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Country music's biggest stars shone bright in Nashville on Wednesday night.

The 59th Annual CMA Awards featured some of the genre's biggest stars bringing home awards recognizing excellence in country music this year.  Zach Top took home the new artist of the year award, while Ella Langley and Riley Green took home single of the year, music video of the year and song of the year for "you look like you love me."  Click here for the full story.  

A Chinese drug trafficking suspect who escaped custody in Mexico only to be recaptured in Cuba has been turned over to the U.S. to face charges he trafficked large quantities of cocaine and fentanyl into the country.  Zhi Dong Zhang, also known as "Brother Wang" among other aliases, pleaded not guilty to the charges at his arraignment Wednesday.  Click here for more on this story.

As we all know, torrential rains triggered flash flooding in central Texas on July 4th, killing more than 100 people, including dozens of children who were at summer camps along the Guadalupe River. The river rose more than 20 feet in less than two hours. People are still missing.  As search and rescue continues, charities are on the ground providing aid. You can help by clicking HERE or using the form below.  The need is still great and so is the caring.  Your help is still needed.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening a new operation dubbed “Southern Spear” to quash “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere.  Hegseth said the mission is being led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) to defend the “Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.”  Click here for more details!

A California murder went unsolved for nearly 30 years, until one DNA match cracked the decades-old case.  The murder of 22-year-old Debbie Dorian shocked the Central Valley of California in 1996, but DNA evidence would finally help identify her killer in 2019 and put him behind bars for life, unraveling a shocking tale of a serial predator in the process.  Click here for more on this story.

Click here to read about how Google is filing a federal lawsuit against a network of foreign cybercriminals based in China that is accused of launching massive text-message phishing attacks, the tech giant told CBS News in an exclusive interview.