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Four years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, momentum in Washington to pass sweeping reform in the Minnesota man’s name has almost faded away completely. The death of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, in May 2020 sparked outrage and calls for change. Sensing the deep anger across the United States, Democrats
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Cross restored to roof of Notre Dame cathedral over 5 years after fire – CBS News Watch CBS News More than five years after Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral was heavily damaged in a devastating fire, restorations reached a new milestone when a large cross was reinstalled to the cathedral’s roof this week. Elaine Cobbe
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Judge denies Alec Baldwin’s request to dismiss manslaughter charge in “Rust” shooting – CBS News Watch CBS News A New Mexico judge on Friday denied a request from actor Alec Baldwin to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge brought against him in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of
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Biden, Trump target battleground states – CBS News Watch CBS News President Biden’s campaign has stepped up attacks on former President Donald Trump with a $14 million ad buy in battleground states. Trump, meanwhile, is making an appeal to Libertarian voters this weekend. Natalie Brand has more on the presidential race. View CBS News In
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A suspected top assassin in Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel was extradited Saturday to the United States, where he will face charges linked to drug and weapons smuggling, the Justice Department announced. Nestor Isidro Perez Salas, known as “El Nini,” was one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s “lead sicarios, or assassins, and was responsible for the murder,
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Rapper Nicki Minaj was briefly arrested and then fined at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Saturday on allegations that officials found “soft drugs” in her luggage, according to Dutch authorities. The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, which is the Dutch national police agency, posted to social media Saturday night that a 41-year-old American woman who was arrested on suspicion
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Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Baker accepted the prize with his movie’s star, Mikey Madison, watching in the audience at the Cannes closing ceremony Saturday. The win for
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An exclusive interview with Miss Piggy after “Muppets” milestone – CBS News Watch CBS News Miss Piggy made her television debut 50 years ago this week. Since then, she’s become beloved for her romance with Kermit the Frog on “The Muppet Show” and her sense of style and stardom. Michelle Miller sits down with Miss
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Sebastian Junger talks near-death experience in new book “In My Time of Dying” – CBS News Watch CBS News Non-fiction author Sebastian Junger left his mark on the genre in 1997 with “The Perfect Storm.” He went on to become a war correspondent, and came close to death on the battlefield, but never had a
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From the archives: Author Caleb Carr – CBS News Watch CBS News Caleb Carr, a military historian and novelist who wrote the bestsellers “The Alienist” and “The Angel of Darkness,” died on Thursday, May 23, 2024 at the age of 68. In this “CBS Sunday Morning” profile that originally aired on June 5, 2005, Carr
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