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Columbus, OH

Boulder, CO

Check out our companion piece: How to Start a Backyard or Urban Farm—Whether You Own Land or Not. As a renter millennial, I wanted to start farming. But as Charlotte says in Pride and Prejudice, “I’ve no money and no prospects.” This is a common sentiment among many student-loan-saddled millennials and Gen Z-ers who want to work with the land but don’t have land that they own to start gardening or farming.

How the Next Generation of Farmers is Getting Creative with Land Access

New Jersey State

CBS News

Cream Ridge, New Jersey — On an acre of land in Cream Ridge, New Jersey, Christina Couch is a one-woman force. Months of prepping, planting and nurturing, seven days a week, have turned her brown field into tidy rows of lush vegetables and herbs.Couch, a former cook, is now a newly-minted farmer. "We're growing a lot of specialty varieties," Couch told CBS News. "...So when you go to restaurant, you see a fancy, colorful beet, or a beautiful garnish, or a delicate herb." At 26 years old, she's more than three decades younger than the average farmer in the U.S., which...

As America's farmers age, one program looks to cultivate new generation

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

A prisoner exchange with Russia on Thursday has freed journalist Evan Gershkovich and U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Julia Ioffe, founding partner and Washington correspondent for Puck News, joins "America Decides" to look at the role Vice President Kamala Harris played in their release.

Analyzing Kamala Harris' views on foreign policy

This National Black Business Month, ESSENCE is highlighting the role Black cooperatives have played in advancing the economic power of Black Americans. August is National Black Business Month, and ESSENCE is celebrating Black economic excellence and taking a look at the important history of Black cooperatives. According to data from...

Black Economic Excellence: Exploring The Legacy And Power Of Black Cooperatives

MarketRealist

The companies and the world learned a valuable lesson of vetting email IDs before handing out money

Con artist steals over $100 million from Google and Facebook with a simple request

Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan among several prisoners freed in complex prisoner swap; As America's farming population ages, a new program looks to cultivate its next generation.

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California State

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that he has signed an executive order that aims to jumpstart infill housing development projects. The executive order was coupled with a $94 million award to 15 counties to also support building on infill sites. Newsom's action comes as part...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs executive order to boost infill housing development on vacant lots

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

North Carolina State

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North Carolina’s beloved Biscuitville has once again been recognized as one of the best regional fast food chains in the United States. In USA Today's annual 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards, Biscuitville ranked second overall and was also named the No. 1 best fast food breakfast spot in the country.

North Carolina is home to one of the best regional fast food chains in America

Illinois State

Springfield, IL

Springfield, Illinois, residents demanded accountability from local leadership Monday, weeks after Sangamon County sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson shot and killed Sonya Massey in her home. CBS News has since learned Grayson, who had worked for six police departments since 2020, had a history of disciplinary issues.

Illinois community demands accountability from leaders in Sonya Massey's death

Google's Olympics-themed advertisement for its Gemini AI product, called "Dear Sydney," isn't exactly winning over viewers. The ad features a young female runner whose father narrates the commercial. She wants to write a letter to her hero, American track and field star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, so her dad enlists Gemini AI to help."She wants to show Sydney some love and I'm pretty good with words, but this has to be just right," the girl's father says.He then gives the AI product the following prompt: "Help my daughter write a letter telling Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone how inspiring she is and be sure to mention...

Google's Gemini AI Olympics-themed ad sparks fierce backlash

A concerning percentage of chocolate products on U.S. grocery store shelves contain levels of heavy metals that exceed guidelines, with the highest concentrations found in organic products, a new study finds.A multiyear analysis of 72 consumer cocoa products found 43% contaminated with lead above acceptable levels, while 35% surpassed cadmium thresholds, according to research led by scientists at George Washington University and published Wednesday in Frontiers in Nutrition. "Cocoa-containing products are notoriously rich in metals owing to cultivation and manufacturing practices required to produce such products," according to the study. "Dark chocolate in particular is a rich source of earth metals...

Chocolate lovers may want to limit their consumption, researchers say

Cohasset, CA

COHASSET — It was the second time in six years the Baker family had driven away from their dream home with a dark plume of smoke from a wildfire hanging overhead.It's also the second time in six years that they evacuated only to learn that their home was among the hundreds of others destroyed by the flames.Sylvia and Ken Baker had just spent months upgrading and renovating their house off Watson Lane in Cohasset. "People ask you, have you been through the fire? Did you lose anything? And I'm like, 'Yeah, for the second time,' " Sylvia said. "They look at...

Park Fire destroys couple's home 6 years after Camp Fire did the same

Virginia State

Ronkonkoma, NY

The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

A key player in Britain's Olympic rugby sevens team withdrew from competition on Tuesday amid allegations of racism after an image emerged of her with a blacked-out face.The British Olympic Association said it had launched an investigation into Amy Wilson-Hardy after the picture came to light on social media late Monday.The image, sent in a WhatsApp message widely published in British media, showed the 32-year-old with a blackened face and her tongue sticking out.A message underneath read: "Thought I'd have a better chance with the blacks." It was not immediately clear what she meant by this. At least one social media commenter suggested...

U.K. women's rugby star out of Olympics amid racism controversy

The Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning" is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. "Sunday Morning" also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET. (Download it here.) Guest host: Tracy Smith. COVER STORY: The Olympics of hula. Seventy-five hundred miles away from Paris,...

This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 4)

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whelan were among two dozen prisoners freed as part of the biggest prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia since the end of the Cold War. The complex exchange took place in Turkey and involved more than six nations. Nancy Cordes has the latest.

Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan among several prisoners freed in complex prisoner swap

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

2024 is the biggest global election year in modern history, with at least 64 elections affecting roughly four billion people. The year is now more than halfway over, and some trends are emerging. Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, interim president at Freedom House, joins CBS News to discuss.

How the biggest global election year in history is shaking out

Almost half the nation's farms are owned by farmers 65 and over, making them the oldest workforce in the U.S. But a program at Rutgers University is working to combat that by recruiting and training promising young farmers. Meg Oliver has details.

As America's farming population ages, a new program looks to cultivate its next generation

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