Jul 22 Watch 5:03 News Wrap: Trump says he’s sending more federal agents to police cities In our news wrap Wednesday, President Trump will send federal agents to Chicago, Kansas City and Albuquerque to fight violent crime. They will be drawn from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and… Continue watching
Jul 22 Watch 9:29 How the pandemic is complicating America’s addiction crisis By William Brangham, Mike Fritz According to preliminary data, drug overdoses killed nearly 72,000 Americans in 2019, a record high. Now, it appears that 2020 is on track to be even worse, as the U.S. has witnessed a startling rise in overdoses during the pandemic. Continue watching
Jul 22 House votes to remove Confederate statues from U.S. Capitol By Matthew Daly, Jessica Gresko, Associated Press The vote Wednesday comes as communities nationwide reexamine the people memorialized with statues. Continue reading
Jul 22 Watch 4:59 What’s at stake with political and pandemic challenges for 2020 census On Tuesday, President Trump signed a memo aiming to bar undocumented immigrants from being included in the census count that determines how many members of Congress are allocated to each state. The census is conducted once in a decade, but… Continue watching
Jul 22 Watch 2:56 ‘I Still Can’t Breathe,’ a youth choir’s message on police violence, has fresh relevance Four years ago, the Chester Children’s Chorus, a Pennsylvania group based near Philadelphia, recorded an original song called “I Still Can’t Breathe.” It was their response to the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and other Black Americans. Now teenagers… Continue watching
Jul 22 Violence, protests, arrival of federal agents put Chicago on edge By Don Babwin, Associated Press Amid a surge in gun violence and protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, the nation's third-largest city is on edge, waiting for possible greater tension in the form of a plan by President Donald Trump to dispatch dozens… Continue reading
Jul 22 WATCH: California surpasses New York state in confirmed virus cases By Kathleen Ronayne, Adam Beam, Associated Press California has surpassed New York for the most coronavirus cases in the country, reporting more than 409,000 infections after setting a record on Tuesday for the state's most confirmed new cases in a single day since the start of the… Continue reading
Jul 22 How laid-off Americans may ‘fall through the cracks’ of the health care system during COVID-19 By Courtney Vinopal Some newly uninsured Americans say they’re living without a health care safety net in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
Jul 22 Police in riot gear clear New York City’s ‘Occupy City Hall’ camp By Karen Matthews, Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Police in riot gear moved in early Wednesday to clear a month-long encampment of protesters and homeless people from a park near New York’s City Hall. Continue reading
Jul 22 WATCH: House Democrats discuss legislation to remove Confederate statues from U.S. Capitol By Jessica Gresko, Matthew Daly, Associated Press The House is to vote soon on removing from the U.S. Capitol statues of Confederate heroes, including Robert E. Lee, and a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision. Continue reading