Dec 04 Texas judge orders border wall fundraiser not to build By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press State District Judge Keno Vasquez on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order against We Build the Wall, which raised $25 million after promising to build its own private barrier. Continue reading
Dec 04 ICE confirms officers in Louisiana jail pepper-sprayed protesting migrants By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Lawyers say asylum seekers have staged protests at other ICE jails in Louisiana, where the immigrant detainee population has surged in recent months and hit 8,000 earlier this year. Continue reading
Dec 04 Takata recalls dangerous air bag inflators in some BMW cars By Tom Krisher, Associated Press The company is adding about 1.4 million front driver inflators to recalls in the U.S., according to government documents posted Wednesday. Continue reading
Dec 04 Broken Justice Episode 2: How did we get here? - the full transcript https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2019/11/episode-2-broken-justice.mp3 Subscribe to the Broken Justice podcast to access all episodes. Amna Nawaz: Hey y'all. This is episode two of a five part series. So if you didn't start from the beginning, trust me, it'll all make… Continue reading
Dec 04 USDA says hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose SNAP benefits under new rule By Associated Press The finalized rule, announced Wednesday, will restrict states from exempting work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment in order to receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps feed more than 36 million Americans. Continue reading
Dec 04 Leaders gossip about Trump during NATO summit By Jill Lawless, Associated Press Trump branded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “two-faced” after the remarks captured during a reception in London at Buckingham Palace. Continue reading
Dec 04 Fiery partisan disagreements as Judiciary Committee holds first impeachment hearing By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The Judiciary Committee is holding its first hearing since the release of a 300-page report by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that found “serious misconduct” by the president. Continue reading
Dec 03 Episode 5: Where do we go from here? By Amna Nawaz, Frank Carlson, Vika Aronson, Emily Carpeaux, Erica R. Hendry After 23 years behind bars, and a crushing defeat in 2009, Ricky Kidd finally gets a new day in court. Plus, we take a look inside a new St. Louis County prosecutor’s campaign to uproot the process that fuels the… Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch 6:50 What newly released emails reveal about OxyContin, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family The U.S. opioid epidemic has taken hundreds of thousands of lives. A reckoning for the manufacturers, marketers and distributors of these drugs has now begun -- but despite several multibillion dollar settlements, some states and municipalities say accountability and transparency… Continue watching
Dec 03 Watch 7:38 Inside the 'extraordinary' campaign to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court President Trump's nomination of federal judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018 launched a bitter partisan fight that grew even more polarized when Christine Blasey Ford said Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school. Kavanaugh was ultimately… Continue watching