Oct 22 AP: Sandra Day O’Connor fully retired from public life By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press For more than a decade after leaving the court in 2006, O'Connor kept up an active schedule: serving as a visiting federal appeals court judge, speaking on issues she cared about and founding her own education organization. But the 88-year-old,… Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch 6:55 Will conservative Nebraska vote to expand Medicaid? By Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo Nebraskans will vote in November on whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The state’s Republican legislature and governors have refused to expand Medicaid after states were given that option in 2012 by the Supreme Court. The ballot… Continue watching
Oct 21 GOP risks messy leadership struggle after November vote By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Win or lose in the race for the majority, House Republicans are at risk of plunging into a messy leadership battle after the November election, with the party lacking a clear heir apparent to take the place of House Speaker… Continue reading
Oct 21 America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing – even though the law says the government is supposed to preserve it By Keith Kintigh, The Conversation About 30,000 legally mandated archaeological investigations are conducted each year in the U.S. These projects are usually documented only in so-called “gray literature” reports that, in most cases, are not readily accessible, even to professional archaeologists. Continue reading
Oct 21 Bolton faces tense talks with Russia over nuclear treaty By Jim Heintz, Associated Press U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton faces two days of high-tension talks in Moscow beginning Monday after President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. Continue reading
Oct 21 Migrant caravan swells to 5,000 resumes advance toward US By Mark Stevenson, Sonia Pérez D., Associated Press Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, a growing throng of Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico. Continue reading
Oct 20 Warren ancestry highlights how tribes decide membership By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press The clash between the Massachusetts Democratic senator and President Donald Trump over her Native American heritage highlights the varying methods tribes use to determine who belongs — a decision that has wide-ranging consequences. Continue reading
Oct 20 Immunotherapy scores a first win against some breast cancers By Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer For the first time, one of the new immunotherapy drugs has shown promise against breast cancer. Continue reading
Oct 20 Why radiation protection experts are concerned over EPA proposal By Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, The Conversation The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency solicited the advice of a controversial toxicologist, Edward Calabrese, to consider changes to how it regulates radiation. Continue reading
Oct 20 Caravan at Mexico-Guatemala border shrinks as migrants cross By Sonia Pérez D., Mark Stevenson, Associated Press A U.S.-bound caravan that once totaled more than 3,000 Central American migrants looked to be about a third that size Saturday morning, when its remaining members woke up on a bridge that divides the borders of Guatemala and Mexico and… Continue reading