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C.C. Opanowski was just 18 years old when she was brutally attacked by someone she once loved — her ex-boyfriend Shawn Doyle. C.C. tried to put the traumatic incident behind her until she learned years later that Doyle murdered a mother of two young boys. For the first time, C.C. is speaking out publicly to” 48 Hours” and correspondent Anne-Marie Green about her story and how she was able to find the strength to testify against her attacker in court.It was Jan. 27, 1996 and C.C. Opanowski has just finished her first semester of college in upstate New York. She…

President Trump has floated changing the name of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of a trip to the Middle East next week, a move that infuriated Iran and its people.“I’ll have to make a decision,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. I don’t know if feelings are going to be hurt.”This past week, The Associated Press reported that Mr. Trump planned to announce the renaming on his tour of several Arab countries, which have been lobbying for the change for years.The turquoise blue water has been called…

Jeannette Ralston was at the Lion’s Den bar in San Jose, Calif., when she told her friends that she would be “back in 10 minutes.”She never returned.The next morning, on Feb. 1, 1977, police officers found the 24-year-old woman strangled with the long sleeve of a red women’s dress shirt and squeezed into the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle in a parking lot a few minutes away from the bar.Almost 50 years later, the authorities believe that they know who strangled her.Willie Eugene Sims, 69, of Jefferson, Ohio, was arraigned on Friday on a charge of murder in San…

Levittown, Pennsylvania — At a town hall Saturday in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona encouraged the Democratic party to return to its roots as the “big tent” party. “What happened the last election is that we got so pure, and we kept so pure that we started kicking people out of the tent,” Gallego said. “It ends up there aren’t enough people in the tent to win elections.” Gallego cited podcast host Joe Rogan as an example of someone “kicked out” of the tent because his message did not completely align with the party’s. “I’m sure you guys heard like,…

Congressman Brendan Boyle on how the new pope affects American politics, on issues both in line and at odds with the Trump administration SCOTT DETROW, HOST: At a moment when the rest of the world is constantly responding and reacting to the moves and statements of the Trump administration, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church is an American. And while cardinals like former Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton Gregory are downplaying any political dynamic to this election…(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)WILTON GREGORY: I didn’t sense, in the conversations that I had with the other cardinals of the world, that the…

One day in June 1900, a census taker visited the New Orleans home of Joseph and Louise Martinez, Pope Leo XIV’s grandparents. They lived on North Prieur Street, just north of the French Quarter, a neighborhood considered the cradle of Louisiana’s Creole people of color.Joseph N. Martinez was recorded as a Black man, born in “Hayti.” His wife, two daughters and an aunt, were also marked “B” in a column denoting “color or race.”Ten years later, the census came knocking again. The family had grown — there were six daughters now. Other things changed, too: Mr. Martinez’s place of birth…

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Police brutality and corruption are painful realities. So are officers who die honorably performing their duty. But the memorial in Washington fails to distinguish between them. Ad Policy The Phoenix Police Department honor guard is the first department to stand watch during the “Standing Watch for the Fallen” flag ceremony at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial May 14, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) In the wake of President Trump’s April 29 Executive Order bearing the ominous title, “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens,” tens of thousands of police…

Rumeysa Ozturk’s plane touched down in Boston on Saturday evening, ending a six-week odyssey for the student in federal custody that stirred outrage over President Trump’s immigration crackdown.Her return to Massachusetts, where she was arrested in March, came one day after a federal judge in Vermont ordered that she be immediately released from a detention facility in Louisiana.After arriving at Boston Logan International Airport, Ms. Ozturk walked into a room with a big smile on her face, and was joined by her lawyers and Massachusetts lawmakers, including Senator Edward J. Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley.Ms. Ozturk became visibly emotional as…

Sensitive talks between U.S. and Chinese delegations over tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy ended after a day of prolonged negotiations and will resume Sunday, a source briefed on the meetings confirmed to CBS News.President Trump posted on his social media Saturday evening after the meetings concluded, saying “great progress” was made. “A very good meeting today with China, in Switzerland,” Mr. Trump said. “Many things discussed, much agreed to. A total reset negotiated in a friendly, but constructive, manner. We want to see, for the good of both China and the U.S., an opening up of China to American business.”There…