CBS News shakes up morning and evening lineups:
Norah O’Donnell, currently a co-anchor of “CBS This Morning,” will be the new anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News.” The shift will take effect this summer.
O’Donnell is taking over for
Jeff Glor, who has held the evening news chair for just 18 months. Glor struggled to move the program out of its perennially third place position in the ratings, behind ABC and NBC.
It is unclear if Glor will remain at the network. CBS News president
Susan Zirinsky said, “We are discussing opportunities for Jeff to remain with CBS News.
State horse racing commission denies Maximum Security’s appeal of Kentucky Derby disqualificatio:’
Maximum Security, who led the Derby from wire to wire and crossed the finish line 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Country House, was disqualified for interference while turning for home.
Officialsdecided that Maximum Security impacted the progress of War of Will, which in turn interfered with Long Range Toddy and Bodexpress. Country House was declared the winner. The stewards who made the ruling did not take questions, electing to read a prepared statement with the explanation.
New York Times: Former Trump inauguration official says she was ‘thrown under the bus’:
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff objects to suggestions by White House officials that she was forced out of the East Wing job she held after Trump took office because she profited excessively from Trump’s inaugural events, the Times reports.
Wolkoff was formerly a senior adviser and longtime friend of first lady Melania Trump. The firm she founded was paid close to $26 million to plan events around Trump’s first inauguration, the Times first reported and CNN later confirmed.
‘The new secondhand smoke’: Adults more likely to vape if they live with kids, study says:
“These children are potentially exposed to secondhand aerosols, an amalgam of compounds with yet unknown health consequences,” the researchers wrote.
According to the research letter, published Monday in the journal
JAMA Pediatrics, 4.9% of American adults living with someone 18 or under reported using e-cigarettes. That’s versus 4.2% of adults living in households without children according to study author Jenny L. Carwile, an epidemiologist at Maine Medical Center, who also pointed out that these adults tend to be olde
Trump pardons former Army soldier sentenced for killing Iraqi prisoner:
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that Michael Behenna, of Oklahoma, would receive a full pardon. In a statement, Sanders said Behenna had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone by a military court, but there were issues involving his case.
“After judgment, however, the U.S. Army’s highest appellate court noted concern about how the trial court had handled Mr. Behenna’s claim of self-defense,” Sanders said in the statement