MORRISTOWN, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce his decision on a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Monday night. “I’m very close to making a final decision. And I believe this person will do a great job,” Trump said Sunday as he prepared to return to Washington from a weekend trip at his New Jersey golf club. Asked by reporters how many people were being considered, the president said: “Let’s say it’s the four people … they’re excellent, every one. You can’t go wrong.” Of the four, CBS News reports there are three final contenders including federal appeals judges Brett Kavanaugh, Raymond Kethledge, and Amy Coney Barrett. MORE FROM CBS NEWS Trump has not yet communicated a final choice, said a person familiar with his thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly. Trump has spent the weekend discussing his options with allies and will announce his pick at 9 p.m. EDT Monday from the White House. I have long heard that the most important decision a U.S. President can make is the selection of a Supreme Court Justice – Will be announced tonight at 9:00 P.M. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2018 In his conversations over the weekend, Trump expressed renewed interest in Hardiman — the runner-up when Trump nominated Gorsuch, said two people with knowledge of his thinking who were not authorized to speak publicly. But Trump’s final decision remained far from clear, and the president wants to keep the guessing game going. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Roy Blunt of Missouri said Sunday that they believe any of the top four contenders could get confirmed by the GOP-majority Senate. “I think we can confirm any of the four names being mentioned,” Blunt said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” ”They’re good judges. I think they’d be fine justices of the Supreme Court. I do think the president has to think about who is the easiest to get confirmed here. And I expect we will do that on sort of a normal timetable, a couple of months.” The president and White House officials involved in the process have fielded calls and messages and have been on the receiving end of public pleas and op-eds for or against specific candidates since Kennedy announced on June 27 that he would retire this summer. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Starbucks announced Monday it would stop offering plastic straws from all of its stores by 2020, becoming the largest food and beverage company to do so as calls to cut waste globally grow louder. Viral videos — including one depicting researchers extracting a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s bleeding nostril — is prompting some companies and municipalities to find ocean-friendlier alternatives. A week after its hometown banned plastic drinking straws and utensils , the Seattle company said Monday that within two years, it will be using straws made from biodegradable materials like paper and specially designed lids. The company already offers alternative straws in Seattle. In Southern California, beach cities like Malibu and Manhattan Beach have already banned straws and plastic utensils, while Sea World further south has followed suit. Similar proposals are being considered in places like New York and San Francisco. We're removing plastic straws in our stores globally by 2020—reducing more than 1 billion plastic straws per year from our stores. — Starbucks Coffee (@Starbucks) July 9, 2018 To replace the straws, Starbucks also debuted images of its new strawless lids, which will begin to appear in Seattle and Vancouver locations this fall, with phased rollouts within the U.S. and Canada to follow next year. A global rollout of the strawless lids will follow, beginning in Europe where the will be used in select stores in France and the Netherlands, as well as in the United Kingdom. The lid that is replacing the straws is also plastic, but is also recyclable. The strawless lids will become the standard for all of Starbucks’ iced drinks except the Frappuccino, which the company says will be served with a straw made from paper or a compostable plastic manufactured from fermented plastic starch. Straws made of alternative materials will still be available to customers on request. The issue is coming up in company boardrooms, though Starbucks is taking the lead among large food chains. McDonald’s shareholders voted down a proposal requesting a report on plastic straws in May, although it recently said it would switch to paper straws in the United Kingdom and Ireland by next year, and test alternatives to plastic straws in some U.S. locations. In May, Alaska Airlines said travelers on its flights would be served drinks with compostable versions of stir straws and citrus picks: white birch for coffee and bamboo for citrus sticks. The Seattle-based carrier, which said it handed out 22 million stir straws and citrus picks last year, also said it would have non-plastic, marine-friendly drinking straws for travelers that request them. While plastic drinking straws have become one of the more high-profile issues environmentally, they make up only about 4 percent of the plastic trash by number of pieces, and far less by weight. Straws add up to about 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in the water each year. © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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ANNANDALE , Va. (CBS) – “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot suited up to visit a Virginia children’s hospital on Friday. Gadot took a break from filming the sequel to “Wonder Woman” to visit Inova Children’s Hospital in Annandale. Dr. Lucas Collazo tweeted, “You are a true Wonder Woman. The kids loved it … and so did the staff.” Thank you @GalGadot for visiting us @InovaHealth Children’s Hospital. You are a true Wonder Woman. The kids loved it…and so did the staff #wonderwoman84 pic.twitter.com/EFDLM02rpf — Dr. Lucas Collazo (@DrCollazo) July 6, 2018 “Wonder Woman 1984” is filming in Washington, D.C., and is set to release on Nov. 1, 2019.
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A Georgia police department has joined the law enforcement lip sync battle that has swept social media. The City of Monroe police officers made their own epic music video to Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.” You’re going to want to see their lip-syncing — and dancing.
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Monday is Tom Hanks’ 62nd birthday and that’s a “Big” deal, so to celebrate, here is a list of his top 10 films.
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Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot, took a break from filming the superhero film franchise’s second installment in Washington, D.C. to visit kids in a nearby hospital
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An updated indictment unveiled last week alleges the disgraced producer performed a forcible sex act on a woman in 2006
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Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to new sex crime charges
Family was returning from a trip to Ocean City, Maryland when police said a pickup truck crossed the median and hit their minivan
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New details after mom survives crash that killed husband, 4 daughters
New Orleans, LA (CBS Local)- 18-year-old Renard Matthews was shot and killed two weeks ago in the Florida area of New Orleans. His wake was on Sunday afternoon and Matthews’ family chose to prepare his body in a way that will allow them to remember him the way he lived his life. Matthews was positioned to be sitting in a chair, with a Playstation controller in his hands, with some of his favorite snacks by his side. A big fan of the Boston Celtics and Kyrie Irving, he was dressed in an Irving jersey with the Celtics on a TV screen. Credit: WNGO According to New Orleans station, WNGO , Matthew’s mother said that her son was “a bit of a homebody” and had only recently begun to get out of the house more in order to walk the family’s new dog. Matthews is set to be buried on Tuesday.
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The Trump administration will appeal to a federal judge for more time to reunite young immigrant children with their parents. A court ruling last month orderd the government to reunite 102 children under the age of five with their families by Tuesday. There are less than 3,000 undocumented immigrant children currently in federal custody. Mireya Villarreal reports.
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Global Citizen announced it will bring its festival to South Africa for the first time. John Legend, who has performed at the festival and is a longtime supporter, joins “CBS This Morning” from Los Angeles to discuss honoring Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday through the festival.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) — A man is in custody Monday after allegedly stabbing three members of his own family, one fatally. The stabbing was reported at 10:30 p.m. Sunday in the 8700 block of Shoreham Drive in West Hollywood, Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman Deputy Tracy Koerner said. One man was pronounced dead at the scene and two women were taken to hospitals for treatment of their stab wounds. The suspect, who is in custody, was related to the three victims, but a motive for the stabbings has not yet been released.
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In an interview with Joy News' entertainment anchor Mz Gee, the Afro-pop and R&B singer who is yet to make his big break in West Africa despite his …
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Nigeria's problem is not Buhari, it is our mentality – MKO
In an interview with Joy News' entertainment anchor Mz Gee, the Afro-pop and R&B singer who is yet to make his big break in West Africa despite his …
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Nigeria's problem is not Buhari, it is our mentality – MKO