London — On a dead-end road in London’s Islington district, CBS News found Tim Bushe trimming his hedge. It was an ordinary scene in the neighborhood of row houses until you stepped back to take in the full scale of the neatly pruned topiary — in the form of a giant locomotive. “Philippa, my wife, used to sit in the …
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Mason Branstrator has always been an athlete, but three years ago, at just 17 years old, his active lifestyle changed forever. “I was going for an ordinary day of downhill skiing, but this time, it was a lot different,” Mason, an experienced skier who frequented the slopes in his home state of Minnesota, told CBS News. “I remember thinking right …
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This week, Scott Pelley reported on the families who held the home front while their spouses, fathers and mothers fought in the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. About 600,000 American veterans have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Symptoms can include anxiety, fear, irritability, and depression. Through their reporting for this week’s story, Scott Pelley and the …
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Editor’s Note: The Pentagon on Saturday said that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, an aircraft carrier operating in the Red Sea and at the center of America’s response to Houthi attacks, had begun its journey home and would soon be replaced by the USS Theodore Roosevelt. When the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower set sail last October, the sailors …
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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Southwest Airlines passenger flight that plunged within several hundred feet of the ocean off Hawaii in April. Weather conditions on the island of Kauai prompted pilots of Southwest flight 2786 on April 11 to bypass a landing attempt at the Lihue airport prior to the rapid decline towards the ocean, according to air …
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Interest rates are high these days. Those high rates mean it’s possible to earn a strong return on deposit accounts. A popular option among these is acertificate of deposit (CD). With CDs, you commit to leaving your money in the account through its entire term. In exchange, the financial institution agrees to pay you a meaningful interest rate – one …
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Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers III says the restaurant chain is making its “single largest additional investment in our workforce” in its 68-year history by hiking base pay for servers to three bucks an hour. The raises take effect this month and follow a more than year-long campaign led by a union that represents service workers in the South. The …
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Federal officials said Thursday they’re investigating an unusual rolling motion on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 that might have been caused by a damaged backup power-control unit. The Federal Aviation Administration said it’s working with Boeing and the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the incident on a May 25 flight from Phoenix to Oakland. Southwest says it’s …
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Inflation is falling and interest rates could soon, too. That was some of the big financial news this week after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing inflation falling in May (for the second month in a row) and the Federal Reserve elected to keep the federal funds rate unchanged. While not quite at the Fed’s 2% target …
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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 …
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