Larry E. Swedroe's Blog, page 1082

Elementary school kids' hotline offering kind words gets 5 million calls

After CBS News reported on the ""Peptoc"" hotline in March, it received up to 60,000 calls an hour from people looking for a pick-me-up. Steve Hartman shares more in ""On the Road."

Luke Bryan and Bayer team up to fight hunger and celebrate farmers

Bayer has joined country superstar Luke Bryan's 2022 Farm Tour in continuance of its "Here's to the Farmer" campaign. Luke Bryan joins CBS News to discuss the initiative, his involvement in it and why it's important now.

Woman arrested after racist rant, assault caught on video in Texas

A woman was captured on video Wednesday in a racist rant and assault on women of South Asian descent in a suburban Dallas parking lot.

CBS Evening News, August 26, 2022

Judge unseals redacted affidavit used to justify Trump search warrant; Elementary school kids’ hotline offering kind words gets 5 million calls

Biden slams "MAGA Republicans," compares the philosophy to "semi-Fascism"

At a campaign rally for Maryland Democrats, he said, "You have to choose. Will we be a country that moves forward or a country that moves backward?"

California regulator votes to ban sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

The California Air Resources Board voted Thursday in favor of a plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. Margo Oge, former director of the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, discussed what this means for California.

Four shot at Kentucky homeless shelter

There was no initial word on the victims' conditions. Police say a suspect who's believed to have been a resident is in custody.

CBS Evening News, August 25, 2022

Judge orders redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit unsealed by Friday; Tennis stars raise $1 million for Ukraine

8/25: CBS News Prime Time

Carter Evans reports on the potential release of a partial Mar-a-Lago search affidavit and NASA's first lunar mission in 50 years

NASA finds first clear evidence of CO2 in an exoplanet's atmosphere

The CO2 – the compound humans breathe out – was found in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star 700 light-years away. It was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.