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Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says

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Washington — The Defense Department is considering its most sweeping remake of military higher education, according to an unreleased draft memorandum obtained by CBS News that would abolish civilian tenure and overhaul course offerings at the military service academies and senior war colleges that educate future military officers. The memorandum, labeled “Refocusing the Military Service…

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Bloody, bare footprints at Minneapolis murder scene lead to decadeslong search for answers

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Minnesota crime scene investigators captured footage when they got their first look inside a high-rise apartment in Minneapolis. According to police reports, at around 5:30 p.m. on June 13, 1993, a tenant reported water seeping into their apartment. A building caretaker and a security guard were called to check it out, and discovered the water…

Corinne Bailey Rae on the sadness of loss and the beauty of life

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Before winning two Grammys and being nominated for four others, working the coat check was about as close as Corinne Bailey Rae was getting to a stage. She showed us the “little box” she once sat in at the Hi-Fi Club, in Leeds, England: “I mean, I really always wanted to see the bands. So,…

NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts return to Earth after eight-month stay International Space Station

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Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut closed out a 241-day stay aboard the International Space Station early Sunday with a fiery plunge back to Earth and an on-target touchdown on the broad steppe of Kazakhstan. Strapped into the Soyuz MS-28/74S ferry ship, commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, flight engineer Sergey Mikaev and NASA’s Chris Williams undocked…

Wildfires in France and Spain force 267,000 to flee as crews continue to battle untamed blazes

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More than 267,000 people have been forced to flee parts of Western Europe on Saturday as out-of-control wildfires continued to rage in Spain and France. Thick black ash coated roof terraces in the north of Madrid’s center, the Spanish capital, where 70,000 people were evacuated as residents were forced to keep their windows closed by…

“The child is terrified”: Doctors on the front lines of a measles comeback speak out

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This isn’t just a bad year for measles. It looks to be the start of a bad era. Confirmed measles cases just hit a 35-year high, and it’s only July. Together with last year, the number of cases has exceeded the combined total over the previous 25 years. The vast majority of cases stem from…

New Jersey says software error improperly registered 6,600 noncitizens to vote

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About 6,600 people who indicated they were noncitizens while obtaining New Jersey driver’s licenses and other state IDs were improperly registered to vote in 2023 and 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said on Tuesday. The governor, a Democrat who took office this year, blamed a Motor Vehicle Commission system software error but said a preliminary analysis…

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Cartel boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada gets life in U.S. prison 2 years after he says he was kidnapped, flown to Texas

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Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court Monday to life in prison, seven years after his Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was handed the same sentence. Zambada’s sentencing in Brooklyn federal court was the culmination of the U.S. government’s yearslong fight to bring the long-elusive cartel…

Cat rescued from Venezuela earthquake rubble as death toll tops 5,200

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A weakened cat was pulled from under the rubble of a collapsed residential complex in Venezuela on Saturday in what one rescuer described as a “ray of hope” in the aftermath of deadly earthquakes. More than 5,200 people were killed when back-to-back quakes struck the South American nation on June 24, with the coastal state…

Severely ill prisoners granted early release are left stuck behind bars

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ʻAIEA, Hawai’i — Christian Alameda used a cane to push himself up out of bed in his cell at the Halawa Correctional Facility in Honolulu. He has been recovering in the prison’s medical infirmary since a January stroke left the right side of his body mostly paralyzed. In February, Hawai’i’s parole board granted the now-52-year-old…