Sep 28 New California fire scorches wine country near San Francisco By Associated Press The new fires erupted Sunday in the famed Napa-Sonoma wine region and in far Northern California’s Shasta County, forcing hasty evacuations of neighborhoods. Continue reading
Sep 28 Trump former campaign manager hospitalized after threat to harm himself By Associated Press Police officers talked Brad Parscale out of his Fort Lauderdale home after his wife called police to say that he had multiple firearms and was threatening to hurt himself when he was hospitalized Sunday under the state’s Baker Act. Continue reading
Sep 28 Federal judge postpones Trump ban on popular app TikTok By Associated Press A more comprehensive ban remains scheduled for November, about a week after the presidential election. Continue reading
Sep 27 5 key findings from NY Times report on Trump’s tax returns By Associated Press President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times. Continue reading
Sep 27 Watch 3:25 With Georgia in dead heat, Trump and Biden woo Black voters By PBS NewsHour Polls show that Georgia, which President Trump won by nearly five points in 2016, has emerged as a hotly contested state with Biden and Trump battling it out for the Black vote. Meanwhile, officials are recruiting thousands of tech savvy… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch 7:50 Inside Georgia’s latest attempt to change how people access Obamacare By Christopher Booker, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo In Georgia, a new health insurance proposal could upend the Affordable Care Act exchange. While proponents see the changes as a way to increase health insurance enrollment, critics warn that tens of thousands of Georgians could lose healthcare coverage. NewsHour… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch 6:28 Puerto Rico gears up to vote in statehood referendum this November By Ivette Feliciano In the last four years, Puerto Rico’s billion dollar debt crisis, devastation caused by hurricanes, earthquakes, and the mass exodus of half a million to the mainland, have all thrown the territory’s relationship to the U.S. in the national spotlight. Continue watching
Sep 27 New rule may strip pollution protections from popular lakes By John Flesher, Associated Press Nearly 50 years ago, a power company received permission from North Carolina to build a reservoir by damming a creek near the coastal city of Wilmington. It would provide a source of steam to generate electricity and a place to… Continue reading
Sep 26 GOP gears up for a speedy confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett By PBS NewsHour President Trump officially announced Amy Coney Barrett as his SCOTUS nominee on Saturday. With just 38 days left for the election, the confirmation process is expected to be short and fast. Jami Floyd, legal analyst and senior editor of WNYC’s… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch 7:48 In rural Massachusetts, racial injustice persists despite big BLM turnout By Zachary Green, Ivette Feliciano This summer, thousands of residents showed up for the Black Lives Matter protests in Great Barrington, Massachusetts -- a small town of less than 7,000 people. NewsHour Weekend’s Zachary Green, who grew up there, reports on how Black people in… Continue watching