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Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people. “So, if it’s a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole,” Daniel Bennett, the hotel’s executive chef, tells CBS News. The correspondents’ dinner has been an annual tradition since 1921, bringing together presidential comedy and the press corps, and the Hilton has been its home for 57 years. The Washington Hilton is also known for one of the darkest moments in presidential…
A federal judge says a 2-year-old Louisiana girl and U.S. citizen may have been deported to Honduras this week with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, according to court documents obtained by CBS News. In an order Friday, Judge Terry Doughty, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, wrote there was a “strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.” When Doughty, appointed to the bench by President Trump during his first term, sought Friday afternoon to arrange a phone call with the mother of the…
Farmers in Africa that produce some of the world’s most prized coffee are in a scramble to comply with new European Union environmental rules that require them to document the origin of every shipment of beans.The new measure, coming into force at the end of this year, is designed to prevent deforestation driven by agricultural expansion. To comply, farmers must provide geolocation data to show that their coffee was not grown on land where forests have recently been cut down.After Dec. 31, any producers that cannot will lose access to the vast European market.Europe consumes more coffee than any country…
Chinese social media platform TikTok will enter the online shopping industry in Japan within the next few months, Nikkei reported on Sunday.The company is preparing to recruit sellers soon for TikTok Shop in Japan, Nikkei said, citing a source involved in the operations. Source link
MARIETTA, Ga. — Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia said Saturday that President Donald Trump’s unsettled economic policy is the biggest problem facing his state, saying the “chaos and uncertainty” is hurting the ability of businesses and individuals to makes decisions for the future.Ossoff, who’s gearing up to run for reelection in 2026, has been ramping up his criticism of Trump even as he says he will seek to work with Republicans and the Trump administration to deliver for Georgia. In his first four years, Ossoff tried to carve out a reputation as a traditional senator interested in advancing Georgia’s…
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police have released video from the shooting of author Jillian Lauren, the wife of a Weezer band member, during a chaotic backyard confrontation that culminated in a volley of gunfire.Lauren’s wounds were not life-threatening in the April 8 shooting in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, where the 51-year-old wife of Weezer base player Scott Shriner emerged from her home with a gun as city police and the California Highway Patrol searched the area for three people who fled a car wreck.Lauren — listed by police as Jillian Lauren Shriner — was released…
Once, when my husband, Tom, and I were battling about something, I got so worked up that I blurted, like an angry toddler: “You bad man!”Conflict is “inevitable and normal in intimate relationships,” said Andrew Christensen, a distinguished research professor at the U.C.L.A. department of psychology. But the way that couples manage it is a key to a healthy bond, he added.There’s a productive way to deal with conflict — attacking the problem rather than each other, for example — and an unhelpful way that fails to resolve the fight or makes it worse.Name-calling, as I did, falls under the…
Jed Gould, the influential Los Angeles disc jockey known as Jed the Fish, who used his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical knowledge to shine a light on artists like the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Offspring at the groundbreaking New Wave and alternative rock station KROQ-FM in the 1980s and ’90s, died on April 14 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 69.The cause was an aggressive form of small-cell lung cancer, Rudy Koerner, a close friend, said. Mr. Gould was never a cigarette smoker, he added, and before he was diagnosed last month, he had thought his recent…
Founded by Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, the foundation is one of the biggest financial backers of Catholic sisters’ work around the world, and has given roughly $28.5 million to Vatican-led initiatives, including Vatican departments, the majority of that since 2020. Regardless of the conclave’s outcome, the foundation is committed to continuing its partnerships with the Vatican, and to support programs focused on Catholic sisters, Sr. Jane added. Francis saw donors as vital partners. He looked to them not only to fund the causes dear to him but also to plug the Vatican’s creaky finances. In February, while the pope…
Stock market gyrations. Inflation. Layoffs of federal workers. A possible recession.Children may overhear their parents talking about these things and not fully understand what’s going on or how it may affect their family’s finances. But if the children have questions, parents should be ready to talk, experts say.“Parents are the biggest influence on kids’ financial learning,” said Ashley LeBaron-Black, an assistant professor of family life at Brigham Young University.Here are some tips for having conversations about money.Children don’t pay attention to the national economy, right?The nation’s economy seemed on solid ground at the beginning of the year, but economists expect…