Nearly 5,000 troops aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are finally heading home after nearly 300 days of deployment. Meanwhile, fighting amplified in the Gulf region over the weekend as the U.S. and Iran traded attacks. Tom Hanson has the details. Source link
Twenty-five years after 9/11 began America’s longest war, and five years after it ended, the Taliban is firmly back in control in Afghanistan. Imtiaz Tyab in Kabul with a look back on America’s longest war. Source link
Millions mark end of summer at “The Great Minnesota Get-Together” – CBS News Watch CBS News Jonah Kaplan is at one of the biggest state fairs in the country to show us why so many are drawn to some old-fashioned fun in the digital age. Source link
The Trump administration has again asked the Supreme Court to intervene in its push to restrict mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections. Taurean Small, who is in Bridgewater, New Jersey, traveling with the president, has the updates. Source link
At least five people were killed and five others were injured when an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport and struck several vehicles Sunday, officials said. The crash prompted a roughly 3-hour ground stop at the airport as emergency crews responded to the scene. The Prime Air plane, which was being operated by…
President George W. Bush arrived at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., on a clear September Tuesday in 2001 to celebrate a surge in reading scores. Teacher Kay Daniels’ second-graders were eager to meet him. “It was a beautiful start of the day,” Daniels said. “Moms had done hairs, and uniforms were pressed,…
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said. The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground and was arrested with “multiple weapons,” Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Chris Anderson said in a statement. Acton was…
Almanac: September 6 – CBS News Watch CBS News “Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date. Source link
On the morning of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush was visiting an elementary school classroom in Sarasota, Fla., when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, informed him that America was under attack. Card revisits the Emma E. Booker Elementary School with correspondent Major Garrett, and talks about a singular moment, captured in an…
The small town of Gander in the Canadian province of Newfoundland saw its population virtually double when U.S. airspace was closed on 9/11, grounding 38 international flights on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. For five days, Newfoundlanders gave shelter and comfort to 7,000 stranded passengers and crew members. Correspondent Conor Knighton talks with Newfoundlanders…
