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National Weather Service faces hurricane season with less experienced staff, missing data

The National Weather Service is hiring to fill hundreds of predominantly entry-level positions, more than a year after losing about 15% of its staff due to sweeping job cuts and buyouts ordered by the Trump administration.  Veteran meteorologists are cautiously optimistic about how an influx of workers could benefit the agency as storm season gets…

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Michele Tafoya wins Republican primary for Senate in Minnesota, CBS News projects, will face Flanagan

Michele Tafoya, a former television sports reporter, is the winner of the Republican nomination for Senate in the Minnesota primary election, CBS News projects. Tafoya will face Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in November, who won the Democratic nomination.  Tafoya, when she announced her candidacy in January, said Minnesota was “in a crisis.” Her campaign…

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Tales from Gay Talese – CBS News

For more than six decades, Gay Talese has been a celebrated legend among writers and reporters – a leading practitioner of the “New Journalism.” At 94, he talks with New Yorker writer Kelefa Sanneh of a career writing about the famous and not-so-famous (including mobsters, aging sports figures and nudists), and why his renowned 1966…

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Trump deflects on leaked audio of Ken Paxton calling Texas midterm convention a drag on his poll numbers

President Trump deflected on Wednesday when he was asked about leaked audio of his close ally, Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who reportedly told donors that “everybody’s numbers are down” after the recent GOP midterm convention in Dallas. Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office that he “hadn’t heard that” about Paxton’s comments, adding: “But I…

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