Aug 27 Watch 8:29 Gulf Coast escapes storm surge, but hurricane winds cause extensive damage Parts of Louisiana and Texas spent Thursday assessing damage from Hurricane Laura. Wreckage is spread for miles inland, more than 700,000 people have no power and at least four people have been killed. Outside the Louisiana city of Lake Charles,… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch 4:07 Authorities release new details on Blake shooting, subsequent violence By Courtney Norris Three days after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, who is Black, shockwaves are still reverberating and details still emerging. Wisconsin’s attorney general said that police first used a Taser on Blake, who was reportedly shot less than three minutes after… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch 6:11 ‘We’re more than just basketball players,’ Ray Allen says of sports boycotts The shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has sparked public outrage in that city and beyond. Athletes from the NBA, the WNBA, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer refused to play Wednesday night, and nearly a… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch 2:50 News Wrap: New Zealand mosque gunman sentenced to life in prison In our news wrap Thursday, a white supremacist who killed 51 people at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The mass shootings happened in March 2019. Also, the death toll from two days of… Continue watching
Aug 27 South Africa police accused of abuse after teen is killed By Mogomotsi Magome, Associated Press South African police have clashed with protesters demonstrating against the alleged killing of a 16-year-old boy by local policemen in Eldorado Park, an area of Soweto near Johannesburg. Continue reading
Aug 27 Biden, Harris criticize Trump response to unrest and pandemic By Will Weissert, Alexandra Jaffe, Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press Biden's remarks on television and Harris' in a speech come hours before Trump plans to address the final night of the Republican National Convention. The two had been largely silent for the first three days of the GOP gathering. Continue reading
Aug 27 Louisiana parish votes to keep Confederate statue; Hurricane Laura topples it By Melinda Deslatte, Associated Press The South's Defenders Monument formerly stood in front of the Calcasieu Parish courthouse. On Thursday morning it could be seen lying on its side, with broken tree branches strewn on the grass around it. Continue reading
Aug 27 Fox’s Tucker Carlson takes heat for Kenosha commentary By David Bauder, Associated Press Carlson said leaders in Kenosha, Wisconsin, had failed to keep control of their streets following the weekend police shooting of a Black man. Some critics interpreted Carlson's words as support for vigilante justice. Continue reading
Aug 27 Hurricane Laura further strains FEMA in disaster-filled year By Ben Fox, Associated Press Hurricane Laura was also testing an already-stretched Federal Emergency Management Agency in what is shaping up to be a unprecedentedly disastrous year. FEMA has never faced a year like 2020. Continue reading
Aug 27 Trump to visit storm-hit Louisiana and Texas By Associated Press President Donald Trump says he will visit the Gulf Coast this weekend to tour damage from one of the fiercest hurricanes to hit the United States. Continue reading