• Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dead at 87

    Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dead at 87

    Jun 03, 2021 10:00 PM EDT

    ... turned up recordings of Fuhrman making racist slurs. Even though Fuhrman remained cool under pressure, and some legal experts called the confrontation a draw, Bailey, recalling the exchange months later, said, “That was the day Fuhrman dug his own grave.” Bailey earned acquittals for many of his clients, but he ...

  • News Wrap: France recalling ambassadors from U.S., Australia over submarine deal

    News Wrap: France recalling ambassadors from U.S., Australia over submarine deal

    Sep 17, 2021 10:45 PM EDT

    ... within the duties and responsibilities of the chairman. Amna Nawaz: Milley said he will have much more to say at a U.S. Senate hearing later this month. A newly released U.N. report finds greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are set to rise 16 percent 16 2030 from 2010 levels ...

  • Pope Leo names veteran Vatican diplomat as ambassador to the U.S. to manage relations with Trump

    Pope Leo names veteran Vatican diplomat as ambassador to the U.S. to manage relations with Trump

    Mar 07, 2026 09:39 PM EDT

    ... See’s ambassador to Lebanon and the Philippines before being posted to the U.N. in 2019. Ordained a priest in Milan in 1983, Caccia later served as “assessor” in the Vatican secretariat of state, a key administrative post in the Holy See's most important office. He inherits a ...

  • Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85

    Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85

    Mar 06, 2026 12:59 AM EDT

    ... possibly killed.” But he shifted quickly, rounding up people in Chicago and arranging transport to Alabama for a second attempt. They set off two weeks later on what had become a victory march: President Lyndon Johnson had introduced the Voting Rights Act to Congress. Inspired by his grandmother LaFayette grew ...

  • Man put to death for 1986 killing of grocery store owner in Florida's 2nd execution this year

    Man put to death for 1986 killing of grocery store owner in Florida's 2nd execution this year

    Feb 24, 2026 11:44 PM EDT

    ... Langford bleeding but alive on the back floor of the store, and she provided key details about her attacker before dying at a hospital. Besides recalling Trotter’s physical appearance, Langford said he had a Tropicana employee badge with the name “Melvin” on it. According to court records, police later ...

  • Cherished teacher Linda Davis mourned after deadly crash with driver fleeing ICE

    Cherished teacher Linda Davis mourned after deadly crash with driver fleeing ICE

    Feb 20, 2026 05:47 PM EDT

    ... the Mariana Trench," Jackson said in a social media post. Standing nearly 6 feet tall, Davis "filled her house with laughter and music," Jackson said, recalling how her sister loved singing Disney songs and show tunes with her children "at the tops of their lungs." "That was Linda: fully alive ...

  • A mine exploded along the Thailand-Cambodia border. Now border clashes have killed at least 12 people

    A mine exploded along the Thailand-Cambodia border. Now border clashes have killed at least 12 people

    Jul 24, 2025 05:46 PM EDT

    ... and Cambodia's Defense Ministry each said the other side deployed drones before advancing on the other's positions and opening fire. The two sides later used heavier weaponry such as artillery, causing greater damage and casualties, and Thailand said it responded to truck-mounted rockets launched by Cambodia with ...

  • Former President Clinton speaks at memorial service 30 years after Oklahoma City bombing

    Former President Clinton speaks at memorial service 30 years after Oklahoma City bombing

    Apr 20, 2025 04:56 PM EDT

    ... address at a remembrance ceremony near the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum. WATCH: Retired firefighter looks back at tragedy of Oklahoma City bombing, 30 years later Clinton, now 78, was widely praised for how he helped the city grapple with its grief in the wake of the bombing, which killed ...

  • Peter Yarrow of folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86

    Peter Yarrow of folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86

    Jan 07, 2025 05:46 PM EDT

    Born May 31, 1938, in New York, Yarrow was raised in an upper middle class family he said placed high value on art and scholarship. He took violin lessons as a child, later switching to guitar as he came to embrace the work of such folk-music icons as Woody ...

  • What to know about the Israel-Hezbollah conflict

    What to know about the Israel-Hezbollah conflict

    Sep 23, 2024 10:00 PM EDT

    ... fighters kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, included heavy Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon and Beirut and a ground invasion into the south. The strategy, Israeli commanders later said, was to inflict maximum damage in areas where Hezbollah operated to deter them from launching attacks. But Israel could have a more ambitious ...