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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Michael Kaplan |John Kelly |Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois |Hannah Marr
A lifelong resident of Louisiana, Wade Evans has learned a lot about floods, including this: the water doesn't care about your politics. The mayor of Central -- a community of about 30,000 outside of Baton Rouge -- Evans and his family were forced to evacuate their home by boat in 2016 when flooding from torrential rains destroyed 60% of the structures in town. "Flood water doesn't discriminate," said Evans, a Republican and supporter of President Trump.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Maurice DuBois |Maurice Dubois
Washington — Frank Bisignano, commissioner of the Social Security Administration, told CBS News that he believes technology, and specifically artificial intelligence, could be the key to improving his agency's customer service, despite recent changes that have prompted concern among some of the nearly 69 million Americans that receive Social Security each month. "We're bringing a massive technology effort to transform the servicing agenda," Bisignano said.
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2 months 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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Mar 6, 2025 | 
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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Mar 6, 2025 | 
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.
