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Yet another American city has joined the seemingly endless list of places impacted by mass killings at the hands of a gunman. This time, it’s Louisville, Kentucky, where four victims were killed and nine others injured, including two police officers. It came two weeks after a school shooting in Nashville killed three children and three adults. Lisa Desjardins reports.
At least five people have been killed in a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, law enforcement said. The shooter is confirmed to be dead, a law enforcement officer said, and the circumstances of the shooter’s death are unknown.
On Friday, a federal judge in Texas invalidated FDA approval of mifepristone, threatening access to the most common abortion pill in the country. Earlier this week, legislatures in Idaho, Kansas and Florida moved to further restrict abortion access in those states. Sarah Varney, senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News, joins Ali Rogin to discuss the latest developments.
The top news stories this week reported by PBS Newshour.
Rachel Maddow looks at how school shootings have touched the lives of so many Americans that journalists who survived school shootings as children find themselves reporting on new school shootings as adults while their colleagues report on their own children in lockdown and some students live through multiple tragedies.
Hear the Dolly Parton song done with her god daughter Miley Cyrus that was banned from a first-grade concert in Wisconsin.
All the news and jokes you missed from the week of March 13.
A powerful storm swept through the South over the weekend, bringing a deadly tornado with it. At least 13 people were killed in the small town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Omar Villafranca reports.
The nearly 50 migrants Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard in September were later moved to a shelter at a military base several miles away in Massachusetts. After that, most of them found housing in other parts of the state.
All of last week’s biggest stories from one of America’s most trusted news sources.
Massive winter storms in the West have left people trapped in their homes for more than a week, prompting emergency rescues and neighbors stepping in with basic necessities. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports for TODAY and Dylan Dreyer tracks the latest forecast.
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A winter storm is hitting large swaths of the U.S., expected to bring heavy snow, high winds and dangerously low temperatures. CBS News correspondent Christina Ruffini joins Lana Zak and Errol Barnett from Minneapolis with the latest on weather conditions in the area and how officials are responding.
Every Democrat – and some Republicans – increased funding earlier this year for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency charged with deporting those living in the country illegally. The Biden administration has directed ICE to prioritize the deportation of immigrants in the country illegally who have committed serious felonies. Nonetheless, an ad from a conservative group misleadingly claims that “every Senate Democrat voted against deporting criminal illegal immigrants.”
The overall increase in fentanyl seized at the southwest border under President Joe Biden is nowhere near as high as a Republican ad misleadingly claims. U.S. border officials seized 13,021 pounds of the drug in Biden’s first full 15 months in office, which is 70% more than the 7,677 pounds seized in Donald Trump’s last full 15 months as president.
Q: Has the Biden administration sent “pallets” of infant formula to the border amid a nationwide shortage?
A: Yes. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that first encounters and then processes immigrants, is legally required to provide formula to infants in its care and has been doing so during the recent shortage.
Dozens of people stayed at a Florida hotel in January while employed as temporary farmworkers for a wholesale plant nursery. But a Facebook video and a tweet by State Rep. Anthony Sabatini falsely claimed they were “illegals” — sparking a protest outside the hotel. Attorneys for the nursery said all of them had visas to work in the U.S.
Sen. Tom Cotton falsely equated the nearly 2 million apprehensions of immigrants attempting to illegally cross the southern border during Joe Biden’s presidency to “adding the entire population of Nebraska to this country.” He’s wrong for several reasons, including that most of those apprehended were immediately turned around.
Infectious disease experts say low vaccination rates, resistance to protective measures such as wearing a mask and the highly transmissible delta variant are driving the current surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
Donald Trump said he’s worried about a “rigged” general election, citing “precincts where there were practically nobody voting for the Republican” in 2012. Voting experts said such outcomes in certain urban districts were entirely plausible given the demographics.
