• The intrusive investigation behind Supreme Court nominations

    The intrusive investigation behind Supreme Court nominations

    Feb 16, 2016 09:32 PM EDT

    ... information about President Barack Obama's potential picks for the Supreme Court, from the mundane to the intensely personal. In trying to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the president could alter the balance of the court for decades — but only if he can get his nominee through Republicans in ...

  • Bergdahl to face desertion charge in general court-martial

    Bergdahl to face desertion charge in general court-martial

    Dec 14, 2015 07:57 PM EDT

    ... disappearance and the possibility that he might face light punishment had angered many in the military, given that his fellow soldiers took considerable risks in searching for him. The Pentagon has said no one died in searching for Bergdahl. Fidell also asked the House and Senate Armed Services committees to ...

  • Why it's hard to find a missing person among the unidentified dead

    Why it's hard to find a missing person among the unidentified dead

    Oct 06, 2015 01:08 AM EDT

    ... matter of having to sit down and just go through these cases and find what you're looking for. The answers are in the system for a lot of these cases. MICHAEL SCHILLER: The NamUs system allows authorities to automatically perform cross-matching comparisons between databases, searching for similarities. TODD ...

  • News Wrap: Police search for motive in Louisiana movie theater shooting

    News Wrap: Police search for motive in Louisiana movie theater shooting

    Jul 24, 2015 11:08 PM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: Police are searching for a motive, after last night's shooting at a Louisiana movie theater. Authorities say 59-year-old John Russel Houser killed two and injured nine others, before killing himself. Court documents from years ago showed Houser was mentally ill and prone to violence ...

  • News Wrap: Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

    News Wrap: Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

    Jun 26, 2015 10:23 PM EDT

    ... shot dead near Malone, not far from the Canadian border. Police are still pursuing David Sweat, who escaped with Matt. Hundreds of officers have been searching for the pair. The hunt intensified in the last few days after they found items that the two men had left behind. Terror attacks ...

  • News Wrap: Biden calls Iraq’s PM after Carter comments

    News Wrap: Biden calls Iraq’s PM after Carter comments

    May 25, 2015 11:16 PM EDT

    ... the Blanco River rising 26 feet in an hour. KHARLEY SMITH, Emergency Coordinator, Hays County: We do have 12 missing persons that we are actively searching for. We have additional concerns, where we are gathering information from reporting parties to make sure that the residents are missing or are not ...

  • Bringing the theater of the Supreme Court to the stage

    Bringing the theater of the Supreme Court to the stage

    Mar 21, 2015 12:14 AM EDT

    ... you know, he will -- he will listen, and then when he hears something, then he will pounce, right? So he sort of gathers up and searching for the right word or for the logic of the argument. Then, once he grabs onto it, he will launch and have a question ...

  • Federal authorities say no foul play in death of black man hanging in a tree in Mississippi

    Federal authorities say no foul play in death of black man hanging in a tree in Mississippi

    Mar 20, 2015 03:48 PM EDT

    ... the man as Otis Byrd, a 54-year-old man who had been reported missing since March 2. Authorities found the body when they were searching for Byrd. The NAACP chapter called upon authorities to launch an investigation into Byrd's death in a released statement. "We are calling on ...

  • Website that kept watch on D.C. homicides shuts down

    Website that kept watch on D.C. homicides shuts down

    Dec 30, 2014 01:04 AM EDT

    Homicide Watch, an online database that records and tracks homicide cases, was created to document under-reported crimes in Washington, D.C. The site has been praised by law enforcement and the families of victims, but is shutting down in that city. Co-founder Laura Amico, a Boston Globe reporter, speaks with Jeffrey Brown about sharing violent crime...

  • Can the West show unity in response to Russia, Islamic State?

    Can the West show unity in response to Russia, Islamic State?

    Sep 04, 2014 12:52 PM EDT

    Today in the Morning Line: Obama, U.K.’s Cameron try strike tough tone on crises DOJ to open investigation into Ferguson PD Hagan-Tillis debate in N.C. Independents Day in Kansas McConnell reaches key mark in new poll ‘Moment of testing’ on Ukraine; searching for unity from the West on Islamic State: President Barack Obama continues his...