May 01 Trans lawmaker in Montana asks court to allow her return to legislature floor By Amy Beth Hanson, Matthew Brown, Associated Press State Rep. Zooey Zephyr was silenced and barred after chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters. Continue reading
May 01 Man who lost wife, son in Texas mass shooting recounts killing By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press A man whose wife and 9-year-old son were killed with three other people north of Houston says the attack began after he asked a neighbor to shoot his gun further away from his home. Continue reading
May 01 Trump’s attorney requests mistrial in rape, defamation case By Larry Neumeister, Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Attorney Joe Tacopina's complaints were filed Monday in Manhattan federal court. Tacopina complained that rulings by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan have been slanted in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll. Continue reading
May 01 First Republic Bank seized, sold to JPMorgan Chase in 2nd-biggest failure in U.S. history By Ken Sweet, Associated Press Regulators have seized troubled First Republic Bank and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank in a bid to head off further banking turmoil in the U.S. First Republic on Monday becomes the… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 3:15 News Wrap: U.S. evacuates more private citizens from Sudan clashes In our news wrap Sunday, the U.S. continued evacuating private American citizens from Khartoum to Port Sudan, police are still searching for a Texas man who allegedly shot and killed five of his neighbors, General Mills is recalling some flour… Continue watching
Apr 30 Watch 5:56 Chicago warns of humanitarian crisis as city struggles to house migrants By John Yang, Claire Mufson More than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since August, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing asylum-seekers to so-called sanctuary cities as a protest against immigration policies. City officials say daily arrivals have increased tenfold over the last two… Continue watching
Apr 30 Analysis: Why protecting very large swaths of land matters for wildlife conservation By David Jachowski, The Conversation Conserving grassland wildlife in the U.S. Great Plains and elsewhere will require public and private organizations to work together to create new, larger protected areas where they can roam. Continue reading
Apr 30 New York City shuts down 4 parking garages after deadly collapse By Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated to the point where… Continue reading
Apr 30 WATCH: Gwen Ifill, Bill Plante honored at White House press dinner with lifetime awards By News Desk and Associated Press The late PBS NewsHour anchor Gwen Ifill and CBS News correspondent Bill Plante were posthumously awarded the Dunnigan-Payne Prize for lifetime career achievement Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Continue reading
Apr 30 Texas mass shooting suspect remains at large, ‘could be anywhere,’ sheriff says By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press A widening manhunt for a Texas gunman who killed five neighbors continued turning up nothing Sunday as officers knocked on doors, the governor put up $50,000 in reward money and the FBI acknowledged they had “zero leads” after nearly two… Continue reading