Aug 31 Texas Attorney General Paxton pursued perks beyond impeachment allegations, former staffers say By Jake Bleiberg, Paul J. Weber, Associated Press Twenty articles of impeachment accuse Paxton of bribery and abuse of office that span years of highly publicized criminal and whistleblower accounts. Continue reading
Aug 31 Departing governor races to move prisoners off death row in Louisiana By Roby Chavez Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is using his clemency power to help advance a mass request for commutations after he publicly called on state lawmakers to stop the death penalty months ago. Continue reading
Aug 31 Tropical Storm Idalia hits North Carolina after leaving trail of devastation in Southeast By Terry Spencer, Associated Press Tropical Storm Idalia is barreling through the Carolinas on its way to the Atlantic Ocean after leaving a trail of flooding and devastation throughout the Southeast. Continue reading
Aug 31 Labor Day travelers can expect lots of company By David Koenig, Associated Press The Federal Aviation Administration predicts that this will be the third busiest holiday weekend of the year so far. Continue reading
Aug 30 A new Titanic recovery expedition is planned. The U.S. is fighting it, saying wreck is a grave site By Ben Finley, Associated Press The challenge has nothing to do with the fatal implosion of the Titan submersible in June. It hinges instead on a federal law and a pact with Great Britain to treat the wreck as a memorial to those who died… Continue reading
Aug 30 Kansas reporter files federal lawsuit against police chief who raided her newspaper’s office By Josh Funk, Associated Press One of the reporters who works at the small Kansas newspaper that was raided by authorities earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief Wednesday. Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 7:02 A look at the damage after Hurricane Idalia slammed Florida as a Category 3 storm By Geoff Bennett, Eliot Barnhart, Solveig Rennan Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday blasting Florida with winds near 125 miles an hour and a wall of water that caused heavy flooding. Thousands chose to get out of harm's way, while others hunkered down for the first major storm… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch 4:57 FEMA administrator discusses federal response to Hurricane Idalia By Amna Nawaz, Stephanie Kotuby, Murrey Jacobson, Shoshana Dubnow, Saher Khan FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell is heading to Florida to assess Hurricane Idalia’s damage first-hand. Before departing Washington, she joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the federal response. Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch 6:21 UNC newspaper editor on emotional front page featuring messages sent during shooting By Amna Nawaz, Ian Couzens, Dan Cooney A shooting at the Univ. of North Carolina this week left one professor dead and a community reeling. A campus lockdown lasted three hours, alarming students and staff who barricaded themselves for safety. The school's paper, The Daily Tar Heel,… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch 11:28 The connections between decline of local news and growing political division By Judy Woodruff, Sarah Clune Hartman, Frank Carlson Judy Woodruff recently examined how the loss of thousands of local newspapers across the country is depriving communities of some of the glue that holds them together and fueling division. She now looks at how some news outlets are managing… Continue watching