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Inside overdose prevention centers designed to reduce harm from illicit drug use May 20, 2022

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New York City has opened the first two overdose prevention centers in the U.S. that supervises users of illicit drugs. CBS News' Senior Medical Correspondent Dr. Tara Narula spoke with OnPointNYC's executive director Sam Rivera about the controversial program that aims to save and repair lives.

5/20: President Biden arrives in Asia. New Oklahoma law is now most restrictive abortion law in the country. Help is on the way for parents struggling to find baby formula. May 20, 2022

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President Biden kicks off a strategically crucial trip to visit allies in Asia. A new law passed in Oklahoma that is now the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Oklahoma is one of 26 states that are "certain or likely to ban abortion" if the Supreme Court allows it. Some help is on the way for parents struggling to find baby formula. In the coming days, the federal government will transport up to $1.5 million eight-ounce bottles from Switzerland to the U.S. In Buffalo, a grand jury has indicted the suspect in the racist killing of ten black people at a supermarket. The U.S. Senate has approved $40 billion in new aid to Ukraine. In Texas, a wildfire outside Abilene is exploding in size.

5/19: New push to tackle nationwide baby formula shortage. Stocks had their worst day in nearly two years yesterday. May 19, 2022

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Congress takes action to increase baby formula supplies and President Biden invokes the defense production act -- to increase domestic output. The markets suffer their biggest drop in nearly two years, amid concerns about retailers. The Biden administration is turning up the heat in the battle to protect abortion rights, ahead of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling. New York investigates social media sites where the alleged Buffalo gunman spread his hate. A potentially dangerous virus, almost never seen in the U.S., has turned up in Massachusetts. The Senate confirmed an ambassador to Ukraine for the first time in three years last night. A Russian soldier pleaded guilty to war crimes for the first time -- in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. As President Biden heads to Asia today, it appears the threat of more nuclear tests from North Korea is increasing again -- even as the country deals with a major COVID outbreak.

5/18: Pres. Biden calls for unity and blames a conspiracy theory for the racist massacre in Buffalo. Trial between Amber Heard & Johnny Depp reaches a critical phase. May 18, 2022

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Primary elections are held in 5 states -- it could take days to find out who won the crucial Republican Senate race in Pennsylvania. President Biden visited Buffalo yesterday, and called the mass shooting an act of "domestic terrorism." CBS News has reviewed more than 600 pages of messages the alleged gunman is believed to have written on the social media platform discord. The accused shooter has pleaded not guilty. The FDA has just authorized Pfizer's booster shot for healthy 5 to 11-year-olds. A CDC advisory committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow to decide whether to formally recommend the third shot for this age group. In response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine, Finland and Sweden formally applied to join NATO this morning, presenting their application letters to the alliance's secretary-general in Brussels. Meanwhile, on the ground in Ukraine, there is concern building for those Ukrainian fighters who were defending the steel plant in Mariupol. The defamation trial exposing the complicated relationship between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp reached a critical phase in Virginia yesterday.

5/17: We're learning about the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting. Baby formula manufacturer to reopen its biggest plant and end the supply shortage. May 17, 2022

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President Biden goes to the scene of a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, while friends and families of the victims express their pain and anger. The ten people who were killed in Saturday's shooting include a grandmother, a sister, a retired police lieutenant, a deacon, a civil rights advocate, and a substitute teacher. We have new photos from inside the California church where a gunman was overpowered by members of the congregation after he opened fire. Authorities say gunman was motivated by his hatred for Taiwan. Months after the FDA shut down an Abbott plant in Michigan, the factory has been cleared to reopen -- but it could take weeks to restart production. Americans in five states will vote today in important primary elections. And, more than 250 Ukrainian soldiers in a steel plant in Mariupol are evacuated to Russian-controlled territory.

Britain's Most Decorated Diver Tom Daley on memoir "Coming Up for Air" May 17, 2022

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Tom Daley is the most decorated British diver of all time, winning four Olympic medals, including a gold medal. He joins CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas to discuss his memoir "Coming Up for Air," about what was really happening both on and off the diving board.

5/16: Mass shootings over the weekend at a New York grocery store and California church leave 11 dead. May 16, 2022

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A gunman, apparently motivated by racism, kills ten people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. Members of a southern California church are hailed as heroes for subduing a man who opened fire on parishioners. And in the nationwide baby formula shortage, the Biden administration blames a top manufacturer.

New documentary aims to educate, reframe view of ADHD May 16, 2022

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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder affects millions of Americans - including nearly 10% of children. A new documentary, "The Disruptors," aims to reframe our view of ADHD and highlight many high-profile people who harnessed their ADHD to achieve great success. Dr. Yamalis Diaz and filmmaker Nancy Armstrong join "CBS Mornings" to discuss the film and what they want people to know about ADHD.

Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine on creating her gothic fairy-tale album "Dance Fever" during lockdown May 15, 2022

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CBS News' Anthony Mason interviews Florence + the Machine frontwoman Florence Welch in London about writing her latest album, "Dance Fever," during the pandemic. Welch told friends she would stop making music after her last tour – but she tells Mason her creativity is a compulsion, and when inspiration strikes she can't help but see it through.

5/13: National shortage of baby formula. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is among five republican lawmakers subpoenaed. May 13, 2022

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Moms and dads are finding empty shelves when they go looking for new supplies of formula for their babies. The White House vows to fight the baby formula shortage that could drag on for months. On Capitol Hill, the House Select Committee investigating the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol has now subpoenaed House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and four other republican lawmakers. Firefighters scramble to contain a wildfire – that burned through an upscale neighborhood in California. President Biden ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff yesterday, to mark one million corona-virus deaths in this country. Officials there say an attack by Russian forces on two schools killed three people and wounded twelve, in the northern part of Ukraine.

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