The first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential election will happen without Mike Pence’s old boss, front-runner Donald Trump. Devin O’Malley, an adviser to the former vice president, spoke with CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa about Trump’s absence and what Pence is hoping to achieve. Source

Margaret Sweeney’s arrest comes about a month after another woman, Carlee Russell, a 25-year-old Alabama nursing student, told police she was abducted. Source

Bernard Luza was shot by firing squad in 1943 after he and hundreds of other Jews and their relatives were arrested following a raid on a factory in Amsterdam. Source

Lahaina conflagration and Kula wildfires burned between $2.5 and $4 billion worth of insured properties, according to estimate. Source

Earlier this week, Prigozhin appeared in his first video​ since leading a failed mutiny against Russian commanders in June. Source

Mark Dial failed to cooperate with Philadelphia PD’s investigation into the fatal police shooting of Eddie Irizarry, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said Wednesday. Source

GOP primary voters divide over wanting a candidate who supports a national abortion ban. Source

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Railway officials said around 40 laborers were on the bridge when it collapsed. Source

General Sergei Surovikin has been removed as head of Russia’s air force, the country’s state media reported. Surovikin, nicknamed “General Armageddon,” had not been seen in public since the Wagner Group’s brief June revolt. Meanwhile, the widespread prevalence of Russian landmines is bogging down Ukraine’s counteroffensive. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta has more. Source