This year the annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest offered families under coronavirus lockdown a way to make good use of their time, by building contraptions that are utterly useless, except to accomplish mundane tasks in the time-honored fashion of the legendary cartoonist. Correspondent Mo Rocca witnesses some of the craziest devices. Source

On Saturday President Donald Trump officially announced federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to be his nominee for the nation’s highest court, to fill the seat left open by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Correspondent Rita Braver reports. Source

The doctrine of qualified immunity, whereby police officers are protected from civil lawsuits in certain cases, has come under question. Would eliminating qualified immunity improve relations between police and the greater community? Senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with law experts, and with citizens who have become mired in lawsuits for years owing to police actions that they say violated their Constitutional rights. Source

Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, Ted Koppel examines the controversy over qualified immunity, which shields police officers from civil lawsuits in many cases. Plus: Pauley profiles singer-songwriter Mariah Carey; Susan Spencer talks with a sculptor memorializing a groundbreaking moment in sports; John Dickerson looks at what presidential debates may reveal about the candidates; Luke Burbank interviews comic actor Jim Belushi, who has a found a new role as a cannabis farmer; Nancy Giles finds out why an old-time craze, roller skating, is on a roll; and Mo Rocca witnesses some of the contraptions built by families in lockdown for this year’s Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Source

CBS News boiled down key statistics about the history of mail-in voting in the country into tiny pieces of insight that look like the ubiquitous postage stamps. Source

The doctrine whereby police officers are protected from civil lawsuits in certain cases has come under question – as citizens who claim their Constitutional rights had been violated by police have been mired in legal actions for years Source

Washington Post book reviewer Ron Charles previews a few of the new season’s most hotly-anticipated novels and short story collections coming to bookstores this fall. Source

Washington Post book reviewer Ron Charles previews a few of the most hotly-anticipated novels and short story collections coming to bookstores this fall Source

The award-winning author’s latest work is a novel keenly appropriate for a time of calamity and social dislocation Source

The author of the National Book Award-winning short story collection “Redeployment” is back with an epic novel about the moral complexities of geopolitics and modern warfare Source