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Nor'easter barrels down on East Coast, threatens millions with flooding, winds

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The powerful nor'easter headed to New England intensified Friday, generating storm-force winds and creating massive waves along the East Coast that forecasters warned could create dangerous conditions through the weekend.

Tens of millions of people are in the path of the storm, which has already canceled concerts and prompted people on islands near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to head to the mainland in the days ahead of the nor'easter's arrival. Dangerous flooding was expected along the Mid-Atlantic coast, particularly near New Jersey and Delaware starting Friday and heading into Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

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Twin doctors who grew up in poverty returned to their hometown to co-run an ER

If you visit the emergency room at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, there's a good chance you might meet one of the Jasper twins. Drs. Travan and Travis Jasper are co-directors of Chippenham's emergency department. But their story is singular, inspirational and completely improbable. "To be here, it's amazing," Travis Jasper told CBS News. "And I don't think I could have dreamt it 40-some years ago."

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Supreme Court again blocks Missouri's new House map that favored GOP

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday again blocked Missouri from using a redrawn map that aims to give Republicans an additional seat in the House for the midterm elections . The high court's decision clears the way for the state to use House district lines approved in 2022 for the Nov. 3 general election. Ballots using that older map have been printed and mailed to Missouri voters in the state, as well as those in the military and overseas, and absentee voting, by mail and in person, began earlier this week.