Contributor Faith Salie has some words (and they’re not good) about many companies’ propensity to house all their employees in a giant room with no dividing walls. CBS News Here’s an open secret: open office plans are the worst. About 70% of American work spaces are set up as open, where architectural walls disappear, stripping any creative boundaries between you…
Laurel, Md. — We are getting our first good look at the most distant object ever explored — a piece of rock spinning way out in space. Fittingly, it took a rock star to help find it. The first clear image of Ultima Thule shows what looks like a celestial snowman, a frozen world 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. It astounded…
It took less than a week for the Trump administration to kill the considerable buzz created last Jan. 1 when California’s broad marijuana legalization law took effect, creating the largest legal U.S. cannabis marketplace. Then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a policy shielding state-licensed medical marijuana operators from federal drug prosecutions. The move sent a chill through the nascent legal industry….
Funerals were held Monday for several members of an Indonesian pop band killed when a tsunami slammed into a stage where they were performing an open-air concert. Relatives of Muhammad Awal Purbani — bassist for the group “Seventeen” — sobbed and hugged each other at a service in Indonesia’s cultural capital Yogyakarta, including a 3-year-old daughter and his wife who…
Dramatic video posted on social media appeared to show concertgoers screaming as tsunami waves crashed into a beachside concert in Indonesia, sweeping band members off a collapsing stage. The video showed the Indonesian pop band “Seventeen” performing under a tent on a popular beach at a concert for employees of a state-owned electricity company before disaster struck.Dozens of people sat…
If there’s one song that captures the true spirit of Christmas, it must be “Silent Night.” The song’s message of peace has been sung in more than 300 languages. Everyone from Elvis to Nat King Cole to Stevie Nicks has joined “Silent Night”‘s chorus, with few renditions as popular as Bing Crosby’s: Bing Crosby – Silent Night by IcebridyIze on…
He was in a refueling plane that collided with an F/A-18 Hornet jet over the ocean.
Kevin McCallister had to fend off two bumbling burglars all alone on Christmas in the iconic 1990 movie “Home Alone.” If only he’d had a little help back then. Now, 28 years later, Macaulay Culkin is reprising his role as Kevin McCallister, fending off burglars in a new ad. But this time help has arrived — in the form of…
From the skies above Billund, Denmark, you can guess which famous toy company calls this town home. And inside this life-size Lego building, it’s Lego heaven. Just about anything imaginable is re-imagined in the tiny plastic bricks that have been inspiring tiny minds for decades. The Lego headquarters in Billund, Denmark. CBS News Even seven-year-old Max knows you can only…
From the skies above Billund, Denmark, you can guess which famous toy company calls this town home. And inside this life-size Lego building, it’s Lego heaven. Just about anything imaginable is re-imagined in the tiny plastic bricks that have been inspiring tiny minds for decades. The Lego headquarters in Billund, Denmark. CBS News Even seven-year-old Max knows you can only…
Wild swings in the stock market are fueling concerns over a potential new economic slowdown. The Dow plunged more than 550 points Friday, partly in response to rising trade tensions between the U.S. and China after the arrest of the CFO of the tech company Huawei. It’s been a decade since the last major economic crisis, when about 8.7 million…
See how President George H.W. Bush looked and sounded at a couple of campaign stops in our area in 1992.
Amid the well-deserved celebration of an American life well-lived, I have an uncomfortable confession to make, as a lifelong conservative. I wasn’t a big fan of President George H. W. Bush. Of the man—yes. As a husband, a father, a citizen dedicated to service, the 41st president is a person every American should admire and emulate. But as the 41st President of…
As Chattanooga debates scooters on bike paths, a driver on the streets of Nashville gets plowed over.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Dec. 3, 2018, carrying a payload of 64 small satellites. SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket using a first stage making a record third flight vaulted away from the California coast Monday to boost 64 small satellites into orbit for a wide variety of government, academic and private-sector users — including artists —…
How many of these toys did you get, or stand in line to buy for your kids? (Plus a bonus video of Luther & the Cabbage Patch Kid)
As part of a marketing stunt, Payless duped fashion influencers by charging more than $600 for discount shoes. Payless Shoesource Payless Shoesource pranked VIP shoppers into paying markups of up to 1,800 percent for the bargain retailer’s shoes as part of a viral advertising campaign designed to shift consumers’ perceptions of the brand. So-called fashion influencers — essentially trendsetters that…
Ronald Alred is accused of selling vehicles from the Sam Werner Military Museum to private collectors.
On November 25, 1835, the steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland. CBS News On November 25, 1835, 183 years ago today, Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland. At age 13, Carnegie moved to the U.S., settling outside Pittsburgh, where he was immediately put to work in a factory. Through diligence and hard work, Carnegie lifted himself…
BEIRUT — U.S. and British officials mourned the loss a Syrian anti-government activist and radio host seen as a “symbol” of the uprising who was shot dead along with his colleague by unidentified gunmen in a rebel-held area in the country’s northwest, where government strikes on Saturday killed at least five people in violation of a cease-fire. Dozens of Raed…
BEIJING – The founders of Dolce & Gabbana have apologized in a video on Chinese social media after promotional videos seen as racist and subsequent Instagram messages stoked a furor in one of the world’s largest markets for luxury goods. The Italian fashion house has been in hot water for the videos and also insulting remarks made by the Instagram…
BEIJING – The founders of Dolce & Gabbana have apologized in a video on Chinese social media after promotional videos seen as racist and subsequent Instagram messages stoked a furor in one of the world’s largest markets for luxury goods. The Italian fashion house has been in hot water for the videos and also insulting remarks made by the Instagram…
By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Jimmie Allen has made history as the first black artist to have his debut single reach No. 1 on country radio, and it happened in the same week Kane Brown, who is biracial, has the top country album in the U.S. Allen says he cried when he got the news…
Several Democratic senators said they’re dismayed by reports that social media giant Facebook hired contractors to retaliate against its critics by spreading inflammatory information about them. In response to a New York Times report this week detailing those efforts, Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Mark Warner, Chris Coons and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that he respond to…
