One Good Thing: Rehabilitated Loggerhead Sea Turtle Released
A 40-year-old sea turtle named Tina was rehabilitated after being tangled in a trap line in the Atlantic Ocean. Boaters made the rescue and helped transport the turtle to safety where she had been since July.
Federal health advisers voted overwhelmingly against an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease at a Wednesday meeting prompted by years of patient efforts seeking access to the unproven therapy.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that federal disaster assistance is available for Louisiana, which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state.