This week Tasha Cloud received the WNBA’s community leadership award, and she is one of two Mystics players who has started every game this season. Yet she still has to spend six months playing basketball abroad in the off-season to make a living. That’s in part because of the basketball association’s pay scale. And as Major Garrett points out on “The Takeout,” it’s not just a pay difference separating the women from the men. Source
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Jimmy Carter released from hospital in time for Thanksgiving
The former president was hospitalized for two weeks for brain surgery Source
3 Navy SEALs escape accountability in Gallagher case
Three officers involved in the Edward Gallagher case will keep their Trident pins. Source
Fans donate to college player whose family lost everything
The funds are going toward Nathan Bain’s family in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian destroyed nearly everything they owned. Source
Cranberries: Thanksgiving in a bowl
It’s cranberry season in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which is covered in natural cranberry bogs, and locals Nancy Mead and chef Steven Frappolli know just how best to pick and use them, like in a delicious cranberry crumble. “Sunday Morning” producer Sara Kugel gets a taste of this popular Thanksgiving staple that, chef Frappolli says, must never be bought frozen! Source
Legal settlement keeps Confederate statue off UNC campus
The agreement between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and UNC-Chapel Hill ends a long legal debate about whether Confederate monuments belong on campus. Source
Man accused of killing Chicago college student after she ignored his catcalls
Donald Thurman, 26, was arrested was charged with first-degree murder and sexual assault after University of Illinois at Chicago police found 19-year-old Ruth George unresponsive in a campus parking garage. CBS Chicago’s Mike Puccinelli reports. Source
Ex-opiate addict says implant saved him, but some call him a “guinea pig”
Alvin Dutruch took a chance on a new way to treat addiction — now a consumer group says he was exploited. Source
Pete Buttigieg surges in latest CNN poll
In the latest poll of Democratic presidential candidates by CNN, Joe Biden retained the lead, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg rose 5 points to close in not far behind Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The Hill reporter Julia Manchester joins CBSN with the latest on the race. Source
Santas in London go back to school to learn how to spread holiday cheer before Christmas
At the Ministry of Fun, these Santas are learning about reindeer, presents, costumes, and how to wish people a “Merry Christmas” in multiple languages. Source