“As we move toward those big ideas…if we’re going to unify the country, we have to pay attention to people who aren’t there yet,” Patrick says. Source
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Kavanaugh saga’s potential lasting impact on the nation
The Senate has voted to confirm Kavanaugh, but the nomination process roiled the country with division and at times evoked the worst in partisanship Source
“Gettysburg” movie director on the importance of historical reenactors
This week on “The Takeout,” writer and director Ron Maxwell explains why he used reenactors in his film “Gettysburg.” “Reenactors are a living Civil War historian,” Maxwell told CBS News’ Major Garrett. Source
WNBA point guard Tasha Cloud on her media blackout
Tasha Cloud, a point guard for the Washington Mystics, joins Major Garrett for “The Takeout.” In June she visited a school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C. where multiple shootings have occurred around the school while students were in class. Cloud organized a media blackout in protest, calling for D.C.’s mayor and city council members to act on gun violence. Source
WNBA star Tasha Cloud on the gender pay gap
This week Tasha Cloud received the WNBA’s community leadership award, and she is one of two Mystics players who has started every game this season. Yet she still has to spend six months playing basketball abroad in the off-season to make a living. That’s in part because of the basketball association’s pay scale. And as Major Garrett points out on “The Takeout,” it’s not just a pay difference separating the women from the men. Source
Cranberries: Thanksgiving in a bowl
It’s cranberry season in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which is covered in natural cranberry bogs, and locals Nancy Mead and chef Steven Frappolli know just how best to pick and use them, like in a delicious cranberry crumble. “Sunday Morning” producer Sara Kugel gets a taste of this popular Thanksgiving staple that, chef Frappolli says, must never be bought frozen! Source
3 Navy SEALs escape accountability in Gallagher case
Three officers involved in the Edward Gallagher case will keep their Trident pins. Source
Legal settlement keeps Confederate statue off UNC campus
The agreement between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and UNC-Chapel Hill ends a long legal debate about whether Confederate monuments belong on campus. Source
Ex-opiate addict says implant saved him, but some call him a “guinea pig”
Alvin Dutruch took a chance on a new way to treat addiction — now a consumer group says he was exploited. Source
Man accused of killing Chicago college student after she ignored his catcalls
Donald Thurman, 26, was arrested was charged with first-degree murder and sexual assault after University of Illinois at Chicago police found 19-year-old Ruth George unresponsive in a campus parking garage. CBS Chicago’s Mike Puccinelli reports. Source