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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).