Several people were wounded after a shooting at a parade celebrating the NBA champions. Source
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Early state Dems see turning out nonvoters as the path to victory
The CBS News Battleground Tracker poll finds that 67% of likely Democratic voters in the early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina believe that if their party wins back the White House, it will be because they turned out voters who stayed home in the past. CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe, CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns and Wall Street Journal reporter Ken Thomas spoke to “Red & Blue” about the 2020 race. Source
Communities celebrate high school grads who enlist
It’s high school graduation season, when many schools celebrate the colleges their students plan to attend. But some districts are also honoring graduates who decided to enlist in the military. Vladimir Duthiers has the story of a group that’s honored high schoolers heading into uniform for a decade. Source
Authorities: Man offered money to “rape and murder” Alaskan
An Indiana man implicated in the murder of an Alaska teenager allegedly promised millions of dollars to the teens who killed her in exchange for images of the killing, CBS affiliate KTVA-TV reports. Court documents said investigators believe Darin Schilmiller posed as a millionaire named “Tyler” online and offered 18-year-old Denali Brehmer $9 million to “rape and murder someone in Alaska.” Source
Elin Hilderbrand on finding the “emotional truth” in “Summer of ’69”
50 years ago this summer, Americans saw some monumental highs and lows. On July 18, 1969, then-Sen. Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Just two days later, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon as the world watched in awe. Then in August, music fans and hippies descended on upstate New York for the three-day Woodstock music festival. Author Elin Hilderbrand weaves these events into her new book, “Summer of ’69.” Hilderbrand joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss the novel. Source
Trump’s rally draws large crowd but lacks “intense pro-Trump enthusiasm” of past events
CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett attended President Trump’s rally in Orlando, Florida, Tuesday where he officially launched his 2020 campaign. Garrett joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss his exclusive conversation with the man running the president’s re-election campaign, Brad Parscale, and something he witnessed at Tuesday’s rally that he hasn’t before seen at a Trump campaign event. Source
Texas cops punished in fallout over troubling Facebook posts
A look at where investigations stand in police jurisdictions flagged by a watchdog group over officers’ racist, violent posts Source
Trump orders, then calls off limited military strike on Iran
The strike would’ve represented the most significant escalation of hostilities between the U.S. and Iran in decades Source
Democratic candidates find an easy target in McDonald’s pay
Demands for a $15 federal minimum wage and the right to organize are now popular among the party’s White House hopefuls Source
“I love y’all forever”: Georgia inmate’s last words before execution
Marion Wilson Jr. Wilson was convicted of killing an off-duty prison guard March 28, 1996; he’s the second prisoner executed by Georgia in 2019 Source