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Starship — the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built — thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas on Monday. We know very little about the brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi), whose habitat stretches from Louisiana to Texas and Colorado. But the first question arachnid expert Cara Shillington asks is, why are we afraid of tarantulas?

Aging Putin brings younger generation, family members into circle amid Kremlin instability: report

PayPal announced​ Tuesday that it will embed its digital payment wallet into ChatGPT. Transportation chief said he expects more flights to be delayed, canceled, with air traffic controllers set to miss paychecks Tuesday. A fan suffered life-threatening injuries when he fell from the stands at PPG Paints Arena during a game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues.

Diddy receives prison release date weeks after 50-month sentencing for federal crimes

As Jamaica gets slammed by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes the Atlantic has ever seen, experts warn of a humanitarian crisis. Also, President Trump gears up for critical trade talks with China after signing a rare earths deal with Japan’s new prime minister. About one in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetimes. To combat that, some doctors are using AI as a tool to help them not only detect breast cancer, but also predict a woman’s risk factors. Dr. Connie Lehman, founder of Clarity, joins CBS News to discuss the first FDA-authorized AI platform used to predict a woman’s 5-year risk of developing breast cancer. Hurricane Melissa is approaching Jamaica on Tuesday, and the country’s prime minister is warning about infrastructure in the region that can’t withstand a Category 5 storm.

US and China seek to strike a deal over rare earths, tariffs and soybeans

CBS News’ Jason Allen and meteorologist Andrew Kozak have the latest, while Dr. Kevin Brown, president of the University of Technology in Jamaica, joins with more. President Trump signed trade and military agreements with Japan on the first leg of his Asia tour and touted the importance of the U.S. alliance. Blue Origin is set to launch its 15th space tourism mission on Wednesday. Indiana Gov. Mike Braun announced a special session on Monday to redraw the state’s congressional maps amid pressure from the Trump administration. A Florida couple traveled to Colombia to make their dream of a family a reality through the booming “fertility tourism” business.

How a Diwali cracker gun in India went from social media craze to blinding children

Hurricane Melissa, a fierce Category 5 storm, is expected to bring “catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and storm surge” to Jamaica Tuesday, forecasters say. Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they’ll defy federal orders regarding Trump’s immigration enforcement operation in Chicago. The Israeli prime minister’s office says he’ll convene generals to discuss “a clear violation” of the U.S.-brokered peace deal by Hamas, and Israel’s response.

Convicted jewel thief Larry Lawton joins CBS News with his take on the case so far. Anthony Aguirre, one of the organizers of the petition, joins “The Daily Report” to discuss. Google recently said the quantum computer it’s developing can run software 13,000 times as fast as a traditional super computer, according to reporting from the New York Times. In “Facing Fertility,” Nikki Battiste meets a Florida couple who traveled to Colombia for fertility care at a fraction of U.S. costs. The global fertility tourism market has surged by more than $50 million in the past year and is projected to reach $800 Forest Arrow Download million by 2030.