Jun 20 How rising water costs could drive this Michigan city to bankruptcy By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Highland Park, Michigan, an enclave city surrounded by Detroit, may be facing bankruptcy over tens of millions of dollars in water bills in the costly aftermath of a financial crisis that left residents without a working water plant. Many minority-majority… Continue reading
Jun 20 Supreme Court rejects appeal from veterans seeking disability benefits after radiation exposure By Associated Press A federal appeals court rejected the class-action claims. The Supreme Court’s action leaves that ruling in place. Continue reading
Jun 20 Attorney John Eastman, who advised Trump’s efforts to undermine 2020 election, faces potential disbarment By Stefanie Dazio, Michael R. Blood, Associated Press Eastman faces 11 disciplinary charges filed by the State Bar of California, stemming from accusations he assisted Trump with a strategy — not supported by facts — to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election, won by Joe Biden. Continue reading
Jun 20 Hunter Biden agrees to plea deal for income tax and illegal weapon charges By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The deal ends a long-running Justice Department investigation into Biden’s second son, who has acknowledged struggling with addiction following the 2015 death of his brother Beau Biden. Continue reading
Jun 19 Montana officials minimize first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit ahead of final arguments By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, Associated Press Montana officials sought to downplay a first-of-its-kind trial taking place over the state's obligations to protect residents from climate change, saying Monday that a victory by the young plaintiffs would not change approvals for fossil fuel projects. Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch 7:10 Report says DOJ resisted investigating Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for over a year By Geoff Bennett, Cybele Mayes-Osterman New reporting from The Washington Post reveals that in the days and weeks following the Jan. 6 attack, senior officials at the Justice Department and the FBI made critical decisions that might have compromised its investigation of former President Trump… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch 3:11 Greek coast guard questioned over response to deadly sinking of migrant vessel By John Irvine Recriminations, mourning, and anger persist as the search for hundreds of migrants missing in the waters off Greece continued Monday. Last week's sinking of an over-filled vessel is perhaps the greatest Greek sea disaster since antiquity. John Irvine of Independent… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch 7:00 Group of young people sue Montana over inaction on climate change By William Brangham, Sam Lane A first-of-its-kind trial is underway in Montana, where a group of young people argue the state's lawmakers aren't doing nearly enough to address climate change. Montana is one of the nation’s biggest coal producers and the industry there has strong… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch 4:26 The grandmother of Juneteenth on what the holiday means for Americans By Geoff Bennett, Courtney Norris, Dorothy Hastings In 1865, Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the country's last enslaved people that they had been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation. The day now known as Juneteenth was formally recognized as a national holiday… Continue watching
Jun 19 Post-pandemic purge of rolls sees 1 million people dropped from Medicaid By David A. Lieb, Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press About 1.5 million people have lost Medicaid coverage in more than two dozen states as a post-coronavirus pandemic purge of the rolls gets underway. Continue reading