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This week on “Sunday Morning” (Aug. 23)

The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.)  Guest host: Steve Hartman Ticks, lots of ’em! CBS News COVER STORY: The explosion of ticks and Alpha-gal syndromeThis year, emergency room visits…

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Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard dismissed by federal judge

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Harvard University that accused the school of failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students, finding the instances of alleged discrimination cited by the government were “too isolated and episodic” to support federal civil rights violations.  U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Massachusetts…

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Russian plot to kill American citizen thwarted by Poland, prime minister says: “First situation of its kind”

A Russian plot to kill a Ukrainian-American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister said Thursday, marking the first time in decades that a Western leader has publicly accused Moscow of plotting to kill a U.S. citizen. Western officials have previously warned that Russia has…

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U.S. intelligence agencies warn Putin could test NATO by authorizing provocative actions

American intelligence assessments indicate Russian President Vladimir Putin could be increasingly willing to authorize provocative actions that could extend onto NATO territory, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CBS News. Those actions could include hybrid operations, cyberattacks and other deniable measures short of a conventional military campaign, the officials said. The assessments reflect a…

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Dr. Anthony Fauci on pandemics, partisan critics, and “the psyche of the country”

Growing up on 13th Avenue in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and ’50s, Anthony “Tony” Fauci was the precocious son of the corner pharmacist. “They called him Doc,” he said. “The pharmacist back then served as the neighborhood psychiatrist, marriage counselor. So, it was serving the community.” The Fauci Pharmacy is long-gone. But beneath…

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Dr. Anthony Fauci testifying to Senate panel on COVID origins after Sen. Rand Paul releases trove of diary entries

Paul’s office released more than 1,000 pages of journal entries by Fauci over the weekend. They span about three years, from December 2019 to the end of his time as National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director in December 2022. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News the entries…

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