May 17 Watch 7:11 In Buffalo, Biden condemns ‘poison’ of white supremacy By Cat Wise, Sam Lane, Mary Fecteau, Frank Carlson, Shoshana Dubnow President Biden offered both consolations and a call to reject racism, extremism and white supremacy Tuesday during a visit to Buffalo. The president delivered his remarks less than 72 hours after a white supremacist allegedly shot 13 people, killing 10,… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 5:24 News Wrap: FDA approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster for children age 5 to 11 In our news wrap Tuesday, the FDA authorized Pfizer's low-dose COVID booster for kids 5 to 11 years old, China restricted more Beijing residents to their homes to help control a small outbreak, U.S highway deaths shot up last year… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 7:13 Grappling with grief as U.S. COVID deaths surpass 1 million By PBS NewsHour It's impossible to fully convey the staggering toll of COVID-19, with the number of deaths in the U.S. from the virus equal to losing the entire populations of Boston and Pittsburgh. But numbers describe just one part of this and… Continue watching
May 17 South Carolina governor signs bill banning transgender students from playing girls’ sports By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press South Carolina's Republican governor has quietly signed into law a bill that would ban transgender students from playing girls' or women's sports in public schools and colleges. Continue reading
May 17 WATCH: House Democrats hold a news briefing on legislation to address infant formula shortage By Kevin Freking, Associated Press House Democrats unveiled a $28 million emergency spending bill Tuesday to address the shortage of infant formula in the United States. Continue reading
May 17 FDA authorizes COVID booster shot for healthy 5 to 11 year-old children By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press U.S. regulators have authorized a COVID-19 vaccine booster for healthy children ages 5 to 11. Continue reading
May 16 Watch 5:24 Buffalo mourns as details emerge about gunman’s plans for second attack By Cat Wise, Sam Lane, Mike Fritz, Mary Fecteau, Shoshana Dubnow, Frank Carlson Federal authorities are investigating the massacre in Buffalo as a potential hate crime. Law enforcement officials also reported Monday that the accused gunman had planned to continue his shooting spree at another location if he had escaped. That news came… Continue watching
May 16 Watch 10:25 How America can respond to white nationalist violence This attack in Buffalo in a predominantly Black neighborhood, like too many before it, is leading to another period of conversation and self-examination for some on questions of race, white supremacy and extremist ideology. Eric Ward, of the Southern Poverty… Continue watching
May 16 Watch 4:56 News Wrap: Shooting at California church driven by hate for Taiwan, police say In our new wrap Monday, police in southern California have charged a Las Vegas man with murder and attempted murder in a Sunday shooting at a church that left one person dead and five wounded, President Biden is redeploying U.S. Continue watching
May 16 Watch 6:51 Why the fight against COVID appears to have stalled in the U.S. The CDC on Monday formally confirmed that COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have surpassed 1 million. That's roughly the American death toll in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s the highest reported death toll of any country,… Continue watching