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2 weeks ago | 
cbsnews.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
As attorney general of Oklahoma, Gentner Drummond has personally attended nine executions. Since taking office in 2023, he's approved of every death row case in the state — except one. "I believed it my duty to look at…every person on death row," he told CBS News. "When I stumbled across Richard Glossip, it was different. This is an individual who didn't murder the victim." Glossip was convicted in the 1997 murder of a man who had been beaten to death.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
A former government official who says she was falsely accused of illegally sending funds to New York City to book luxury hotels for undocumented migrants — and then publicly ridiculed and fired — said Thursday that just days earlier she had been directed by a member of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, to make the payments.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois |Michael Kaplan |Caitlin Yilek
3 hours agoIn a smackdown of an opinion, the judge wrote that a president who fashions himself a king "fundamentally misapprehends" the role under the Constitution. A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board whom President Donald Trump fired …
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
In the worst of the pandemic, with New York City on lockdown, an army of 65,000 delivery workers risked their lives to keep the city fed. But in addition to a global pandemic and hazardous weather, these workers also faced threats to their lives — and now, one group is fighting to keep them safe. A particularly dangerous area is a dark, isolated stretch along the Willis Avenue Bridge, which connects Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
Maurice DuBoisUpdated September 4, 2024 at 1:32 PM·2 min readNewark, New Jersey — Bisa Butler's artwork has a way of stopping people in their tracks. Her life-size portraits look like they're from the strokes of a painter's brush — but Butler is a quiltmaker, weaving fabrics of all kinds into celebrations of Black life in America.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
NEW YORK - E-sports competition is huge, a billion dollar industry with hundreds of millions of players, thousands of whom are professional gamers. One team has overcome insurmountable odds to compete in that arena. They're people who use wheelchairs, with limited or no use of their hands. They are known as the "Quad Gods." "We are the first-ever totally quadriplegic e-sports team," said Blake Hunt of the Quad Gods.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
NEW YORK -- Hollis, Queens', very own Run-DMC is headlining Friday's big hip-hop concert at Yankee Stadium. CBS New York's Maurice DuBois spoke with DMC -- Darryl McDaniels. He's involved in a lot of ventures these days, but he says his heart will always be in Hollis. Before they were kings, Run-DMC first connected in Queens. Seeing his old house, McDaniels said, "It makes me forget I've done all the stuff that I've done in my life."McDaniels has done a whole lot.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
NEW YORK -- The 50th anniversary of hip-hop has been celebrated in grand style throughout the year, with once-in-a-lifetime concerts and commemorations. This week, CBS New York is happy to be part of that celebration with our special presentation, "Hip-Hop At 50: Born in the Bronx." It's a music conversation with the icons who blazed the trail, and a look at what lies ahead.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
en.pressbee.net | John Dickerson |Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
source : TribToday ( Middle East ) () 1 News PressBee .. TribToday Watch the post from Trump ramps up his defense of Vance after one of the rockiest VP rollouts in recent memory, Now to the details HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump is used to defending himself. But this week, the Republican presidential nominee has been put in the rare position of having to defend someone else — his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
en.pressbee.net | John Dickerson |Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
source : Us magazine ( Middle East ) () 2 News PressBee .. Us magazine Watch the post from Matt Damon Joined by Wife Luciana, 4 Daughters at ‘Instigators’ Premiere, Now to the details Matt Damon had five special dates for the premiere of his latest movie. Damon, 53, was joined by his wife, Luciana Barroso, and their four daughters at the New York City premiere of The Instigators on Wednesday, July 31.
