Victims in Sri Lanka bombings laid to rest
Victims of the mass murder were laid to rest Tuesday, with one funeral procession following another all day
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National day of mourning in Sri Lanka
The death toll in the Sri Lanka attacks on Easter Sunday has climbed to at least 321. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports from Negombo with new details.
Sri Lanka attacks: ISIS claims responsibility
ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly terror attacks in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday. A man with a backpack was caught on surveillance video entering a church just before one of six nearly simultaneous suicide attacks. Sri Lanka is under a state of emergency, and the government is facing strong criticism for not acting aggressively on warnings about impending terror attacks. Elizabeth Palmer reports from Negombo, Sri Lanka.
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Death toll rises to at least 321 overnight; shooting for the stars
ISIS claims responsibility for Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bombings
As death toll continues to rise, defense minister says suicide assault on churches and hotels was meant as payback for attack on Muslims in New Zealand
Extremist group linked to Sri Lanka bombings
The Sri Lankan government has said a small Islamist extremist group known as National Thowheed Jamath is likely responsible for a terror attack that killed at least 290 people. The attack was carried out by several suicide bombers that let off explosives in churches and hotels across the country. Asha Castleberry — a national and foreign policy expert as well as a former member of the State Department mission to the United Nations — joins CBSN to discuss the connection between the extremist group and the terror attack.
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Investigating the Sri Lanka bombings
At least nine bombs exploded in three Sri Lankan cities on Easter Sunday, claiming at least 290 lives. Officials are blaming the blasts on a local militant group. CBS News law enforcement analyst Paul Viollis joined CBSN to discuss the investigation, saying the attack was right out of the al Qaeda or ISIS "playbook."
Denmark's richest man loses 3 children in Sri Lanka attacks
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Sri Lanka blocks social media after attacks
The Sri Lankan government blocked social media following the Easter Sunday bombings to stop the spread of misinformation. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joined "CBSN AM" with why the country made this move.
New explosion in Sri Lanka's capital
Another explosion happened in Colombo, Sri Lanka, just one day after a series of bombings killed at least 290 people. The latest explosion reportedly happened in a van near a church as officials were trying to diffuse the bomb. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer heard the bomb go off and joined "CBSN AM" from Colombo.
Behind Sri Lanka Easter bombings
John Miller, NYPD’s deputy police commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism and former CBS News senior correspondent, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the Sri Lanka bombings that killed at least 290 people on Easter Sunday.
Easter attacks: Sri Lanka eyes Muslim radicals
After a series of deadly terror attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, there was a new explosion in the capital of Colombo Monday. Sri Lanka's government says the series of suicide bombings Sunday at churches and luxury hotels were carried out by a local group of Muslim radicals. The bombings killed at least 290 people and wounded hundreds. Elizabeth Palmer reports from Colombo.
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Were intel warnings "ignored" ahead of Sri Lanka terror attack?
Police chief issued an intelligence alert more than a week before deadly bombings about possible suicide attacks on "prominent churches"
Death toll nears 300 after Easter terror attacks in Sri Lanka
At least 290 people killed and more than 500 wounded in blasts in and around Sri Lanka's capital, and warnings may have been "ignored"
Trump spends Easter in Florida
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Church and hotels targeted in Sri Lanka bombings on Easter Sunday; Mentally ill offender thankful to California judge for giving him 2nd chance
Political climate amid deadly Sri Lanka bombings
More than 200 people are dead after a group of religious extremists set off eight bombs in churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Sunday. The attack comes less than a month before Sri Lanka will mark 10 years since the end of the decades-long civil war. Faraz Shauketaly, a TV broadcaster at News First and an editor at The Ceylon Independent, joins CBSN's David Begnaud to discuss the political climate in Sri Lanka.
Eyewitness recalls Sri Lanka bombing
A witness to one of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka says the government has blocked Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, leaving people confused in the chaos. Asela Waidyalankara tells CBSN what he heard when a blast went off in Dehiwala.
Hundreds killed by bombings in Sri Lanka
More than 200 people were killed in a series of coordinated bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka's capital of Colombo on Easter Sunday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
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Arrests following blasts in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's defense minister said seven suspects are in custody after a series of explosions that targets churches and hotels in the capital city Colombo and elsewhere. More than 200 people have been killed. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Explosions at churches, hotels kill dozens in Sri Lanka
Eight explosions across the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo killed at least 190 people on Easter Sunday. BBC News has the latest.
Blasts reported at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka
At least six explosions rocked churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. A hospital official said scores were injured and at least two dozen dead. BBC News reports from the scene in Colombo.
Hamas attacks Israel-Gaza border crossing as cease-fire talks continue
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Millions still under flood watch as southeastern Texas braces for more rain
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Noem says "I want the truth to be out there" after viral story of killing her dog
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LAPD officers in riot gear clear pro-Palestine encampment on USC campus
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Australian police shoot armed teenager after stabbing attack
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Boeing preps Starliner crew ferry ship for first piloted test flight
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More than a decade after a stroke, Randy Travis sings again, courtesy of AI
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"Bits and Pieces" of Whoopi Goldberg
At 68 years old, and after about 100 films and 16 seasons on "The View," Whoopi Goldberg thinks there's still part of her you do not know. She talks about her new memoir, "Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me."
Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!)
When NASA added a tiny four-pound helicopter as a stowaway to its Mars 2020 lander, it expected the helicopter to fly five very brief flights in the thin Martian atmosphere. Yet, Ingenuity would far surpass all expectations.
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Noem says "I want the truth to be out there" after viral story of killing her dog
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been under fire for details about killing her dog and a false claim about meeting with North Korea's leader in her new book.
Millions still under flood watch as southeastern Texas braces for more rain
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Boeing preps Starliner crew ferry ship for first piloted test flight
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Queen Rania of Jordan says U.S. is seen as "enabler" of Israel
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A.J. Jacobs on "The Year of Living Constitutionally"
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Berkshire Hathaway has first annual meeting since Charlie Munger's death
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Trump Media's auditor is charged with "massive fraud" by the SEC
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Employers added 175,000 jobs last month, marking a hiring slowdown
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Transcript: Sen. John Fetterman on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024
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Transcript: Rep. Ro Khanna on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024
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Noem says "I want the truth to be out there" after viral story of killing her dog
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Transcript: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024
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Queen Rania of Jordan says U.S. is seen as "enabler" of Israel
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CDC says bird flu viruses "pose pandemic potential," cites major knowledge gaps
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Halle Berry joins senators to announce menopause legislation
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Pregnancy-related deaths fall to pre-pandemic levels, new data shows
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UnitedHealth Group CEO reports cyberattack
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Hamas attacks Israel-Gaza border crossing as cease-fire talks continue
The attack on Israel's Kerem Shalom prompted officials to close the terminal, disrupting critical shipments of food and other humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Australian police shoot armed teenager after stabbing attack
The incident occurred in the parking lot of a hardware store in Willetton, a suburb in the west coast city of Perth, on Saturday night.
Netanyahu's Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel
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London mayor wins historic third term
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Still no deal in truce talks as Israel downplays chances of ending war
An adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS News that "the end of the war will come with the end of Hamas in Gaza."
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"Bits and Pieces" of Whoopi Goldberg
At 68 years old, and after about 100 films and 16 seasons on "The View," Whoopi Goldberg thinks there's still part of her you do not know. She talks about her new memoir, "Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me."
"Bits and Pieces" of Whoopi Goldberg
At 68 years old, and after about 100 films and 16 seasons on "The View," Whoopi Goldberg thinks there's still part of her you do not know. She's penned a memoir, "Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me," which she calls a "thank you" to her late mother, Emma, and late brother, Clyde. Goldberg talks with correspondent Seth Doane about her remarkable path, from a housing project in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, to a retreat overlooking a peninsula on the island of Sardinia.
Tom Selleck on the future of "Blue Bloods"
The hit CBS drama is set to end this year, but there's been pushback, most notably from its star. He talks about his desire to continue the show; his memoir, "You Never Know"; and the legacy of "Magnum, P.I."
Tom Selleck on "Blue Bloods" and his memoir, "You Never Know"
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Students use "Sidechat" app for protests
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Microsoft expanding biometric passkey access
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New nuclear reactor comes online in Georgia
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Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!)
When NASA added a tiny four-pound helicopter as a stowaway to its Mars 2020 lander, it expected the helicopter to fly five very brief flights in the thin Martian atmosphere. Yet, Ingenuity would far surpass all expectations.
Ingenuity: NASA's remarkable Martian helicopter
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Bumblebee nests are under attack – and it's killing their babies
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Boeing to launch astronauts on new spacecraft
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New nuclear reactor comes online in Georgia
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Detective's affair exposed during wife's murder investigation
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Wisconsin police fatally shot student after he pointed pellet rifle at them, state DOJ says
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Detective searches gunshot residue testing site days before wife killed
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Two veteran astronauts will put the Starliner through its paces in the ship's first piloted flight to orbit.
Boeing to send astronauts to space
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New NASA images show iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
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Jordan's Queen Rania says U.S. is seen as "enabler" of Israel
Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan tells "Face the Nation" that the Arab world sees the U.S. as an "enabler" of Israel. "People view the U.S. as being a party to this war," she said.
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Here Comes the Sun: Rebel Wilson and more
Actor Rebel Wilson sits down with Lee Cowan to discuss her memoir “Rebel Rising.” Then, Mark Whitaker travels to Montgomery, Alabama, to visit Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. “Here Comes the Sun” is a closer look at some of the people, places and things we bring you every week on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Face The Nation: Fetterman, Khanna, Queen Rania
Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Democratic Sen. John Fetterman tells "Face the Nation" that although he knows his state will be "very competitive" in the 2024 election, "Joe Biden beat Trump in Pennsylvania and he's going to do that again", Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, tells "Face the Nation" that as some campus protesters have engaged in violence or antisemitism, "it is diminishing the thousands of young people who simply want the war to end", and Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan tells "Face the Nation" that the Arab world sees the U.S. as an "enabler" of Israel. "People view the U.S. as being a party to this war," she said.