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By Analisa Novak Updated on: December 3, 2024 / 1:10 PM EST / CBS News Golden Globes presenters revealed Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut named Golden Globe presenters 00:46 Actors Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut will announce the  2025 Golden Globes  nominees, “CBS Mornings” revealed exclusively on Tuesday.  Kaling, known for her roles in “The Mindy Project” and “The Office,” will join Chestnut, who gained fame in “Boyz n the Hood” and will star in the upcoming CBS drama “Watson.” When will the nominees be announced? The nominees for the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards will be revealed on Monday, Dec. 9. Ten categories will be revealed exclusively on CBS Mornings, and a complete list of nominees across the 27 award categories will be available on GoldenGlobes.com and CBSNews.com following the live announcement. Who is hosting the Golden Globes? Comedian Nikki Glaser will host the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards. Glasser was announced in August as the host following a breakout performance during Comedy Central’s “The Roast of Tom Brady.” “I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite

We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Many investors can benefit from investing in gold ahead of 2025. Getty Images One of the most popular and successful investments in recent years is also one of the more traditional ones: gold. Investing in the precious metal surged to an 11-year high in 2023 and the price broke multiple records in 2024, the latest of which came in late October. And it’s possible that the metal could hit a new price record of $3,000 per ounce , possibly even before December 31.  Understanding this dynamic, those who are considering a gold investment now, as well as those who have already got started, may be wondering how the precious metal could help their portfolio in the new year. While gold’s benefits remain traditional and reliable, they can be particularly beneficial now. Below, we’ll break down three ways a gold investment could boost your portfolio in 2025. Learn more about the gold investment options available to you here. How a gold investment could boost your portfolio

By Eric Henderson Updated on: December 3, 2024 / 1:02 PM EST / CBS News Most anticipated movies this season What are the most anticipated movies of the Thanksgiving, holiday season? 03:55 Actor-turned-director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” was named the best film of 2024 by the New York Film Critics Circle Tuesday afternoon. One of the nation’s oldest and most venerated critics’ groups, the NYFCC traditionally kicks the movie awards season into high gear.  The group, comprised of roughly 50 print and online movie reviewers based in the city, is frequently the first major critics’ group to announce its best-of choices for the year. Their winners are chosen via ballot, and on a category-by-category basis. “The Brutalist,” a three-and-a-half-hour period piece, was also cited for Adrian Brody’s central performance. Meanwhile, Marianne Jean-Baptiste was named the year’s best actress for “Hard Truths,” her reunion with British director Mike Leigh. She was previously nominated for an Oscar for her role in Leigh’s “Secrets & Lies.” The best director prize went to RaMell Ross for his adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel “Nickel Boys.” Full list of NYFCC winners

A homeowners group is asking a judge to pause plans to build an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Los Angeles’ Woodland Hills neighborhood. The proposed site for the popular burger chain is on Ventura Boulevard near Fallbrook Avenue but the West Valley Alliance for Optimal Living has concerns about the location. The group says the In-N-Out drive-thru would be placed near multi-family housing and wants more information about how the restaurant would impact traffic, noise and water quality, mynewsla.com reported. They have petitioned a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to halt the project until an environmental impact study can be done. The City of Los Angeles has yet to respond to the homeowners’ petition.

Select Taco Bell drive-thrus nationwide will be transformed into a “one of a kind” photo booth experience to capture fans’ everyday “Live Mas” moments. Taco Bell rewards members in California, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Florida will be able to participate in the drive-thru photo booth experience. Some of the photos could end up in Taco Bell’s upcoming commercial during the Super Bowl, according to the chain. Iconic Taco Bell items from previous decades returning to 3 Southern California stores “Every day in our drive-thrus, we see moments that are so uniquely ‘our fans’ – the moments, the memories, and the energy that makes Taco Bell who we are,” Taco Bell’s Chief Marketing Officer Taylor Montgomery said in a statement. “That’s why, for our return to football’s biggest stage, we’re sidelining the celebrities and turning the camera on the fans who already make Taco Bell what it is.” The photo booth experience will be available at these locations for a limited time: Dec. 3 to Dec. 5: 1604 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90019 Dec. 4 to Dec. 6: 17565 E. Bagley Road, Middleburg

Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, left, stole nearly $17 million from Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, including $325,000 worth of baseball cards. (Ashley Landis / Associated Press) Ippei Mizuhara’s fleecing of Shohei Ohtani was straightforward for the most part. Ohtani’s former interpreter had access to a bank account full of Ohtani’s money, and he simply wrote checks, withdrew cash or wired funds whenever he made bets or needed to pay gambling debts. Mizuhara pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud in June and was ordered to pay full restitution to his victims, which includes $16,975,010 to Ohtani, and $1,149,400 to the IRS. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 24 in federal court. But apparently Mizuhara found other ways to steal from Ohtani while the two-way baseball star played for the Angels and after he signed with the Dodgers in December 2023. On one occasion, Mizuhara needed $60,000 worth of dental work, and Ohtani approved payment from a business account. Mizuhara, however, deposited the money into his personal bank account and paid the dentist from the Ohtani account he illegally controlled, prosecutors said. And shortly after Ohtani joined

A high-speed police chase of an arson suspect ended in a fiery, violent rollover crash in Fountain Valley that left a woman dead and the suspect and two other people hospitalized, authorities said Tuesday. The collision occurred around 10 p.m. Monday near Ellis Avenue and Magnolia Street, according to the Fountain Valley Police Department. According to police, the events leading to the pursuit began about 7:30 p.m. Monday, when officers went to a residence in the 18000 block of Arches Court “in reference to an arson that just occurred.” “Investigation revealed because of an ongoing domestic dispute, a known suspect doused a bush adjacent to the home with lighter fluid and lit it on fire,” a police statement said. “The fire engulfed the bush in flames and spread to the structure of the home.” The fire was extinguished by residents before officers arrived, police said. “Using investigative resources, officers located the suspect’s unoccupied vehicle, a white Dodge Ram truck, in a parking lot in the 17900 block of Brookhurst (Street) in Fountain Valley,” the police statement said. “Officers conducted surveillance of the Dodge, and at

A judge has denied a bid by the Los Angeles Unified School District to dismiss wholly or in part a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of a drug overdose in a high school restroom in 2022, finding that there were triable issues for a jury. Plaintiff Elena Perez’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges that Bernstein High School officials knew there was a problem with drug use at the Hollywood campus, but took no action that could have saved her daughter, Melanie Ramos. The coroner’s report stated that Melanie died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl on Sept. 13, 2022. In court papers filed previously with Judge Lisa R. Jaskol, LAUSD lawyers contended the Bernstein High administration did not fail Perez or her daughter and that both the district and the administrators have immunity from Perez’s causes of action. But in her ruling Monday denying the LAUSD’s motion, the judge said that between 2013 and the fall semester of 2022, several medical emergencies related to drug use took place at the Bernstein campus and that three of the medical

By Eric Henderson Updated on: December 3, 2024 / 12:11 PM EST / CBS News Most anticipated movies this season What are the most anticipated movies of the Thanksgiving, holiday season? 03:55 The New York Film Critics Circle, one of the nation’s oldest and most venerated critics’ groups, is kicking movie awards season into high gear Tuesday as they select their choices for the best of 2024.  The group, comprised of roughly 50 print and online movie reviewers based in the city, is frequently the first major critics’ group to announce its best-of choices for the year. Their winners are chosen via ballot, and on a category-by-category basis; the awards have traditionally taken a number of hours to reveal.  Marianne Jean-Baptiste was named the year’s best actress for “Hard Truths,” her reunion with British director Mike Leigh. She was previously nominated for an Oscar for her role in Leigh’s “Secrets & Lies.”  The group selected as its best non-fiction film winner “No Other Land,” an Israel-Palestinian collaboration directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. Longtime film critic J. Hoberman recently called

By Robert Legare Updated on: December 3, 2024 / 12:57 PM EST / CBS News U.S. calls on China to sway North Korea U.S. calls on China to sway North Korea to stop efforts with Russia in Ukraine war 03:02 A Chinese national living in California has been arrested and charged by federal law enforcement after he allegedly bought and exported guns and ammunition to North Korea at the direction of North Korean agents who funneled him $2 million to purchase the equipment, according to a newly unsealed criminal complaint. Shenghua Wen, 41, also admitted to trying to obtain military uniforms in an apparent attempt to help North Korean soldiers disguise themselves and conduct a “surprise attack” against South Korea, prosecutors said in an affidavit accompanying the complaint, which was filed on Nov. 26. Prosecutors alleged Wen came to the U.S. on a student visa in 2012 and lives in Ontario, California. During a series of interviews earlier this year, he allegedly told investigators that he met with North Korean officials in China before coming to the U.S., and they directed him to procure firearms

By Kelsie Hoffman December 3, 2024 / 12:03 PM EST / CBS News Jon M. Chu on making “Wicked” a movie Jon M. Chu on bringing “Wicked” from Broadway to the big screen 05:58 After fewer than 10 days in theaters, the movie “Wicked” made more than $360 million worldwide, making it the highest grossing Broadway musical adaptation of all time. Director Jon M. Chu said there was a need to make “Wicked” now — “that it was speaking to a new voice of a new generation.” Before casting Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda , Chu said he was originally set on finding fresh faces for the movie in his largest casting call ever. “I didn’t believe, like when Ari came in, like no way Ariana Grande could commit herself to a role like this. I knew she was funny. I knew she had great pipes, but when she came in, she became Glinda,” he said. “When those two walk in… the moment you look in their eyes, there’s no denying it, they just took those roles.” Chu called it a

December 3, 2024 / 11:57 AM EST / CBS/AP Controversy at Young Thug RICO trial Prosecutors trying to use Young Thug’s lyrics against him in RICO trial 05:56 The gang and racketeering case in Atlanta that previously involved the rap music star Young Thug ended on Tuesday, when a jury found the last two defendants not guilty of murder and gang-related charges in the culmination of Georgia’s longest criminal trial. Deamonte Kendrick, who raps as Yak Gotti, was acquitted of all charges. Shannon Stillwell was found guilty only of a gun possession charge.  The verdicts came nearly two years after jury selection began and a year after opening statements in a trial plagued with problems. Kendrick appeared in court this week despite having been stabbed and injured Sunday in jail, his attorney Doug Weinstein confirmed. Weinstein said in a social media post that he expected Kendrick, who “sounded tired” when they spoke in the wake of the incident, “to make a full recovery.” The stabbing occurred almost a year after Stillwell was also stabbed inside the jail, CBS News affiliate WANF reported. The original, sweeping

Hunter Biden was in an increasingly perilous position. After Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, it was clear that some of his most vociferous critics were poised to assume power and carry out the promise of retribution for Trump’s enemies. Hunter was also set to be sentenced to months, and potentially years, in prison after he was convicted of illegally purchasing a handgun and pleaded guilty to tax crimes. Within his circle and the broader Biden family orbit, there were growing fears that Hunter’s status as a political and legal target would only become more acute. A white paper penned by his lawyers and circulated over the long Thanksgiving weekend outlined the risks and the grave threats he faced. But on Sunday night, the clouds lifted. With the stunning pardon his father President Biden had repeatedly said he would never grant, Hunter was now free of all those criminal entanglements. With the stroke of a pen, the president had given his son expansive immunity for 11 years of conduct, for any and all federal offenses. The pardon came at a deep price for his father, who