Jun 11 Biden hosts Pride Month celebration at White House, voices LGBTQ+ support By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press Pride Month is being celebrated this year as state lawmakers have introduced at least 525 bills and enacted 78 bills that whittle away at LGBTQ+ rights, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Continue reading
Jun 11 WATCH: Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro gives news briefing on I-95 overpass collapse By Ron Todt, Associated Press An elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed early Sunday in Philadelphia after a tanker truck carrying flammable cargo caught fire, closing a heavily traveled segment of the East Coast's main north-south highway indefinitely, authorities said. Continue reading
Jun 10 Air quality issues, horse safety concerns complicate start of Belmont Stakes By Tom Canavan, Associated Press Heading into the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, the racing has become almost an afterthought as the public has focused on a recent spike in deaths of horses at racetracks and air quality problems in the northeast caused by wildfires in… Continue reading
Jun 10 Watch 4:57 News Wrap: Trump lashes out at Justice Department at GOP convention in Georgia In our news wrap Saturday, Trump spoke on the campaign trail a day after his federal indictment was unsealed, Ted Kaczynski died in federal prison, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said his country’s counteroffensive against Russia has begun, skies over the East… Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch 6:25 Why some top schools are opting out of U.S. News’ college rankings list By John Yang, Winston Wilde, Kaisha Young, Andrew Corkery This week, Columbia University said it would no longer provide information for the U.S. News and World Report’s decades-old rankings list of colleges and universities. The high-profile dropout follows a parade of prestigious law schools and medical schools that said… Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch 5:28 What you need to know to stay safe from ticks and Lyme disease this summer By John Yang, Andrew Corkery, Claire Mufson According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as 476,000 people in the U.S. contract Lyme disease every year. Climate change and human encroachment into wilderness areas means ticks and the disease-causing bacteria they carry are becoming more common. Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch 3:49 How anonymity on social media influences online behavior, harassment By Becky Wandel and Rawan Elbaba, Student Reporting Labs When Tionna Haynes was a college student, she became a target of harassment on an anonymous messaging platform after organizing racial injustice protests on campus. She spoke with student reporter Bridgette Adu-Wadier about how the design of social media platforms… Continue watching
Jun 10 Ted Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ dies in federal prison at 81 By Michael Balsamo, Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Theodore “Ted" Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Saturday. Continue reading
Jun 09 Oregon looks to crack down on illegal pot growers by holding landowners responsible By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press Oregon has long been known as a mecca for high-quality marijuana, but that reputation has come with a downside. Illegal growers offer huge amounts of cash to lease or buy land and then leave behind pollution, garbage and a drained… Continue reading
Jun 09 Watch 9:32 DOJ accuses Trump of showing off classified documents and defying order to return them By Amna Nawaz, Lisa Desjardins, Kyle Midura, Alexis Cox, Jonah Anderson The Justice Department has formally accused former President Trump of grossly mishandling classified documents. The newly unsealed indictment runs to 37 counts in damning detail. They allege Trump showed almost casual indifference to protecting secret material, that he defied demands… Continue watching