Life before refrigerators, when you could buy a car in a pool hall for $18. Men and women from 60 Minutes’ story on people living well into old age share stories from their childhoods. Source
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Texas Republicans unveil sweeping voting restrictions bill
President Biden slammed the bill introduced by Texas Republicans as “an assault on democracy.” Source
NBA All-Star Mark Eaton dies at 64
The Utah Jazz player died in the hospital after crashing his bicycle in Summit County Utah. Source
More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school
The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school. Source
Tulsa Race Massacre remembrance main event suddenly canceled
Organizers didn’t give a reason but said they hope it can be rescheduled. John Legend and Stacey Abrams were among those slated to be there. Source
Microsoft says Russian hackers are behind latest phishing attack on U.S. government
Microsoft says the same group of Russian hackers responsible for the SolarWinds hack have struck again, launching another cyberattack on several foreign and domestic agencies. According to Microsoft, the group targeted 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 organizations in an apparent phishing attack. Jamil Jaffer, senior vice president at IronNet Cybersecurity and the lead architect of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, joins CBSN to discuss how the group carried out this latest attack against the U.S. government. Source
Answers may finally be coming for families of “hell ship” victims
Tens of thousands of U.S soldiers died on Japanese merchant vessels that were turned into prison ships. Many were never found or properly identified, leaving anguished families searching for answers. Source
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Vaccination rates up as Americans travel for holiday; Chef Clare Smyth on finding new ways for her creations to get to her customers Source
Conservationists work to end skyscraper bird collision massacres
A cloudy night at the peak of fall migration caused a massacre. A group of Philadelphia conservationists is doing something about it. Source
Greenwood Cemetery’s effort to discover, honor veterans in their midst
Covering one square mile of New York City, Brooklyn’s historic Greenwood Cemetery is a national historic landmark. More than 500,000 people are interred here. It’s also the final resting place for an untold number of American war veterans. Now, the cemetery is enlisting an army of volunteers to help tell the stories of those who served throughout our nation’s history. Dana Jacobson has more. Source