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I slept in the room where Lizzie Borden's stepmother was murdered. Here's what I discovered.

September 17, 2026 / 7:01 AM EDT / CBS News

The Dead Silence of AI Therapy

What happens when our therapists are no longer able to feel?

What the Lindsay Clancy Case Reveals About Toxic Femininity

Hundreds of women looked at Lindsay Clancy, a mother who killed her three young children, and thought: That could have been me.

Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting

The author of Generation Maybe, Camilla Cavendish, explains the many reasons people are having fewer children, from dating apps to unaffordable housing and the climate crisis

‘When you tell people the story, it’s almost too good to be true’: the incredible journey behind The Cycle of Love

Documentary director Orlando von Einsiedel on how the real life tale of a man who cycles 6,000 miles from India to Sweden to find his true love will warm your heart

The Strangers by Naomi Alderman review

A bereavement memoir mingles with speculative fiction, in a wise and ragged examination of grief from the author of The Power

Safety inspections of trucks and drivers plummet as traffic rises.

A CBS News data investigation has found that nearly 600 people have died in crashes since 2024 with trucks operated by companies that had never been subjected to a roadside safety inspection.

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for rice, aubergine and mozzarella bake

A 1950s cookbook classic – eat it hot and stringy or firm and flavoursome

Does Psychiatry Do More Harm Than Good?

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2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds

Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year

'I thank God for killing me and bringing me back': Nicolas Winding Refn on the emergency op that inspired his new sci-fi horror

Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will to direct until ‘the Tom Cruise of surgeons’ saved his life – and triggered an astonishing creative rebirth

‘Like a Disney movie’: Three wild dog brothers make Africa’s longest journey

As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory