The Teamsters union is launching a strike against Amazon at numerous locations across the country, including in Maspeth, Queens.
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The new goal is part of the Paris Agreement, under which member nations must update their emission cut targets every five years.
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Luigi Mangione, the man indicted on murder charges in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is expected to waive extradition back to New York, his lawyer said Wednesday. Mangione is currently in custody in Pennsylvania.
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Erin West, 42, and Rubi Vergara, 14, were fatally shot Monday morning at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.
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A CBS News team gained access to a site outside Damascus which holds the precursor chemicals for Captagon, one of the most popular street drugs in the Middle East and beyond.
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The Teamsters union says workers at seven facilities will walk off the job Thursday morning. It’s an attempt to pressure the e-commerce giant for a labor agreement during the key holiday shopping period.
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Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for “insurance fairness” on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don’t face the same kinds of coverage challenges.
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A bipartisan House deal on a short-term funding measure that would avoid a potential shutdown and keep the government operational through March appeared to have been scrapped Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and some hardline Republican lawmakers came out against it. Nikole Killion has details from Capitol Hill.
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The Federal Reserve cut interest rates Wednesday for the third consecutive month, slashing rates by a quarter percentage point. It was the Fed’s final rate decision before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has been a longtime critic of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O’Grady joins to break down the move.
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Officials are probing social media and other clues that the suspect in the Madison, Wisconsin, school shooting may have left behind. Investigators are trying to piece together a possible motive for the deadly shooting at Abundant Life Christian School. CBS News Confirmed’s Rhona Tarrant has more.
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