Jul 18 Watch 6:25 How FaceApp highlights a gap in U.S. privacy protections The growing popularity of FaceApp, a photo filter app that allows users to transform their features by adding or removing wrinkles, is sounding alarm bells among privacy advocates and lawmakers. There are questions about how the images of people's faces… Continue watching
Jul 18 New York climate law aims to drive dramatic changes over next 30 years By Mary Esch, Associated Press A new law signed Thursday by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sets the nation's most aggressive targets for reducing carbon emissions and is intended to drive dramatic changes over the next 30 years. Continue reading
Jul 18 What Americans think of Trump’s ‘go back’ to your country tweets By Laura Santhanam, Gretchen Frazee In conversations with people across the nation, the PBS NewsHour found a complicated picture of how the president’s words have affected voters. Continue reading
Jul 18 Trump administration to review Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar computer contract By Associated Press President Trump said that he's been hearing "tremendous complaints" from other companies that the computer contract was not competitively bid, among other issues. Continue reading
Jul 18 Clergy offer support to those vulnerable to immigration raids By David Crary, Hannah Grabenstein, Associated Press The mere prospect of immigration raids has prompted legions of pastors, rabbis and their congregations across the United States stand ready to help vulnerable immigrants. Continue reading
Jul 18 Trump knew about efforts to quash stories of alleged affairs, court records show By Jim Mustian, Associated Press President Trump initially insisted he was unaware of the hush money payments that his former attorney, Michael Cohen, orchestrated to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump. Trump denies the allegations. Continue reading
Jul 18 House passes bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press The bill has almost no chance of passage in the Republican-controlled Senate. Continue reading
Jul 18 Court upholds sentencing of drug company CEO Martin Shkreli By Associated Press Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison last year for looting a drug company he founded, Retrophin, of $11 million to pay back investors in two failed hedge funds he ran. Continue reading
Jul 18 Epstein denied bail in sex trafficking case By Associated Press Federal prosecutors argued Epstein should remain jailed while he fights charges that he exploited dozens of girls in New York and Florida in the early 2000s because has the means to flee and is a flight risk. Continue reading
Jul 18 Protests grow against telescope construction on Hawaii mountain some consider sacred By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Caleb Jones, Associated Press Hawaii Gov. David Ige has signed an emergency proclamation giving law enforcement more options to end the blockade. Continue reading