Jan 24 Watch 4:51 News Wrap: Russia claims Ukraine shot down plane transporting POWs In our news wrap Wednesday, Moscow accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down a Russian military transport plane killing 74 people, a state trooper in Minnesota was charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Black motorist, Israeli forces and… Continue watching
Jan 24 Watch 5:27 Alcohol-related deaths surge in Colorado with a higher mortality rate than opioids By William Brangham, Dorothy Hastings Alcohol remains one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the U.S. Every year, more people die of alcohol-related causes than drug overdoses. While states have focused their attention on fighting the opioid epidemic, the problems with alcohol have… Continue watching
Jan 24 Watch 7:34 New book ‘Madness’ documents the racism of a Jim Crow-era mental health facility By Amna Nawaz, Stephanie Kotuby, Satvi Sunkara, Alexa Gold Crownsville Hospital in Maryland was one of the last segregated mental asylums in the country. Thousands of Black patients came through the overcrowded, understaffed hospital and many died there. NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton began looking into the facility a… Continue watching
Jan 24 Washington state reaches $149.5 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson over opioid crisis By Manuel Valdes, Hallie Golden, Associated Press Attorney General Bob Ferguson's announcement Wednesday comes as opioid overdose deaths have risen across the state, with 2,048 in 2022. That's more than twice as many deaths as there were in 2019. Continue reading
Jan 24 2 cargo ships flying U.S. flags come under suspected Houthi rebel attack off Yemen By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Suspicion immediately fell on Yemen's Houthi rebels for carrying out the assault. Continue reading
Jan 23 New York man convicted of murdering woman who mistakenly pulled into his driveway By Maysoon Khan, Associated Press/Report for America A man was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday for fatally shooting a young woman when the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York. Continue reading
Jan 23 Tribes, environmental groups ask U.S. court to block $10 billion energy transmission project in Arizona By Susan Montoya Bryan, Ken Ritter, Associated Press A filing in U.S. District Court in Arizona aims to block Pattern Energy's SunZia transmission project through the San Pedro Valley east of Tucson. Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch 4:03 News Wrap: Houthi rebels vow to continue attacks on ships in Red Sea In our news wrap Tuesday, Houthi rebels in Yemen expressed defiance after another round of Western air strikes and said they'll go on attacking ships in the Red Sea, Russian missiles killed 18 people in Ukraine, negotiators in the Senate… Continue watching
Jan 23 Kansas lawmakers want a report on last year’s police raid of a weekly newspaper By John Hanna, Associated Press Thirty-five Democrats and 10 Republicans in the Kansas House have introduced a resolution condemning the Aug. 11 raid of the Marion County Record's offices and the home of its publisher in central Kansas. Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch 8:16 Michigan trial tests if parents are responsible for their child committing a mass shooting By William Brangham, Dorothy Hastings, Eliot Barnhart A trial in Michigan is seeking to answer a difficult question: can parents be held responsible when their child commits a mass shooting? In this particular case, the teenage shooter has already been convicted. But as William Brangham reports, officials… Continue watching