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Senior CDC officials resign after Monarez ouster, cite concerns over scientific independence
CBS News
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Four senior officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced their resignations in recent days, citing what they described as growing political interference in the agency's scientific work, particularly regarding...
CDC leaders who resigned said RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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By Lena H. Sun,Lauren Weber and David Ovalle washington post As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reeled from the ousting of its director, three senior leaders who resigned in protest told The Washington Post they were asked to...
20 years ago, Katrina hit New Orleans hard; today, Crescent City is rising with faith, hope
Catholic Review - Maryland
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August 28, 2025
NEW ORLEANS (OSV News) — In late 2005, just two months after Hurricane Katrina, the American Institute of Architects tabbed Boston-based urban planner David Dixon, to organize a national recovery conference with the goal of providing a roadmap for...
Around Baton Rouge:'A Bayou State of Mind,' farmers markets and more for your calendar
The Advocate - Louisiana
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The following is a calendar of community events in the Baton Rouge area from Friday through Thursday, Sept. 4. FRIDAY FRIDAY NIGHT LECTURE: 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., BREC's Highland Road Park Observatory, 13800 Highland Road. Skygazing tips, physics...
Opinion: Reflections on Rebuilding New Orleans’ Education System One School at a Time
The 74
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August 28, 2025
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This is part of a series covering the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, its effects, and the recovery of New Orleans’ schools. Read all our coverage and...
Robot helps arrest man wanted for murder inside Louisiana home
USA Today
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During a standoff in Louisiana, police used a robot to help arrest a man wanted in connection to a killing in his home country. Honduran national Elviss Caballero-Zuniga, who had been wanted on a murder charge, was apprehended by police with help...
Two new deaths reported from flesh-eating bacteria. Both ate Louisiana oysters. One of the cases involved a restaurant in Florida.
The Bradenton Times - Florida
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by Elise Plunk A Louisiana health official reported two more deaths from the flesh-eating vibrio bacteria, which were among 14 infections recorded this month. It brings the state’s fatality count attributed to the pathogen this year to six. The...
Trump says Meta data center will make Louisiana a national hub for AI
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report - Louisiana
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August 28, 2025
President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry say Meta’s massive artificial intelligence data center in Richland Parish will transform the state into a national AI hub, according to USA Today Network. Trump, speaking at a Cabinet meeting...
Robot helps arrest man wanted for murder inside Louisiana home, video shows
AOL
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During a standoff in Louisiana, police used a robot to help arrest a man wanted in connection to a killing in his home country. Honduran national Elviss Caballero-Zuniga, who had been wanted on a murder charge, was apprehended by police with help...
20 years later, they still have New Orleans in their hearts
San Angelo Standard-Times - Texas
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Michelle Gibson fled her home in New Orleans with her newborn son, her 6-year-old daughter and her boyfriend as Hurricane Katrina took aim at the city 20 years ago. She never returned there to live. But she brought New Orleans dance traditions to...
Katrina inspired a $3B wetlands rebuilding project. Louisiana just killed it.
E&E News
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August 28, 2025
PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the cancellation of a $3 billion wetland restoration project has upended a hard-won consensus about how to rebuild this state’s rapidly eroding coast and shield the New Orleans...
Hurricane Katrina Exposed America’s Deepest Inequalities. Twenty Years Later, New Orleans Still Bears the Scars.
Ms. Magazine
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August 27, 2025
Two decades after being abandoned by FEMA, New Orleans is still not prepared for another extreme weather event. Water surrounds homes in the devastated Ninth Ward in New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2005. (Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle via Getty...
Katrina's wake: A New Orleans community thrives as another fights on
USA Today
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Hurricane Katrina roared ashore along the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. The Category 3 hurricane and the ensuing breached levees and floodwalls caused more than 1,300 deaths – many of them in the Lower Ninth Ward – and billions in damages. Around...
I went back to see how New Orleans' culture changed after Katrina
BlueRidgeNow.com - North Carolina
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Hurricane Katrina roared ashore along the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. USA TODAY reporter Rick Jervis lived in New Orleans from 2007 to 2013, reporting on the city's recovery from the storm. Would New Orleans plaster over its unique culture – the...
They fled Vietnam and then had to flee New Orleans after Katrina
Lebanon Daily News - Pennsylvania
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The Banh family fled Saigon in 1975 during the fall of South Vietnam, leaving their successful restaurant business behind. After settling in New Orleans and rebuilding their lives, the family was displaced again by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They...
First woman to enter Louisiana Senate race, hires Trump-affiliated pollster
The Daily Advertiser - Louisiana
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Republican St. Tammany Parish Councilwoman Kathy Seiden is likely to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy in the 2026 U.S. Senate race. Seiden has hired a Donald Trump-affiliated pollster to test the waters for her. Cassidy is seen as...
OP-ED: From betrayal to renewal, New Orleans 20 years after Katrina is a city for the ages
Amsterdam News - New York
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August 28, 2025
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Shrub Oak International School Appoints Dr. Salam Soliman as Director of Clinical Services & Research
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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MOHEGAN LAKE, N.Y., Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shrub Oak International School, a leading therapeutic day and residential program serving autistic children, adolescents, and young adults, is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Salam...
Science Grist We now know just how much climate change supercharged Hurricane Katrina
Yahoo News
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Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina spun up like a massive atmospheric engine, using warm ocean water as fuel. Making landfall as a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph, it devastated New Orleans — surging seawater over levees,...
New $160 million Louisiana women's prison opens in St. Gabriel
KTAL News - Texas, Louisiana
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August 28, 2025
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, a $160 million facility in St. Gabriel, is now open after three years of construction. State officials, including Gov. Jeff Landry, attended the grand...