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By Caitlin Yilek Updated on: August 21, 2024 / 11:39 PM EDT / CBS News Oprah Winfrey says to choose Kamala Harris Watch: Oprah Winfrey says to choose “common sense over nonsense” in DNC speech for Kamala Harris 15:02 Washington — Oprah Winfrey preached unity, while taking slight digs at former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, at the Democratic convention Wednesday night. “There are people who want you to see our country as a nation of ‘us against them’ — people who want to scare you, who want to rule you,” she said. “People who’d have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles are safe, that there’s a right way to worship and a wrong way to love. People who seek first to divide and then to conquer. But here’s the thing — when we stand together, it is impossible to conquer us.”  “Despite what some would have you think, we are not so different from our neighbors,” Winfrey said. “When a house is on fire, we don’t ask about the homeowner’s race or religion, we don’t

Watch: Oprah Winfrey says to choose “common sense over nonsense” in DNC speech for Kamala Harris – CBS News Watch CBS News Oprah Winfrey delivered a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, imploring voters to choose Kamala Harris and what she represents over Donald Trump. See Winfrey’s full address. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Amanda Gorman reads “This Sacred Scene” Amanda Gorman recites “This Sacred Scene” at DNC 03:53 Amanda Gorman, a poet and activist who in 2021 made history as the youngest poet ever to read at a presidential inauguration, debuted a new poem on the third night of the Democratic convention Wednesday. “We gather at this hallowed place because we believe in the American dream,” her poem began. “We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the Earth, and if our Earth shall perish from this country.” “We are one family, regardless of religion, class or color,” she said. “For what defines a patriot is not our love of liberty, but our love for one another.” The poem concluded, “Let us not just believe in the American dream. Let us be worthy of it.” She rose to fame in 2021 when she performed ” The Hill We Climb ” at President Biden’s inauguration, when she was just 22 years of age. In: Democratic National Convention Caitlin Yilek Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously

Amanda Gorman recites “This Sacred Scene” at DNC – CBS News Watch CBS News Poet and activist Amanda Gorman addressed the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, reciting her poem “This Sacred Scene.” Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A 73-year-old suspected serial killer from Mississippi extradited to Ventura County earlier this month in connection with three strangulation murders nearly a half-century ago pled not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday, officials announced.   In February 2023, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Cold Case Unit began re-examining the deaths of the three women – Kimberly Carol Fritz, Velvet Ann Sanchez and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez – each of whom was killed in 1977, the Ventura County DA’s Office said.   While the exact circumstances surrounding the women’s deaths were not disclosed by the DA, an article published in 1978 in the Utah publication The Daily Herald stated that the three women were prostitutes who were strangled with their own underwear.   Warren Luther Alexander, 73, is charged with three counts of first-degree for the strangulation deaths of three women in Ventura County in 1977. (VCDA) Sanchez was 31 when she was found dead in an Oxnard motel on Sept. 9, 1977, the Daily Herald reported; the 18-year-old Fritz was found in a motel room on May 29 of that year and Rodriguez, then 22, was found dead near a highway in

A family is desperately searching for a missing Southern California father whose truck was found abandoned and ransacked on the highway.  Delfino Guadalupe Lopez Fajardo, 47, was last seen on Aug. 15 when he went to visit his sister in the hospital.  Known as “Lupe” by loved ones, the husband and father of two young children has lived in Idyllwild for over 20 years. His wife, Rosa Aguilar, was told by authorities her husband may have nearly caused an accident while driving back home, which enraged another driver. Lupe pulled over at a gas station on the 63000 block of Highway 74 in Mountain Center and parked his truck at around 6:30 p.m. The angry driver arrived shortly after and allegedly confronted Lupe and began pushing him. Fearful of being assaulted, Lupe allegedly ran away from the suspect who was chasing him and eventually jumped over a fence. It’s unclear what happened next but that was the last time Lupe was seen alive. Delfino Guadalupe Lopez Fajardo, 47, is seen with his two children. (Fajardo Family) Delfino Guadalupe Lopez Fajardo, 47, is seen with his

As a woman fights for her life after a brutally violent attack at a Los Angeles Metro station in Pasadena, an incident captured on the transit system’s security cameras, many riders are now asking who exactly is keeping an eye on those cameras.   The Aug. 7 incident occurred at around 5:30 a.m. at the Allen Metro station along the Metro A Line.    Footage of the incident obtained by KTLA, which is disturbing and difficult to watch, shows the victim repeatedly being dragged into the carpool lane of the busy 210 Freeway as cars whiz seemingly within inches of running her over, and she fights to survive.    Chilling video shows man trying to throw a woman into L.A. freeway traffic Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department believe the attack was random, resulting from a chance encounter with the suspect, now identified as 33-year-old Juan Pablo Flores.    Chilling video shows a man attacking a woman at an L.A. Metro Station in Pasadena, attempting to throw her onto oncoming traffic on the 210 Freeway on Aug. 7, 2024. (@PeopleofMetroLA) Chilling video shows a

Siren tests will be conducted throughout parts of San Luis Obispo County on Saturday, Aug. 24. The tests are part of the County Office of Emergency Services’ Annual Early Warning System Siren Test. Two tests are scheduled to take placethe first at noon and the second at 12:30 p.m. During both tests, 130 sirens will be activated simultaneously for three minutes. They are being tested twice to ensure that both the primary and backup activation points are functioning properly. The sirens are located throughout the Diablo Canyon Power Plant Emergency Planning Zone. The noise will be loudest along the coast from Cayucos to Nipomo, according to officials, and it will impact areas as far east as Downtown San Luis Obispo. The Early Warning System sirens can be used for any local emergency when there is a need for widespread action, such as an evacuation or shelter-in-place. County officials stress that Saturday’s siren activations are only tests and do not require any public action.

By dawn, everything was set for the annual Day of Hope event by Dignity Health. Today is a day of celebration and that our cancer patients feel very loved and honored today because we’re right there with them,” said Jessa Brooks, Vice President of Philanthropy at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria. All it took for volunteers was a safety vest and a stack of newspapers. They hit the streets, asking for donations in exchange for a special edition of the Santa Maria Times. Of course, some groups took it to the next level, like Cynthia Maldonados, whose group was dressed up as Michael Jackson, holding up a sign reading Cancer – just beat it!.We’re all very, very passionate. This is cancer outreach, and so we want to make sure that we’re out here supporting the community,” Maldonado said. Since 2013, Dignity Health has raised over $2 million through Day of Hope newspaper sales and online donations. The money helps local cancer patients and their families, providing crucial support like transportation to and from the hospital for treatment. We have a patient transportation program

A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that evidence will show that a Los Angeles man was involved in a series of carjackings within less than a week, including one in Pico Rivera in which a 13-year-old girl died, while a defense attorney countered that his client committed some of the offenses but said he would ask them to acquit the defendant of other charges. Jose Elias Aguilar, now 30, is charged with one count each of murder and corporal injury to a child, two counts of attempted kidnapping during a carjacking, five counts of kidnapping for carjacking and 10 counts of carjacking. The most serious charge of murder involves the July 5, 2020, death of Isabella Cortes. In his opening statement, Deputy District Attorney Robert Villa told the Norwalk jury that Isabella and her three siblings waited inside the family’s 2012 silver Toyota Sienna mini-van which was left running with the air conditioning on at the curb near La Mano Tortilleria while their parents went inside the business on Whittier Boulevard. Two of the children were able to get out of the mini-van, with the other

A man in his 30s was shot in South Los Angeles Wednesday and taken to a hospital in an unknown condition. Officers responded to the area of 16th Street and Griffith Avenue around 4:20 p.m. in response to reports of a shooting, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. It was unclear what led up to the shooting. The suspect, who fled the scene, was described as a man wearing a green sweatshirt, last seen riding a white bicycle westbound on San Pedro Street, according to police.