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... McConnell has shown no signs of shifting his opposition, and several lawmakers facing heated elections have backed him up. But the party may still be searching for a strategy. The White House has been looking for cracks in the Republican opposition as it deliberates on a nominee, and Grassley's ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: The audience is the judge in the case of Scalia vs. Scalia, a portrait of the Supreme Court justice opening tonight at Washington's Arena Stage. Jeffrey Brown has our look. EDWARD GERO, “The Originalist”: The court has been my theater, and I have the costumes ...
A black man was found hanging in a tree in Mississippi, and now federal and state investigators are trying to determine if his death was a suicide or homicide.
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...
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