According to AAA, the national average of a gallon of gas is $3.53, down from an average of $4.78 a year ago. Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, joined CBS News to talk about what could keep prices at the pump trending down. Source

GOP presidential candidates are trying to drum up support on the campaign trail. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign reported that he raised $35 million between April and June, nearly double his fundraising in the first quarter. CBS News political reporter Zak Hudak has more on the latest developments in the Republican field. Source

With another interest rate hike looming now may be the best time to open a high-yield savings account. Source

OceanGate has suspended all exploration and commercial operations in the aftermath of the Titan sub implosion. Source

Cleotha Abston is charged with snatching Eliza Fletcher from a street near the University of Memphis on Sept. 2 and forcing her into an SUV. Source

The nine-dash line marks a controversial and contested Chinese claim in the South China Sea. Source

Considering buying gold? Keep these things in mind to maximize your investment. Source

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in China earlier Thursday morning. During her trip, she will meet with Chinese senior officials as well as U.S. firms doing business in the country. Her trip is part of an effort to relieve strained economic relations between the two world powers. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer is following it all from Beijing. Source

The president of Belarus says the head of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary army, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is not in Belarus, but his hometown of St. Petersburg. The Wagner leader hasn’t been seen in public since the end of the mutiny he led in Russia nearly two weeks ago. BBC News Russia editor Steve Rosenberg was one of a small group of journalists who attended a round table discussion Thursday with President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk. Source

Community members had raised questions about whether Rudolph “Rudy” Farias was ever truly missing, after officials said earlier this week he was found alive. Source