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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plunged 29% in June, the lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to figures released Monday that provide another window on the impact of a new rule to temporarily suspend asylum. Arrests totaled 83,536 in June, down from 117,901 in May to mark the lowest tally since January 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. A seven-day average of daily arrests fell more than half by the end of June from Biden’s announcement on June 4 that asylum processing would be halted when daily arrests reach 2,500, which they did immediately, said Troy Miller, acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner. “Recent border security measures have made a meaningful impact on our ability to impose consequences for those crossing unlawfully,” Miller said. Arrests had already fallen by more than half from a record high of 250,000 in December, largely a result of increased enforcement by Mexican authorities, according to U.S. officials. Sharp declines registered across nationalities, including Mexicans, who have been most affected by the suspension of asylum, and Chinese people, who generally fly

By MELISSA GOLDIN and DAVID KLEPPER The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, who is running for reelection, is fueling a range of false claims and conspiracy theories as authorities seek information about the 20-year-old shooter’s background and motive, how he obtained the AR-style rifle he fired at Trump and security at the venue that failed to stop the shooting. Here’s a look at the facts. ___ Online posts falsely claim sharpshooter was told not to fire on suspect in Trump shooting CLAIM: A law enforcement sniper assigned to Trump’s rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, says the head of the Secret Service ordered him not to shoot the suspect accused of attempting to assassinate Trump. THE FACTS: No such order was made. Snipers killed the suspected shooter moments after he opened fire on the former president, bloodying Trump’s ear, killing one rally attendee and injuring two. The Secret Service and the Butler Police Department say they have no agents, officers or employees with the name of the person claiming to be the sharpshooter. Following Saturday’s attempt on Trump’s life, a poster on the online

By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, California, according to his attorney, Minna Fernan. Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in U.S. history. Documents that Buxtun provided to The Associated Press, and its subsequent investigation and reporting, led to a public outcry that ended the study in 1972. Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis. When antibiotics became available in the 1940s that could treat the disease, federal health officials ordered that the drugs be withheld. The study became an observation of how the disease ravaged the body over time. In the mid-1960s, Buxtun was a federal public health employee working in San Francisco when he overheard a

An attorney for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife said last month that she had “invasive cancer surgery” and is in “intense, chronic pain.”

Milwaukee is hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention this week. It’s just about 90 minutes away from where the party was born 170 years ago. CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca looks at the GOP’s history.

Israel launched new strikes on the southern and central Gaza Strip on Monday, the second such attack in just the last three days. The weekend air strike killed at least 90 people who were seeking shelter in a designated humanitarian zone. CBS News’ Holly Williams reports.

In her first network interview since the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said that the Pennsylvania rally shooting was “unacceptable.” “It was unacceptable,” she said in an interview Monday with ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. “And it’s something that shouldn’t happen again.” Kimberly Cheatle, Director of the U.S. Secret Service speaks with ABC News on July 15, 2024. Jack Date/ABC News The violent incident on Saturday, which left one rallygoer dead, marked the first time a current or former president has been wounded in an attempted assassination since Ronald Reagan in 1981. When she first learned of the shooting, Cheatle said she was shocked and concerned — both for Trump and for the Secret Service agents who responded to the incident. “It was obviously a situation that as a Secret Service agent, no one ever wants to occur in their career,” she said. As the head of the agency, Cheatle said it’s her responsibility to investigate what went wrong and make sure nothing like it can happen again. TIMELINE: How the Trump assassination attempt unfolded

Hollywood is mourning the death of actress Shannen Doherty who died at the age of 53 after a yearslong battle with cancer. Doherty, who starred in iconic shows such as “Beverly Hills, 90210,” and “Charmed,” died Saturday, July 13, a representative said. “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease,” a representative said in a statement. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace.” The Hollywood community, which Doherty had been a part of since she was a child when she played Jenny Wilder in “Little House on the Prairie,” reacted with sadness and shock. Her “Beverly Hills, 90210” costars led the tributes to Doherty, who played Brenda Walsh on the series. “Our connection was real and honest,” Jennie Garth wrote, in part, on social media, alongside photos of herself with Doherty. “We were so

Monday, July 15, 2024 11:14PM Adapted Athlete is a nonprofit that works with individuals impacted by mental, physical and cognitive challenges. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — 14-year-old Colin is getting a workout in with Coach Jessica. Adapted Athlete is an expansion of Train Like a Girl studio. The nonprofit works with individuals impacted by mental, physical and cognitive challenges. “Having them in my life has given me immense joy, acceptance and it’s taught me a lot about myself,” says Executive Director Nikki Scholl. Scholl says supporting families of all abilities came naturally as the gym’s mission is to promote body positivity, diversity and inclusivity. “It came to us, we ran with it and it’s been the most beautiful part of our program,” she said. Adapted Athlete offers group workout sessions and private training. Thanks to state funding, Adapted Athlete was able to expand to a second location, have modified equipment and have expanded to sports camps. “In the last year, we started doing football, basketball, cheer and it’s all-inclusive and integrated into our program,” Scholl said. Along this three-year journey to provide quality training in adaptive

WASHINGTON — The initiative known as Project 2025 is framed as a blueprint of what a second presidential term for Donald Trump could look like. The former president has been distancing himself from it in recent weeks. Project 2025 is nearly 1,000 pages of policy recommendations, including cuts to food stamps, federal student loan forgiveness programs and reshaping bureaucracy by major changes to women’s rights. “It would really be the destruction of our democracy as a whole,” said National Organization for Women President Christian Nunes. READ MORE | RNC committee adopts GOP’s 2024 policy platform — including on abortion The 922-page plan to overhaul the federal government is led by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation. “Their work is really designed to dismantle many social pro-net programs, reverse decades of years of equity work that we put into to defend civil rights,” Nunes said. In the project’s mandate, it suggests things such as reversing approval of abortion drugs, getting rid of the pentagon’s recent diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and reclassifying tens of thousands of federal workers as political appointees. It goes on to suggest

LIVE: Trump announces Vance as his running mate WATCH LIVE Welcome, Manage MyDisney Account Log Out Monday, July 15, 2024 10:58PM Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law barring school districts from passing policies that require schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender identification. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law barring school districts from passing policies that require schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender identification. The law bans rules requiring school staff to disclose a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation to any other person without the child’s permission. Proponents of the legislation say it will help protect LGBTQ+ students who live in unwelcoming households. But opponents say it will hinder schools’ ability to be more transparent with parents. The law comes amid a nationwide debate over local school districts and the rights of parents and LGBTQ+ students. California Assemblymember Chris Ward, a Democrat representing San Diego, introduced the legislation because of what he called a “growing national attack” on LGBTQ people. “Although many LGBTQ youth have supportive families, some

According to researchers, mass shooters in the U.S. tend to fit a specific profile. University professors Jillian Peterson and James Densley compiled a database of detailed life histories of 180 U.S. mass shooters to look for early warning signs. Peterson, executive director of the Violence Prevention Project Research Center, joins CBS News to break down her findings in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Parts of Texas started the work week under a heat advisory with triple-digit temperatures expected through at least Wednesday. To make matters worse, hundreds of thousands of people are without power after Beryl slammed the state last week as a strong Category 1 hurricane. CBS News correspondent Janet Shamlian has more from the Lone Star State.

Costco has a promotion on Gold Star Memberships and Executive Memberships this July.

The 2024 Major League Baseball draft continued on Monday with rounds 3-10, and several Bay Area prospects were selected. One night after the Oakland Athletics selected Wake Forest’s Nick Kurtz No. 4 overall, the A’s picked up two local prospects to add to their farm system. The San Francisco Giants picked up a college player from the South Bay, and several players with Bay Area connections came off the board overall. Here’s a breakdown of the local prospects that were drafted on Day 2: Rodney Green Jr., OF, Oakland Athletics (4th round): Green, a Richmond native, played three seasons at Cal, where he slashed .283/.398/.549 as a Golden Bear. He was a four-year starter at El Cerrito High, where he was an outfielder and a pitcher. “It was great to see an East Bay native stay home and have so much success collegiately in his hometown,” Cal head coach Mike Neu said in a statement. “He had a great three-year career at Cal, but he has only begun to scratch the surface on the type of baseball player he can become.” He profiles as a

After weeks of speculation, former President Donald Trump selected Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential pick on Monday. CBS News chief political analyst John Dickerson and New York Rep. Mike Lawler join to discuss.

On March 20, 1854, several dozen citizens, alarmed by the prospect of slavery spreading westward, gathered in a little white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, widely believed to be the birthplace of the GOP.

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional committees are moving quickly to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania that also saw one rallygoer killed and two others seriously wounded. Lawmakers are alarmed at how the would-be-assassin was able to open fire from a rooftop within 150 meters (164 yards) of the former president. President Joe Biden has also directed an independent review of the security at the rally. A look at some of the action Monday as lawmakers sought to ensure that their panels would play a leading role in the various follow-up investigations. House panel lines up first hearing The first hearing about the shooting has been scheduled for next Monday, July 22, with the director of the U.S. Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle. She’ll testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. “The United States Secret Service has a no-fail mission, yet it failed on Saturday when a madman attempted to assassinate President Trump, killed an innocent victim, and harmed others,” said Rep. James Comer, the committee’s Republican chairman. Comer said lawmakers were grateful

Chris Hewitt | (TNS) Star Tribune Small publishing houses have known for years there’s an audience for young people’s books by and about Indigenous people. The Minnesota Historical Society, for example, published “How the Birds Got Their Songs” recently. But, if this spring is any indication, larger publishers are reaching out to that market, too. Here are four new books that are worth checking out: Where Wolves Don’t Die, by Anton Treuer, has potential to be a breakout hit. The Ojibwe professor at Bemidji State’s page-turner is a young adult title in the sense that Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” also would be categorized as YA if it were published now. Ezra, the adolescent hero of “Wolves,” lives in Northeast Minneapolis but is whisked across the Canadian border when there’s an arson fire at the home of a classmate/enemy that results in two deaths. Ezra’s not a suspect exactly, but he keeps getting questioned by police so his dad (like Treuer, a professor of Ojibwe) sends him to live in Canada with Ezra’s grandparents. There, he can help his grandpa with chores and study remotely

An argument can be made that people in general have become more needy, pushy and demanding than before COVID — that politeness and courtesy seem to be waning in what has become a “me-first” society. Well, there’s no debating that fact for this guy, not after what I’ve encountered on 33 cruises since the 15-month industry shutdown due to the pandemic only three years ago. That’s not to say everyone was Mister Rogers or Miss Manners on the 32 cruises I took before the pandemic. But ever since COVID reared its congested head, it sure seems like every cruise now includes a stop in Port Twilight Zone. Children make an MSC Seascape stage their playground right before showtime. (Photo by David Dickstein) Making waves Picture if you will, lots of parents treating the MSC Seascape like Chuck E. Cheese. Who needs a ball pit to get your children’s wigglies out when there’s a beautiful 1,200-seat theater perfect for running around and screaming, and just minutes before showtime? OMG! Seeing no ship personnel from the front row, I did what hundreds of others couldn’t do, apparently

Beth Dooley | Star Tribune (TNS) Blueberries are the taste of summer, intensely tangy and sweet. The epitome of this fleeting season, they make a wonderful drink to sip with friends as the sun sinks behind an indigo horizon. Picking blueberries is lodged in our collective summer memories that are pure as the season itself. One of the few fruits indigenous to North America, several varieties have been hybridized for commercial production; others are found in the wild. Those big, juicy berries sold in markets are the highbush variety, plump and loaded with juice. The tiny lowbush blueberries grow wild and are hidden along the sandy shores of cold lakes; their flavors snap and pop with a bright tang. These blue fruits are loaded with vitamin C, fiber and antioxidants and are considered a low-calorie superfood. Native Americans dubbed blueberries star fruits for the five-pointed star shape at the berries’ end. Aromatic and distinctive, they star in my summer drinks. Blueberry cocktails became more popular with the rise in the craft of mixology and you’ll find them in cosmos, mojitos, margaritas, daiquiris, martinis, lemonades and