Sep 12 Gallup analysis finds young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades By Linley Sanders, Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Associated Press The share of young women who hold liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also jumped by double digits. Becoming a more cohesive political group with distinctly liberal views could turn young women into a… Continue reading
Sep 12 WATCH: Senate holds hearing on bankruptcy of Steward Health Care as CEO refuses to appear By Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press Members of a Senate committee looking into the Steward Health Care bankruptcy said they plan to hold Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt after he refused to attend Thursday's hearing. Lawyers for de la Torre have said he's… Continue reading
Sep 12 Francine weakens moving inland as the storm leaves behind flooding and widespread power outages By Jack Brook, Sara Cline, Associated Press The National Hurricane Center predicted the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season would continue weakening. It's expected to slow down as it moves across Mississippi. Continue reading
Sep 12 First private spacewalk pulled off high above Earth By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press It was a high-risk endeavor reserved for professional astronauts — until now. Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s brand new spacesuits on his chartered flight. Continue reading
Sep 11 Strengthened by warm oceans, Francine hits Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane By Michael Phillis, Associated Press Warm water in the Gulf of Mexico helped quickly strengthen Hurricane Francine, which made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm Wednesday evening. Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch 6:51 News Wrap: Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana as Category 2 In our news wrap Wednesday, Hurricane Francine strengthened to a Category 2 storm before landfall in Louisiana, the U.S. is sending $700 million in aid to Ukraine to help the country's battered energy grid, a group of state and local… Continue watching
Sep 11 Watch 10:28 Social media’s role in fueling extremism and misinformation in a divided political climate By Judy Woodruff, Connor Seitchik Half of U.S. adults say they sometimes get their news from social media. However, almost two-thirds of adults say they view social media as a bad thing for democracy. This raises the question of what responsibility social media companies bear… Continue watching
Sep 11 New citizens in Michigan share what voting means to them By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang New American voters, those who came to the U.S. as immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers, and have since become citizens, are an increasingly important group of voters in the United States. Continue reading
Sep 11 Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill calls for one of the police officers involved in his traffic stop to be fired By Tim Reynolds, Alanis Thames, Associated Press Hill said Wednesday that he wishes he did some things "a bit differently," including leaving the window of his car down when officers instructed him to do so. Hill also said he wants one of the officers involved in the… Continue reading
Sep 11 WATCH: U.S. remembers 9/11 victims in ceremonies at Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash site “Every year, it just doesn’t get easier.”… Continue reading