• News Wrap: Hong Kong officials move to deny new protests

    News Wrap: Hong Kong officials move to deny new protests

    Aug 30, 2019 10:50 PM EDT

    ... deleted the posts and said it's investigating. The incident may be related to Twitter's promise to crack down on hate speech. Ford is recalling more than 550,000 trucks and SUVs over potentially faulty seat backs. They could fail to hold passengers in place in a crash. The ...

  • White House says Trump regrets not raising tariffs higher

    White House says Trump regrets not raising tariffs higher

    Aug 25, 2019 02:47 PM EDT

    ... raising the tariffs higher." The comments appeared at first to mark a rare moment of self-reflection by the famously hard-nosed leader. But the later reversal fit a pattern for Trump in recoiling from statements he believes suggest weakness. Trump had been trying to use the conference to rally ...

  • Rhode Island diocese releases list of dozens of priests accused of sexually abusing children

    Rhode Island diocese releases list of dozens of priests accused of sexually abusing children

    Jul 01, 2019 06:30 PM EDT

    ... was accused of abuse by several people involved in the 2002 settlement. Silva was removed from the ministry in 1993 and pleaded guilty two years later to sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man. He received a seven-year suspended sentence and was a defendant in multiple lawsuits. Tobin was ...

  • At Trump's side, Border Patrol union leader in spotlight

    At Trump's side, Border Patrol union leader in spotlight

    Jan 15, 2019 02:34 PM EDT

    ... comparison, the Border Patrol Council had zero investment income four years earlier. Judd began his career as a field agent in 1997 and five years later was assigned as a special operation mountain team leader in Naco, Arizona, a border crossing directly opposite a Mexican town of the same name ...

  • George H.W. Bush, nation's 41st president and WWII veteran, dies at 94

    George H.W. Bush, nation's 41st president and WWII veteran, dies at 94

    Dec 01, 2018 05:19 AM EDT

    ... much in agreement with what the president's doing and has done … I don't want to complicate the life of the president." Bush did later join forces with Clinton, first to help victims of the 2004 tsunami in Asia, then again the following year after Hurricane Katrina. The show ...

  • What happens when migrants die in the Arizona desert?

    What happens when migrants die in the Arizona desert?

    Oct 22, 2018 09:30 PM EDT

    “I felt helpless,” Sonia said, recalling the feeling of not knowing where her daughter was. “She had called me on my birthday to tell me she was almost out and wouldn’t be able to contact me for a while. I thought she was coming to me.” Her daughter ...

  • News Wrap: U.S. imposes tariffs on $50B worth of Chinese imports

    News Wrap: U.S. imposes tariffs on $50B worth of Chinese imports

    Jun 15, 2018 10:45 PM EDT

    ... was taken into custody on charges of witness tampering. He is the first Trump campaign official to be imprisoned as part of Mueller's probe. Later, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, told The New York Daily News that, in light of the move against Manafort, Mueller's investigation ...

  • U.S. employee in China reported 'vague, but abnormal' sound, pressure

    U.S. employee in China reported 'vague, but abnormal' sound, pressure

    May 23, 2018 02:25 PM EDT

    BEIJING — A U.S. government employee in southern China reported abnormal sensations of sound and pressure, the State Department said Wednesday, recalling similar experiences among American diplomats in Cuba who later fell ill. In an emailed notice to American citizens in China, the department said it wasn't currently known ...

  • Inside the 'free speech' debate that rocked a Wisconsin campus, with ripples across the country

    Inside the 'free speech' debate that rocked a Wisconsin campus, with ripples across the country

    May 13, 2018 10:25 PM EDT

    ... call. He gave a speech that catapulted his national profile. “That brought out hardcore people across the country,” said then-organizer David Franke, who would later peel away from YAF and identify as a libertarian. “It was a major step up in terms of actual numbers and the organization of ...

  • 4 women say New York’s former attorney general assaulted them. Here’s why they went public

    4 women say New York’s former attorney general assaulted them. Here’s why they went public

    May 08, 2018 10:25 PM EDT

    On Monday night, the New Yorker published accounts of four women who said they were assaulted by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a public figure who has advocated for women who have been sexually abused. Less than three hours later, Schneiderman resigned. John Yang talks with Ronan Farrow about ...