Megafires upend outdoor plans for pandemic-weary Americans
People craving nature after being cooped up during the pandemic are being stymied by raging wildfires.
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Chip shortage likely to keep car prices sky-high through 2023
Prices for new cars in the U.S. have set records for four months in a row and are now 8% higher than a year ago.
River closes after mysterious deaths of family and their dog
The bodies of John Gerrish, Ellen Chung, their 1-year-old daughter, Miju, and their dog were found on a hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest.
Former Marine kills 4, including mom holding baby, in Florida
"They begged for their lives and I killed them anyway," the sheriff said suspect Bryan Riley told them during an interrogation.
Lawyer speaks out after he was shot, 3 months after his family was killed
In a statement Monday to CBS affiliate WCSC, Alex Murdaugh said he has "made a lot of decisions that I truly regret" and the he planned to resign from his law firm and enter rehab.
Death toll from Ida increases to 68 as many remain without power
At least seven deaths in New Orleans were of nursing home residents who had been evacuated to warehouses.
Divers pinpoint source of Gulf oil spill caused by Hurricane Ida
A one-foot diameter pipeline was displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and sheared in half by Hurricane Ida.
Average daily COVID deaths jumped 131% in the last month, CDC says
Meanwhile, ICU beds are running out in Georgia, Kentucky and Hawaii. The COVID surge comes as more kids head back to school this week.
Willard Scott, former weatherman on NBC's "Today" show, dies at 87
Scott spent 65 years with NBC and was the "Today" show's weather forecaster for three decades.
Fauci says Moderna boosters might not be ready by September 20
"The bottom line is very likely at least part of the plan will be implemented, but ultimately the entire plan will be," Fauci said.
Charles M. Blow on when the media gives a platform to hate
The New York Times columnist says exposing evil in the world risks amplifying what may be, to some, an allure.
Richard Drew on photographing the "Falling Man" on 9/11
One of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist's most famous images is of a figure falling from the World Trade Center's Twin Towers during the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. He says that viewers identify with it because they think, "That could be me."
The unfolding meaning of 9/11
A day of horror that unleashed a seemingly endless "War on Terror" is, to a younger generation, a not-too-distant part of history they never experienced themselves. How will that epochal event be remembered, and taught?
Most Americans favor a higher federal minimum wage — CBS News poll
Support for minimum wage hike cuts across income levels, but there are some political divisions.
Murder or suicide? Troubling clues in the death of Christian Andreacchio
Was a Mississippi man so distraught over his girlfriend that he took his own life or was there something more sinister behind his death?
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Trump to attend Army-Navy football game next month, officials say
3 injured in shooting at Des Moines, Iowa, post office
Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
U.S. ID's remains of WWII soldier from iconic "Merrill's Marauders"
Hoax bomb threats affect at least 20 European flights within hours
2 women advanced further in Navy SEAL tryouts than any in history
Wendy's rejects $1.4 billion hostile takeover bid
