Holiday gift ideas from Techno Claus

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It’s that time of year!  David Pogue, disguised as a jolly man in red, emerges from the fireplace to deliver some gift suggestions for those on your list who love gadgets:       Hello there! I’m Techno Claus, bringing good cheerIf ever we needed some, this was the year!The scandals, […]

Mom accused of faking son’s illness after 13 “major” surgeries

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DALLAS – An 8-year-old Dallas boy may have endured more than 300 unnecessary doctor visits, gone through more than a dozen pointless surgeries and suffered life-threatening medical complications after police and child protective officials say his mother faked multiple illnesses beginning when he was a newborn. Kaylene Bowen-Wright is charged with […]

CBS News/YouGov poll: Safe or scary, free or dangerous?

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By Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Kabir Khanna and Fred Backus On the anniversary of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, divisions over guns in America run deeper than policy differences. To most gun owners, guns are “part of what makes America great” (53 percent). They also say guns make America […]

Industry-leading men weigh in on #MeToo

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CBS News’ Alex Wagner recently sat down with a group of powerful women for a discussion about sexual harassment. A group of five accomplished men across various industries took up the issue in this conversation with Wagner.  The men she spoke with are leaders in their fields and in positions […]

Asian nation’s top court rejects bid to make gay sex illegal

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s top court on Thursday ruled against petitioners seeking to make gay sex and sex outside marriage illegal in a victory for the country’s besieged LGBT minority. The 5-to-4 decision by the nine-judge panel of the Constitutional Court rejected the arguments of a conservative group, the Family […]

What we learned about grief from Sandy Hook parents

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Thursday marks the five-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in American history that propelled a small Connecticut town into the national debate on gun control. Earlier this year, correspondent Scott Pelley revisited that small town and found that while the victims’ […]