Nation Dec 02 Dozens of suburban Detroit schools close amid threats after high school shooting Dozens of schools across suburban Detroit cancelled classes Thursday, two days after four students were killed in a shooting at Oxford High School. The alleged shooter, who is 15, remains held without bail, charged with murder and terrorism. The prosecutor…
World Nov 23 Why Russia may end its ‘unstable ceasefire’ with Ukraine, and how U.S. politics affects it American and European officials are growing increasingly alarmed by a Russian military build up of more than 100,000 troops along the border with Ukraine. The region has been a flashpoint since 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and supported…
Nation Nov 18 Why Malcolm X’s murder was revisited, and what exonerations say about U.S. justice system A New York judge on Thursday exonerated two men of assassinating Malcolm X. The iconic civil rights figure was gunned down in Manhattan in 1965. Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam were convicted, and imprisoned until the 1980's. A…
Nation Nov 17 Heavy rains flood and isolate parts of U.S. Pacific Northwest, Canada Parts of the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, are still reeling tonight from record rain that touched off flooding and mudslides. John Yang reports.
World Nov 16 ‘All eyes on Cuba’ : How Cuban Americans see U.S. role in Cuba’s struggle for democracy The Cuban government successfully thwarted plans for a nationwide pro-democracy demonstration Monday. The communist-led regime targeted organizers of the event — detaining some, surrounding the homes of others, and waging a media campaign to discredit them. John Yang has more…
Health Nov 12 What Aaron Rodgers’ controversy tells us about vaccine skepticism in professional sports Will Leitch, a contributing editor for New York Magazine, and John Yang discuss the controversy over Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers' vaccination status. Rodgers had previously implied he was inoculated against COVID-19, but later admitted to being unvaccinated after…
Nation Nov 09 Remembering Max Cleland, former senator and Vietnam War veteran Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland from Georgia, a Vietnam War veteran, died Tuesday at age 79 in Atlanta after suffering congestive heart failure. He lost three limbs in a hand grenade blast in Vietnam, and championed veterans' rights. John Yang…
Health Nov 08 States sue over new Biden vaccine rule for businesses, claim federal overreach This weekend, a federal appeals court in Louisiana temporarily blocked the Biden administration's new rule that millions of private sector workers get a COVID-19 vaccine, or get tested weekly. The rule has led more than two dozen states to file…
Nation Nov 04 Majority-white jury in Ahmaud Arbery case like a ‘relic of the old South,’ expert says Opening statements begin Friday in the trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, in Southeast Georgia last year. Arbery's death triggered national protests after cellphone video of the incident showed him being chased down…
Politics Nov 03 Supreme Court mulls limits of Second Amendment in New York gun law case Gun rights and the Second Amendment were front-and-center at the Supreme Court Wednesday, in the first major test of gun regulations since the court said gun ownership was a right protected by the Constitution. John Yang reports.