Politics Jan 04 NAACP sit-in at Jeff Sessions’ office ends in six arrests Police arrested six protesters, including the national NAACP president, after they spent hours staging a sit-in Tuesday at a Mobile, Alabama, office of Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. attorney general.
Arts Dec 28 How late-night comedy found its voice this election year Two TV critics talk about the struggles late-night talk show hosts faced in covering the 2016 election and how Donald Trump managed to sidestep the satire.
Arts Dec 27 Carrie Fisher, ‘Star Wars’ icon, dead at 60 “Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher died Tuesday, four days after she suffered a “cardiac episode” on a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to family spokesman Simon Halls.
World Dec 23 Berlin attack suspect killed in shootout with Italian police Anis Amri, a Tunisian man who was suspected of crashing a truck into a Christmas market full of shoppers in Berlin, was shot and killed by Italian police in Milan early Friday.
World Dec 21 UK soccer pedophilia scandal widens to 429 victims More potential victims have reported past cases of sexual abuse from the U.K. soccer world. Survivors were invited to come forward by an ex-professional player who told a British newspaper recently that a youth coach abused him as a child.
Nation Dec 20 ‘Flint deserves better’; four more charged in ongoing Flint water investigation Video by PBS NewsHour Four former Flint, Michigan leaders, including two emergency managers, now face felony charges for their involvement in the city’s water crisis, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced today. In a news conference Tuesday, Schuette said a…
World Dec 19 Gunman kills Russian ambassador to Turkey, shouts ‘Don’t forget Syria’ AP reported that the attacker was heard shouting in Turkish, "Don't forget Aleppo! Don't forget Syria!"…
Nation Dec 14 Hackers stole data from 1 billion Yahoo accounts Yahoo said an "unauthorized third party" hacked these accounts in August 2013.
Nation Dec 05 Mistrial declared in case against officer charged with killing Walter Scott After more than 22 hours of deliberations over four days, jurors told Circuit Judge Clifton Newman on Monday afternoon they could not come to an unanimous decision in the case against the 34-year-old ex-patrolman, who faced a possible sentence of…
Nation Dec 02 Tennessee mayor confirms 13 dead from wildfires Twelve of the victims died directly from the fire, while one woman suffered a fatal heart attack caused by smoke inhalation as she fled from the flames, Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters said today.