Harvard University has agreed to pay a $53 million settlement after its former morgue manager stole and sold body parts donated for scientific research, with a court reportedly approving the plan on Tuesday. Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue at the prestigious Harvard Medical School before being fired in 2023, was sentenced to eight years…
August is National Grief Awareness Month, and Kate Doerge wants to reimagine how we deal with grief. After the experience of losing her 16-year-old daughter, Kate decided it was time to reframe the feeling of sadness. We’ve all heard of the five stages of grief, but Kate suggests there are five actions to help you…
Millions of customers are now receiving checks from State Farm after the company announced its largest dividend in history earlier this year. More than 7.2 million checks have been mailed since payments began on July 31, with another 3.8 million set to go out this week, Steve Baldwin, a spokesperson for State Farm, told CBS News…
American workers’ wages are once again failing to keep up with inflation — a painful financial déjà vu of the pandemic years. The repeat situation may feel even more acute given that many workers are still catching up from the 2021-2022 inflationary bout, when companies gave workers only moderate pay raises that fell short of four-decade-high price…
Pitcher Tommy John, who in the 1970s underwent an innovative procedure on his injured pitching arm that would become famous as “Tommy John surgery,” died on Aug. 15, 2026 at age 83. In this “Sunday Morning” story that aired Aug. 16, 1981, John talked with correspondent Heywood Hale Broun about his comeback after surgery, and…
President Trump said Tuesday he has paused the 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods that were set to take effect Wednesday. “I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to…
A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved out by a crashing SpaceX rocket. The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday. The 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster plowed into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour on Aug. 5 after drifting…
In this interview from 2024, former pitching ace Tommy John talked with correspondent Faith Salie about the injury to his pitching arm he suffered in 1974, and about the innovative procedure (which came to be known as “Tommy John surgery”) that rescued his career – and would prolong the careers of many more professional and…
The final 155 beagles from Ridglan Farms, a Wisconsin facility that bred dogs for biomedical research, are beginning new lives after being relocated to a Florida rescue — the last of more than 2,000 dogs released from the facility this year. Despite a growing push to reduce animal testing, USDA records show that more than…
Some members of Tupac Shakur’s family stepped out of the courtroom Tuesday before prosecutors showed photos from his autopsy at the Las Vegas trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is charged with orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed the rap giant. Others remained in the courtroom to face the grim facts of what…
