This week on “Sunday Morning” (August 17)

[ad_1] The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.)  Hosted by Jane Pauley WATCH THE FULL AUGUST 17 BROADCAST! In her 2015 watercolor “Landscape of Change,” artist-scientist Jill Pelto incorporated data…

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China sentences 5 to death for building, running criminal gang fraud centers in Myanmar’s lawless borderlands

[ad_1] China sentenced five people to death on Tuesday for their involvement in a violent criminal gang with fraud operations in Myanmar’s Kokang region along the border, state media reported. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners — many of them Chinese — who often say they were trafficked and forced…

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Trump administration says it struck another alleged drug boat in Pacific, killing 4

[ad_1] The U.S. military carried out another strike on an alleged “narco-trafficking vessel” in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing four people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said — marking the latest boat strike in the Trump administration’s two-month-long campaign of strikes that have killed more than 60 people.  Hegseth posted a video of a boat…

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Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayoral election after energizing young voters with focus on affordability

[ad_1] Zohran Mamdani will be New York City’s 111th mayor, CBS News projects, capping a closely watched campaign in which the little-known state assemblyman energized voters with his focus on making America’s largest city more affordable. The 34-year-old democratic socialist defeated Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent…

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