As protests against police brutality continue around the country, so, too, have people been injured and maimed by what police call “less-lethal” weapons. While most police departments have access to tools designed to control crowds, experts say few are offered any significant training in how to use them. Correspondent Lee Cowan looks into the lethality of such police weapons, and talks with a protester and journalist whose lives have been changed upon being struck by projectiles intended to be non-lethal. Source

The bestselling novelist follows her award-winning debut, “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,” with a magical, labyrinthine fantasy Source

In the new novel by the author of “Homecoming,” Ghanaian immigrants in Alabama search for the answers to their family’s suffering by turning to science and to faith Source

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend classifications based on race, gender or class Source

In a new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of “American Dervish” and “Disgraced,” an immigrant father and his son search for identity in post-Trump America Source

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Officers arrived at the shooting scene “within a minute,” police said, but the man who was shot did not survive. Source

President Trump tours areas devastated by Hurricane Laura; Team of women skydivers celebrate women’s suffrage Source

The national conventions are over and the stage is set for the 2020 presidential election. Yahoo national reporter and producer Marquise Francis spoke with CBSN’s Lana Zak about what we can expect on the campaign trail moving forward. Source

President Trump on Saturday visited parts of Louisiana and Texas that were hard-hit by Hurricane Laura. Thousands are still without power and at least 14 people died in the storm. Omar Villafranca reports. Source