This Morning from CBS News, Oct. 14, 2016
Piling on
Donald Trump isn’t facing just one opponent on the campaign trail, he’s facing four. Hillary Clinton has spread her heavyweight allies, President Obama, Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, across the country to pound the campaign pavement. They’re all taking jabs at Trump, but it was the first lady whose comments hit the hardest.
Delicate down-ballot dance
Senator Marco Rubio and Donald Trump both have their eyes set on victory in Florida -- but for Rubio, that has meant keeping his party’s nominee at a distance. This is the reality of the Trump effect on the Republican Party: down-ballot candidates don’t want to cozy up too close, or drift off too far afield.
Blood drones
Drones hurtling across the sky can inspire fear in Africa; they’re seen largely as instruments of death. But in mountainous Rwanda, where often-impassable roads make access to basic health care tricky, drones developed by Silicon Valley engineers aren’t destroying lives, they’re helping save them.
Missing: Men at work
One of the puzzles of the current U.S. labor market involves the disappearance of so many men from the workforce. New research by economists offers two intriguing explanations: disability tied to pain killers and diversion from video games.
Verizon complaints
More consumer complaints were lodged against the country’s largest wireless carrier in September than during the first eight months of the year. The complaints come over unexplained spikes in data usage and overage fees that apparently have hit thousands of Verizon customers in the past several weeks.
Holocaust reunion
More than 80 years into life, two women who escaped Nazi Germany during World War II, lived on the same street, attended the same high school, and even went to the same university, are only just discovering their true, very deep connection.
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