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Journalist and podcast host Leon Neyfakh discusses "The Battle for Boston" - season three of the Luminary podcast "Fiasco." Talking with CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett, Neyfakh shares what he uncovered about the efforts to desegregate Boston's public schools and the backlash that followed. He explains how ramifications from the violence and racial upheaval that resulted from the bus...

Amy Coney Barrett took the first of two oaths to become the next Supreme Court justice. It happened outdoors at the White House last night, a month after Barrett's nomination announcement became a coronavirus super-spreader event. Joe Biden and President Trump both have ambitious plans to get their messages out this last week before Election Day, both are heavily focused on battleground states. Th...

We're now in the final full week of campaigning for the presidential election. In just eight days, Americans will make a decision bound to change history, and so far, voters seem very eager to participate. More than 83,000 new coronavirus cases were reported on Friday. That number was nearly matched on Saturday before falling to more than 60,000 on Sunday, when fewer cases are normally reported. A...

President Trump and Joe Biden clash in a contentious but mostly civil debate. The final presidential showdown revealed how far apart the candidates are on key issues like the pandemic and personal ethics -- just 11 days before Election Day. New coronavirus cases hit their fourth highest daily number since the COVID crisis began. In Colorado, at least five people are unaccounted for in the worst wi...

Author of the best-selling book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent," Isabel Wilkerson, discusses how the book examines the "infrastructure of division that is built into society" with CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett. Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, explains what prompted her to look into the "structure that's place to hold people in a fixed ranking." Plus, she reac...

President Trump and Joe Biden will share the stage in Nashville, with the president trailing in most polls. There will also be new rules this time, after the president interrupted Biden at least 73 times during the first debate in Cleveland. Former President Obama hits the trail to help Biden deliver his closing arguments to the American people. There's controversy this morning over a new claim of...

Election law expert and CBS News contributor David Becker discuss how we are potentially seeing an election turn out not seen since 1908 with CBS News political reporter Ed O'Keefe. Becker, executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, explains what voters need to know if they are planning to vote early and what he will be watching for as Election Day approac...

Tony Dokoupil is in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where both candidates are making a major push. Yesterday, it was President Trump making his pitch to voters in Erie County, a potentially decisive battleground for the 2020 election. Tonight, former President Obama will hit the campaign trail in person for the first time. A new CDC report gives fresh insight into the human toll of the pan...

Tony Dokoupil is continuing his swing state tour in Ohio this morning for our series "At America's Crossroads." In Arizona yesterday, President Trump said people are "Pandemic'd out," and he's also called Dr. Anthony Fauci a disaster. The nation's top infectious disease expert continues to sound the alarm about the pandemic. More than 58,000 new cases were reported yesterday, and hospitalizations...

Tony Dokoupil is on the road in three key battleground states, beginning in Michigan. This morning, he's in suburban Detroit, in one of the counties that President Trump flipped from blue to red in 2016, and is being hotly contested again. Meanwhile, the president is focused on some other critical states in the West, holding rallies in Arizona today after visiting Nevada yesterday. More than 28 mi...

Tony-nominated playwright and actress Heidi Schreck discusses what inspired her hit-broadway show, "What the Constitution Means to Me," with CBS News national correspondent Jerica Duncan. Now available to stream on Amazon Prime VIdeo, Schreck details how the lives of three generations of women in her family was shaped by the Constitution. She tells Duncan the impact the show has had on her and aud...

President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden held simultaneous prime time town halls, where they faced voters' questions on a number of issues. The events replaced the second presidential debate, after President Trump declined to participate virtually. America sees its worst day for the number of new cases since mid august. Colorado is now facing its worst fire in state history. The Cameron...

A new film, "The Glorias," directed by Julie Taymor looks at the life of women's right activist Gloria Steinman from her childhood growing up in Ohio to present day. Taymor joined CBS News national correspondent Jamie Yuccas to discuss what inspired her about Steinman's life story and what message she hopes viewers take away. Taymor calls the film a political movie made for our time.

Both presidential candidates are participating in competing town hall events tonight, set to be televised at the same time. This is after the president refused to participate in a planned virtual debate. Former Vice President Joe Biden is raising record amounts of cash for the final push to Election Day. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has finished testifying to the Senate Judiciary Commit...

How do the two presidential candidates stack up when it comes to combatting climate change? Leah Stokes, assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environment Science & Management, joins CBS News meteorologist and climate contributor Jeff Berardelii for her assessment of President Trump's record on the environment and former Vice President Joe Biden's climate plan.

In her first day of questions yesterday, Judge Amy Coney Barrett did not discuss how she would decide cases on the high court. She repeatedly told the committee she has no policy agenda, and did not want to be used as a "pawn." Americans are already showing their determination to have their votes counted, with the election just 20 days away. We're looking at huge turnout and massive lines in place...

President Trump is back on the campaign trail in Florida, looking and sounding much the same as he did before he was hospitalized with the coronavirus. The Senate Judiciary Committee is questioning Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett this morning at her confirmation hearing. Many faced massive wait times in Georgia's first day of early voting, but those in line told us they were determined to...

Senate hearings begin today on a Supreme Court nomination that could set the high court on a new path. President Trump chose appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last month. If Barrett is confirmed, it would expand the court's conservative majority to six-to-three. President Trump plans to return to the campaign trail today in Florida, following a...

Since 1937, the second Monday in October has been a federal holiday known as Columbus Day, named after the explorer Christopher Columbus. Shannon Speed, director of UCLA's American Indian Studies Center joins CBS News national correspondent Jericka Duncan to discuss why Columbus Day is harmful to Native Americans and the push to rename in honor of the indigenous people who lived on this land befor...

Journalist Connie Chung discusses why she's encouraging Asian-Americans to vote this in a new PSA. Speaking with CBS News correspondent and CBSN anchor Vladimir Duthiers, Chung shares what it was like to be one of the only women of color covering the Watergate hearings and why she’s “worried for our country.”

The Feds arrest more than a dozen men after uncovering an alleged plan to abduct and possibly kill the Democratic governor of Michigan. The president says he wants to hold a rally tomorrow, despite questions over whether he's recovered from COVID. He's been appearing in videos and doing phone interviews, where he says he's doing fine. Thousands evacuate the Gulf Coast as the region gets ready for...

Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence clashed on many issues, including the pandemic. Harris called it the greatest failure of any presidential administration ever, while Pence strongly defended President Trump's response. The Commission on Presidential Debates has made the October 15th event virtual due to the coronavirus. President Trump, who's still being treated for COVID, is not...

Actor and producers America Ferrera & Olga Segura discuss their new initiative "She Se Puede" with CBS News contributor Maria Elena Salinas. They share what they are hoping to achieve with the new digital lifestyle community created for Latinas and their effort to turn out the Latina vote on Election Day.

There is confusion this morning, after the president said he would stop talks aimed at helping Americans through the pandemic, and then appeared to reverse course. On Twitter, he called for his negotiators to walk away from efforts to pass a second stimulus package. That message immediately sent stocks into a nosedive and drew sharp criticism from members of both parties. The coronavirus outbreak...

After three days in the hospital for coronavirus treatment, President Trump is still downplaying the pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 people in America. He's now receiving medical care at the White House, after being moved there last night from Walter Reed Medical Center. When he returned, he publicly removed his mask despite being contagious. Former Vice President Joe Biden says wearing...