• How the federal criminal cases against Trump ended up in legal limbo as the election looms

    How the federal criminal cases against Trump ended up in legal limbo as the election looms

    Oct 14, 2024 09:00 PM EST

    Smith's team had hoped for a trial that could have started months ago. Instead, prosecutors found themselves before Cannon for a multiday hearing in June over Smith's appointment, where Harbach lamented that defense lawyers had been permitted to “hijack” the proceedings with what he said were frivolous arguments ...

  • WATCH: Bill Clinton rallies for Harris at Georgia campaign event

    WATCH: Bill Clinton rallies for Harris at Georgia campaign event

    Oct 14, 2024 02:02 PM EST

    ... west. Albany is a historic spot in the Civil Rights Movement, at Mount Zion, Clinton reminisced on a time when politics were less polarized and lamented a political climate that has been poisoned with misinformation. He pointed to the post by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., post ...

  • Biden presses Congress for more disaster aid as he visits Florida to survey Hurricane Milton damage

    Biden presses Congress for more disaster aid as he visits Florida to survey Hurricane Milton damage

    Oct 13, 2024 04:41 PM EST

    ... But Johnson has pushed back, saying the agencies have enough money for the time being and that lawmakers will address the funding issue during the lame-duck session after the election.Also percolating in the background are tensions between Harris and Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla. As Helene barreled toward ...

  • Inside the whimsical world of celebrated children’s author Sandra Boynton

    Inside the whimsical world of celebrated children’s author Sandra Boynton

    Oct 12, 2024 11:35 PM EST

    ... to that? John Yang (voice-over):  But of course, these aren't your typical holiday songs. The voices on the CD include country music star Lyle Lovett. Broadway star Patti LuPone. And actress Zoe Deschanel. Boynton went to Yale Drama School to be a theater director, and says she feels ...

  • Art and science collide in enormous project at dozens of museums and galleries

    Art and science collide in enormous project at dozens of museums and galleries

    Oct 10, 2024 10:15 PM EST

    ... shimmering objects, most from medieval times, a few created by contemporary artists, all part of an exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles called Lumen: The Art and Science of Light. And the wording of that subtitle is critical. Katherine Fleming is president and CEO of the Getty Trust ...

  • Former South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson dies at 77

    Former South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson dies at 77

    Oct 09, 2024 05:52 PM EST

    ... 28 years in the House and Senate to strike bipartisan compromise, as winning elections came to overshadow everything else. "We have lost our way," Johnson lamented in his parting speech on Dec. 11, 2014. Born in Canton, South Dakota, Johnson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of South ...

  • Countries worldwide commemorate anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

    Countries worldwide commemorate anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

    Oct 07, 2024 02:38 PM EST

    While asserting Israel's lights to live safely within its borders, Meloni insisted it respect international law and lamented the devastation unleashed by Israeli forces in Gaza. She said Palestinians in Gaza had been "victims twice over: first of Hamas' cynicism, which uses them as human shields, and then of ...

  • Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing that says Trump 'resorted to crimes' after 2020 election

    Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing that says Trump 'resorted to crimes' after 2020 election

    Oct 02, 2024 08:01 PM EST

    The issue surfaced as recently as Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, lamented the violence at the Capitol while a Republican opponent, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, refused to directly answer when asked whether Trump had lost the 2020 race. The filing was submitted ...

  • News Wrap: Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female president

    News Wrap: Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female president

    Oct 01, 2024 10:40 PM EST

    ... former President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday. ... Geoff Bennett: And we start today's other headlines with three new world leaders stepping into the limelight from France to Japan to Mexico, where the country's first ever female president was sworn in. Claudia Sheinbaum, a scientist and Mexico City ...

  • John Amos, iconic screen actor from 'Good Times' to 'Roots' to 'The West Wing,' dies at 84

    John Amos, iconic screen actor from 'Good Times' to 'Roots' to 'The West Wing,' dies at 84

    Oct 01, 2024 08:55 PM EST

    ... ultimately my being killed off the show was the best solution for everybody concerned, myself included.” Amos' character was killed in a car accident. Walker lamented the situation. “If the decision had been up to me, I would have preferred that John stay and the show remain more of an ...