Feb 10 WATCH: Senate committee holds hearing on health care industry labor shortages By News Desk Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they're facing a dire shortage of nurses amid the slogging pandemic. Continue reading
Feb 09 Toxicologist testifies that drugs and heart disease did not kill George Floyd By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press A toxicologist has testified that it wasn't drug use, heart disease, nor an agitated state known as "excited delirium" that caused George Floyd's death after he was pinned to the pavement by Minneapolis police. Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch 5:16 News Wrap: New York, Massachusetts and Illinois move to end indoor mask mandates In our news wrap Wednesday, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois are joining the move to end indoor mask mandates as the CDC works on new national guidelines, Canadian officials say anti-vaccine protests at U.S. border crossings must end, Russia's military… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 6:48 A divided Congress finds common ground on major legislation By Lisa Desjardins, Ian Couzens This week in Congress something happened that has been relatively rare in recent years -- there were bipartisan agreements on multiple pieces of legislation. Bills tackling the U.S. Postal Service's financial struggles and a major issue regarding workplace sexual harassment… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 7:28 New report details the scale of the U.S. opioid crisis and its link to drug trafficking By William Brangham, Laura Santhanam The opioid overdose crisis that killed more than 100,000 Americans in a year is being called one of the most pressing national security and public health challenges facing the U.S. A majority of the overdoses are driven by the potent… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 9:13 How rising prices are squeezing Americans who were already on a tight budget By Paul Solman, Lee Koromvokis Many economists believe the spike in prices is going to be quite high compared to a year ago, while inflation's bite has been particularly pronounced on some groups of Americans. That includes seniors living on fixed incomes and millennials who… Continue watching
Feb 09 Palin takes witness stand in libel case against New York Times By Tom Hays, Associated Press Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has taken the witness stand in her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. She testified for only about 20 minutes at the end of the day Wednesday at a civil trial in federal court… Continue reading
Feb 09 After bomb threats against HBCUs across the country, students wonder why there's not more urgency By Roby Chavez Despite the all-clear from federal authorities and campus leadership, student anxiety has yet to settle down at several historically Black colleges and universities following a nationwide rash of bomb threats earlier this month targeting 18 HBCUs. The FBI continues its… Continue reading
Feb 09 WATCH: White House urges Americans in Ukraine to leave country By Associated Press White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday repeated warnings made earlier by President Joe Biden that Americans in Ukraine should leave the country. Continue reading
Feb 09 WATCH: White House COVID task force holds news briefing By Associated Press The White House said Wednesday it was beginning to prepare for the next phase of the pandemic response amid growing impatience for the federal government to ease up. Continue reading