Harris, Oprah to campaign in Detroit

Harris, Oprah to campaign in Detroit – CBS News Watch CBS News Oprah Winfrey will join Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, Thursday. Both Harris and former President Donald Trump are competing for union members who play a large role there. Caitlin Huey-Burns reports. View CBS News In Be the

North Carolina governor’s race GOP candidate faces calls to drop bid over offensive comments

North Carolina governor’s race GOP candidate faces calls to drop bid over offensive comments – CBS News Watch CBS News North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is facing calls to drop out of the gubernatorial race after CNN unearthed offensive comments he allegedly made on a pornography website. Ed O’Keefe has the latest. View CBS

DOJ probing sheriff’s office in Mississippi “Goon Squad” case

The Justice Department on Thursday announced it is opening a civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department. A group of the agency’s former officers — who called themselves the “Goon Squad” — pleaded guilty last year to a series of charges for torturing two Black men. “The public is now

North Carolina governor’s race rocked by CNN report on GOP candidate

Editor’s note: This story contains highly offensive language.  Washington — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, posted a slew of incendiary, explicit and racist comments on a pornographic website more than a decade ago, according to a CNN investigation released Thursday that has shaken the state’s gubernatorial race. The report

Graham hopes Nebraska will change system that could give electoral vote to Harris

Washington — Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday he’s hopeful Nebraska will change the way it apportions its Electoral College votes in the upcoming election, given the possibility that the presidential election could come down to a single electoral vote. “I hope they will allow winner-take-all,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told reporters on Thursday. Graham

Big tech companies engage in “vast surveillance” of users, FTC says

Tips on protecting your child’s privacy as they head back to school Tips on protecting your child’s privacy as they head back to school 03:36 Large social media companies and streaming platforms — including Amazon, Alphabet-owned YouTube, Meta’s Facebook and TikTok — engage in a “vast surveillance of users” to profit off their personal information,