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Fight over new law that allows removal of actors’ ages

The country’s largest actors’ union is joining the legal fight to let TV and movie industry workers keep their birth dates private. IMDB.com is refusing to follow a new California law that gives people the right to have their age removed from the website. Mireya Villarreal reports from Los Angeles. Source

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Tyrus Wong’s kites

Artist Tyrus Wong, who died last month at age 106, was famed as much for his exotic and colorful kites as he was for designing the Walt Disney classic “Bambi.” In this web extra, CBS News visited him in March 2016 at Santa Monica Beach, where Wong and his daughter, Kim, sent several of his creations airborne. Source

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Questions surround laws that allow guns checked in baggage

Lawmakers are taking a new look at rules about guns on planes after Friday’s airport shooting in Fort Lauderdale. Part of the surprise of the deadly rampage is the fact suspect Esteban Santiago arrived on an incoming flight — and so did his gun. Tony Dokoupil reports. Source

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Former CIA director says hackings are “a Russia problem” more than cyber issue

Former CIA and NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden joins “CBS This Morning” from Washington to discuss the recent intelligence report on how Russia tried to influence the U.S. elections. Hayden says the Obama administration was “too timid” in responding to the cyberattacks, and he wants to know what the Trump administration will do about Russia. Source

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Staffers vetting Trump Cabinet picks say they’re overwhelmed

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks face a fight this week on Capitol Hill. Senate committees will question nominees Tuesday for attorney general and secretary of homeland security. Democrats and ethics investigators are criticizing the fast pace. Nancy Cordes reports. Source

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Side by side: Matisse and Diebenkorn

How do works by two painters from two different eras compare when we see them side by side? A new exhibition is answering that question. The show featured works by Henri Matisse, the French Post-Impressionist Master, and Richard Diebenkorn, the influential but less-well-known American modernist, together for the first time. Rita Braver takes a look. Source

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