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Wrapping up an extended 235-day mission, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and undocked from the International Space Station on Wednesday, targeting a pre-dawn Friday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. With Crew 8 “Endeavour” commander Matthew Dominick and co-pilot Michael Barrett monitoring cockpit displays, flanked on
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In the final stretch before the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on a three-state tour across battleground states to court swing voters — with a particular focus on those who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year. Harris’ pitch was remarkably similar to the foreign policy
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Trump, Harris address gun control, economy Trump, Harris campaigns address gun control, economic plans 03:02 Gun control is one of the most polarizing issues in American politics, and it’s been a topic of contention in the 2024 presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been at odds over guns — Trump
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Sri Lanka deployed troops and increased police patrols around a Jewish community center in a popular surfing town on Wednesday after the U.S. embassy warned American citizens of a possible attack on popular tourist sites in the area. The stepped-up security and warning came after social media posts called for a boycott of Israeli-owned businesses
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McDonald’s has stopped selling Quarter Pounder hamburgers at about one-fifth of its U.S. restaurants as federal health officials investigate an outbreak of E. coli that has sickened nearly 50 people in 10 states, killing one. The fast-food chain sold about 1 million Quarter Pounders in the timeframe that the illnesses occurred, a McDonald’s spokesperson said
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Oct 23: CBS News 24/7, 10am ET Oct 23: CBS News 24/7, 10am ET 38:53 Washington — Police have identified a suspect arrested in connection with three shootings targeting a Democratic National Committee office in Tempe, Arizona, since September. Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was also arrested for allegedly hanging suspicious bags of white power from
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Character.AI, Google face lawsuit over teen’s death – CBS News Watch CBS News A Florida mother filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company Character.AI and Google. In February, Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son died by suicide. She says her son was in a monthslong virtual emotional and sexual relationship with a chatbot. Garcia claims the
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Gisele Pelicot, the woman at the center of the mass-rape trial that’s shocked her own country of France and the world, told her husband in court on Wednesday that she still “did not understand why” he had drugged and raped her for nearly a decade, along with dozens of other men he invited into their
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Adam Staples knew he’d found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another. Soon “it was just ‘beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,’” Staples said. In a farmer’s field in southwest England, Staples and six friends had found a hoard of more than 2,500 silver coins that had lain
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Apple and Goldman Sachs must pay more than $89 million over failures related to their joint Apple Card, federal financial regulators announced Wednesday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said the companies provided inadequate customer service and misrepresented transactions and card features to hundreds of thousands of Apple Card users. “Apple and Goldman Sachs illegally
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