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On Sunday, “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil reported from the site of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and said that 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s slogan that people aren’t after him, but are after his supporters and he’s in the way is “the kind of rhetoric we’re all going to be analyzing in the days ahead about how we got here and how those words now hit differently this morning.” CBS News Chief Political Analyst and Senior National Correspondent John Dickerson asked, “Did anybody say, we’ve got to reach out a hand, or was there a...

California taxpayers could save over $1 billion annually under a proposed overhaul of the state employee pension system being pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his allies, according to a nonpartisan government analysis of the plan. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office determined that providing all new state employees with a 401(k)-style retirement plan could save the state "hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion annually." The overhaul initiative was authored by San Fernando Valley Republican Keith Richman and sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a Schwarzenegger ally. Assemblyman Richman, of Granada Hills, said the LAO's analysis confirmed...

he computer program that helped NASA mistakenly decide that the shuttle Columbia had not been deeply harmed by a piece of falling foam would have predicted serious damage if used properly, said the retired Boeing engineer who developed the program. The engineer, Allen J. Richardson, said the program, known as Crater, was never intended to be used in a mission to predict damage, as it was in Columbia's fatal flight. Members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which is expected to release its final report on the disaster tomorrow, have disparaged Crater as a flawed tool. But Mr. Richardson said...