Jan 28 California shooting leaves 3 dead, 4 wounded in upscale LA neighborhood By Richard Vogel, Associated Press The early Saturday morning shooting comes on top a massacre at a dance hall in a Los Angeles suburb last week that left 11 dead and nine wounded and shootings at two Half Moon Bay farms that left seven dead… Continue reading
Jan 28 Republicans who deny 2020 election results lead key oversight committees By Marc Levy, Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press Republican lawmakers who have spread election conspiracy theories and falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential outcome was rigged are overseeing legislative committees charged with setting election policy in two major political battleground states. Continue reading
Jan 28 Online system to seek asylum at U.S. border overwhelmed with errors, heavy traffic By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press New appointments to seek asylum in the U.S. are available each day at 6 a.m., but migrants find themselves stymied by error messages from the federal government's CBPOne mobile app that's been overloaded since the Biden administration introduced it Jan. 12. Continue reading
Jan 28 Tyre Nichols remembered as kind, joyful soul with creative eye By Adam Beam, Travis Loller, Claire Galofaro, Associated Press Nichols was an avid skateboarder from Sacramento, California, and came to Memphis just before the coronavirus pandemic and got stuck. But he was fine with it because he was with his mother, and they were incredibly close, RowVaughn Wells said. Continue reading
Jan 27 Watch 10:20 Memphis prepares for protests as video of police beating Tyre Nichols is released By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas Authorities in Memphis and other cities are urging peaceful protests as they prepare for the release of graphic video of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. The 29-year-old died this month after police beat him for three minutes following a… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 4:09 News Wrap: Palestinian gunman kills 7 near Jerusalem synagogue In our news wrap Friday, new violence erupted in the Middle East when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near a synagogue in east Jerusalem, the head of the UN Refugee Agency accused Russia of kidnapping Ukrainian children and the U.S. Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 7:35 How one school is helping students catch up on unfinished learning from the pandemic By Geoff Bennett, Ryan Connelly Holmes It's been more than a year since most American schoolchildren returned to the classroom full-time. Now, school districts are working to recover learning lost while kids were at home during the pandemic. Researchers say students in high-poverty areas lost the… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 9:55 Marcus and Abernathy on the deadly police beating in Memphis By Amna Nawaz, Kyle Midura Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus and her Post colleague Gary Abernathy join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the deadly police beating in Memphis and mass shootings in California as America once again reckons with its chronic… Continue watching
Jan 27 Law blocking federal gun regulation sows confusion in Missouri By Gabrielle Hays The act, which Gov. Parson signed at a gun shop in June of 2021, states that any gun law that violates a citizen’s Second Amendment rights, by Missouri’s standards, cannot be enforced, essentially invalidating federal authority to regulate guns. Continue reading
Jan 27 Earth prepares for a close encounter with ‘Green Comet’ not seen since the Stone Age By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years. NASA says the dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times. It will come within 26 million miles of Earth. Continue reading