[ad_1] Biloxi, Mississippi — Twenty years ago Friday, Katrina made its second and most destructive U.S. landfall, coming ashore just southeast of New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane. While the damage and destruction left by Katrina in 2005 changed New Orleans forever, the storm surge and powerful winds also left a lasting blow to other…
[ad_1] Meg Oliver reports on the investigation into this week’s deadly school shooting, and how an increase in ocean acidity can harm sharks. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Turmoil at CDC after top officials are fired or resign – CBS News Watch CBS News Hundreds of current and former CDC employees gathered outside the agency’s Atlanta headquarters in a show of support for top officials who have either quit or been fired. Skyler Henry reports. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] 8/28: CBS Evening News Plus – CBS News Watch CBS News Why CDC employees are resigning in protest after director’s ouster; Reporter’s Notebook: Who tells a president the hard truths? [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] For a decade, there was a ban on so-called assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips used in the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. A study published last fall looked at the ban’s effectiveness. Lori Ann Post, a co-author of the report, joins to discuss the research. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] 8/28: The Takeout with Major Garrett – CBS News Watch CBS News FBI investigating Minneapolis school shooting as domestic terrorism; Memo from think tank “Third Way” suggests words Democrats should avoid using. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] There is fallout at the CDC after the firing of Director Susan Monarez over what her lawyers describe as her refusal to “rubber stamp unscientific, reckless directives.” Four other top officials have resigned in the wake of her forced departure. Dr. Celine Gounder has the latest. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] A North Carolina election official has resigned after being arrested for allegedly putting illicit drugs into ice cream that his granddaughters were consuming, police said. James Yokeley Jr. flagged down an officer at a Sheetz gas station in Surry County, North Carolina, on Aug. 8, the Wilmington Police Department said. Yokeley told the officer…
[ad_1] Florida carried out its 11th execution of the year on Thursday — a record-setting number in the modern era — after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal for a man convicted of three murders in 1992. Curtis Windom, 59, was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison after being…
[ad_1] A federal judge in New York denied a motion by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11 victims who are seeking to hold the Middle Eastern country responsible for potentially providing support to the hijackers, allowing the suit to proceed. The ruling is the latest in a…
