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ELEPHANT RESCUE: A veterinarian and national park staff saved an elephant mother in Thailand after they performed CPR on her Wednesday The elephant fainted from stress after her calf fell and got stuck in a hole. They were both rescued and safely walked back into the wild.

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CBS News @CBSNews more than 1 year ago

Ever since her beloved owner was hospitalized, this dog walks to the hospital every day and sits outside, waiting to see him 😢

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CBS News @CBSNews 6 months ago

BREAKING: CBS News and The Washington Post have obtained copies of numerous texts between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, and Pres. Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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Ginni Thomas, Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, exchanged texts with Mark Meadows about efforts to overturn the 2020 election

CBS News and The Washington Post have obtained copies of numerous text messages exchanged between Thomas and Trump's White House chief of staff.

CBS News @CBSNews 6 months ago

"My family went from segregation to the Supreme Court in one generation," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says at the White House.

"I am the dream and hope of the slave," she adds, quoting Maya Angelou.

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CBS News @CBSNews 11 months ago

When three suspects walked into a store – one pointing a handgun at the cashier – a customer immediately disarmed them. Turns out, he's a Marine. “The Marine Corps taught me not to [mess] around," the customer said.

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CBS News @CBSNews 6 months ago

BREAKING: CBS News and the Washington Post have obtained White House records turned over to the House, which show a gap in President Donald Trump's phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes on January 6.

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White House records turned over to House show 7-hour gap in Trump phone log on Jan. 6

The White House records submitted to the House show a gap in phone logs of calls placed to or by Trump from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021.

CBS News @CBSNews more than 1 year ago

Eugene Goodman, the Capitol Police officer who led rioters away from the Senate chamber, will escort Kamala Harris at the inauguration as the new acting deputy House Sergeant at Arms, @NorahODonnell reports

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CBS News @CBSNews 10 months ago

JUST IN: Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world

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Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world

Authorities in the Netherlands say testing has confirmed that COVID cases identified on November 19 and 23 were the new strain – days before researchers identified it.

CBS News @CBSNews 4 months ago

Matthew McConaughey calls for "responsible gun ownership" at the White House briefing, following the Uvalde school shooting.

"Responsible gun owners are fed up with the Second Amendment being abused and hijacked by some deranged individuals."

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CBS News @CBSNews 6 months ago

A fast-acting teacher in East Orange, New Jersey, performed the Heimlich maneuver to save a third-grader who was choking on a bottle cap last Wednesday.

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CBS News @CBSNews more than 2 years ago

Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena"

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Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena"

"The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,'" a spokeswoman said.

CBS News @CBSNews more than 1 year ago

WATCH: Women turned a metal barrier — erected around Mexico’s National Palace ahead of International Women's Day — into a memorial for victims of femicide and rape.

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CBS News @CBSNews more than 1 year ago

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters in first briefing: "There will be times when we see things differently in this room...That's okay. That's part of our democracy, and rebuilding trust with the American people will be central to our focus in the press office"

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CBS News @CBSNews more than 1 year ago

Two days before he’s sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden volunteered with his family at a Philadelphia food bank, packing boxes as part of National Day of Service

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Live Updates: Nearby fire prompts brief security scare at Capitol

Capitol Police said a fire under a highway several blocks south of the Capitol prompted a lockdown.

CBS News @CBSNews 4 months ago

Music group BTS is meeting with Pres. Biden to discuss the issues of anti-Asian hate crimes, Asian inclusion and representation.

"We thank President Biden and the White House for giving this important opportunity to speak...and remind ourselves of what we can do as artists."

CBS News @CBSNews 6 months ago

A 95-year-old Ukrainian woman who lived through Soviet-era famine and World War II said she’s “never seen anything as horrible” as the Russian invasion.

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CBS News @CBSNews more than 1 year ago

WATCH: Laughter breaks out in the Senate Chamber after Trump attorney Michael van der Veen insists that any impeachment trial depositions should be done in person in his office in Philadelphia

"I don't know why you're laughing," he says

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Trump Impeachment Live Updates: Senate draws closer to vote on whether to convict or acquit

In an email to his Senate Republican colleagues, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he'll vote to acquit Mr. Trump, according to a Senate staffer.

CBS News @CBSNews more than 2 years ago

For the first time in 115 years, overnight subway service in New York City has been shut down to clean trains amid the pandemic

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NYC starts historic overnight subway shutdowns for virus-linked disinfecting

Daily four-hour shutdown due to pandemic is first time in 115 years service hasn't been 24/7 except in times of emergency

CBS News @CBSNews almost 2 years ago

CBS News projects Joe Biden wins the presidential election with the projected win in Pennsylvania. The current electoral vote count is Biden 273 and Trump 213.

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2020 General Election Center: Live results of voting today including polls, who's winning election races, state-by-state governor, Senate and congressional races — live updates

2020 General Election Center: Live results of voting today including polls, who's winning election races, state-by-state governor, Senate and congressional races — live updates

CBS News @CBSNews more than 1 year ago

In a tense exchange, bystander Donald Williams pushed back when the Derek Chauvin's attorney asked whether he grew more and more angry with Chauvin during the fatal arrest of George Floyd.
"I stayed in my body. You can't paint me out to be angry."

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Live Updates: Teen who filmed George Floyd's fatal arrest says, "This was a cry for help"

Follow live updates as prosecutors continue laying out their case against the fired officer charged in George Floyd's death.

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