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A Florida college student exploring the Alabama wilderness with his girlfriend was fatally wounded during a shootout with a would-be robber who appeared to be living with others in the woods, authorities said. Adam Simjee, 22, was shot to death in the Talladega National Forest near popular Cheaha State Park …

Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street, extending the market’s losses amid worries about inflation and the path ahead for the economy.  The S&P 500 shed 2.1% Monday, its biggest drop since mid-June, to close at 4,137. Some 95% of stocks in the benchmark index lost ground. It finished in the …

He’s one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history, and after 48 years in office, Vermont’s Patrick Leahy, 82, is retiring. CBS News’ chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa asked Leahy, “There’s an inscription on the side of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, it reads, ‘The Senate is the …