Arts Oct 07 Sonia Sanchez wins Gish Prize for lifetime achievement Poet, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez is this year’s winner of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, a $250,000 lifetime achievement honor previously given to Chinua Achebe, Bob Dylan and Maya Lin among others.
Politics Oct 07 WATCH: Former U.S. special envoy to Haiti delivers remarks Foote resigned last month, saying that he did not want to be associated with what he called the United States’ “inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees” back to the island nation.
Arts Oct 06 WATCH: Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Prize in literature The award was in recognition of his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”…
Politics Oct 06 WATCH: Sanders says Manchin must specify spending objections Sen. Bernie Sanders, a key supporter of Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion reconciliation spending plan strongly criticized Sen. Joe Manchin after the West Virginia Democrat said he does not want to see the United States become "an entitlement society."…
Nation Oct 06 WATCH: Officials give update on California oil spill Some of the crude oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents, a Coast Guard official said Wednesday as authorities sought to determine the scope of the damage.
Politics Oct 06 WATCH: Manchin urges Senate leaders to 'engage' on debt Sen. Joe Manchin, who had said in recent weeks that he's opposed to eliminating the filibuster told reporters, he has been "very, very clear" where he stands on the procedure. "Nothing changes," he said.
Nation Oct 06 WATCH: White House COVID Response Team holds news briefing The United States is on course to have about 200 million at-home COVID-19 rapid tests available per month beginning in December, according to the White House.
Economy Oct 06 Facebook blames massive outage on error during routine maintenance Facebook's vice president of infrastructure said that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was "caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making."…
Arts Oct 05 NYC public libraries will end late fees in push for equity New York City's public libraries will no longer charge late fees and will waive existing fines for overdue books and other materials, city officials announced Tuesday.
Arts Oct 05 Alan Kalter, announcer for David Letterman, dies at 78 Alan Kalter, the quirky, red-headed announcer for David Letterman for two decades who frequently appeared in the show's comedy bits, has died. He was 78.