Month: September 2024

Oprah Winfrey has selected New York Times best-selling author Ann Napolitano’s novel “Hello Beautiful” as her 100th book club selection.  Winfrey announced her choice first on “CBS Mornings” Wednesday, saying that the book’s relatable message made it an easy pick for her.  “It’s one of those choices where you feel like I can’t wait for […]
MISSION VIEJO, CA — A stray dog now named Journey who was seen roaming the streets of Laguna Niguel for a month has finally been captured, thanks to Mission Viejo Animal Services. Journey was first reported over a month ago, but with every attempt at rescue, she quickly ran away. “Journey’s time on the street […]
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s Fishtown has countless place to eat. From scrapple fries at Sulimay’s Restaurant to omakase at Hiroki, the dining scene in Fishtown offers a plethora of options for diners of all kind. But Fishtown’s newest restaurant is a bit off the beaten path in the former Penn Asylum for Indigent Widows and Single […]
It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then spent the next three days discussing everything but the bill, including her favorite Girl Scout cookies, Omaha’s best doughnuts and the plot of […]
An environmental activist who was fatally shot by Georgia law enforcement in January was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air at the time, the protester’s family said Monday as they released results of an autopsy they commissioned. The family of Manuel Paez Terán held a news conference in Decatur to announce the findings. […]
The Biden administration is allowing thousands of Ukrainian refugees who were processed along the southern border after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to remain and work in the U.S. legally for at least another year, according to a government notice obtained by CBS News. Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and displaced millions of […]
The U.S. Secret Service has received and is reviewing a sworn declaration from a Brazilian man who claims Rep. George Santos was “in charge of” a fraud scheme that led to the man’s arrest in 2017 for installing skimmers at a Seattle bank ATM, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News. Santos […]
Germany said Friday that mass fish deaths in the Oder River were a “man-made environmental disaster,” blaming toxic algae growth sparked by the introduction of salt into the waters. Presenting a report into the disaster that saw at least 300 tons of dead fish pulled from the river in Germany and Poland this summer, the […]
The last time I had to box up my roughly 2600 records, during a move, I cursed up a storm and drank almost an entire bottle of tequila. I struggled to keep the vinyl alphabetized and kept running out of boxes, markers, and tape. And I discovered that I had more LPs of music by […]
The hoary question of tubes vs transistors, once certain and clear, is made ambiguous by recent products from a few solid-state specialists, not the least being Ayre Acoustics—the company that endures in the wake of the passing of its founder, the widely admired Charley Hansen. In their solid-state preamplifiers and amplifiers of the past decade […]