Good morning, Welcome to MSNBC's Sunday Spotlight, where you can find a selection of the week's most interesting and important stories. Some of the nation's top public health experts have quit in apparent protest of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest policy moves. Meanwhile, grand juries may be quietly rebelling against prosecutorial overreach, Donald Trump gets a Chicago deep diss, and the country faces a harsh decision after yet another school shooting in Minnesota. Plus, a celebrity wedding with the potential to bring together red and blue America. Don't forget to check out more top columns and videos from the week below. |
RFK vs. CDC: Susan Monarez had been head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for just shy of a month when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked her to support pulling back certain approvals for Covid vaccines, writes Brandy Zadrozny. She declined, leading to a ham-fisted attempt to force her out, which in turn led four of the agency's top leaders to quit simultaneously. A recently departed official said it felt like the public health version of Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre." Read more. |
Sandwich order: A grand jury in Washington, D.C., refused to indict a man who became something of a folk hero after throwing a sandwich at a federal agent. This and other cases show grand jurors may be growing skeptical of the Trump Justice Department's most ill-conceived and politically motivated prosecutions, writes Mike Fox, a legal fellow with the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice. If true, that would be a vindication of the Constitution's vision of grand juries providing a bulwark against government oppression. Read more. |
After Minneapolis: The shooting at Annunciation Catholic School should force us all to a sickening realization: The people responsible for writing the laws that govern us have developed a tolerance for children being slaughtered in their schools, writes Minneapolis native Michele Norris, who knows that parish all too well. The city's police chief said that a protocol of locking doors after services started helped save lives, but restricting easy access to assault weapons may be the only solution to the epidemic of mass shootings. The gun lobby is counting on Americans to once again move on from outrage after this tragedy. Will this be the time we prove it wrong? Read more. |
Social engagement: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement isn't just another piece of celebrity news. It's a cultural touchstone that America has been craving, a piece of common ground that a divided country can come together to celebrate or even just to gossip about, writes Hannah Holland. The power couple has done what few have been able to do in our splintered culture, knocking down the silos that separate demographics. Read more. |
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, you heard the lurid stories: people trying to shoot down rescue helicopters, raping babies in hospitals and slaughtering one another in makeshift shelters. These ultimately false rumors would have immediately been deemed unbelievable if they weren't being told about Black people, writes Louisiana-based opinion editor Jarvis DeBerry. "I told a room full of journalists at this month's National Association of Black Journalists convention in Cleveland that one of Katrina's big lessons is that no lie about Black people is too outrageous to be believed," he writes. "So we journalists must refuse to be credulous." Read the column here. — Ryan Teague Beckwith, newsletter editor |
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