Aug 03 Parties in lawsuits seeking damages for Maui wildfires reach $4 billion global settlement By Audrey McAvoy, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press The parties in lawsuits seeking damages for last year’s Maui wildfires have reached a $4 billion global settlement, a court filing said Friday, nearly one year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Continue reading
Aug 02 Defense Secretary overrides plea agreement for 9/11 defendants, reinstates as death penalty cases By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press The move comes two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced it had reached plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accused accomplices in the attacks. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch 5:28 Economist says Federal Reserve too slow to cut interest rates and weakening the economy By Geoff Bennett, Azhar Merchant The U.S. labor market slowed down in July and looked weaker than expected, creating 114,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate also ticked up to 4.3 percent. It's raising questions about whether the Federal Reserve has waited too long to cut… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch 3:25 Families reunited as Americans who were detained in Russia arrive home By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi, Lachlan Hyatt Rarely has an airport seen such joy after very long delays. But Thursday night was no ordinary night at Joint Base Andrews near Washington where three Americans held by Russia returned home to a presidential welcome. Nick Schifrin reports. Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch 6:21 Kurmasheva’s husband on release from Russia: ‘I didn’t believe it until I actually saw it’ By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi Alsu Kurmasheva is one of the Americans detained in Russia to come home in a prisoner exchange. To discuss the emotional family reunions, Nick Schifrin spoke with Kurmasheva's husband, Pavel Butorin, and their older daughter, Bibi. Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch 5:58 News Wrap: Secret Service not on radio system with local police at Trump rally shooting In our news wrap Friday, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said agents were not on the same radio system as local law enforcement on the day of the Trump rally shooting, the leading global authority on food security officially… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch 8:57 New book chronicles the formerly enslaved man crucial to creating Jack Daniel’s By Geoff Bennett, Stephanie Kotuby, Alexa Gold Jack Daniel's is a famous whiskey brand, but Daniel didn’t create the method for distilling Tennessee whiskey. He learned it from a formerly enslaved man named Nearest Green. Fawn Weaver created Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey to honor and preserve Green’s… Continue watching
Aug 02 How a political fight is delaying timely mental health treatment in Oklahoma’s jails By Adam Kemp Two of Oklahoma’s top state officials are at an impasse over how to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the state of not providing timely mental health services to people awaiting services in county jail. Continue reading
Aug 02 U.S. hiring slows with just 114,000 jobs added in July, unemployment rate hits 4.3 percent By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press U.S. hiring decelerated sharply last month in the face of high interest rates as employers added a weak 114,000 jobs. Friday's Labor Department report showed a drop from the 179,000 jobs created in June. Continue reading
Aug 02 Few Americans trust Secret Service following Trump assassination attempt, AP-NORC poll says By Adriana Gomez Licon, Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Associated Press Only around three in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the Secret Service can keep the presidential candidates safe from violence before the election. Continue reading