Politics Jul 11 News Wrap: Tillerson visits Qatar to mend Persian Gulf rift In the our news wrap Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to Qatar in hopes of resolving a rift with its Persian Gulf neighbors. Also, the U.S. military confirmed that 15 Marines and a Navy Corpsman died earlier this…
World Jul 11 Inside Russia's propaganda machine For years, the Kremlin and the media it controls have waged a multifaceted information (and disinformation) campaign inside Russia and pointed at its perceived adversaries, including the U.S. As part of our week-long series Inside Putin's Russia, special correspondent Nick…
Education Jul 11 Betsy DeVos hits reset on new student loan consumer protections The Trump administration has held up the implementation of Obama-era rules that would have allowed student borrowers to have their debt erased if they had been victims of fraud by for-profit schools. Now 18 states and the District of Columbia…
Politics Jul 11 What to expect as Senate health care battle goes into overtime Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that the Senate will delay the beginning of its summer recess by two weeks in order to tackle a daunting agenda, topped by the health care battle. Lisa Desjardins join John Yang to…
Politics Jul 10 White House downplays Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer President Trump's son, Donald Jr., met last summer with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer, along with Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, after being told that she had damaging information about Hillary Clinton. The latest revelation about the Trump campaign's connections with…
World Jul 10 News Wrap: NATO chief demands Russian troops leave Ukraine In the our news wrap Monday, the head of NATO demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from Ukraine. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressed the parliament in Kiev, saying Europe and the U.S. are united in support of Ukraine. Also, Iraq’s…
Politics Jul 10 Why Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting to discuss damaging Clinton info matters How does the news that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to discuss damaging information about HIllary Clinton add to what we know about Russian meddling in the 2016 election? Former CIA officer John Sipher and Mark Mazzetti…
World Jul 10 Pride, patriotism and how Putin helped redefine what it means to be a 'true Russian' The new Russian identity is a combination of religion, old Russian traditions and rediscovered patriotism. It helps explain how today’s Russians think, how President Putin acts and why he remains popular. As part of our week-long series Inside Putin's Russia,…
Health Jul 10 What Virginia's poorest citizens want from health care reform As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, we visit patients and health care providers at a free clinic in rural southwest Virginia -- a region that strongly supported President Trump, in a state…