Sep 15 WATCH: Jon Stewart advocates for congressional aid for sick veterans exposed to military burn pits By Justin Stabley Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart pressed Congress on Tuesday to help sick U.S. veterans who believe they were injured after their exposure to military burn pits while serving overseas. Continue reading
Sep 15 Income in the U.S. rose in 2019. So did the number of uninsured By Mike Schneider, Associated Press In 2019, median household income in the U.S. was the highest ever on record. But that was before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Continue reading
Sep 15 FDA weighs whether to resume AstraZeneca vaccine trials after patient’s serious side effect By Arthur Allen, Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of… Continue reading
Sep 15 WATCH: City to pay $12 million to Breonna Taylor’s mom, reform police By Dylan Lovan, Associated Press Taylor's death sparked months of protests in Louisville and calls nationwide for the officers to be criminally charged. Continue reading
Sep 15 Hurricane Sally slows, gathering a deluge for the Gulf Coast By Jay Reeves, Stacey Plaisance, Associated Press Hurricane Sally is crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast at just 2 mph, a pace that's enabling the storm to gather huge amounts of water to eventually dump on land. Continue reading
Sep 15 Multi-million settlement reached in Breonna Taylor lawsuit By Dylan Lovan, Associated Press The city of Louisville will pay several million dollars to the mother of Breonna Taylor and install police reforms as part of a settlement of a lawsuit from Taylor’s family. Continue reading
Sep 15 Trump defies virus rules as ‘peaceful protest’ rallies grow By Jill Colvin, Associated Press President Trump's "law and order" platform hasn't stopped him and his campaign from openly defying state emergency orders and flouting his own administration's coronavirus guidelines as he holds ever-growing rallies in battleground states. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch 6:01 News Wrap: Belarus’ besieged Lukashenko meets with Putin In our news wrap Monday, Belarus’ embattled President Alexander Lukashenko traveled to neighboring Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who promised a $1.5 billion loan and warned against foreign interference in Belarus’ politics. Also, scientists in Denmark and… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch 2:33 How slow movement of Hurricane Sally could create ‘dangerous’ conditions The Gulf Coast of the United States is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Sally, expected to hit east of New Orleans with up to two feet of rain. A separate hurricane struck Bermuda on Monday, and two more storms… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch 6:17 With wildfires raging during a pandemic, Oregon residents are pushed to the brink By Cat Wise, Leah Nagy In Oregon, more than a million acres have burned already during this devastating early wildfire season -- twice the full-year average. Over 40,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, and at least 22 are missing. Air quality in… Continue watching