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3/17: Sunday Morning – CBS News Watch CBS News Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, Martha Teichner looks at the history of turmoil in Haiti. Also: Conor Knighton explores Irish emigration, and his own family history; Tracy Smith sits down with Christine Blasey Ford, whose new memoir, “One Way Back,” recounts the fallout from her testimony in Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings; Luke Burbank poses questions to “Jeopardy!” champion-turned-host Ken Jennings; David Pogue reports on how the bestselling romance “The Notebook” has been adapted to a Broadway musical; Mark Whitaker visits a sculpture park in Montgomery,…

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Open: This is “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” March 17, 2024 – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan speaks to the heads of the House Committee on Communist China, Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Mike Gallagher, and tech watcher Kara Swisher. Plus, Brennan sits down with former Vice President Mike Pence, who said last week that he wouldn’t endorse former President Donald Trump in 2024. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On This story originally appeared on CBS News

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Mass shooting in Washington D.C. leaves 2 dead, 5 hurt Mass shooting in Washington D.C. leaves 2 dead, 5 hurt 00:22 Police are still searching Sunday for a suspect in a mass shooting that left two people dead and five others wounded in a shooting in Washington, D.C. in the early morning, police said. The mass shooting happened around the intersection of 7th and P Streets in the northwestern part of the city, which is near downtown, said Executive Assistant Chief Jeffrey Carroll with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department at a brief news conference held at the scene. When at least…

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Hogarth Books We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.In “Great Expectations” (Hogarth), the debut novel of New Yorker essayist and theater critic Vinson Cunningham, a young man is transformed by working for the presidential campaign of an aspirational Black senator from Illinois. Read an excerpt below.  “Great Expectations” by Vinson CunninghamPrefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. i’d seen the senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing…

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Doubleday We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.Percival Everett, the author of “Erasure” (the basis of the Oscar-winning film “American Fiction”), returns with a comic novel, “James” (Doubleday), that retells Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” through the eyes of Huck’s enslaved friend, Jim.Read an excerpt below.  “James” by Percival EverettPrefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass. The moon was not quite full, but bright, and it was behind them, so I could see them as plain as day,…

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Simon & Schuster We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.Journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher has penned a memoir, “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story” (Simon & Schuster), about her journey as a reporter chronicling the Silicon Valley shenanigans of arrogant Internet billionaires and their reckless empires. Read an excerpt below.  “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story” by Kara SwisherPrefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. I’ve always hated the phrase “speak truth to power,” because it assumes all power is bad. It should really be “speak truth to power when the…

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New Mexico State police said Saturday they have identified the suspect in the shooting death of one of their officers as a 33-year-old South Carolina man who was driving a car that belonged to a woman killed in his home state.State Police Chief Troy Weisler said during a news conference that authorities are seeking Jaremy Smith of Marion, of South Carolina, in the fatal shooting of Officer Justin Hare, 35. Smith was considered armed and dangerous.Authorities said Hare was dispatched about 5 a.m. Friday to help a motorist in a white BMW with a flat tire on Interstate 40, west…

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This story was originally posted on April 29, 2023.Lamar Johnson, a St. Louis, Missouri man, had spent almost three decades in prison before he was finally set free in February 2023. “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty takes an in-depth look at the case and for the first time talks to the witness who helped put him away — a witness who says he was pressured by law enforcement to identify Johnson as one of the killers.Convicted at 21, and still locked up at 49, Lamar Johnson has spent most of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit. “I…

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Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.Trump, speaking on a wind-whipped airfield outside of Dayton Saturday, praised his chosen candidate in the race as an “America first champion” and “political outsider who has spent his entire life building up Ohio communities.””He’s going to be a warrior in Washington,” Trump said, days after securing enough delegates to clinch the 2024 Republican nomination. Moreno faces Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Ohio…

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Home buying might be cheaper for millions soon as realtor association settles lawsuits – CBS News Watch CBS News The National Association of Realtors, which represents more than a million real estate agents nationwide, settled a number of lawsuits Friday. One of the conditions of the agreement is that rules on commissions for agents brokering a home sale will be eliminated, meaning that the standard 5% to 6% commission rate could be gone as soon as this summer. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On This story…

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