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US AG Barr on racism, George Floyd, crime, Portland and Trump Barr rejects Democrats' assertions of racism in US policing and denies he favoured Trump's friends in Mueller trials. United States Attorney General William Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on July 28 for the first time since taking office in February 2019. Barr's appearance came amid the deployment of federal law enforcement officers against crowds of protesters in Portland, Washington, DC, and other American cities. Barr's tenure as the top law enforcement official in the US has been controversial. Some Democratic politicians have called for Barr's impeachment. More than a thousand former Justice Department lawyers have signed a letter urging him to step down. Four former presidents of the DC Bar Association have called for a professional ethics probe. In the hearing, Democrats, who control a majority in the US House of Representatives, ch...

Stock Market Today: Big Tech Gets Grilled; KODK, Stocks Keep Cooking Investors turned to Washington on Wednesday, where the Federal Reserve made its latest policy statement, and where Big Tech chiefs gathered to face Congress in a historic antitrust hearing. It also saw Eastman Kodak (KODK) continue its sudden sizzling run. The House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee questioned Amazon.com's (AMZN, +1.1%) Jeff Bezos, Apple's (AAPL, +1.9%) Tim Cook, Facebook's (FB, +1.4%) Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's (GOOGL, +1.3%) Sundar Pichai on Wednesday, but the hearing did little to shake confidence in their respective shares. SEE MORE 7 Top Robinhood Stocks: Do the Pros Agree? Likewise, America's central bank did little to rock the apple cart, stating it would keep interest rates near zero to support the economy, though Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged "the pace of the recovery looks like it has slowed since mid-June." ...

Internet Outage Hits Thousands Of Southern California Spectrum Customers LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Thousands of Spectrum Internet customers across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties were hit by an outage that also affected customers across the country. Spectrum customers reported the outage on Twitter and other social media starting at about 6:40 p.m. Wednesday. The company later confirmed thousands of its customers across the country were offline. Customers in Los Angeles, Anaheim, Burbank, Santa Ana, Riverside and Simi Valley were affected. “Spectrum is investigating thousands of customers’ reports of a widespread internet outage in parts of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties,” the company said. “Our engineers are working to get this corrected for you as quickly as possible. We don’t have an estimated restoration time.” Most customers who were affected reportedly had their service restored within an hour. Ca...

Alyssa Milano Rips Joe Rogan For Being More Popular Than She Is In 22-Tweet Celebrity Temper Tantrum It is with tears in my eyes that I must announce that the celebrity rendition of Imagine from March has not solved all the world’s problems. Good try, good effort, Ramen noodle hair. Thankfully, we have Alyssa Milano, who appears to be posturing for a role as Grandstanding Gal On A Wine Drunk in the next Scorsese film. She has already proven herself to be the most diverse actress in Hollywood, if this tweet is any indication. Milano put her acting range on full display Thursday night to her 3.7 million Twitter followers, kicking off a 22-tweet digital ambush no one can remember asking for. Do we have a choice? No we do not. The 47-year-old actress covers everything from the evils of Trump to MLB baseball to sympathizing with Boomers to policing to more Trump hate to the Washington R*dsk*ns to Cheez-Its to Breonna Tayl...

Trump White House Meets Its Match With Barstool Sports Trump admits he regrets some tweets during this fratty, swampy summer, as nostalgia surges for Trump’s first underdog campaign and a more uncertain future looms. WASHINGTON — During the Clinton presidency, The New Republic billed itself as the in-flight magazine of Air Force One. Former President Obama loved The Atlantic. President Trump prefers Barstool Sports, the sophomoric, in-your-face sports blog beloved by bros of all stripes. The president — who noted this week that “Nobody likes me” — is always looking for a friendly ear in the media. But unlike Fox News, the frat-boy blog turned media empire is known more for its dude content — “Man Vs. Wasp Nest - Who Ya Got?” reads one recent headline — and “Local Smokeshow of the Day” gallery of babe photos than for its political coverage. Barstool’s founder, Dave Portnoy, 43, began his first White House sit-down last week with an appeal. “Your son’s ...

PACITA ABAD: SHE MADE SO MANY MEN ANGRY 36 YEARS AGO -- AND CHANGED HISTORY On this day 36 years ago, Filipino artist PACITA ABAD made a whole lot of people, mostly men, very angry. In 1984, Abad was one of ten recipients for the Ten Outstanding Young Men Awards, a prestigious recognition for young men awarded by the Junior Chamber International Philippines. Before 1984, women were not eligible and no woman was even considered — until Pacita Abad. Today, Google commemorates the day Abad broke through gender barriers with a Google Doodle that pays homage to her distinct style and use of colors. A renowned artist born in Basco, the small capital of the Batanes Islands in northern Philippines, Abad traveled around the world, lived in six continents, and innovated a style of painting that uses the Italian quilting technique, trapunto. A form of quilting that results in a "puffy" look (it was used on the Starfleet uniforms in Star ...

Olivia de Havilland, star of 'Gone With the Wind,' dies at 104 (CNN)Olivia de Havilland, a two-time Oscar winner and for decades the last surviving star of "Gone With the Wind," has died at the age of 104, her publicist Lisa Goldberg told CNN. The actress died Sunday of natural causes at her residence in Paris, Goldberg said. She lived in Paris for more than six decades. De Havilland emerged as a star during the classic movie era -- first as a romantic partner for Errol Flynn in swashbucklers such as "Captain Blood" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and then as Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind" (1939), considered the top moneymaking film of all time when adjusted for inflation. By the late 1940s, she had become one of the screen's top actresses. But her off-screen role in a lawsuit against her employer, Warner Bros., may have been her most notable achievement in Hollywood. I...

Longtime TV Host Regis Philbin Dies At 88 Regis Philbin, the affable talk show host and a fixture of the small screen for decades, has died at 88. "We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday," his family told NPR in a statement. "His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him – for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make every day into something worth talking about," they said. "We thank his fans and admirers for their incredible support over his 60-year career and ask for privacy as we mourn his loss." Longtime TV Host Regis Philbin Dies At 88 With his larger-than-life persona, Philbin cultivated an air of informality on his talk shows, well known for the amusing banter he shared with his co-hosts. Although the Philbin of television seemingly ooz...

Regis Philbin, television personality, has died at 88 Legendary broadcaster Regis Philbin has died, according to a statement shared by his family on Saturday. He was 88 years old. "We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday," said the statement sent to CNN Saturday. "His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him -- for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make every day into something worth talking about." "We thank his fans and admirers for their incredible support over his 60-year career and ask for privacy as we mourn his loss," the statement said. Longtime TV Host Regis Philbin Dies At 88 Philbin was the host of numerous television shows, including the morning talk show "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," which he co-hosted with Kat...

Regis Philbin, TV’s Enduring Everyman, Dies at 88 With patience, determination and folksy, spontaneous wit, Mr. Philbin climbed to pre-eminence relatively late in life on talk and game shows. Regis Philbin at his home in Greenwich, Conn., in 2013. He was was a television personality for nearly six decades. Regis Philbin, the talk- and game-show host who regaled America over morning coffee with Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa for decades, and who made television history in 1999 by introducing the runaway hit “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” died on Friday night. He was 88. His death was announced by his family in a statement. The statement did not say where he died or specify the cause. In a world of annoyances, Mr. Philbin was the indignant Everyman, under siege from all sides — by the damned computers, the horrible traffic, the inconsiderate people who were always late. There was no soap in the men’s room. Hailing a cab was hopele...