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This Morning from CBS News, July 1, 2015

Church burning

An African-American church in South Carolina that was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995 caught fire again Tuesday night, though authorities said it was too soon to tell if arson was behind the latest blaze, which broke out on a night of frequent storms. CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports no one was believed to be inside at the time.

China's islands

The U.S. says China is reclaiming land in the South China Sea. Artificial islands under construction could become military bases. China denied CBS News access, but c0rrespondent Seth Doane and his team got as close as any Westerner might.

Next steps

In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday, the fight for marriage equality is over -- notwithstanding a few isolated pockets of resistance. Now, activists who have poured themselves into the fight for years are confronting a simple question: What's next? The short answer: Quite a bit.

FICO alternate

Until recently, FICO was the only credit scoring formula that mattered. Now the leading score has a real rival: the VantageScore. Earlier this year, VantageScore Solutions announced that nearly 1 billion of its scores were used in 2014. More important, another 3 billion scores were requested by lenders for testing and modeling purposes.

Halle Berry

Season 2 of CBS sci-fi drama "Extant" premieres Wednesday night. Steven Spielberg is one of the executive producers, and Halle Berry stars in the series. CBS News Correspondent Ben Tracy went behind the scenes with Berry, as the series heads in a new direction.

Latest News:

World

Pro-democracy activists crowd Hong Kong streets

Dozens of Egyptian soldiers killed in wave of attacks

Indonesia plane crash death toll almost doubles

Man linked to Boko Haram abduction of schoolgirls arrested

Politics

Trump sues Univision for $500 million for dropping pageants

Advocates celebrate legal recreational pot in Oregon

Daytona won't ban Confederate flags this weekend

Congress lets Export-Import Bank's charter expire

U.S. and Cuba to announce agreement to open embassies

U.S.

Report: Estranged son to claim body of escapee Richard Matt

Grand jury to review Tulsa sheriff's office after deadly shooting

Yet another wildfire spreads in Washington state

U.S. defeats Germany 2-0 in Women's World Cup semifinal

"Back to the Future" celebrates 30 years

Money Watch

Victoria's Secret on-call policy stays under wraps

Nike's Phil Knight to end his run as chairman

Health

O say can you breathe? Fireworks pollute the air


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