Army, Marine generals on Afghanistan evacuation: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’
The clock is ticking for thousands of Americans and allies trapped in Afghanistan, with an evacuation deadline in exactly one week. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Farrell J. Sullivan, one of the two American generals in charge of the operation to evacuate American citizens and Afghans, said…
Subway Is Giving Out One Million Free Sandwiches Ahead of Its Menu Overhaul
Subway is planning its largest menu update in history and is giving away one million sandwiches in celebration. The sandwich chain announced the planned menu changes in a statement on Tuesday, saying that it would be “making improvements to almost every core menu item and introducing important digital…
Colombia Is Rising Up
Today marks one month of large-scale protests across Colombia, an uprising without a clear precedent in the South American country’s history. It started with a national strike in April protesting a tax reform bill, but it soon became an entrenched mass movement against poverty, inequality,…
What’s Driving California’s Mass Exodus?
As Oracle, Palantir and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise move their headquarters out of California and Elon Musk moves to Texas, California is considering raising taxes on the wealthy to unprecedented levels. Experts say California needs to find more ways to reverse the trend.
Thousands of Russians arrested in protests supporting Putin critic Alexei Navalny
Massive protests took place across Russia on Saturday in support of Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin. Navalny was arrested last Sunday after returning to Moscow from Germany, where he was treated for a poisoning allegedly linked to…
Bob Dylan sells rights to all his songs to Universal Music Group
US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his entire back catalogue to Universal Music Group (UMG). The deal is one of the biggest acquisitions in Universal’s history and means the company will collect all future income from the songs. It includes both the…
Denver Mayor urged people on Twitter to ‘avoid travel’, then flew to Mississippi
The mayor of Denver was forced to apologise after flying to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with his family – shortly after urging residents to follow official advice and remain at home because of the coronavirus. On Wednesday, Michael Hancock shared pandemic Thanksgiving advice on Twitter, advising…
Rudy Giuliani Melts Down Over Trump and ‘Voter Fraud’
When the Trump campaign announced a noon press conference today, there was some speculation that it might signal an end to the president’s doomed effort to challenge his election defeat. That might have seemed rational, since Team Trump and its subordinate allies have again and again struck out…
The Fart That Ended in Aggravated Assault
According to the Miami Herald, 37-year-old Shanetta Yvette Wilson let out a loud fart in a dollar store, and when someone called her out on it, she pulled a knife on him; said she was going to gut him. She wound up charged with aggravated…
Barack Obama: The 2020 60 Minutes interview
The former president shares the advice he would give President Trump, his thoughts on the killing of George Floyd, and what’s behind the divisions in Washington and across the U.S. Scott Pelley reports. https://cbsn.ws/3kyvQRG
