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John Sullivan, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia under the Biden and Trump administrations, speaks with "CBS Mornings" about the potential impact of the use of U.S. ATACMS missiles by Ukraine, Russia's new nuclear plan and the latest in the ongoing war.

A new Hollywood star is being born for the Lakers.

Ukraine fired eight American-made ATACMS missiles into Russia, U.S. officials said, days after President Biden approved their use deeper inside Russian territory. U.S. officials believe Russia may have shot down two of the missiles. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin approved a change in Russia's nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike.

A man alleged that he woke up naked and felt sharp pain after attending one of the “Act Bad” rapper’s afterparties in Miami.

Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump met in Texas Tuesday to watch as Musk's company SpaceX test launched its largest rocket. The two have had a close relationship throughout the election, but it spotlights potential conflicts of interest. Musk's companies SpaceX and Tesla have more than $13 billion in government contracts. Commercial rocket launches like the one Trump attended are regulated by the federal government, and SpaceX has complained that some of those regulations are slowing down technology.

The decision is the latest in a series of moves by the U.S. and Russia that have escalated tensions between the two.

A vote Wednesday by the House Ethics Committee will decide if a report on President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick, Matt Gaetz, will be made public. Gaetz has been accused of drug use and having sex with a minor, which he denies.

The House Ethics Committee will decide if a report on alleged misconduct by Matt Gaetz will be made public. Also, Ukraine strikes its first targets inside Russia with American missiles, as President Putin unveils a new nuclear doctrine. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.

Leonardo DiCaprio gave an emotional speech about Kate Winslet at a screening for her new movie "Lee."

Sir Lady Java, a pioneering transgender performer and activist, died Saturday at 82 following a stroke, close friends said.

Tropicana is squeezing out a response to the backlash following the redesign of the bottle.

The murder trial for the suspect accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley is underway in Athens, Georgia. Suspect Jose Ibarra, an undocumented migrant from Venezuela, waived his right to a trial by jury and is facing life in prison if convicted.

Brittany Patterson, 41, is fighting against potential jail time after deputies arrested her over her 10-year-old son's unsupervised walk into town.

Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Porter Ellett posted a video showing a helicopter dropping a football ahead of a state championship game in Utah.

A Venezuelan migrant with links to Tren de Aragua has been arrested for allegedly robbing one of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors in her apartment after she busted him masturbating, police sources told The Post Wednesday.

The case remained cold for 57 years until 92-year-old Ryland Headley was arrested and subsequently charged.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved changes formally lowering the threshold at which his country can consider a nuclear attack.

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The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.

Davis and the winner of the Carol Burnett Award will be honored in the lead-up to the 2025 Golden Globes, the first time the group has spun off the prizes into a separate evening.

Charles Manson's unique manipulation tactics continue to live on in Making Manson.

Sure, let’s stop having sex with men. But don’t call it 4B, writes Maria Yagoda.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) slammed the "dozens of members" of his party who have engaged in antisemitism and said that Democrats "don't get a pass" when it comes to bigotry against Jews.

Food prices are rising in Gaza following the robbery of a U.N. convoy over the weekend, during which, drivers were forced to unload aid at gunpoint, officials say.

“The Young Turks" host Cenk Uyger attacked historian Allan Lichtman over his failure to accurately predict the winner of the 2024 presidential election.

Rumors began swirling after Kemsley announced her separation.

American Airlines has been testing a new boarding system in Tuscon and two other airports that prevents passengers from trying to board before their group is called. American will add the system to 100 airports ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, with more in the coming months.

SpaceX launched a sixth test flight of its Super Heavy-Starship on Tuesday with President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watching. CBS News correspondent Jason Allen has a breakdown of the flight.

President Biden did not answer questions as he departed from Brazil, even though an unidentified reporter screamed at him in vain as he boarded Air Force One.

Co-founder and president Amber Venz Box says her platform has helped creators build millionaires and driven billions of dollars in sales for brands.

Thirty years ago, Susan Smith rolled her car into a South Carolina lake with her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons inside. She initially told police she was carjacked before confessing to their killings. On Wednesday, Smith, who is serving a life sentence, will ask a parole board for her freedom.

A pentagon official told Congress Tuesday that the agency has solved a prominent UFO mystery from 2016 which showed what appears to be an object flying at a high speed just above water.

Case counts for Oropouche virus are still low but rising dramatically. What's going on? And then there's a study that raises the possibility that insect bites aren't the only way the virus can spread.

Twitch stream Hasan Piker, who boasts millions of followers across Twitch, YouTube and Instagram, regularly posts extremist content and terrorist propaganda to his young audience, Fox News has discovered.

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv shut its doors Wednesday as Ukraine braced amid warnings of retaliation from Moscow for Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with American-made missiles. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has more.

The drug clonazepam is being recalled due to a mislabeling error that could have serious consequences.

We are back in Beverly Hills! The season 14 premiere kicks off with a bang and some major life updates for the women. Dorit Kemsley opens up about her divorce and then faces off with Kyle Richards over their friendship. Watch the full recap and don’t forget to subscribe to our podcast so you don’t...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., clarifies that "a man cannot become a woman" after a question about transgender Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.

The state of the Airbnb home in the viral clip sparked debate, with one saying, "I used to do this, don't bother now."

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Pope Francis has approved new rites for his own funeral for when he dies to simplify rituals and be buried outside the Vatican.

China's leaders have long advocated that nuclear-armed states adopt "no first use" policies.

"The Voice" 2016 winner Sundance Head explains to Fox News Digital how he was accidentally shot with his own revolver while on a hunting trip.

The other night, a friend came over. A dear friend. A friend who has helped me out when I’ve been sick, and who brought over takeout when I had just given birth. Still, before he arrived, I vacuumed.I thought about this while reading the Gender Equity Policy Institute’s recent report on gender and domestic labor. The study finds that mothers spend twice as much time as fathers “on the essential and unpaid work” of taking care of kids and the home, and that women spend more time on this than men, regardless of parental and relationship status. “Simply being a woman” is the instrumental variable, the study concludes.The time gaps are large for all women, and especially large for certain subgroups. Moms with a high-school education or less spend 19 hours a week on cleaning and child care, versus seven hours for dads with a comparable education. Latina mothers devote 26 hours a week to chores and kids, Latino dads less than a third of that time.Remarkably, having a male domestic partner means more work for women, not less. Married women spend more time on housework than single women; married men spend roughly the same amount as single men. Women’s lower wages and higher propensity to take part-time jobs explain some of the difference: To maximize the household’s total income, the person earning more does less around the house. But other studies have found that women who earn as much as or more than their male partner still devote more time to domestic care. Queer relationships, unsurprisingly, tend to be more equitable.Perhaps most enraging: The gender divide results in women having fewer hours than men to devote to socializing, exercising, going out, or practicing a hobby. No wonder women tend to experience more stress and burnout.A generation after the publication of Arlie Russell Hochschild’s The Second Shift, a lot has changed, and nothing has changed. Women are much more likely to work outside the home, but the distribution of work within the home has not become commensurately equitable. Surveys show that women are not exactly happy with the situation. What would it take for things to be different?It was once thought that technology was part of the answer. Decades of labor-saving innovations cut the hours Americans spent on chores. A dishwasher saves a household an estimated 200 hours a year, a laundry machine three-plus hours of backbreaking work per load. Yet even as technology improved, homes got bigger, filled with more items to care for. As my colleague Derek Thompson has noted, standards of cleanliness have risen over time too: “Automatic washers and dryers raised our expectations for clean clothes and encouraged people to go out and buy new shirts and pants; housewives therefore had more loads of laundry to wash, dry, and fold.”You see this tidiness treadmill on TikTok and Instagram: People recommend how to wash your walls, “refresh” your furniture season by season, and organize everything in your pantry in clear acrylic bins. This labor isn’t time-saving; it is never-ending.The Gender Equity Policy Institute suggests, well, policy changes, including “use it or lose it” parental-leave programs for new fathers, caregiving credits for the Social Security system, and expanded early-child-care programs. But the report acknowledges that the unhappy divide is cultural, and requires cultural shifts as well.Caretaking is a central way that women perform their gender. The advertising of domestic goods and cleaning products remains intently focused on women. The majority of children still grow up watching their mother do more housework than their father. The gender chore gap shows up in children as young as 8.Men doing more housework is an obvious solution, but not one that I am particularly hopeful about. Virtually every woman I know who is unhappy with her household division of labor has tried and failed to get her male partner to pick up the slack. The belief that men care less about having a messy home is pervasive, and supported by at least some evidence. In one anthropological study, researchers had people give them a video tour of their house. Mothers almost unanimously apologized for the rooms not being tidier. “Fathers in their home tours would walk in the same rooms their wives had come through and often made no mention whatsoever of the messiness,” UCLA’s Jeanne Arnold reported. “This was pretty astonishing.”Perhaps the problem is women, and the remedy is for women to do less housework and tolerate a consequentially messier home. “The tidiness level of a home is a matter of simple preference with no right or wrong,” my colleague Jonathan Chait has written, offering an “easy answer” to the chore wars. “My wife and I happily learned to converge on each other’s level of tidiness. We settled—fairly, I think—on a home that’s neater than I’d prefer to keep it, but less neat than she would.”Yet men are perfectly capable of recognizing a mess when it is not theirs. The sociologists Sarah Thébaud, Leah Ruppanner, and Sabino Kornrich asked people to look at photographs of an open-plan living room and kitchen; half saw a living space cluttered with dishes and laundry, and the other half saw a tidy area. The participants rated how clean the room was on a 100-point scale, and said how urgent they thought it was for the owner to take care of it. Men and women had essentially the same ratings of how clean the space was and how important tidying up was.In a second experiment, the same researchers told study participants that the photos were taken by someone looking to rent out their place on an Airbnb-type site. Some participants viewed rooms hosted by “Jennifer,” some by “John.” The participants thought that Jennifer’s clean space was less tidy than John’s, and were more judgmental in their assessments of the female host.Women internalize this kind of judgment, making the individual desire to keep things clean inextricable from the social expectation to do so. Women are critiqued for having pans in the sink and grime on the countertops in a way that men aren’t. Women’s cortisol levels go up when their space is messy in a way that men’s cortisol levels don’t. Asking women to clean less means asking women to accept more criticism, to buck their culture, to put aside their desire for a socially desirable space. At the same time, men internalize the message that an untidy home is not their responsibility.The best path forward might be for men and women to applaud messy, normal, mismatched, lived-in spaces. We should recognize that multinational conglomerates are in the business of devising problems that need solutions, which are conveniently available at Walmart and Target; we should admit that everything done in front of a camera is a performance, not reality; we should acknowledge that being welcomed into someone’s house is a gift of connection, not an invitation to judge. Easy enough for me to say. I am one of the millions of us who cannot seem to put down the vacuum, even if I do not want to pick it up.

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President-elect Donald Trump is moving forward with more Cabinet selections, choosing former WWE CEO and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon to be his education secretary and TV doctor Mehmet Oz to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. CBS News political reporter Katrina Kaufman has the latest on Trump's incoming administration and the ongoing controversy surrounding Trump's attorney general pick, Matt Gaetz.