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Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday that the House will move forward with a plan to vote on a partisan stopgap measure to keep the government funded this week, despite Democratic opposition and intra-party pushback that foiled a vote on the measure last week. “Congress has an immediate obligation to do two
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Keegan-Michael Key on becoming young Bumblebee in new “Transformers One” – CBS News Watch CBS News In “Transformers One,” Keegan-Michael Key voices B-127 in the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. The film, distributed by Paramount Pictures, features his character teaming up with Scarlett Johansson’s Elita to save their planet. View CBS News In
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Halle Berry on tackling fear in new film, “Never Let Go” – CBS News Watch CBS News Academy Award-winner Halle Berry discusses her role in “Never Let Go,” where she plays a mother convinced that a mysterious evil force has taken over the world. Berry speaks to “CBS Mornings” in her first interview about the
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New details reveal what led up to the deadly implosion of Titan submersible – CBS News Watch CBS News A former engineering director at Oceangate, the company that made the Titan submersible, testified Monday that the vessel had multiple problems for years before making its fatal attempt to reach the Titanic shipwreck. The dive last
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Sean “Diddy” Combs arrested by federal agents in New York – CBS News Watch CBS News Sean “Diddy” Combs has been arrested in New York and is in federal custody. The arrest follows nearly a dozen lawsuits, most of which have accused Combs of sexual assault. Combs has settled one of the cases and denied
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Meta unveils new Instagram safety measures for teens – CBS News Watch CBS News Meta, Instagram’s parent company, introduced new restrictions on teen accounts to address public concerns about online safety. Jo Ling Kent speaks with Meta’s global head of safety. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking
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Meta on Tuesday launched Instagram Teen Accounts, a more limited experience for younger users of the platform, in what is the technology company’s latest effort to assuage concerns about the impact of social media on kids. Meta will automatically migrate all Instagram users under the age of 16 to the new service, which features built-in
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The September Harvest Moon, a partial lunar eclipse, will make its debut in the sky Monday evening and last through Thursday morning. The full moon will peak at 10:35 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 17, according to NASA. The is the second of 2024’s four consecutive supermoons, following August’s blue supermoon, a rare phenomenon that
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Washington — Senate Republicans blocked legislation that would protect access to IVF on Tuesday, in a vote that Democrats held to draw attention to the issue after former President Donald Trump’s recent statements supporting the fertility treatments. The package, called the Right to IVF Act, would establish a nationwide right “to receive fertility treatment from
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San Francisco — Meta late Monday said it’s banning Russian state media outlets from its apps around the world due to “foreign interference activity.” The ban comes after the United States accused RT and employees of the state-run outlet of funneling $10 million through shell entities to covertly fund influence campaigns on social media channels
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