Jan 27 WATCH: White House says Biden, Nichols family are calling for peaceful protests By Seung Min Kim, Zeke Miller, Associated Press White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday said President Joe Biden has been briefed about Tyre Nichols' encounter with police but neither he nor White House officials have seen the video. Continue reading
Jan 27 GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel defeats rival Harmeet Dhillon in party leadership vote By Steve Peoples, Associated Press Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel won her bid Friday to lead the GOP for two more years, prevailing in an election that highlighted fierce internal divisions that threaten to plague the party into the next presidential season. Continue reading
Jan 27 Memphis authorities release video footage in Tyre Nichols’ death By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press Authorities released video footage Friday showing Tyre Nichols being beaten by five Memphis police officers who held the Black motorist down and repeatedly struck him with their fists, boots and batons as he screamed for his mother. Continue reading
Jan 26 Blinken headed to Middle East as U.S. expresses alarm over growing violence By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend amid a sharp spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence that has alarmed the Biden administration. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch 4:14 News Wrap: U.S. economy shows new signs of slowing after repeated interest rate hikes In our news wrap Thursday, the U.S. economy shows new signs of slowing after repeated interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, 11 people died in Ukraine during a wave of Russian missile and drone attacks, the FBI says it… Continue watching
Jan 26 Watch 5:27 Trump allowed back on Facebook and Instagram after two-year ban By Amna Nawaz, Ali Schmitz Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has cleared the way for former President Trump to return to the platforms in the coming weeks. It comes two years after Trump was suspended following the Jan. 6 attack on the… Continue watching
Jan 26 Watch 6:31 An early look at key 2024 Senate races and candidates By Geoff Bennett, Matt Loffman Congress has just started its new term, but many senators and Senate hopefuls are already thinking about the next election. Rep. Adam Schiff became the second Democrat to jump into the race for Senate in California, and Democratic Rep. Ruben… Continue watching
Jan 26 Watch 5:14 Republican National Committee confronts party infighting as it chooses its leader By Amna Nawaz, Matt Loffman Members of the Republican National Committee are meeting this week to determine the party's next leader. But the race for RNC chair between incumbent Ronna McDaniel and challenger Harmeet Dhillon is revealing deeper divisions in the GOP as Republicans hope… Continue watching
Jan 26 Biden administration proposes new race and ethnicity categories for federal surveys By Mike Schneider, Associated Press A Middle Eastern and North African category would be added to U.S. federal surveys and censuses, and changes would be made to how Hispanics are able to self-identify. Continue reading
Jan 26 Who is Jeff Zients, Biden’s next chief of staff? By Kenichi Serino President Joe Biden has named Jeff Zients, a businessman and former COVID-19 response coordinator, as his new chief of staff. Continue reading