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Joey Chestnut mustered the strength to down a world record 83 hot dogs on Monday, relishing another victory against rival Takeru Kobayashi, who struggled to catch up to the world’s best competitive eater in Netflix’s “Unfinished Beef” Labor Day showdown. Following the same format as the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest held in Coney Island, New York, Chestnut …

The sun is burning a hole in Americans’ wallets. Back-to-back months of heat records and sweltering days have contributed to rising electricity costs, and experts say that without action, it’s a problem that will likely only get worse. According to CBS News’ price tracker, the cost of electricity has increased from $0.14 per kilowatt hour in 2019 to $0.18 per …

Officials on Sunday released the name of a pilot who died in a skydiving flight after her passengers jumped from the aircraft near the Niagara Falls. Melanie Georger, 26, was the only person on board when the single-engine Cessna crashed Saturday, the Niagara Country Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Georger, of Towanda, New York, was working to become a …

Rescue teams found a man who had been reported missing more than two weeks ago in the Red River Gorge, a wilderness area full of steep cliffs and jagged terrain in eastern Kentucky. The rescue team called it “truly a miracle” that the hiker survived so long without food or water. Searchers found 48-year-old Scott A. Hern Saturday afternoon near …

A Missouri judge on Monday overturned the conviction of Christopher Dunn, who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a killing he has long contended he didn’t commit. The ruling is likely to free Dunn from prison, but it wasn’t immediately clear when that would happen. He has been serving a sentence of life without parole. St. Louis …

President Joe Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he is ending his reelection campaignand endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the Oval Office sparked a scramble in the Democratic Party. It also unleashed a new wave of memes of the vice president, particularly one about a coconut tree. But what does a coconut tree have to do with Harris? It goes …

This month marks 34 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, and Disability Pride Month was officially established nearly a decade ago. As one blind author and illustrator recently pointed out,disability exists on a spectrum. And the fight for community, inclusion and acceptance is still going strong today. In the U.S. in 2021, nearly 42.5 million …

The shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump flew a drone over a field adjacent to the grounds where the rally was held on July 13, three law enforcement sources familiar with the federal investigation into the shooting told CBS News on Saturday. Investigators are still probing exactly when the shooter, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, …

Within hours of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, social media users circulated misleading visuals and accounts to falsely claim there was a second gunman atop a water tower at the rally venue. The conspiracy was one of several that gained traction online in the aftermath of the attack, as people filled an information vacuum with unfounded claims …

Dozens of hikers say they fell ill during trips to a popular Arizona tourist destination that features towering blue-green waterfalls deep in a gorge neighboring Grand Canyon National Park. Madelyn Melchiors, a 32-year-old veterinarian from Kingman, Arizona, said she was vomiting severely Monday evening and had a fever that endured for days after camping on the Havasupai reservation. She eventually …