Jun 30 WATCH: What to know about tech surveillance and abortion access By Nicole Ellis, Casey Kuhn Cell phone technology can track user data, including applications, location services and browsing history. Law enforcement has also been able to obtain and use this information in criminal cases. Continue reading
Jun 29 WATCH: A community conversation about abortion hosted by GBH in Boston Thursday, June 30 at 2 p.m. ET, our partners at GBH will host a community town hall on the latest Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion. We'll stream the GBH event live in the player above, and… Continue reading
Jun 29 Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former White House counsel Pat Cipollone By Associated Press The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone. Previous witnesses have testified Cipollone was in meetings in which lawyers debated strategies to overturn former President Donald Trump’s election loss. Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 5:39 News Wrap: Death toll rises to 53 in Texas after migrants were found in abandoned truck In our news wrap Wednesday, the death toll rose to 53 in San Antonio, Texas, after migrants were found in an abandoned truck, the Supreme Court allows an Army veteran to sue Texas over claim that burn pits in Iraq… Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch 8:52 Former White House aide's testimony could pose new legal challenges for Trump By PBS NewsHour This week's remarkable testimony from White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson painted an incriminating picture of former President Trump’s actions around the Capitol insurrection, raising key questions about possible criminal charges and other consequences for Trump and his inner circle. Attorney… Continue watching
Jun 29 Mexican migrant in Texas tragedy hoped to reach family in Ohio By Julie Watson, Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press Francisco López Hernández said Wednesday that his cousin Javier Flores López went back home to Cerro Verde to see his wife and three children before departing for the U.S.-Mexico border with another cousin, José Luis Vásquez Guzmán. Vásquez Guzmán was… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 5:57 Democrats pressure Biden to take executive action on abortion rights President Biden promised to do everything in his power to protect abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In the days since that historic ruling, pressure from Democrats in Congress and outside advocates is mounting on Biden… Continue watching
Jun 29 Lev Parnas, Giuliani's former Ukraine fixer, gets 20 months in prison By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press An associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment investigation was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes. Continue reading
Jun 29 1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest By Jay Reeves, Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping. And relatives of the victim say they now want the woman… Continue reading
Jun 29 A ballot initiative in Michigan could let voters choose whether abortion is a protected right By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Michigan is one of several states across the country seeking to protect abortion rights as the question of legality returns to the states. But it’s also one of close to two dozen states with a law criminalizing the termination of… Continue reading