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Woman charged with setting fire at Massachusetts apartment that killed 4
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Human remains reportedly found in notorious 1964 child murder
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Coast Guard talks storm rescue efforts
Rear Admiral Brendan McPherson, U.S. Coast Guard Seventh District Commander, joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss rescue efforts after Hurricane Ian, the destruction on the ground, and challenges ahead for their team.
Putin plans to annex Ukraine regions
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to formally annex four regions from Ukraine, after Russia claimed victory in condemned referendums. Charlie D'Agata reports.
5 years since Las Vegas music festival shooting
A new four-part documentary from Paramount+ called "11 minutes'' features in-depth interviews with people who survived the Harvest Music Festival shooting in Las Vegas five years ago, including radio host Storme Warren. He joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the documentary and reflect on what he remembers from that day, which was the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
"Hocus Pocus" characters discuss new sequel
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy – the three iconic actresses who play the infamous Sanderson sisters in the Halloween classic, "Hocus Pocus" – discuss what it was like to reunite for a new sequel 29 years after the original premiered.
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Workers around the U.S. attend an average of nearly 18 meetings a week. They say nearly a third are skippable.
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The updated guidance came the same day six GOP-led states sued the Biden administration over the debt relief.
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Disney reopens after closing as Hurricane Ian blasted Florida
Entertainment giant is gradually welcoming back visitors to its theme parks and hotels starting Friday morning.
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A growing number of U.S. hospitals own urgent care centers, which limit who they treat for medical — and financial — reasons.
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"Hocus Pocus" characters discuss new sequel
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy – the three iconic actresses who play the infamous Sanderson sisters in the Halloween classic, "Hocus Pocus" – discuss what it was like to reunite for a new sequel 29 years after the original premiered.
Rapper Coolio, best known for "Gangsta's Paradise," dies at 59
Coolio, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died on Wednesday in Los Angeles, his manager said.
Actress Sherri Shepherd on new talk show
Emmy Award-winning talk show host and actress Sherri Shepherd joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about her new daytime talk show "Sherri." She also shares advice Oprah gave her before her show launched and what she's doing to help other comedians.
Top surgery improves young transgender people's quality of life, study finds
"It is so important to be able to have evidence and treat [patients] not based on politics, but based on science and medicine," Dr. Sumanas Jordan said.
Attorney and professor Anita Hill discusses combating gender violence
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Eye on America: Helping veterans and more
A nonprofit is helping our nation's veterans find employment after service. And former NFL players are on a mission to educate and erase the stigma around cannabis. Watch these stories and more on "Eye on America" with host Michelle Miller.
Eye on America: Army recruiting crisis and more
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Mitch Albom on lessons learned from "Tuesdays with Morrie"
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The Tesla CEO maintains his perch atop the world's rich list, but his wealth has declined amid the car company's stock slump.
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Federal safety regulators say repair needed to fix potentially deadly gap between product's inner and outer doors.
Justice Department to seek prison time for Texas family of 5 in Jan. 6 case
The Munn family acknowledged spending nearly an hour in the Capitol on Jan. 6. The mother still questions the legitimacy of the 2020 election results.
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Is that a shark? Man films finned creature swimming around in Hurricane Ian flood waters
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The Munn family acknowledged spending nearly an hour in the Capitol on Jan. 6. The mother still questions the legitimacy of the 2020 election results.
Judge sides with Trump lawyers, nixing some of special master's requirements
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon rejected part of the independent arbiter's requirements of the Trump team and extended some of the deadlines.
Biden says Nord Stream pipeline damage was "a deliberate act of sabotage"
The president said divers would eventually be sent to the pipelines, which were designed to bring gas from Russia to Europe, to determine what happened.
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A year after child's death, more residential elevators recalled
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Concussion expert says Miami Dolphins failed to protect injured quarterback
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India's Supreme Court allows all women to have abortions up to 24 weeks into pregnancy
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Human remains reportedly found in notorious 1964 child murder
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Biden says Nord Stream pipeline damage was "a deliberate act of sabotage"
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U.K. inquest finds "online content" partly to blame for teen's suicide
Coroner concludes 14-year-old Molly Russell "died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content."
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NASA crashes DART spacecraft into asteroid
NASA successfully crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in hopes of altering the space rock's trajectory. Scientists hope to be able to use a similar strategy to protect Earth from future incoming asteroids. CBS News' John Dickerson speaks with Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, about the historic implications of this unprecedented test.
NASA tests planetary defense with asteroid collision
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A Navy judge has ruled a sailor was not guilty of setting a fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego in 2020.
Woman charged with setting fire at Massachusetts apartment that killed 4
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After Hurricane Ian struck Florida, causing widespread flooding and devastation, a man in Fort Myers spotted something peculiar in the flooding outside of his home. It looked like a shark fin peeking out of the water. Dominic Cameratta quickly filmed the animal swimming between the homes in his neighborhood.
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Markets closed down Friday, closing the worst September for stocks since 2008. CBS News anchors Nikki Battiste and Elaine Quijano speak with Tim Pagliara, chief investment officer of CapWealth, about what drove trading.
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Brazil will hold presidential elections Sunday, pitting incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. CBS News' Nikki Battiste and Elaine Quijano speak with Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas, about why the election is significant in the region and around the world.
Putin annexes occupied regions of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a signing ceremony Friday to officially annex four Moscow-occupied regions of Ukraine in spite of global criticism. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports and CBS News anchors Nikki Battiste and Elaine Quijano speaks with Anatol Lieven, senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about what this means for the war moving forward.
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When Drew Launey heard about the new baby in his neighborhood, who was diagnosed with cancer, he wanted to help. So, he came up with a way for him and his swim teammates to raise money for her family — by swimming laps.