• Supreme Court hears case challenging free preventive care coverage

    Supreme Court hears case challenging free preventive care coverage

    Apr 21, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... t know for sure, because the justices didn't provide any reasoning for their order. And that was another thing that Justice Alito sort of lamented in his dissent that came out on Saturday night. But it seemed like they were concerned about the prospect that detainees could be removed ...

  • These cardinals are possible contenders to be the next pope

    These cardinals are possible contenders to be the next pope

    Apr 21, 2025 02:56 PM EST

    ... counterweight to the Francis' own teaching. Francis dismissed Benedict’s secretary and several months later retired Sarah after he turned 75. Even Sarah’s supporters lamented the episode hurt his papal chances. Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn Schoenborn, 80, the archbishop of Vienna, Austria, was a student of Benedict's, and thus ...

  • Tributes pour in from around the world to honor Pope Francis after his death

    Tributes pour in from around the world to honor Pope Francis after his death

    Apr 21, 2025 02:42 PM EST

    The Women's Ordination Conference lamented Francis' unwillingness to push for the ordination of women. "His repeated 'closed door' policy on women's ordination was painfully incongruous with his otherwise pastoral nature, and for many, a betrayal of the synodal, listening church he championed," the conference said. "This made him ...

  • Menendez brothers' bid for shorter sentence and possible parole delayed again

    Menendez brothers' bid for shorter sentence and possible parole delayed again

    Apr 17, 2025 10:49 PM EST

    ... fires and prosecutors’ attempt to withdraw their sentencing request. The case has captured the public’s attention for decades, and the Netflix drama “ Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story ” and a subsequent documentary brought new attention to the case. Reporters from dozens of media outlets crowded outside the courthouse ...

  • News Wrap: DOJ sues Maine over transgender athletes

    News Wrap: DOJ sues Maine over transgender athletes

    Apr 16, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... Tac-Dough" that ran on CBS until 1985. In 2006, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Wink Martindale had been battling lymphoma. He was 91 years old. Still to come on the "News Hour": a whistle-blower alleges that Elon Musk's DOGE team caused a ...

  • WATCH: Trump suggests 'major tariff on pharmaceuticals' forthcoming at National Republican Congressional Committee dinner

    WATCH: Trump suggests 'major tariff on pharmaceuticals' forthcoming at National Republican Congressional Committee dinner

    Apr 08, 2025 07:38 PM EST

    ... and Johnson & Johnson each fell almost 2 percent. In overseas trading, Novartis shares fell 5.8 percent and Roche Holding dropped 4.6 percent. Trump lamented that the U.S. no longer produces many of the pharmaceuticals that Americans take, and said new tariffs would change that by bringing production ...

  • The women lighthouse keepers who saved countless lives from coast to coast

    The women lighthouse keepers who saved countless lives from coast to coast

    Mar 29, 2025 09:35 PM EST

    ... was arguably the best known U.S. woman lighthouse keeper. She made it onto the cover of Harper's Weekly in 1869. She ran the Lime Rock Lighthouse in Rhode Island's Newport Harbor. Shauna Macdonald: She did a lot of rescuing, so that's how she was. She came ...

  • Georgia jury orders Monsanto parent to pay nearly $2.1 billion in Roundup weedkiller lawsuit

    Georgia jury orders Monsanto parent to pay nearly $2.1 billion in Roundup weedkiller lawsuit

    Mar 24, 2025 03:03 PM EST

    ... in a Roundup-related case to date. Plaintiff John Barnes filed his lawsuit against Monsanto in 2021, seeking damages related to his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Arnold & Itkin attorney Kyle Findley, the lead trial lawyer on the case, said the verdict will help put his client in a better position ...

  • The historic buildings destroyed by Southern California's devastating wildfires

    The historic buildings destroyed by Southern California's devastating wildfires

    Mar 11, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... myself and others, just understanding the losses here, also realizing that we take heritage and these places and spaces for granted, that I'm now lamenting that I didn't visit some of these places or I didn't, fully experiencing them before they're gone. And I don't ...

  • DA does not support resentencing Menendez brothers, says they repeatedly lied about why they killed parents

    DA does not support resentencing Menendez brothers, says they repeatedly lied about why they killed parents

    Mar 10, 2025 06:40 PM EST

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The district attorney of Los Angeles County said Monday that he does not support the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez because the brothers have repeatedly lied about why they killed their parents at their Beverly Hills home in 1989. District Attorney Nathan Hochman told reporters his ...