Aug 16 Employees urge Google not to work with U.S. immigration agencies By Rachel Lerman, Associated Press More than 800 Google employees have signed the petition calling on the company to pledge it won't work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch 11:09 Israel has welcomed other political critics. How Trump made Omar and Tlaib different Israel says it will bar two U.S. congresswomen from entering the country. At President Trump's urging, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed his earlier decision to allow Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both Muslims critical of… Continue watching
Aug 15 EPA reverses approval for poison traps used by ranchers By Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday reversed its preliminary decision allowing continued use of deadly sodium cyanide traps, blamed for injuring people and pets as well as their intended targets of coyotes and other predators. Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch 7:13 2 faith leaders on Trump, racism and toning down incendiary rhetoric In times of division, people often turn to faith leaders for guidance and support. Jeffrey Brown spoke to two such leaders, Rev. Mariann Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and Richard Land, president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary,… Continue watching
Aug 15 Police departments confront 'epidemic' in officer suicides By Michael Sisak, Jim Mustian, Associated Press The deaths have come despite the department's mounting efforts to encourage officers to seek help for depression and other mental health problems. After two officers killed themselves on back-to-back days in June, Police Commissioner James O'Neill sent a note reminding… Continue reading
Aug 15 Coroner: Gunman had drugs in system during firefight By John Seewer, Dan Sewell, Associated Press Montgomery County coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger said Connor Betts, 24, had a pipe device and a baggie of cocaine with him, and cocaine, alcohol and an antidepressant in his blood. Continue reading
Aug 15 Soap, sleep essential to migrant kids' safety, according to panel of judges By Associated Press A three-judge panel for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed a challenge to a lower court decision that authorities had failed to provide safe and sanitary conditions for the children under the 1997 settlement. Continue reading
Aug 15 Immigration protesters say 2 hurt when truck drives at them By Associated Press At least two people were injured Wednesday night outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, according to the Jewish youth movement Never Again Action. Continue reading
Aug 15 Veteran accused of assaulting boy for not removing hat during national anthem By Associated Press An attorney said the man, who suffered a traumatic brain injury from an automobile crash, believed he was doing what President Donald Trump wanted him to do. Continue reading
Aug 15 Wet weather doesn't end climate change risk to Colorado River By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press For the seven states relying on the Colorado River, climate change means a future with increasingly less water for farms and cities. Continue reading