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A shooting near the Emory University campus and just outside the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday left two people dead and bullet marks in windows across the sprawling campus. A police officer was killed, and the suspected shooter was found dead in a nearby building, authorities said.No one else was reported injured.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Saturday identified the gunman as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, of Kennesaw, Georgia. His motive is still unknown this early in the investigation, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said on Friday.Map shows area of shootingThe shooting began just…

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Billy Long is stepping down. Jacob Bogage, White House economic correspondent at the Washington Post, talks with NPR’s Ari Shapiro. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Trump administration is removing the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. His name is Billy Long. He was once a member of Congress from Missouri, and he’d been IRS commissioner for under two months. The Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, will serve as acting commissioner. Jacob Bogage is White House economic correspondent at The Washington Post. Thanks for joining us.JACOB BOGAGE: Thanks for having me.SHAPIRO: Do you know why the IRS commissioner is…

Washington — President Trump has directed the military to target drug cartels in Latin America, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.It’s not clear if or when the military could take action.The news was first reported by The New York Times.Since returning to the White House for a second term, Mr. Trump has undertaken efforts to target drug cartels in Latin America, which he has said are behind the flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs across the southern border and into the U.S.Mr. Trump signed an executive order at the start of his second administration that…

Logan Coleridge was used to taking hits in football. He’d been playing since he was 6 years old and had sustained several concussions. But after a helmet-to-helmet impact during his freshman year of high school in August 2023, he started having debilitating symptoms. The New Jersey teen said he was very dizzy and had trouble balancing. His memory was “terrible,” and he had a “severe” light sensitivity, he said, along with “terrible headaches.” Previously a strong student, he now struggled to focus in the classroom and couldn’t remember school assignments or what he read in class. “I’ve got concussions in my past,…

President Trump takes questions from reporters during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Trump said on Friday that he plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15 to talk about a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as president of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska.…

The federal government told Harvard University on Friday it could take control of the school’s patents stemming from federally funded research — the latest in a months-long feud between the Trump administration and the Ivy League college.Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is launching an “immediate comprehensive review” of whether Harvard has complied with federal laws around patents, he said in a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber.The patents in question could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a senior administration official said, and in his letter, Lutnick threatened to grant third-party licenses to Harvard’s patents or take the titles to…

The suspect in the deadly Montana bar shooting has been captured after a weeklong manhunt, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Friday. Michael Brown, 45, had been on the run in the mountains since Aug. 1, when authorities say he killed four people at The Owl Bar in the town of Anaconda.”The Anaconda shooter Michael Brown has been apprehended. Incredible response from law enforcement officers across Montana. Thank you to all partners for your commitment to the search,” Gianforte posted on X.Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said that at approximately 2 p.m., authorities apprehended and placed Brown under arrest near the search…

MARTIN BERTRAND/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images MARTIN BERTRAND/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation – and it raises the worry that, in the future, the numbers won’t be as trustworthy. So: we looked at two countries that have some experience with data manipulation. To ask what happens when governments get tempted to cook the books. And…once they cook the books… how hard is it to UN-cook them? It’s two statistical historical cautionary tales.…

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning on meeting in Alaska, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.Mr. Trump confirmed on Truth Social the meeting will take place in Alaska on Friday, August 15.One senior White House official told CBS News the planning for next Friday’s summit is still fluid, and that it is still possible that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could end up being involved in some way. The White House said earlier this week that Mr. Trump is open to meeting with both Putin and Zelenskyy, but Mr. Trump suggested Friday he may start by just…

Activism / Editorial / August 8, 2025 We have the chance to shape the future by building a system of care that leaves no one behind.  Ad Policy Ai-jen Poo speaks as Care advocates light 8,000 candles for 80 million Americans who rely on Medicaid during a 60-hour vigil on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C.(Photo by Brian Stukes / Getty Images for Caring Across Generations) This article appears in the September 2025 issue, with the headline “What’s Next Is Up to Us.” It’s been 60 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 
Medicaid and Medicare Act into law,…