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Lead water crisis leaves more Michigan residents frustrated – CBS News Watch CBSN Live Seven years after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, another community in the state is living with high levels of lead in their water. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca shows us how they are getting by. […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday awarded a posthumous award to Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman who unknowingly had her body’s cells biopsied while undergoing cancer treatment — and ultimately helped change medical history.  Henrietta Lacks National Institutes of Health The cells that were taken from Lacks’ tumor, called […]

The fourth monthly payment of the enhanced Child Tax Credit is landing in bank accounts on Friday, with anti-poverty researchers pointing to the ongoing cash deposits as helping to reduce hardship among families across the nation.  After the October 15 payment, there are only two checks remaining under the current […]

“Star Trek” actor William Shatner goes to space with Blue Origin – CBS News Watch CBSN Live “Star Trek” actor William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space at age 90. He was moved by the experience. Mark Strassmann has more. View CBS News In Be the first […]

In this image taken from video by Taiwan’s EBC, firefighters battle a blaze at a building in Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan on October 14, 2021. EBC via AP Taipei, Taiwan — The death toll from a fire in southern Taiwan that engulfed a building overnight has further risen to 46, according […]

Moline, Illinois — More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers went on strike Thursday at midnight after “the company failed to present an agreement that met our members’ demands and needs,” The United Auto Workers union said in statement. The union had said its members would walk off the job […]

Boston mayoral candidates on police reform – CBS News Watch CBSN Live The two candidates for Boston’s next mayor, Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George, faced off in the first one-on-one debate since the preliminary contest last month. Watch the two candidates answer on police reform. View CBS News In […]

White House addresses supply chain bottleneck threatening economy and holiday season – CBS News Watch CBSN Live President Biden announced major U.S. ports and corporations will move to 24/7 operations to help alleviate the supply chain backlog. CBS News chief White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe joins CBSN’s Lana Zak with […]

For the first time, Boston voters will be deciding between two women for their next mayor, and both women took to the stage Wednesday night for the first one-on-one debate of the election.  Both mayoral candidates, Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu, the top two vote-getters in the September preliminary […]

More than half of U.S. states will hold gubernatorial elections next year – CBS News Watch CBSN Live Voters in 36 U.S. states will elect governors next year, and while a lot can change between now and 2022, the races are already beginning to take shape. Politico’s state political reporter […]