In recovery: More than three months after being shot at a Republican Congressional baseball practice, House Majority Whip and Rep. Steve Scalise on Sunday will give his first televised interview during an appearance on 60 Minutes. Scalise and his wife, Jennifer, will speak with Norah O’Donnell about the attack and his fight to survive. On June 14, Scalise was shot in the hip and the bullet tore into blood vessels, bones and internal organs, resulting in several surgeries. The interview will be broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Sunday on CBS.
Making an exception: DirecTV is letting at least some customers cancel subscriptions to its Sunday Ticket package of NFL games and obtain refunds if they cite players’ national anthem protests as the reason, customer service representatives tell The Wall Street Journal. Sunday Ticket’s regular policy doesn’t allow refunds once the season is underway. But the representatives said they are making exceptions this season—which began in September—in response to the protests, in which players kneel or link arms during the national anthem. Read the full story.
Not coming back: CB&I is closing its Beaumont, Texas, fabrication shop and cutting jobs after the facility suffered “sustained irreparable damage” from Hurricane Harvey, FuelFix.com reports. The engineering and construction firm says the closure will result in the elimination of 455 jobs at the plant, but about 90% of those workers are being relocated to different facilities or job sites in areas like Lake Charles and Freeport, Texas. The job cuts were made without advanced notice last week because it took awhile to realize the severity of the flooding damage at the facility, CB&I says. Read the full story.
