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Best deals at LG’s huge Memorial Day appliance sale: Save up to 35%
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Memorial Day is the perfect time to save on major appliances. Head over to LG’s website right now to enjoy up to 35% off popular appliances, including washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers, microwaves and more. Kick off the summer with stunning new appliances that use the latest technologies to make your life easier, while saving you money on your utility bills.
Don’t wait too long to take advantage of these deals. We’ve already noticed that many popular LG appliances are sold out.
Save up to 35% on bestselling LG appliances
Our in-house team of shopping experts has done the research on your behalf. We have curated this roundup of fantastic deals you can snag right now on top LG appliances.
For even more savings, check out the LG Appreciation Program for special discounts available to military personnel, first responders, students, teachers and government employees.
LG 28 cu. ft. smart wi-fi enabled French door refrigerator: $2,299 (save $900)
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When you purchase this bestselling 28 cu. ft. smart French door refrigerator directly from LG, not only will you save $900, but you’ll also get free in-home delivery. The unit typically sells for $3,199, but you can get it for just $2,299.
This refrigerator lets you monitor and manage it using LG’s ThinQ smartphone app. It offers a large capacity with an exterior that’s fingerprint and smudge-resistant. We’re big fans of the Door Cooling+ feature that helps maintain a cold interior every time you open the fridge and take out food. You also get two separate, easy-to-access freezer drawers.
Also on sale during LG’s Memorial Day sale is the matching front control dishwasher with QuadWash. Right now, it’s priced at just $649, which is $300 off. But, if you purchase both appliances at the same time, you’ll save an extra $250.
LG 26 cu. ft. smart InstaView counter-depth MAX French door refrigerator: $2,199 (save $1,300)
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See what’s inside your fridge without having to open the door with this popular 26 cu. ft. smart InstaView French door refrigerator by LG. You can monitor and manage this appliance using LG’s powerful ThinQ smartphone app.
To activate the interior light, simply knock twice on the InstaView window. The fridge is equipped with dual ice makers and LG’s Door Cooling+ feature (that helps to maintain a cold interior every time you open the fridge and take out food).
For a limited time, during LG’s Memorial Day sale, you can save a whopping $1,300 on this appliance, so you’ll pay just $2,199 and get free in-home delivery. And if you want the matching LG front control dishwasher with QuadWash, you can get it for $599 (which is $300 off). If you buy both appliances together, you’ll save an additional $250.
LG WashTower 5.0 cu. ft. washer and 7.4 cu. ft. gas dryer: $2,099 (save $900)
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The bestselling LG WashTower is now on sale for $900 off during the company’s Memorial Day sale. This means you’ll pay just $2,099 for a unit that typically sells for $2,999.
The LG WashTower includes a 5 cu. ft. washer and 7.4 cu. ft. dryer. The single-unit vertical design takes up half the floor space of a traditional washer and dryer set.
This unit features an LCD panel that makes it easier to reach the controls. To make your life even easier when doing laundry, the WashTower uses AI technology to select optimal wash and dry settings.
Other stand-out features include advanced washing and drying performance with TurboWash 360, an Allergiene Wash Cycle and TurboSteam. Plus, the washer automatically dispenses the right amount of detergent and fabric softener on your behalf. The unit is available in black steel and is perfect for small living spaces and apartments.
LG 4.5 cu. ft. ultra large capacity, smart front load washer with built-in intelligence and steam technology: $749 (save $400)
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Many of LG’s latest appliances have built-in artificial intelligence that makes the unit easier to use and more energy efficient. This large capacity, front load washer is no exception.
Right now, you can purchase this washing machine for $749, which is $400 off. It offers a 4.5 cu. ft. capacity and has an integrated steam cleaning feature. And because this is a smart appliance, you can manage and control it using LG’s ThinQ smartphone app.
During LG’s Memorial Day sale, you can also purchase the matching 7.4 cu. ft. capacity electric dryer for $749 (which is $400 off) — so if you purchase the set together, you’ll save $800.
LG 4.5 cu. ft. capacity smart front load Energy Star washer with TurboWash: $899 (save $400)
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During LG’s Memorial Day sale, the company has slashed the price of this front-loading washer by $400, so you’ll pay just $899.
The washer features an LCD digital dial control with an LED display that gives you helpful information with each turn of the dial. Using the TurboWash 360 feature, the washer can power clean big loads in under 30 minutes. Don’t worry too much about adjusting the washer’s settings correctly. AI technology can select optimal wash settings for you.
You’re able to monitor and manage this washer using LG’s ThinQ smartphone app. Because it’s Energy Star certified, you’ll also save money on your utility bills.
For a limited time, you can purchase the matching 7.4 cu. ft. capacity electric dryer for $899 (also $400 off), so if you purchase the set together, you’ll save a total of $800. Free in-home delivery is included with both appliances. They come in white or graphite steel.
LG 4.7 cu. ft. smart wall oven with InstaView: $1,700 (save $1,100)
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Installing the LG smart wall oven with InstaView will not only update the look of your kitchen, but it’ll also make all of your cooking and baking much easier. This smart oven can be monitored and controlled using LG’s ThinQ smartphone app.
You get 4.7 cu. ft. capacity within this oven that offers convection with air fry capabilities. It includes a steam Sous Vide and steam cooking feature, LG’s InstaView window and backlit SmoothTouch glass controls with an LED Display.
The oven comes in fingerprint-proof stainless steel. Right now, you can purchase it for $1,700 — that’s a $1,100 savings off its usual $2,899 price. Free, in-home delivery is included. You can add the optional and matching 30-inch smart gas cooktop with a 22K BTU dual burner system and LED knobs to the oven for an additional $999 (which is $500 off).
LG 6.9 cu. ft. gas double oven range with ProBake Convection: $1,199 (save $600)
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Here’s a chance to save $600 on one of LG’s most popular ProBake convection ovens. It’s on sale for just $1,199, but only for a limited time.
This oven offers a 6.9 cu. ft. capacity and LG’s ProBake Convection feature. And it also includes a useful 18.5K BTU power burner system. It’s available in stainless steel and will update the look of your kitchen while giving you a wide range of new cooking and baking features.
And if you want the matching LG Top Control Smart dishwasher with QuadWash, you can snag it for $699, which is $300 off. But, if you purchase both appliances at the same time, you’ll save an additional $400.
LG 2.0 cu. ft. smart over-the-range microwave: $349 (save $160)
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Add this 2.0 cu. ft. capacity smart microwave oven to your kitchen right now and save $160. This means you’ll pay just $349 — and for a limited time, LG will throw in an extra year limited warranty (a $185 value).
This microwave offers a sensor cook feature, along with auto cook presets and a scan-to-cook option. It also integrates with some LG smart ranges using the LG Range Sync feature. Since it’s a smart appliance, you can monitor and control it using the LG ThinQ smartphone app.
The microwave comes in your choice of fingerprint-proof stainless steel or black stainless steel. And if you want the matching 6.3 cu. ft. smart true convection InstaView electric range with air fry, you can purchase it on sale for $250 off, so you’ll pay just $1,099. But, if you purchase the range and microwave together, you’ll get an additional $100 off — but only during LG’s Memorial Day sale.
LG top control smart dishwasher with QuadWash: $699 (save $300)
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Upgrade your kitchen with this bestselling LG top-control smart dishwasher that uses the company’s patented QuadWash feature. It’s currently on sale for $300 off, so you can buy it for just $699 and get free in-home delivery. LG will also throw in an extra year limited warranty (a $185 value) for free.
In addition to the QuadWash feature, this dishwasher uses LG’s Dynamic Dry feature that takes advantage of steam to help clean and sanitize your dishes. The appliance operates at less than 46 dB, so it’s very quiet. Because it’s a smart dishwasher, you can monitor and control it using LG’s ThinQ smartphone app.
Choose between stainless steel or black stainless steel. And if you want the matching LG 28 cu. ft. smart French door refrigerator, it too is on sale for an impressive $1,300 off, so you’ll pay just $1,799. However, if you purchase the refrigerator and dishwasher at the same time, you’ll save an additional $250, but only during LG’s Memorial Day sale that’s going on right now.
To discover the best deals for all of your shopping needs, check out our ongoing Memorial Day 2024 sale coverage.
The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with controversial anti-personnel mines in its war against Russia, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News Tuesday night.
Anti-personnel mines, or APLs, are designed to be used against people, not vehicles. They can be rapidly deployed and are meant to blunt the advances of ground forces, making them useful for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s advances in Eastern Ukraine, the official said.
The U.S. sought commitments from the Ukrainians on their use to further limit the risk to civilians, the official said, noting that Ukrainians are committed to not employing the mines in areas populated with their own civilians.
The U.S.-provided APLs are different than the thousands of landmines being employed by Russia in eastern Ukraine in that they are “non-persistent,” meaning they become inert over a preset period of time, usually between four hours and two weeks, the official said. They are electrically fused and require battery power to detonate. Once the battery runs out, they will not detonate.
Tuesday marked 1,000 days since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. CBS News learned Sunday that President Biden had lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S. weapons to conduct strikes deep inside Russia.
U.S.-supplied ATACMS were used Tuesday on targets inside Russia, U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News.
Ukraine has been one of the most mined countries in the world since Russia’s invasion in 2022, and Ukraine is inundated with APLs. They are known by deceptively innocent names such as “butterfly” or “petal” mines because they scatter like flower petals when they drop from the sky.
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“Typically, several hundred of these at a time will just be liberally and indiscriminately spread across the territory,” Pete Smith, the Ukraine program manager for the HALO Trust, a nonprofit organization focused on ridding warzones of landmines, told “60 Minutes” in August. “They can rest on the roofs. They can sit in guttering. They can take years before they come back into society and into view.”
To date, 164 nations, including Ukraine, have signed onto the Mine Ban Treaty which prohibits the use of APLs. However, three dozen countries have not agreed to it, including Russia and the U.S.
In January 2020, then-President Donald Trump reversed an Obama-era policy which banned the use of APLs anywhere except on the Korean Peninsula. However, in June 2022, Mr. Biden reinstated the ban, except for APLs “required for the defense of the Republic of Korea.”
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ORION TOWNSHIP, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – At least two people were injured after a possible gas explosion and ensuing fire destroyed a condominium building Tuesday evening in Orion Township, Michigan, officials said. Another two people remain unaccounted for.
According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, the explosion was reported at about 6:30 p.m. local time in the Keatington New Town Association condominium complex on Waldon Road, between Joslyn and Baldwin roads.
Orion Township Fire Chief Ryan Allen says the explosion destroyed a four-unit building, causing significant damage to one building and minimal damage to a few others. Allen says crews worked with utility providers DTE and Consumers Energy to control a gas leak.
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Allen says the two people hospitalized, a 72-year-old man and a 75-year-old woman, suffered critical injuries. Their current condition is unknown. An unknown number of others suffered minor injuries, he added.
Allen said crews were working to make contact with two people who are unaccounted for.
The sheriff’s office said no fatalities have so far been reported.
“Preliminary indications are it was a gas explosion but the exact cause has not been determined,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Orion Township is located just north of Detroit.
One resident who lives nearby told CBS News Detroit he was home with family when the explosion happened.
“We just heard this big boom [It] shuck my entire house. I look out the window, I see flares, I see fire just popping through the sky,” the resident said. “It felt like it was going to take a wall down. It felt like it happened at my house. I was terrified. It was so strong.”
Consumers Energy said in a statement that because firefighters were still battling the blaze, it did “not have additional information about the cause of the explosion or about the status of anyone in the building.”
The company said its crews will get on site once they are given the greenlight that it is safe to do so.
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Comedian Katt Williams often brags about passing Marine boot camp. The Marines say they have no record of it.
Los Angeles — Katt Williams, the Emmy-winning actor and renowned stand-up comedian, for years has claimed to have joined the U.S. Marine Corps as a teenager and successfully navigated the rigorous training only to be drummed out of the military when his superiors discovered he was a minor. The Marines told CBS News they have no record of him.
Dating back to at least 2016, Williams has claimed association with the U.S. Marine Corps when talking about his personal biography in video blogs, in his stand-up routines and in interviews viewed and heard by tens of millions of people. His claims of military service seem to not be attached to any of his critically acclaimed jokes or characters he has created for stage and screen but instead, a part of his journey towards comedy.
The U.S. Marine Corps tells CBS News there’s no record of Williams ever entering military service or attending any Marine Corps recruit training camps.
Multiple emails and phone calls were sent to Williams’ publicist, Amy Sisoyev, and his representatives at Creative Artists Agency, but no reply was returned for almost two weeks.
Earlier this year, Williams sat down for a nearly 3-hour interview with ESPN’s “First Take” correspondent Shannon Sharpe on his podcast, “Club Shay Shay.” The interview has racked up more than 83 million views on YouTube as of publication and is the most watched interview in YouTube’s history.
Sharpe, a former Denver Bronco and ex-NFL analyst for CBS Sports, asked Williams about being raised in Florida.
“I try to join the Marine Corps and they won’t accept me because I’m too young, and I’ve lied and told them I’m 16 and my family is moving down and I don’t have my ID but it’s coming. And so they [the Marines] let me go to the boot camp,” said Williams.
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Similarly, on comedian Marc Maron’s podcast last year, Williams said, “And then I attempt to join the Marine Corps, and I go off to boot camp and I pass, and then they reveal that I’m too young, and they give me a little ceremony because I did pass, you know, oo-Rah.”
He added: “I wasn’t even 16. I wasn’t even 16. I was already — I had miscalculated it wrong. I thought that you know, by the time I got back I would be good, but I hadn’t turned 16 by the time boot camp was over.”
Maron, whose “WTF” podcast garners more than 55 million listens per year, asked Williams if he got through boot camp and about his ceremony.
Williams reaffirmed that he passed boot camp, saying, “When you come back everybody gets the ceremony and I was supposed to have been, probably put in the brig or court-martialed or something, but they didn’t treat me like that. … As far as the Marine Corps thing, whatever those commercials were selling, you remember those commercials back in that time … if you wanted to join a gang, the Marines was the gang to join.”
On Saturday, CBS News attended the Vulture Festival in Los Angeles where Williams was interviewed about his life and career by Jesse David Fox, a Vulture writer and host of “Good One: The Podcast About Jokes.” Williams is set to launch his multistate “Heaven on Earth” tour next year.
While Williams did not discuss his alleged short stint in the Marines, the comedian said “Thank God I tell the truth” when asked by Fox about his past statements in interviews.
CBS News filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records pertaining to Williams’ alleged enlistment in the Marine Corps.
Marine Corps officials searched for records pertaining to Williams using his full name — Micah Sierra Williams — and other identifying information such as his date of birth and social security number. Officials told CBS News that their database of official military personnel files dates back to the 1960s, housed at the National Personnel Records Center of the National Archives.
“We searched the files maintained by the Manpower Management Performance Branch but were unable to identify Mr. Williams as a member or former member of the U.S. Marine Corps,” wrote an official in response to CBS News’ public records request.
Marine Corps officials told CBS News that if Williams’ story was accurate, there would be records showing his entry into military service, his graduation and discharge, even if he fraudulently enlisted as a minor.
Army veteran Anthony Anderson, who runs “Guardians of Valor,” a popular social media website that investigates service member records, told CBS News that Williams’ claims are a “slap in the face of people who have earned the title of Marine.”
“Boot camp for the Marine Corps is not an easy task. To call yourself a Marine, you have to go through at least 13 weeks of boot camp and successfully navigate the crucible … people have died in training at boot camp trying to earn the title of Marine,” said Anderson.
While it’s unclear when exactly Williams began to claim he graduated from Marine boot camp, the earliest examples CBS News could find stemmed from Williams’ 2016 feud with actor and comedian Kevin Hart.
In a video that appears to have been recorded by Williams, addressing drug abuse allegations, the comedian says, “Ever since I got out of the Marine Corps, I can only breathe out of one nostril.”
That same year, Williams was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and battery charges after a fight at an apartment complex in Gainesville, Georgia, with a 17-year-old high school wrestler who was also charged, according to previous news reports. Williams pleaded not guilty and the case lingered on until earlier this year when local prosecutors decided to drop the case against Williams.
Soon after his arrest Williams spoke about the episode on stage, suggesting that he wasn’t actually put into a chokehold by the teenager and in fact, that Williams had let him win, adding, “I’m Semper Fi till I die, Marine Corps b—-. I passed motherf—ing boot camp at 16.”
Williams’ routine was removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement issues, but the video still exists in the reader forum on Military.com, a military news and culture website. A user posted the video to the website in 2016 and asked: “Katt Williams a Marine?”
