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CBS News has obtained a six-page memo authored by a lawyer associated with former President Donald Trump in December of 2020 that laid out a scheme to encourage the creation of false slates of Trump electors in battleground states. Robert Costa reports.
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2 men connected to Alabama riverfront brawl turn themselves in
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Over the last six months, CBS News has spoken with multiple veterans who were kicked out of the military and denied honorable discharges because of their sexual orientation. After trying, with little success, to get the Pentagon to address this, the vets have now filed a class action lawsuit. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod spoke to one of the plaintiffs.
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July 2023 was the hottest month on record. The global average temperature was 62.51 degrees Fahrenheit -- nearly two-thirds of a degree hotter than the previous record set in 2019, and more than one degree hotter than the average set over the last 30 years, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Journalist and writer Jeff Goodell explains the significance of the numbers.
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