Whopping $4 billion payout for UFC owners, and other MoneyWatch headlines
Cage-fight league UFC sold for $4 billion; revived Pokémon craze drives up Nintendo shares. These headlines and more from CBS MoneyWatch.
Cage-fight league UFC sold for $4 billion; revived Pokémon craze drives up Nintendo shares. These headlines and more from CBS MoneyWatch.
A new study suggests kids who bite their nails or suck their thumb may have a lower risk of certain allergies. Brook Silva-Braga reports.
One-hundred-seventy-eight years ago, Georgetown University was free to everyone who was able to attend; it was also massively in debt. To pay that debt, the university sold 272 slaves -- the very people that helped build the school itself. Today, the university's leaders, students and alumni are grappling with how to confront that history. Michelle Miller reports.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit group dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions. His team represents clients whose cases may be marked by racial bias or prosecutors' misconduct, and they have helped more than 115 wrongfully-condemned death row prisoners. Stevenson joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss how the inadequate acknowledgment of the racial inequality in the U.S. impacts tensions today.
Facebook Live is one of the go-to places for anyone to stream video. Witnesses to the Philando Castile shooting in Falcon Heights, Minn., and the attack on police in Dallas streamed live video from their smartphones, exposing the violence to millions online. CBS News contributor and NewYorker.com editor Nicholas Thompson joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss how technology is changing the way we view news.
Maryland Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, whose city faced riots last year after a young black man, Freddie Gray, died of injuries received in police custody, joins "CBS This Morning" from Baltimore to discuss the latest protests of the deadly police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota and how people can go beyond dialogue in impacting societal change.
Brent Thompson was the first Dallas Area Rapid Transit police officer ever killed in the line of duty. He was married less than two weeks before he died. DART Police Chief J.D. Spiller joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss last week's police ambush.
Hours after gunman Micah Johnson ambushed police officers in downtown Dallas, he was killed by a bomb strapped on a police robot. Robots in the past have stopped a lot of dangerous situations, but using a robot to kill - that was a first for a domestic police force. Kris Van Cleave reports on the ethical questions about the use of robots to kill suspects.
As Dallas honors its fallen heroes at a vigil Monday at city hall, the extended family in blue is banding together to mourn those lost. The shooting marked the deadliest day for law enforcement officers since 9/11. The family of late officer Mike Smith recounts what he said before leaving for work. Omar Villafranca reports from the Baylor University Medical Center.
On "Face the Nation" Sunday, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani defended tough policing policies and accused the Black Lives Matter movement of being "inherently racist." CBS News political director and "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss.
President Obama will speak Tuesday at a Dallas memorial service for the five officers killed last Thursday in a police ambush. Vice President Joe Biden and former President George W. Bush will also attend. The president returned from Europe Sunday night, a day earlier than planned. Chip Reid reports on the president's response to the attack.
"Eye on Earth: Our Planet in Peril" looks at how rising sea levels and more frequent major storm events illustrate the consequences of a changing planet.
Videos shot inside a migrant raft reveal the cramped conditions. The boat full of refugees was in sight of land near the Greek island of Rhodes when it hit submerged rocks. While some European nations have started building walls to keep migrants out, U.S. Navy ships armed with infared and nightvision are creating a barrier at sea. Seth Doane is on board the USNS "Grapple."
North of downtown Los Angeles, a wildfire raged in the Santa Clarita valley forcing 2,000 people to evacuate. In the last two months, nearly 100,000 acres have burned in California. The Erskine fire near Lake Isabella killed two people and deystroyed more than 280 homes. Mireya Villarreal has the latest.
President Obama cut short an official visit to Spain on Sunday so he could personally honor the murdered Dallas police officers. He also tried to calm protestors from nearly 5,000 miles away and cautioned activists back home not to use recent shootings of black men by police as an excuse for violence. Margaret Brennan is traveling with the president.
Dozens of arrests were made in St. Paul, Minnesota, after protestors fought with police over the deadly shooting of Philando Castile last Wednesday. Several hundred protesters clashed with police as they shut down one of the Twin Cities' main highways, Interstate 94. For more than four hours overnight, police tried to get the crowd under control. Some hurled broken concrete, rocks, rebar and even fireworks at officers. Anna Werner has more from St. Paul.
The protests in the Louisiana captial were in response to the death of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, who was shot and killed during an encounter with police last week. More than 100 arrests were made during the protests, most for defying orders to clear the street, some for battery of a police officer. Seven guns were siezed from protesters along with body armor. David Begnaud has more.
After the initial rounds of gunfire, Dallas Police chief David Brown said in an interview the gunman laughed at police negotiations and scribbled letters on the wall with his own blood. A makeshift memorial continues to grow where the five police officers were killed by a sniper last Thursday. Manuel Bojorquez has more from Dallas.
One of the fallen heroes in the Dallas shooting was police officer Michael Smith, who was also an Army veteran. Heidi and Mike Smith had an all-American family: she was a teacher he was a police officer. Omar Villafranca spoke with his family.
After four decades of introducing many to the pleasures of international travel via TV and guidebooks, the man who has canvassed Europe's best- and least-known tourist sites has learned the simple pleasures gained in an unfamiliar destination: his own kitchen.
Vicious 2nd wave of infections leaves bodies piling up as oxygen, vaccines and hospital beds run short, and a "double mutant" strain stokes global fears.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, sits down with "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson to discuss the challenges of growing up as an African American male in the United States. Cummings' district was the scene of weeks of protests last year after Freddie Gray, a young black man, died while in police custody.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings reports police recruiting is down across the nation. He pleads with Americans to give police officers support during this time of crisis. Rawlings asked: "Can we disagree without demonizing?"
The most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin has been on a hunger strike for almost 3 weeks over his treatment in prison, and now his allies say it's "life and death."
After the debate and conversation about vital issues surrounding this week of violence in America, "Face the Nation" focuses its attention back on the seven lives lost, as well as the families and communities that will never be the same again.