Did the government poison a city?

A neighborhood in St. Louis demands answers

View online. YOUR MORNING August 29, 2025 Good morning, NewsNation. For more fact-based, unbiased news coverage 24/7 – Download the NewsNation app here > Exclusive: Inside the Army's secret tests in St. Louis Secret tests: During the Cold War, the U.S. government carried out secretive experiments on some Americans. Now, former residents of a St. Louis neighborhood are demanding to know more about a "sickening, nauseating" fog the Army sprayed throughout their neighborhood. Full exclusive report > Moscow 2.0: St. Louis was chosen for spraying experiments due to its physical similarities to Moscow. According to the National Research Council, its population density, terrain and river access made it an ideal analog for the Soviet city. The residents say they were never told. Details > What was sprayed? In the 1950s and '60s, the U.S. Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide — a compound containing cadmium, a known carcinogen — in the city of St. Louis. Residents now wonder: How much of their illness might be traced back to those years under the fog? Read more > What's next? The residents' fight has reached Congress, with Rep. Wesley Bell of Missouri fighting to include them in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. The latest > Minnesota community mourns after shooting killed 2, injured 18 School shooting: A memorial outside Annunciation Catholic School is growing in Minneapolis, as the world learns the identities of the two children killed and new details about the shooter. The shooting injured 18 others, including 15 children. The latest > Remembering the victims: Those killed included 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski, their families confirmed. Fletcher's father told reporters: "Please remember Fletcher for the person he was, and not the act that ended his life." Moyski's family remembered her as "bright, joyful and deeply loved." What we know about the victims >  No motive determined: Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the attack. Minneapolis police Chief Brian O'Hara described the shooter as having a "deranged fascination" with previous school shooters and killing children. Read more: School shooter's Nazi salutes, 'erratic' behavior revealed by ex-friend > What's next? Health officials will give an update on the shooting at 1p/12C. NewsNation will stream the event live. Watch here > Hundreds honor 2 children killed and 17 people wounded in shooting > Witnesses describe hearing about Minneapolis Catholic school shooting > Minneapolis school shooter had anti-Trump, religious messages scrawled on gun > 'De minimis' tariff loophole ends. What does it mean for consumers? Tariffs: Millions of packages entering the United States daily are now subject to tariffs after the Trump administration ended the long-standing "de minimis" exemption. 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