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Salt Lake City awarded 2034 Winter Olympic Games with a doping investigation caveat – CBS News Watch CBS News A dispute over suspected doping is casting a shadow over the Paris Olympics as Chinese swimmers who tested positive in the past for a banned substance are being allowed to compete. Meanwhile, Salt Lake City will
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Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris condemned demonstrators who voiced support for Hamas and burned an American flag near the U.S. Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday, saying in a statement that “hate and violence of any kind have no place in our nation.” Harris, now the likely
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Paris — Just one day before the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, more than a million tickets to Olympic events were still unsold, including many for Friday’s first-of-its-kind outdoor ceremony on the Seine river itself. Olympic organizers had set lofty ticket sale ambitions, and they have met some of them. Tony Estanguet, a three-time French
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Steward Health Care’s CEO Ralph de la Torre has for years avoided publicly responding to accusations that he profited at the expense of patients at the dozens of community hospitals around the country owned by the Dallas-based company. Now, he’ll have to face those questions on Capitol Hill after a bipartisan group of senators voted
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Meta issues a warning about increasing sextortion scams. Here’s how to stay safe. – CBS News Watch CBS News Social media giant Meta is issuing a warning over the increasing number of sextortion scams where fake profiles are used to get people to send nude photographs and then threaten to release them unless victims pay
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A selloff in technology stocks Wednesday drove the Nasdaq and S&P 500 indices to their worst performances since 2022. The slump in high-tech follows a year-long rally by the “Magnificent Seven,” a group of seven industry giants that have led markets into record terrain. The slump continued on Thursday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index slipping
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More than 30,000 ancient coins found More than 30,000 ancient coins found off the coast of Italy 00:50 Researchers studying an underwater city in Italy say they have found an ancient mosaic floor that was once the base of a Roman villa, a discovery that the local mayor called “stupendous.” The discovery was made in
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Washington — The House is set to vote Wednesday night to establish a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the panel earlier this week and said it will have the full investigative authority of
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Approximately a dozen individuals are being vetted as possible running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a source familiar with the process. That number is larger than previously reported, and is an indication that the campaign is casting a wide net at the start of this process and isn’t winnowing the list yet. Multiple
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Lisa Damour on impact of “Inside Out 2” Psychologist Lisa Damour on how “Inside Out 2” can help families talk about emotions 06:03 The makers of “Inside Out 2” presumably felt unbridled joy Wednesday after the hit movie surpassed “Frozen 2” to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Released June 10 by Disney’s
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