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Jury struggles to reach verdict in Michael Slager trial

The jury in the trial of former Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager told the judge they can’t agree on a verdict in the shooting of Walter Scott. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman and correspondent David Begnaud joined CBSN’s Reena Ninan with more on the deliberations. Source

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New details emerge in tragic Colombia plane crash

Coffins of some of the 77 killed in a charter airline crash near Medellin, Colombia were repatriated to Brazil Friday. The plane apparently ran out of gas and crashed before it could reach a runway. Jeff Pegues reports. Source

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Drake is most streamed Spotify artist

Drake is the most streamed artist on Spotify for the second year in a row. The musician’s hit album “Views” was released earlier this year and he hauled in more than 4.7 billion streams in 2016 alone. CBSN’s Jamie Yuccas has more on the artist. Source

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Trevor Noah grills Tomi Lahren on “The Daily Show”

Controversial political commentator Tomi Lahren joined Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show, and faced a grilling on the Black Lives Matter movement, Colin Kaepernick and her controversial following online. CBSN’s Jamie Yuccas has more on the interview. Source

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How ages 50+ could benefit from daily low-dose aspirin

A new University of Southern California study led by CBS News contributor Dr. David Agus shows over the next 20 years, 900,000 lives could be spared and $692 billion in health benefit costs saved. Dr. Agus joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss the findings. Source

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Effort to kill California mountain lion prompts outcry

A plan to shoot the lion has triggered a heated debate over whether a beloved wild animal should be killed, captured or simply left alone. P45 is blamed for killing a dozen animals last weekend. from the Santa Monica Mountains. After this piece aired, Jordan Traverso, the state wildlife spokeswoman quoted in the story, added in part: “It is very difficult to convey the complexity of a story like this in a split second sound byte so wanted to elaborate… first, we know that the alpacas were killed by a lion, and we know that P45 was in the general vicinity near the time of the attack, but we do not know definitively if it was P45 that killed the alpacas… last night I said that it was difficult to say anything with absolute certainty because things were changing quickly yesterday and my statement that ‘in this situation we would not relocate the lion because it has killed,’ while typically true, this situation is unique and we continue to evaluate any options we may have.” Source

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