Electric vehicles are popular, but charging them remains a challenge
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Rising prices at the gas pump are leading more consumers to consider electric vehicles in hopes of saving on monthly bills.
Today, a gallon of gas across the U.S. costs $4.14, up $1.25 compared to one year ago, leading to higher monthly expenses for families who rely on their cars to get around.
Improvements in electric vehicle technology coupled with sticker shock at the pump have led the U.S. to "an extraordinary moment in time" for electric vehicle adoption, one expert told CBS News.
A woman died while hiking in western Colorado on Monday as a heat dome blanketed pockets of the American West and drove up temperatures in a number of states. Marsha Cook, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was pronounced dead after collapsing around the two-mile mark of a hiking trail at Colorado National Monument, officials said Wednesday. She was 54.
Embattled aircraft giant Boeing Wednesday argued to the Justice Department that the company has upheld its end of a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, and pushed back at federal prosecutors who wrote last month that the plane manufacturer has violated the deal and risked being prosecuted, two people familiar with the discussions confirmed to CBS News.