Efforts to stop California chemical leak in Orange County on “new trajectory,” officials say, as 50,000 remain evacuated

Efforts to stop a California industrial disaster were on a “new trajectory” on Sunday, officials said, revealing that crews discovered a pressure-relieving crack in the tank behind a toxic chemical leak in Orange County, where 50,000 people remain evacuated. In a post to X, Orange County Fire Authority Interim Chief TJ McGovern said the discovery …

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John McWhorter on controversy and reconstructing Fats Waller’s “Early to Bed”

New York Times columnist, bestselling author, linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter doesn’t shy away from controversy. He talks with Mo Rocca about his book, “Losing the Race: Self-Sabatoge in Black America,” published in 2000, along with one of his latest projects, reconstructing the long-forgotten 1940s hit Broadway musical “Early to Bed” with music …

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5/24: Face The Nation – CBS News

This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” as President Trump says a peace deal with Iran has been “largely negotiated,” Imtiaz Tyab reports from Tel Aviv and Sen. Chris Van Hollen discusses the possible deal. Plus, on this Memorial Day weekend, Medal of Honor recipients retired Lt. Col. William Swenson and retired Command …

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