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What to expect in Trump’s ongoing legal cases What could happen in Trump’s hush money, election and classified documents cases 03:21 The judge who presided over President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal trial , Juan Merchan, is expected to issue a ruling Tuesday that could either turn the case on its head or put Trump on a collision course with sentencing. The long-awaited ruling, on whether evidence shown at trial should have been shielded from jurors, due to presidential immunity, could have profound consequences for the case.  Trump was the first former president ever to be convicted of crimes . On Nov. 5, he also became the first person with a criminal record ever to be elected president.  Trump’s lawyers vowed the day a unanimous jury found him guilty of felonies in May to fight his conviction. They were given an extraordinary opportunity not long after when the Supreme Court ruled former presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts. The decision said evidence related to Trump’s work as president could not be used at trial. Trump’s legal team, which is led by Todd Blanche, seized on

Updated on: November 12, 2024 / 6:50 AM EST / CBS/AP 11/11: CBS Evening News 11/11: CBS Evening News 19:46 Bangkok — Police in China say 35 people were killed and another 43 injured when a driver rammed his car into people exercising at a sports center in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai. The 62-year-old driver was detained, police said Monday. Later on Tuesday, police said the man was unhappy about a divorce settlement. The Monday night incident came on the eve of the country’s premier aviation exhibition by the People’s Liberation Army, hosted annually in Zhuhai.  There has been heavy censorship of information about the incident given the timing and location, with officials only announcing the death toll the following day.  A Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy J-15D fighter jet flies at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China, Nov. 12, 2024. Tingshu Wang/REUTERS One of the four hospitals that took in people for treatment said it had more than 20 injured people, state media reported Monday.   Police identified the man only by

Updated on: November 12, 2024 / 6:19 AM EST / CBS/AP The Republican congressman said he plans to remain in office despite admitting to hiding money from the IRS Rep. Michael Grimm vows to stay in office despite guilty plea 02:32 Former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm , a New York Republican who resigned from Congress following a tax fraud conviction, is paralyzed from the chest down after being thrown from a horse during a polo tournament, according to friends who are raising funds to pay for the ex-lawmaker’s medical care. Grimm, 54, suffered the devastating injury in September and is now being treated at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey, where the late actor Christopher Reeve was treated after a similar equestrian accident in 1995, according to Vincent Ignizio, a friend of Grimm’s who is a former New York City Council member. Grimm had been an avid polo player for years, Ignizio said. “It was a passion of his and he suffered a tragic accident at the end of September,” said Ignizio, who has set up a GoFundMe account to pay for Grimm’s

Who’s house? Nobody home. The Rams threw a Monday night party that filled SoFi Stadium with celebrities, legends, pop stars … almost everything you need for a nationally televised Hollywood football bash. The only thing missing was them. The stage was set for the Rams to prove their championship legitimacy … yet they didn’t show. The football world was anxiously awaiting a sizzling appearance from one of the NFL’s hottest and most exciting teams … and they took a pass. Handed the struggling Miami Dolphins on a blue-and-gold platter, the Rams fumbled the exchange, dropped the shining opportunity with a loud clang, made a total mess of the joint, and staggered away with a 23-15 loss that was as ugly as the score sounded. “It sucks,” said guard Steve Avila. It certainly did. An offense devised by the great Sean McVay and engineered by the hot Matthew Stafford scored exactly zero touchdowns. It was the first time that combination has been kept out of the end zone in more than two years. “Sloppy? Yeah,” said McVay. An offensive line that finally was starting to make

When the LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr told its staff last year that the days of fully remote work were over, more than 80 employees — nearly half off the company — said they wouldn’t report to the company’s West Hollywood headquarters or other newly established offices around the country. As a result, they were let go. Now, federal labor regulators say the company’s back-to-office order was an unlawful ploy to retaliate against the workers’ union organizing efforts. In a recent complaint, the National Labor Relations Board’s regional office in Los Angeles accused Grindr of interfering with employees’ right to organize and refusing to recognize the union workers had elected to join, calling the company’s actions “serious and substantial unfair labor practice conduct.” About the 120 of the company’s roughly 180 employees were poised to form a union bargaining unit represented by Communications Workers of America, according the complaint. All 80 of the terminated employees were part of that group. The popular app, which uses a location-based model that allows users to browse potential dates in their area, has gone through several ownership changes in recent

MEXICO CITY —  Car bombs. Massacres. The slaying of a Roman Catholic priest. A cartel war that has engulfed a major city. A mayor of another large city beheaded after he dared to call for peace. Six weeks after taking office, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is contending with a nationwide wave of violence, and is facing increasingly urgent questions about what she plans to do about it. As a candidate, Sheinbaum vowed to continue the strategy of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who expanded the military’s reach but sought to avoid direct confrontations with cartels, and insisted that the best path was to address the social conditions that allow violence to flourish. President Sheinbaum with her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (Fernando Llano / Associated Press) A scientist by training, Sheinbaum also pledged to replicate at the national level the security policies she put into action as mayor of Mexico City, where she oversaw a dramatic drop in violent crime, including a 50% plunge in homicides. The strategy is built on professionalizing law enforcement and implementing the sorts of data-driven and community policing models used

No matter the century, Saoirse Ronan is going to dance. When the four-time Academy Award nominee moves to the music in her two films this season, the fabric of a blue-striped dress or a vintage silk black top with a rose print becomes one with the choreography. Despite being set more than 70 years apart, London nightlife scenes in the World War II drama “Blitz” and “The Outrun’s” 21st century tale of alcoholism and recovery each display a 1930s influence. In “The Outrun,” adapted by director Nora Fingscheidt from Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir of the same name, Rona is a fictional version of the author. Charting a decade or so of Rona’s life, Ronan (who also produced the film) has around 80 costume changes, from carefree partying and the subsequent spiral in Hackney to practical outerwear after moving home to the remote Orkney Islands as part of her sobriety journey. In Steve McQueen’s big-budget “Blitz,” Ronan plays resilient single mother Rita, whose 9-year-old son, George, goes missing from an evacuation train to the countryside. Like many other Londoners, Rita kept up appearances during the war.

It makes sense that the script for writer-director Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” ended up in June Squibb’s hands not through her agent but via her “The Humans” co-star Beanie Feldstein, who thought Squibb would be perfect for the role of a sweet-natured nonagenarian who, swindled out of $10,000 by a phone scammer, decides to get her money back. After 70-plus years in the performing arts, it seems like everyone who works with Squibb, now 95, walks away admiring her wry comic timing, naturalistic delivery and preparation. And why not? She’s been at it since her grandparents earned free beers in exchange for the young Squibb’s tap dancing on varnished-wood bars in Vandalia, Ill. Squibb can regale you with tales of working on cruise ships, in regional theater and on film and TV. But it wasn’t until 2013, after her Oscar-nominated performance as a blunt-talking matriarch in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska,” that Hollywood recognized her as a powerhouse. Since “Thelma,” her first starring role, Squibb can feel the increased attention as soon as she steps out her front door. “There’s been a lot more hellos,” she

Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to Pentagon leak Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking military documents 02:29 Former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira , who admitted he illegally posted sensitive military information to online chat rooms in what prosecutors called one of the “most prolific” and “rare” government leak operations, is set to be sentenced in a Boston courtroom on Tuesday.  Teixeira, a 22-year-old Massachusetts native, pleaded guilty in March to six counts of violating the Espionage Act , acknowledging he was behind the yearlong distribution of dozens of classified government documents — including some marked “top secret” — on Discord, a social media platform. The classified documents involved in the leak touched on a number of sensitive issues, but the most notable were about Russia’s war in Ukraine, detailed troop movements and timelines for Western weapons deliveries to the war-torn country, investigators said.  Federal law enforcement arrested Teixeira at his family’s Massachusetts home after a weekslong probe into how sensitive Pentagon records were ending up online. Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to sentence the defendant to 200 months in prison — almost 17

November 12, 2024 / 5:23 AM EST / AP 11/11: CBS Evening News 11/11: CBS Evening News 19:46 Beirut — Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that became decisive in the spread of Islam throughout the region. The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion. The Arab army prevailed and continued on its march into Persia, now Iran. A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.’s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah, a pilgrimage route from Iraq’s Kufa to Mecca in Saudi Arabia built more than 1,000 years ago. The findings were published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity. A desert area with scattered plots of agricultural land with features that closely matched the description of the al-Qadisiyah battle site described in historic texts, in the Abu

YANGJU, South Korea —  In the late 1970s, before he became a television star and a household name in South Korea , Im Chae-moo was working as an extra when he had an epiphany. Im Chae-moo’s breakout role in a popular soap opera, “Love and Truth,” in 1984 led to a heady career as a national heartthrob. His lucrative career paved the way for his Doori Land amusement park, which bears a poster of Im. (Courtesy of Im Chae-moo) During one production, shot near a creek where families picnicked, he watched the same depressing scene play out day after day: The adults would drink, gamble, fight and fling empty soju bottles, while the children would catch minnows in the water, occasionally cutting their feet on the broken glass. “That was when it just came to me,” Im recalled. “I told myself I’d become a successful actor and become rich so that I could create a place where families can come and enjoy themselves together.” His breakout role in a popular soap opera titled “Love and Truth” in 1984 led to a heady career as a national

SAN DIEGO (AP) — “Construyan el muro” fue el lema de la campaña de Donald Trump en 2016, y actuó en consecuencia al recurrir a presupuestos militares para construir cientos de kilómetros de muro fronterizo con México. “Deportación masiva” fue la expresión de moda que entusiasmó a quienes lo apoyaron en su contienda por la Casa Blanca en 2024. La victoria de Trump prepara el escenario para una rápida ofensiva después de que una encuesta de AP VoteCast mostró que los partidarios del presidente electo se centraron principalmente en la inmigración y la inflación, temas que el republicano recalcó durante toda su campaña. Es incierto cómo y cuándo tomarán forma las acciones de Trump sobre la inmigración. ARCHIVO – El candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump habla con Paul Perez, presidente del sindicato Consejo Nacional de la Patrulla Fronteriza durante una visita a la frontera sur de EEUU en Sierra Vista, Arizona, el 22 de agosto de 2024. (Evan Vucci/AP) Aunque Trump y sus asesores han ofrecido un plan a grandes rasgos, quedan muchas preguntas sobre cómo deportarían a las cerca de 11 millones de personas

Nearly six years after police pushed him to confess to a murder that never happened, Thomas Perez Jr. received an $898,000 settlement from the city of Fontana. On August 8, 2018, Perez called the Fontana Police Department to report his father had been missing for 17 hours.  By the end of the lengthy investigation, Perez confessed to killing his father – before learning that his father had been found alive and well. According to reports by CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and more – the officers’ tactics were coercive and, at one point, led Perez to attempt to take his own life while he was still in the interrogation room. On Thursday, Nov. 7, the Fontana Police Department issued a statement offering the department’s side of the story. “This was a missing person’s case where officers and detectives followed unfolding evidence that pointed toward possible foul play,” says the statement signed by chief Mike Dorsey. “In the settlement agreement, the judge on the case noted that a reasonable juror would agree that officers had sufficient evidence to suspect a crime had been

It took 20 firefighters 18 minutes Monday evening to extinguished a dumpster fire in Valley Village that spread to volatile vegetation toward a home under construction. The fire was reported about 9 p.m. Monday in the 5100 block of Colfax Avenue, near Magnolia Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Brian Humphrey. The vegetation in the path of the flames included Italian cypress trees and the fire could have spread to a single-story home in the framing stage of construction had firefighters not stopped it, Humphrey said. No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire was under investigation, he said.

Three men suspected in a shooting were arrested Monday evening after recklessly trying to drive away from the police in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles Police Department officers began a pursuit of a gray Mercedes-Benz around 9:20 p.m. Monday with three shooting suspects inside, according to multiple reports. It was unclear where the pursuit started, but the chase continued through streets in the South Los Angeles, with items being thrown out of the speeding car during the pursuit. Around 9:35 p.m., when smoke started to emanate from the hood of the car, the driver halted on South Manhattan Place and West 52nd Street and stepped out of the car with his arms up in the air. With arms behind his head, the driver made his way towards the LAPD officers facing backwards, and surrendered. In a similar manner, the two other occupants of the car walked backwards to LAPD officers and surrendered themselves. The front side of the car appeared to be damaged after the pursuit. Further details about the shooting and motive were unavailable.

The Rams went from nearly left for dead to media darlings, the team that nobody would want to play heading into the second half of the season. A three-game winning streak aided that transformation. So did Matthew Stafford’s six touchdown passes in the previous two games. Better hit the pause button. The Rams might indeed find consistency on offense and become a contender for the NFC title. Still, their performance on Monday night in a 23-15 defeat by the Miami Dolphins provided more questions than answers. Such as: Why couldn’t the Rams score a touchdown? That has happened only once — in a 2022 defeat by the San Francisco 49ers — in games Stafford has played in since the Rams traded for him 2021. “Just negative plays at the wrong time,” Stafford said. Coach Sean McVay watched his players give up sacks and commit turnovers and penalties that killed drives and forced the Rams to settle for five Joshua Karty field goals. McVay apparently shared similar feelings as Rams fans as he watched the mistakes and the offensive inefficiency. “Frustration,” he said, “just like everybody

Freedom, family, and unity were all talking points at a Veterans Day celebration at the Faces of Freedom Veterans Memorial. The Atascadero Veterans Memorial Foundation held its 17th annual Veterans Day Celebration Monday afternoon with an Estrella Warbirds Flyover, a presentation of colors by the Cal Poly ROTC, an invocation from Pastor Ted Mort, and a speech from guest speaker Col. John Whitworth. Whitworth is a retired Marine veteran who was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. Speaking to hundreds in the audience at the Faces of Freedom Memorial, the former pilot spoke about what it’s like to come home from war having lost friends on the battlefield. He thanked family members of veterans in the crowd for their support. “Our veterans, in my mind, are the heartbeat of our country from the very first Revolutionary War all the way to today,” Whitworth said. Veterans in attendance were recognized, some as old as 98, standing as the community clapped and thanked them for their service. I get chills thinking about it, talking about it,” said Atascadero resident Sarah Meagher. “It’s incredible to recognize those

Michael B. Clayton and Associates has hosted a barbecue on Veterans Day for over two decades. On Monday, the law firm brought it back for its 24th year. The event was held at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Santa Maria. It began at 10:30 a.m. with a flag ceremony, followed by a buffet-style lunch. Veterans, along with both active and nonactive military personnel, enjoyed their meals for free. Their families ate at no charge as well. KSBY stopped by Monday’s barbecue and spoke with Jay Conner, a Vietnam veteran who was drafted in 1966. “This is one of the most awesome things you can do as a veteran. To be thanked by your community, by individuals, and be recognized for the service,” Conner said. Non-military members donated $5 to attend.

It’s not quite been a week since the Mountain Fire erupted in Ventura County, the wind-driven wildfire leveling more than 130 homes, prompting thousands to flee while fire crews battled the blaze.   First reported just before 9 a.m. Nov. 6 in the 7900 block of Balcom Canyon Road near Bradley Road between the communities of Moorpark and Somis, north of the 118 Freeway, it quickly jumped the roadway and tore through the Camarillo Heights neighborhood.  “We are six days into this incident now,” Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner said. “It seems like it’s been weeks, but we are six days into it.”   Officials believe the worst is now behind them as they see a switch in the winds and have spent the last few days working to repopulate some areas previously evacuated. Power companies are also working to bring electricity back to homes.   According to Cal Fire’s most recent update, the Mountain Fire scorched 20,630 acres and stands at 42% containment.   Television reporters film as flames from the Mountain Fire consume a home in Camarillo, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 6

Three men were taken into custody by police after a dangerous high-speed pursuit on surface streets in South Los Angeles Monday night.   It’s unclear where exactly the pursuit, which was initiated around 9 p.m., started, but the trio were reportedly wanted for an alleged shooting, though authorities have yet to confirm that detail or provide any additional information.   Aerial footage of the chase captured by Sky5 showed the suspect behind the wheel speeding around turns, narrowly missing other motorists as he drove around them while sparks shot out from beneath the vehicle.   Three people were taken into custody after a high-speed police pursuit in South L.A. on Nov. 11, 2024. (KTLA) Three people were taken into custody after a high-speed police pursuit in South L.A. on Nov. 11, 2024. (KTLA) Three people were taken into custody after a high-speed police pursuit in South L.A. on Nov. 11, 2024. (KTLA) Three people were taken into custody after a high-speed police pursuit in South L.A. on Nov. 11, 2024. (KTLA) Three people were taken into custody after a high-speed police pursuit in South L.A.

The long road back to prestige started at home, against a largely anonymous opponent. Having failed its first test against a mid-major, UCLA took a step down in competition Monday night and didn’t do a lot to convince anyone it belonged back in the national rankings. Many of the same problems that plagued the Bruins last week were present again during a disjointed 71-40 victory over Boston University at Pauley Pavilion. There were turnovers galore, long scoring droughts and more struggles making shots from long range. Fortunately for the Bruins, their defense proved too much for an opponent incapable of handling active hands and backcourt pressure. UCLA (2-1) forced 28 turnovers that it converted into 36 points in taking a small step forward after its loss to New Mexico. Most of those points came on layups and dunks in transition, the rewards of expending all that effort on defense. “I was most happy tonight with our attitude of humility and the fact that we dove on the floor more tonight than every scrimmage, game or exhibition game combined,” Bruins coach Mick Cronin said after his