Aug 22 Watch 6:17 Public health experts sound the alarm as new polio cases emerge By William Brangham Polio had been considered eliminated from the U.S. since 1979, when the last known case of the original strain of the polio virus was detected, while the global vaccination campaign has decreased cases by 99.9 percent. But the virus now… Continue watching
Aug 22 Watch 3:02 Rapper Noname's Brief But Spectacular take on community learning and solidarity By Melissa Williams, Elizabeth Burton Noname is a rapper and founder of the Noname Book Club, which encourages readers to support local bookstores and books by authors of color. The club now has 14 chapters across the United States. Here's her Brief But Spectacular take… Continue watching
Aug 22 Election workers abruptly quit, upending rural Texas county By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press The entire elections staff in a rural Texas county has quit less than three months before November's midterm elections. Two full-time elections workers in Gillespie County say threats and harassment drove them out of the job. Continue reading
Aug 22 Ethics board says South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem may have 'engaged in misconduct' By Stephen Groves, Associated Press A South Dakota ethics board has found enough information that Noem may have "engaged in misconduct" when she intervened in her daughter's application for a real estate appraiser license to potentially take action against the Republican governor. Continue reading
Aug 22 Ohio searching for 7,000 construction workers to build Intel chip plants By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press Ohio's largest-ever economic development project is coming with a big employment challenge. Continue reading
Aug 22 3 Arkansas cops suspended after beating video circulates on social media By Associated Press Three law enforcement officers in Arkansas have been suspended after a video posted on social media showed a suspect being held down on the ground and beaten by police. Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 3:18 News Wrap: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy warns of Russian escalation in war In our news wrap Sunday, Ukraine's president warns that Russian forces could escalate fighting this week and calls for strength ahead of Ukrainian Independence Day, a federal appeals court granted Sen. Lindsey Graham a temporary hold on testifying before a… Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch 5:30 Races to watch ahead of Florida's primary election By Harry Zahn, Winston Wilde During Florida's primary election this Tuesday, Democratic voters will decide who takes on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November and who will go up against Sen. Marco Rubio. POLITICO reporter Gary Fineout joins Geoff Bennett to discuss. Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch 7:31 Parents of murdered Army officer push for burial at Arlington cemetery By Geoff Bennett, Kaisha Young In May 2017, Richard Collins III had just been commissioned into the U.S. Army when he was stabbed to death at a university bus stop. His killer had links to a white supremacist group and was sentenced to life in… Continue watching
Aug 20 Watch 2:31 News Wrap: Russia to allow inspectors into occupied nuclear plant In our news wrap Saturday, Russia has said international inspectors will be allowed into the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Islamic militants stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital in a deadly terror attack, the Supreme Court sided with Black voters in a… Continue watching