Officials on Maui are defending their actions during and after Maui's deadly wildfires, as CBS News questions their response and whereabouts as the flames devastated Lahaina three weeks ago. C BS News' Jonathan Vigliotti reports from Wailea, Hawaii.

Interest on federal student loans resumes in September and payments will start in October after a more than three-year pause due to the COVID pandemic. The Supreme Court rejected President Biden's student debt relief program in June, but the Biden administration is offering a new program to help some borrowers bring down the cost of their monthly payments. Weijia Jiang reports.

Payton Lee is a student reporter at her middle school in Palo Alto, California. She is learning how to shoot, edit and anchor her school's morning news program. She joins "CBS Mornings" for a special back-to-school edition of Talk of the Table.

After decades of declining enrollment in vocational arts programs, a skilled labor shortage is prompting some high schools to place a renewed emphasis on career education. "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil has the story.

Families across the country are dealing with rising prices for back-to-school shopping. With the cost of school supplies up more than 24% in the last two years, CBS News' Janet Shamlian looks at how it's impacting families and finds some ways to save.

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