Jun 08 WATCH: White House COVID-19 task force holds news briefing By News Desk and Associated Press The White House COVID-19 task force held a news briefing Tuesday as the U.S. moves closer to the July 4 deadline set by the Biden administration to achieve its vaccination goal. Continue reading
Jun 08 WATCH: Colonial Pipeline CEO says ransom payment was among his 'toughest decisions' By Eric Tucker, Ben Fox, Associated Press The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware last month will tell senators on Tuesday that authorizing a multi-million-dollar payment to hackers was the right thing to do to bring an end to fuel shortages affecting much… Continue reading
Jun 08 Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the violent attack. Continue reading
Jun 07 Drought-stricken Nevada enacts ban on 'non-functional' grass By Sam Metz, Associated Press The measure signed Friday will ban water users in southern Nevada from planting decorative grass so they conserve water. The grass ban starting in 2027 applies to office parks, entrances to housing developments and street medians. Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch 5:32 News Wrap: U.S. recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers In our news wrap Monday, U.S. investigators have recovered the majority of the cryptocurrency payment given to hackers from last month's Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, Vice President Harris was in Guatemala to discuss the surge in immigration from Central America… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch 7:43 Pipeline battle brews in Minnesota between Indigenous tribes and a major oil company By Stephanie Sy, David Coles, Patty Gorena Morales A protracted stand-off between a major oil company and northern Indigenous American tribes intensified this week over the construction of a pipeline in Minnesota. Tara Houska, an attorney, founder of the advocacy organization Giniw Collective and a member of the… Continue watching
Jun 07 Carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached 50% higher than when the industrial age began. And the average rate of increase is faster than ever, scientists say. Continue reading
Jun 07 WATCH: U.S. has recovered ransom payment made after pipeline hack By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The operation to recover the cryptocurrency from the Russia-based hacker group is the first undertaken by a specialized ransomware task force created by the Biden administration Justice Department. Continue reading
Jun 07 Supreme Court rules against immigrants with temporary protected status By Mark Sherman, Associated Press A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 5:50 A 'Hail Mary' to save some species of birds in Maryland By Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo On Maryland’s eastern shore, small islands used by birds for nesting are disappearing. That coincides with a steep drop in several species of colonial nesting birds in the state. But this spring, in what's being described as a ‘Hail Mary’,… Continue watching