrived.

Back in spring training, during Shohei Ohtani’s early days with his new club, people around Dodgers camp couldn’t help but dream of what the two-way star’s debut season with the team could look like. Coming off his second most valuable player award and a record $700-million contract with the Dodgers in the offseason, Ohtani already was viewed as the best player in baseball. And after undergoing Tommy John surgery at the end of last year, he entered this season focused solely on being a designated hitter. The hope at the time was that Ohtani’s offense wouldn’t be burdened by his elbow surgery and rehab. That his production could be enhanced by a season of only hitting. That he somehow could elevate his game further and pursue a new set of historic targets that previously had been beyond his reach. Six months later, Ohtani surpassed even the loftiest of those expectations, becoming just the sixth player in history to produce a 40-home run, 40-stolen base season, and the first to eclipse both thresholds before the start of September. Ohtani completed the first 40-40 season in franchise

By Meredith Gordon, Fox Van Allen Edited By Fox Van Allen August 24, 2024 / 4:15 AM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Sauce Gardner #1 of the New York Jets looks on during the first half against the Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Browns Stadium on December 28, 2023 in Cleveland, Ohio. Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images It’s a battle of the Big Apple teams as the New York Giants face the New York Jets in an  NFL Week 3 preseason game  today. The Giants are coming off a Week 2 loss, while the long-suffering Jets are riding high from a win last week. Keep reading to find out how and when to watch the New York Giants vs. New York Jets NFL preseason game tonight, even if you don’t have cable. How and when to watch the New York Giants vs. New York Jets game The New York Giants vs. New York Jets NFL preseason

By Meredith Gordon, Fox Van Allen Edited By Fox Van Allen August 24, 2024 / 4:05 AM EDT / Essentials CBS Essentials is created independently of the CBS News editorial staff. We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Justin Herbert #10 of the Los Angeles Chargers warms up before the game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on December 03, 2023 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Billie Weiss/Getty Images The Los Angeles Chargers vs. Dallas Cowboys NFL Week 3 preseason game will be played today. The Chargers are coming off a Week 2 loss, while the Cowboys are riding high from a win last week. Keep reading to find out how and when to watch the Los Angeles Chargers vs. Dallas Cowboys NFL preseason game today, even if you don’t have cable. How and when to watch the Los Angeles Chargers vs. Dallas Cowboys game The Los Angeles Chargers vs. Dallas Cowboys NFL preseason Week 3 game will be played on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. PT).

Just two weeks ago, Banning High’s weight room was its training ground. Banning bulked up and lifted together, side by side throughout the preseason with its field still unfinished for practices and Friday night lights as they awaited new turf. Salvador Zamora, a 6-foot-4, 280-pound left tackle, “became an animal” as he worked out alongside teammates, coach Raymond Grajeda said. “Coach makes it mandatory for us,” Zamora said. “I don’t think we’ll be as good as without the weight room.” Grajeda said it’s where Zamora and 16-year-old senior Steven Perez — Banning’s Swiss army knife — continued to blossom into leaders, channeling their “heart and pride” and preaching accountability. The Pilots itched for the go-ahead — the moment to run out onto the field as a team. An itch that was evident in their performance Friday night. With Banning returned to its home turf for its season opener, Zamora and the Pilots’ offensive line paved the way for Perez to burst by Dorsey and never look back. Perez — who started at quarterback and safety — surged for 32-yard and 60-yard touchdown runs in the

Back in sprint training, during Shohei Ohtani’s early days with his new club, people around Dodgers camp couldn’t help but dream of what the two-way star’s debut season with the team could look like. Coming off his second most valuable player award and a record $700-million contract with the Dodgers in the offseason, Ohtani already was viewed as the best player in baseball. And after undergoing Tommy John surgery at the end of last year, he entered this season focused solely on being a designated hitter. The hope at the time was that Ohtani’s offense wouldn’t be burdened by his elbow surgery and rehab. That his production could be enhanced by a season of only hitting. That he somehow could elevate his game further and pursue a new set of historic targets that previously had been beyond his reach. Six months later, Ohtani surpassed even the loftiest of those expectations, becoming just the sixth player in history to produce a 40-home run, 40-stolen base season, and the first to eclipse both thresholds before the start of September. Ohtani completed the first 40-40 season in franchise

A Southern California bakery owner is warning other business owners after she was targeted in an elaborate counterfeit check scam. Loria Stern, the owner of Eat Your Flowers bakery in Highland Park, has been running her business for 12 years. Throughout that time, Stern said she’s seen her fair share of scams, but this latest scheme truly surprised her. It began in early August when she was contacted by email asking for an order of 1,000 cupcakes. The scammer, someone named “Zoe Madison,” said she didn’t want to pay with a credit card or through mobile payment apps, so she sent a check for $7,560 instead. When Sterns cashed the check at the bank, it initially cleared so she began working on the large cupcake order. “There were a lot of specific details in the emails going back and forth with her that really made me believe that this order was happening,” Stern said. The email sent by a scammer named “Zoe Madison” from the email handle “ZoeMadison98@gmail.com,” asking for an order of 1,000 cupcakes from Eat Your Flowers bakery in Highland Park. (Loria Stern)

TJ Lateef, Orange Lutheran’s talented senior quarterback who was slowed last season by a shoulder injury, apparently thought he was Superman on Friday night as he went airborne trying to hurdle Wesley Ace Jr. of Gardena Serra in the first half. Lateef made it but officials gave him a 15-yard penalty (you can’t try to hurdle defenders in high school football). Lateef, a Nebraska commit, was making a point that he wasn’t going to let anyone stand in his way. He later scored a touchdown on a two-yard run and picked up a key first down on a fourth-down run to help the Lancers to a 21-13 victory. “I was trying something new,” Lateef said. “I didn’t know it wasn’t allowed. I got to put that away.” Lateef completed 18 of 25 passes for 185 yards with one interception and had an 11-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Hennessy. The Lancers received big help off the bench after starting running back Steve Chavez was injured on his first carry of the game. Sophomore Jae Nembard, who played in the junior varsity game Thursday, rushed for 93

Rams starting left tackle Alaric Jackson was suspended without pay for the first two games of the NFL regular season for violating its personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday. It was not announced what prompted the suspension. As is team policy for a day before a game, coach Sean McVay was not made available to reporters Friday. McVay is expected to discuss Jackson’s suspension following Saturday’s preseason game in Houston. Jackson started 15 of last season’s 17 regular-season games and the Rams’ wild-card round loss to the Detroit Lions. Among tackles who played more than 500 regular-season snaps in 2023, he tied for first in fewest sacks allowed. Jackson signed with the Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2021 following a college career at Iowa. Jackson will be eligible for reinstatement on Sept. 16 following the Rams’ Week 2 game against the Arizona Cardinals.

An 80-year-old man was seriously injured in a fire at a one-story duplex in South Los Angeles Friday evening. Firefighters responded to the 9000 block of South Orchard Avenue, near Hoover and 90th streets, around 7:40 p.m. Friday to a report of a residential fire, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The man was immediately located inside the building and taken to a hospital, Stewart said. The cause of the fire was unclear and under investigation.

Back in sprint training, during Shohei Ohtani’s early days with his new club, people around Dodgers camp couldn’t help but dream of what the two-way star’s debut season with the team could look like. Coming off his second most valuable player award and a record $700-million signing with the Dodgers in the offseason, Ohtani was already viewed as the best player in baseball. And after undergoing Tommy John surgery at the end of last year, he entered 2024 solely focused on being a designated hitter. At the time, the hope was that Ohtani’s offense would be unburdened by his elbow surgery and rehab as a pitcher. That his production could be enhanced by a season of only hitting. That he could somehow elevate his game further, and pursue a whole new set of historic targets that before had been beyond his reach. “I’m sure he’s going to miss not being able to go out there every fifth or sixth day to pitch,” manager Dave Roberts said in February. “But I just really feel good about the way he is right now, and how he looks.”

August 24, 2024 / 12:02 AM EDT / CBS News 8/23: CBS Morning News 8/23: CBS Morning News 20:50 Pop star Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey Bieber announced the birth of their first child Friday. In an Instagram post, Justin wrote “welcome home Jack Blues Bieber,” along with a photo of Hailey holding her baby’s foot. The 30-year-old Justin and the 27-year-old Hailey first confirmed the pregnancy back in May, with a representative of Hailey telling “Entertainment Tonight” that she was about six months pregnant. Hailey told GQ in an interview last year that motherhood “is something that I look forward to. It’s also such a private, intimate thing. It’s something that’s going to come when it comes.” And she explained to W magazine in July that she waited to reveal the news in an effort to maintain her privacy. “I was honestly able to keep it quiet because I stayed small for a long time,” Hailey said. “I didn’t have a belly, really, until I was six months pregnant, which was when I announced it. I was able to wear big jackets and

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A vigil was held Friday night marking one year after a deadly mass shooting took place at Cook’s Corner bar in Trabuco Canyon. Three people were killed and six others were wounded when retired Ventura Police Sgt. John Snowling opened fire inside and outside the bar on Aug. 23, 2023. Snowling, who authorities said went to the bar to target his estranged wife, died in a gunbattle with Orange County sheriff’s deputies. His wife was wounded but survived. Body cam footage released by the Sheriff’s Department showed the moments leading up to the deadly shootout with Snowling, including emergency dispatch audio from 911 calls reporting the sounds of gunshots and the chaos of people fleeing the bar.  Security camera footage captured Snowling opening fire on a crowd of unsuspecting people, running after them and firing from two pistols he carried simultaneously. Following the shooting, a memorial to the victims, 53-year-old Glen Sprowl of Stanton, 49-year-old Tonya Clark of Scottsdale and 67-year-old John Leehee of Irvine, sat outside the bar. Former Ventura police Sgt. John Snowling is seen at the Pacific View Mall. (Getty Images) A

A family has filed a lawsuit against a hospital in the Sacramento area, claiming that the medical center failed to tell them about a family member’s death for over a year.  Jessie Peterson, 31, went to Mercy San Juan Medical Center in the community of Carmichael on April 6, 2023, for a diabetic emergency. The lawsuit filed at the Sacramento Superior Court claims that the hospital told the family that Peterson left the medical center two days later against medical advice. The family spent the next year searching for her, posting missing person flyers and filing missing person reports with local and state law enforcement. Loved ones desperately searching for missing Southern California father In April of 2024, the family learned from the East Lawn mortuary that Peterson’s body was in a storage facility administered by Mercy San Juan, the lawsuit said. “It’s been a tough road, first learning that she was gone. Then, you know, meeting with people at East Lawn and learning that none of her tattoos could be identified on her body because her body was so discolored and so decayed, was