If sleep divorce feels too drastic for you and your partner but you’re struggling to get a good night of sleep, the Scandinavian sleep method may be the balance you’re looking for.

While sleep divorce involves sleeping separately from your partner, the Scandinavian sleep method keeps you in the same bed — just under two different covers. 

Americans began hearing about the method, popular in Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Norway and Denmark, thanks to social media. A viral TikTok posted on the sleeping style last year by Swedish influencer Cecilia Blomdahl has since garnered 1.7 million views.

“I’m actually a big fan of (this trend) as long as both parties are on board,” Ellen Wermter, Better Sleep Council representative, family nurse practitioner and behavioral sleep medicine specialist, told CBS News. “It’s really nice to sleep with a partner, but certainly we know that the other person can cause disruptions in your sleep, just naturally, through either temperature regulation, through movement or through, basically, cover hogging.”

Whether you use a duvet, comforter or something else, each partner has their own as opposed to sharing one — and potentially pushing and pulling on it unknowingly throughout the night.

The only downside Wermter sees is if you’re someone who likes to cuddle before bed. But realistically, couples often separate before actually falling asleep anyway, she said.

“You could do your cuddling and still use this method,” she said. “If people don’t want to take as extreme a step as separate beds or separate rooms, this can give you a little bit of separateness and individualization with still being within arm’s reach of each other and feeling the comfort of having a bed partner close by.”

Wermter herself follows a modified method that can work for those who experience a cold draft from their partner’s movement or size difference.

“(With) height differences between people, you can get this sort of airflow that’s coming in that’s cold and disruptive,” she said. She shares a main comforter with her husband but also has her own separate blanket for temperature regulation.

“If I get hot in the middle of the night, I just shove that little blanket out of the way, and I still have the top blanket,” she said. “I really do think there are advantages to it because then you can deal with your own issues and not have to be playing a tug of war with your bed partner.”

Still having trouble sleeping? It may be time to see a sleep specialist, Wermter said.

“If you’ve tried the typical common sense fixes, and if you’re still feeling like you’re having more interruptions than you would like at night or waking up feeling not rested, those are good cues that it might be time to talk to someone,” she said.

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Scenes on a moving billboard circling the site of the first 2024 presidential debate in Atlanta will feature former President Donald Trump’s 2020 phone call to Georgia’s top election official about finding enough votes to put him ahead of Joe Biden, press conferences with two Republican former officials backing Biden and citing democracy as the reason. And a campaign ad narrated by a Michigan police chief who criticizes Trump for not stopping the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol.

This is how Mr. Biden’s campaign and his party are highlighting Jan. 6 and Trump’s role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election in the run-up to Thursday night’s debate.

The mobile billboard, paid for by the DNC, will highlight Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger urging him to find 11,780 more votes to help him win the state in 2020, according to details first shared with CBS News.

The billboard also links the issue of democracy with abortion bans, as it shows news clips about Trump’s platform and comments about abortion bans. It ends with the narrator saying, “Our freedoms are under attack. Donald Trump is to blame. Don’t let him do it again.” 

This accompanies three other DNC billboard locations in the Atlanta metro area that criticize Trump on similar themes, including one billboard that’s been up since Wednesday that draws attention to the former president’s 34 felony charges in the New York “hush money” trial.

“Donald. Welcome to Atlanta for the first time since becoming a convicted felon. Congrats — or whatever…” the highway billboard reads, in both English and Spanish.  

DNC spokesperson Abhi Rahman says its pre-debate activity is meant to “remind voters of how [Trump] tried to dismantle Georgia’s democracy,” and that it’s the committee’s first time referencing Trump’s post-2020 efforts in Georgia. 

“Voters will see the stark contrast tonight between President Biden, a true leader who wakes up every day fighting for the American people… and Donald Trump, a convicted felon who is only fighting for himself,” Rahman added.

Prosecutors in Fulton County, a pivotal county in Georgia’s 2020 election, have been investigating Mr. Trump and 18 others for an alleged unlawful scheme to overturn his electoral loss in the state to Mr. Biden. That case has been halted as a separate Georgia appeals court reviews a decision to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the case, after it was revealed she had a romantic relationship with a prosecutor that she had hired to help with the Trump case. 

Democracy has been a common theme for Mr. Biden and his campaign as they try to energize their coalition. And it has ranked high on voter priorities in recent polling: a mid-June CBS News poll found that the “state of democracy” ranked behind just the economy and inflation as major factors among likely voters, with Democratic voters especially ranking it highly. 

But the Biden campaign is also using Republicans to make an argument against Trump about democracy. 

After announcing his endorsement Wednesday of Mr. Biden, former Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a former member of the Jan. 6 House select committee investigating the riot, spoke at an Atlanta press conference hosted by the Biden campaign focused on Jan. 6. He was joined by former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, another Republican who has endorsed Mr. Biden, and former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. 

“I think democracy is the most important issue and we have to be talking about it because if you don’t… democracy can’t survive if frankly leaders don’t care about it,” Kinzinger told reporters Wednesday. 

Kinzinger and Duncan, both cited Trump’s actions in 2020, when he made baseless and untrue claims of a “rigged” or “stolen” election, and his reaction to Jan. 6 as reasons to vote against him. 

“We’re not expecting [Biden] to become a Republican. We want you to be true to who you are. We want somebody that can defend democracy. That’s it,” Kinzinger added. 

In a pre-debate memo on Wednesday, Trump campaign senior advisers noted Mr. Biden’s focus on democracy and referenced a Washington Post poll of swing voters showing higher marks for Trump than Biden on “protecting democracy.”

Outside of Atlanta, Georgia and National Republican officials held a “Protect the Vote” event that encouraged Trump supporters to become poll workers and poll watchers this November. 

Asked if he’s concerned about Trump potentially referencing to the 2020 election as “stolen” during Thursday’s debate could hurt GOP efforts to promote all voting options (early, mail, etc.), RNC Chair Michael Whatley demurred and said election infrastructure and building a “protective vote program” are the priorities. 

“What we’re expecting the president to do is tell people what he’s going to do for the next four years and how it is going to make America a better place,” he said in Alpharetta, GA. 

Jacob Rosen contributed reporting. 

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The Mall of America now has a new way to keep shoppers safe.

A new high-tech layer of security has been added after gun-related incidents in recent years.

Signs let you know you’re coming face to face with new facial recognition technology.

“Very mixed feelings about this because it could be useful and not so useful sometimes,” said Melva Bargiela, a long-time Minnesota resident who is now living in Spain. 

Cameras with the ability to map faces have been installed to give shoppers peace of mind while detecting potential threats.

“I think they’re watching us all the time, have been for years,” said Monday West, a visitor from southern California.

“Our system is not scanning faces to go find out who you are,” said Will Benhjelm, Vice President of security at Mall of America.

The MOA security team says it is only looking for persons of interest. That includes banned individuals, those who may be a threat, persons identified by law enforcement or those who are missing or may be in danger.

Those persons of interest are then put into a database. Cameras around the mall will scan your face to see if it comes back as a match. If it doesn’t your photo is gone.

“As a person of color, it does make me a little nervous just because mistakes can be made but it’s also like mistakes can get a little dangerous, especially for people who are targeted a little more,” said Brandon Charles of Minneapolis.

When tested by the Department of Homeland Security, the software’s algorithm correctly identified individuals 99.3% of the time. If the system does find a match, action isn’t immediately taken. 

“There’s up to a three-layer human verification to make sure that we have the right person,” explained Benhjelm.

While it’s weird to know their face is being scanned, shoppers agree that an extra level of security is needed.

“I get it. They’re just looking for bad people,” said Bargiela.

In March, the Mall of America began using security dogs to sniff for guns. It continues to use patrol, bike, dispatch, and plain clothes units as part of its security team.