#EXCLUSIVE
: Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker talks to
@GayleKing
about the night police raided her home as part of a narcotics investigation into Breonna's ex-boyfriend. Neither Walker nor Taylor has a criminal history and no illegal drugs were found in the home.
The 22-year-old woman caught on camera allegedly physically attacking a 14-year-old Black teen and falsely accusing him of stealing her phone was arrested in California.
In an exclusive interview, Miya Ponsetto and her lawyer spoke with
@GayleKing
hours before she was arrested.
After spending months apart due to the coronavirus pandemic, 89-year-old Jean and 91-year-old Walter Willard, who have been married for 70 years, were reunited at their nursing home in Troy, New York.
"Strange Fruit," a protest song about lynching made famous by Billie Holiday, was written not by an African American activist, but by a Jewish high school teacher from New York.
@CBSMMiller
looks at the song's backstory. Warning, the photo that inspired the song is disturbing.
.
@WNBA
legend
@LisaLeslie
told
@GayleKing
that Kobe Bryant's legacy is "not complicated" for her despite his 2003 rape accusation.
"I don't think it's something that we should keep hanging over his legacy."
Angeli Gomez, the mother of two Robb Elementary School students, was handcuffed by Marshals after urging officers to enter the school during the shooting.
When she was uncuffed, she raced into the school to save her sons — and believes police “could have saved many more lives."
WEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like?
@TonyDokoupil
turned America’s economic pie into a real one and asked people a simple question: Who gets what?
The man accused of slapping
@wsavalexb
's backside while she was on the air is telling his side of the story.
In an interview with
@InsideEdition
, 43-year-old Tommy Callaway says he went to wave to the camera and got caught up in the moment.
Research shows black girls are much more likely to be punished in school than white girls. 13-year-old Samaya Dillard, who says she was dragged outside & left in the cold by her teacher in the 2nd grade, is bringing national attention to this issue.
@Jerickaduncan
has the story:
We have more of our exclusive interview with Miya Ponsetto, the 22-year-old who allegedly attacked & falsely accused a Black teen of stealing her phone.
@GayleKing
spoke w/ Ponsetto before her arrest last week. Despite public outcry, she insists race has nothing to do with it.
A young man who survived a near-deadly explosion is now facing a massive and unexpected medical bill. After months of treatment and recovery, Alexis Hernández says he was hit with a staggering $1.7 million bill from the U.S. government.
@annawerner
shares his story.
#BREAKING
: Senator
@BernieSanders
tells
@CBSNews
in an exclusive interview that he will run for president.
"We're gonna win. We are gonna also launch what I think is unprecedented in modern American history and that is a grassroots movement."
Music megastar
@theestallion
sits down exclusively with
@GayleKing
for her first TV interview addressing the 2020 shooting allegedly involving rapper Tory Lanez, Monday on
#CBSMornings
.
Tory Lanez pleaded not guilty to an assault charge related to the alleged shooting.
JUST IN: Award-winning journalist
@nhannahjones
reveals on
@CBSThisMorning
she has declined the University of North Carolina's offer for tenure and will be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at
@HowardU
.
The 61st annual
#GRAMMYs
are about a month away and
@ShawnMendes
’ hit song “In My Blood” is up for “Song of the Year.” We sat down with Mendes’ closest collaborator
@TeddyGeiger
who went from teen pop star to one of pop music’s most prominent songwriters.
Watch
@CBS
Wed. 7-9am
This just in from
@davidbegnaud
: Border Patrol has reached out to
@cbsthismorning
and said they are "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages. They say it's not inaccurate and added that they may be cages but people are not being treated like animals.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam: "We are now at the 400-year anniversary — just 90 miles from here in 1619. The first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores in Old Point Comfort, what we call now Fort Monroe, and while—"
@GayleKing
: "Also known as slavery"
"Today, as we stand together upon this sacred Earth, we pledge our nation will forever be strong & united... Our people will forever be bold. Our hearts will forever be loyal. And our children & their children will forever & always be free." -- Pres. Trump
#DDay75thAnniversary
#EXCLUSIVE
: In this extended first clip from
@Oprah
's interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex says what it means to be able to speak for herself.
It comes one year after the couple left England and stepped back from full-time royal life.
#OprahMeghanHarry
"Just let her live. Let her be an artist... This is a girl, just living her life."
K-pop artist Amber Liu (
@llama_ajol
) speaks out about her former f(x) band mate Sulli, who died by apparent suicide in October.
WATCH:
@Lin_Manuel
breaks into tears after we surprised him with a heartfelt message from his 8th grade teacher.
"I wrote a musical instead of doing my homework... He said, 'You could be good at this... you should be doing this."
#HamiltonPR
@HamiltonMusical
One of the Florida school shooting survivors leading a movement that has already gotten Florida gun laws changed tells
@60Minutes
why arming teachers in the classroom is "stupid."
Isaiah Marquez-Greene, now 18 years old, survived the Sandy Hook shooting, but his younger sister, Ana Grace, was killed.
In a note to his younger self, he reflects on his sister’s legacy: “Imagining who she would be if she were still here will keep her alive in your heart.”
WATCH:
@Oprah
says “it was not his grandmother nor his grandfather” that were a part of the conversations about Prince Harry & Meghan's baby's skin color.
#OprahMeghanHarry
“Stop it. You all quit playing! Quit playing! I didn't do this stuff! This is not me! I'm fighting for my f***ing life! Y'all killing me with this sh*t!"
@RKelly
told
@GayleKing
, standing up. "I gave you 30 years of my f***ing career!"
Former President Donald Trump is no longer rich enough to be included in the Forbes 400, an annual ranking of America's wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine said.
.
@IssaRae
says she's "just getting started," ahead of the premiere of the final season of her show
@insecurehbo
.
She's also signed a multi-million dollar deal with Warner Media saying, it's "an opportunity to bet on myself."
After noticing that Ken slept with a photograph of his late wife Ada every night, one of the carers at Thistleton Lodge nursing home surprised the 94-year-old World War II veteran with a special gift.
Every year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18, according to the UN.
Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates visited Malawi to launch a joint project in the hopes of ending child marriage within a generation.
JUST ANNOUNCED:
@Netflix
co-founder & CEO
@ReedHastings
and his wife Patty Quillin say they'll give $120M, to be split among
@Morehouse
&
@SpelmanCollege
&
@UNCF
— the largest single individual gift ever to support scholarships at historically black colleges and universities.
British
@F1
driver
@LewisHamilton
clinched a historic win on Sunday. With 94 career wins, he has the most of any driver in the history of the racing series.
First on
@CBSThisMorning
, the 7x World Champion driver joins us to discuss his victory and the fight for racial justice.
EXCLUSIVE:
@voguemagazine
's newest cover model is
@NICKIMINAJ
, who is appearing on the cover for the very first time.
In the December issue, Minaj opens up about her highly-anticipated new album, giving birth to her son and how she thought she’d give up music.
This 23-year-old Tampa man is making history for his dazzling moves during
@TheWeeknd
's Super Bowl halftime show.
He has high-functioning autism and is the first known person with an intellectual & developmental disability to take part in the show.
@vladduthiersCBS
explains.
.
@theestallion
shares her story of the 2020 incident when she was shot in her feet, allegedly by Tory Lanez.
She says she initially told police she stepped on glass, because she feared for her life: “I was just trying to protect all of us because I didn't want them to kill us.”
Iceland is the first country to make it *illegal* to pay men more than women. Starting Jan. 1, government offices and private businesses with more than 25 employees must have certified equal pay policies. They'll be fined if they don't. (via
@IBTimes
)
In a new memoir, legendary actress Cicely Tyson is opening up about her impressive career and personal life.
@GayleKing
caught up with 96-year-old
@IAmCicelyTyson
to reflect on the defining moments in her life, starting with a reporter’s question that caught her off guard.
We have breaking news from the Vatican, on a historic rule change that is expected to make it easier to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
Pope Francis declared this morning that clergy abuse cases will no longer be handled as a so-called "pontifical secret."
“Why
@AOC
and I are here is because one of the biggest problems as a nation, as a society, is the stigma that's put on survivors and that prevents survivors from actually coming forward and getting the help that they need, and it's killing people.” —
@RepJasonCrow
EXCLUSIVE:
@RepAOC
&
@RepJasonCrow
will join
@CBSThisMorning
live on Friday to discuss dealing with trauma in the wake of the Capitol riots.
It's
@AOC
’s first & only interview since recently speaking out on Instagram Live about her experience.
JUST ANNOUNCED:
@Beyonce
will be getting the honor of a lifetime. Queen🐝 will be presented with the 2020 "BET Humanitarian Award" for all the work she's done to help underserved communities through her
@Beygood
foundation.
Watch the
@BETAwards
this Sunday at 8/7c on
@BET
&
@CBS
JUST ANNOUNCED: The 2019 National Teacher of the Year is... Rodney Robinson! He teaches social studies and history at Virgie Binford Education Center, a school inside the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center.
#NTOY19
MONDAY:
@NikolenDC
asks
@AOC
about similarities with
@BernieSanders
despite a 48-year age gap: "We grew up to parents that were working extremely hard... My mother cleaned houses to make ends meet... We know what it's like to be a working family in America."
📺
@CBSThisMorning
POTUS says former White House staffer
@Omarosa
lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape. But a new recording, obtained by
@CBSNews
overnight, seems to back up Omarosa's story that several Trump advisers discussed an alleged tape during the 2016 campaign.
"When the time comes, what do you want us to remember about you?" —
@GayleKing
"I done my best. That’s all." —
@IAmCicelyTyson
#RIP
to the legendary Miss Cicely Tyson. ❤️
A
@CBSNews
investigation has uncovered a possible pay-for-play scheme involving the Republican National Committee and President Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas.
EXCLUSIVE:
@GayleKing
sits down with attorney Camille Vasquez, who represented Johnny Depp in his defamation trial win against ex-wife Amber Heard, for her first interview since Heard filed a motion to appeal.
Very few Holocaust survivors are still alive to share their experiences. One of them is 97-year-old Hana Kantor, who came to the U.S. after World War II.
She's the grandmother of
@JodiKantor
, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for the
@NYTimes
.
Here's her family's story of survival.
#Pride
Month celebrates the LGBTQ community, and that includes the vivid world of drag queens. When the pandemic shut down parties and performances, the drag community moved their content to a digital platform, which exploded in popularity.
@JamieYuccas
explains.
"'I just need you to tell me. And if you tell me the truth, we can help.' And he wasn't able to do that." — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on a conversation she had with her father regarding tabloids
#OprahMeghanHarry
Authorities in California say another mass shooting may have been averted. Police arrested 37-year-old Rodolfo Montoya, a cook at a Marriott in Long Beach. They found several guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his home.
ANT-MAN TO THE RESCUE: After Cassandra Ridder posted on social media that her son Brody was in tears because no one signed his yearbook, Ant-Man actor Paul Rudd decided to reach out – and help him "take on the world."
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, sat down with
@Oprah
in their first major interview since stepping away from royal duties.
@Oprah
joins us exclusively with her reaction on that revealing interview.
#OprahMeghanHarry
One of the officers involved in a controversial traffic stop of a Black and Latino Army lieutenant — has been fired.
Video shows how a Virginia officer pepper-sprayed Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario. He is now suing the officers.
@EenaRuffini
has the latest.
Members of the Jan. 6 committee are talking openly about doing something never done before — formally recommending a criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president: “There could be more than one criminal referral.”
TOMORROW: Democratic presidential candidate
@AndrewYang
says he's confident he can defeat front-runner
@JoeBiden
. Right now, the businessman is polling at about 2-4% nationwide. He tells us why he believes he has what it will take to beat Pres. Trump.
Watch more Thurs. on
@CBS
70 year old radio giant, Tom Joyner, is signing off after a legendary career. The “Tom Joyner Morning Show” airs in more than 105 markets nationwide, reaching nearly 8 million listeners.
@JerickaDuncan
traveled to Hollywood, Florida to meet "the hardest working man in radio."
Nobel Peace Prize winner
@mariaressa
, who faces decades in prison in the Philippines, says we are living in the age of “exponential lies,” as fast-moving disinformation online weakens democracy globally.
She says fighting for integrity is like “hand-to-hand combat.”
In what was at one point the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, one New York family decided to help their neighbors in need. A few posters around the neighborhood turned into an almost 1,000-person volunteer group called the Astoria Mutual Aid Network.
@errolbarnett
reports.
Restaurant owner takes out a $50,000 bank loan to keep paying his employees during the coronavirus outbreak: "We're going to get through this together"
CBS News has obtained data from a laptop purported to have belonged to Hunter Biden. The data came directly from the source who said they provided it to the FBI under subpoena.
@CBS_Herridge
shares what was found during an independent forensic review.
Does your father think it's a toxic environment or relationship? —
@Oprah
"No, I think he's had to make peace with it." — Prince Harry
#OprahMeghanHarry
WATCH: We were with
@LilNasX
when he surprised his hometown high school in Atlanta.
The 20-year-old music star sat down with
@GayleKing
for an interview you’ll see only on
@CBSThisMorning
Tuesday. 🤠
President Trump says he will soon nominate a justice to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.
White House
@PressSec
@KayleighMcEnany
joins us with details on the president's timeline, and what she says the president is looking for in a nominee.
.
@FINNEAS
chats with
@anthonymasoncbs
about collaborating with his sister
@billieeilish
, how they crafted "What Was I Made For?" for "Barbie," and working on Billie's upcoming album, tomorrow on CBS Mornings.
In 2015, CEO Dan Price raised the salary of everyone at his company to at least $70,000.
Instead of going bankrupt as many predicted, employees have been able to buy homes and start families — and the company's business has tripled.
WATCH:
@TonyDokoupil
reflects on how his family benefited from government housing policies that were denied to Black Americans. He looks at how those policies contributed to America's wealth gap and asks what should be done about it.
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Flores, the former coach of the Miami Dolphins, will be joining us live in studio tomorrow morning, only on
#CBSMornings
, with his attorneys Doug Wigdor and John Elefterakis to talk about his race discrimination lawsuit against the NFL.
Tune in at 7 a.m.
TOMORROW: First on
@CBSThisMorning
, 7x world champion &
@F1
driver
@LewisHamilton
joins us live to discuss his historic win and fight for racial justice.
Watch on
@CBS
Tuesday 7-9 a.m.
#EXCLUSIVE
:
@FKATwigs
is speaking out to
@GayleKing
for the first time since filing a civil lawsuit against actor & former boyfriend, Shia LaBeouf.
She accuses LaBeouf of sexual battery, assault & inflicting emotional distress — allegations he denies.
More on
@CBS
Thursday.
In a pivotal victory for the Justice Department, the first person to go on trial on charges from the January 6 insurrection has been convicted on all counts.
The Texas man now faces up to 60 years in prison.
The hit series
@SchittsCreek
has gone from Canadian cult comedy to one of the most Emmy-nominated shows of 2020 — earning 15 nominations for its final season.
@AnthonyMasonCBS
spoke with co-creator
@danjlevy
, about the show's unlikely rise, and why he decided to end the series.
Gabrielle Perry was arrested during college and charged with 27 felonies, but the judge presiding over her case decided to help her — and it changed the trajectory of her life.
She’s now an epidemiologist, and she’s made it her mission to give others their own second chances.
PAYING IT FORWARD: This Ohio State football player had no money on him to give a man in need, but he promised he would return later for a “surprise” — and ended up giving him a hotel room for the night.
Grant Wahl’s wife, Dr.
@celinegounder
, reveals that the renowned journalist died due to an aortic aneurysm that ruptured at the World Cup.
Gounder says she hopes he is remembered as a “kind, generous person who was really dedicated to social justice.”
WATCH: Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker discusses his struggles with the emotional trauma of her death, their love story, their future plans together and what justice means for him.
@GayleKing
went to Louisville to talk to him & his parents in an exclusive interview.
NEW: Iowa has been ranked as this year’s top state in the 2018
@USNews
& World Report list.
#2
Minnesota
#3
Utah
#4
North Dakota
#5
New Hampshire
The report ranked Mississippi 49th and Louisiana last.