Catholic School Shooting, CDC Boss Ousted & Camp for Adults - Thursday, August 28, 2025
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The news to know for Thursday, August 28, 2025!
We'll tell you about a tragedy during the first week of classes at a Catholic school, as a mass shooting targeted children.
Also: the latest shakeups in public health—the CDC director was fired, and COVID vaccines were approved, but with new limits.
Plus: funding for sex ed at risk, how ChatGPT is making changes to deal with mental crises, and why sleepaway camps for adults are becoming more popular.
Those stories and even more news to know in about 10 minutes!
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, August 28. We'll tell you about a tragedy during the first week of classes at a Catholic school as a mass shooting targeted children. |
| 0:08.9 | Also, the latest shakeups in public health. The CDC director was fired and COVID vaccines were approved but with new limits. |
| 0:16.1 | Plus, funding for sex ed at risk, how chat GPT is making changes to deal with mental crises, and why sleepaway |
| 0:22.9 | camps for adults are becoming more popular. Those stories and even more news to know next. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy. All the day's news in around 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You're ready? Let's do this. Unfortunately, we start today with a tragedy out of Minnesota. |
| 0:49.5 | A shooter opened fire on children who went to a Catholic school in Minneapolis as they were |
| 0:54.7 | attending their first mass of the school year. |
| 0:57.2 | An eight-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed. |
| 1:00.0 | 17 other people were hurt, including 14 other children. |
| 1:03.4 | Federal officials say the attacker was a 23-year-old transgender woman who died by suicide. |
| 1:08.6 | FBI director Cash Patel says the shooting is being investigated as an act of |
| 1:12.4 | domestic terrorism and a hate crime against Catholics. At this point, police say they don't have |
| 1:17.7 | an exact motive, but investigators say the shooter may have been a former student at the school |
| 1:22.0 | and her mother used to work there. Authorities are also looking into some pretty horrific social media |
| 1:27.1 | posts, |
| 1:27.7 | including graphic diary entries, pictures, and video depicting elements of what later happened. |
| 1:32.7 | They say all the weapons the shooter used were bought legally. Prayers and condolences have been |
| 1:37.4 | coming in from the White House, the Vatican, and all over the community. President Trump |
| 1:41.5 | ordered flags around the country to be lowered to half staff all week. |
| 1:48.0 | President Trump made good on his threat to double India's tariffs. This week, a 25% tariff was added |
| 1:54.0 | onto Trump's last 25% tariff, this one over India buying Russian oil, since Trump says it's |
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