• Nancy Pelosi says she'll seek House reelection in 2024, dismissing retirement at age 83

    Nancy Pelosi says she'll seek House reelection in 2024, dismissing retirement at age 83

    Sep 08, 2023 05:51 PM EDT

    ... own impeachment inquiry into Biden over the business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden. While Pelosi has stepped away from the day-to-day political limelight after a younger generation of Democrats led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took charge in 2023, she remains a political force keeping a robust ...

  • August caps deadly summer that broke global records for heat, meteorologists say

    August caps deadly summer that broke global records for heat, meteorologists say

    Sep 06, 2023 01:33 PM EDT

    ... heat, compounded by wildfires and desert dust, has had a measurable impact on air quality, human health and the environment. WMO scientific adviser Lorenzo Labrador lamented the deteriorating air quality around the globe and cited "record-breaking wildfire season" in many parts of the world, including western Canada and Europe ...

  • Small American towns seeing some success with disbanding police forces

    Small American towns seeing some success with disbanding police forces

    Sep 05, 2023 02:46 PM EDT

    ... year after continued departures of officers. The town of 5,100 residents was down to two officers at the time. In Maine, the town of Limestone disbanded its police department in March. Neighboring Van Buren did the same two years earlier. Generally, crime rates were unchanged in towns that dropped ...

  • Pope Francis praises Mongolia for centuries of religious freedom as he starts his visit

    Pope Francis praises Mongolia for centuries of religious freedom as he starts his visit

    Sep 02, 2023 03:36 PM EDT

    ... the country abandoned its Soviet-allied communist government and enshrined religious freedom in its constitution. While Catholicism is tolerated and legal, foreign missionaries working here lament that the government restricts their numbers and treats the church as a non-governmental organization, limitations that the Holy See is hoping will be ...

  • Shelling kills civilians in northeast Ukraine amid fears of Russia retaking the area

    Shelling kills civilians in northeast Ukraine amid fears of Russia retaking the area

    Aug 26, 2023 11:29 PM EDT

    ... working at the site. U.K. military intelligence on Saturday assessed that Russia may “increase the intensity of its offensive efforts” around Kupiansk and nearby Lyman in an attempt to take pressure off its forces near Bakhmut and in the Zaporizhzhia region, where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has reportedly made gradual ...

  • Why people in Maui were caught off guard by the deadly wildfires

    Why people in Maui were caught off guard by the deadly wildfires

    Aug 11, 2023 10:55 PM EDT

    ... Chad Blair: Well, they're just terrific. And I should say Marina Riker is already back on the job, if you can believe that. Brittany Lyte, another one of our reporters who covers the neighbor islands, is still there on the ground. Several other photographers and reporters have since returned ...

  • Hip-hop was born 50 years ago. Nelson George discusses its evolution and legacy

    Hip-hop was born 50 years ago. Nelson George discusses its evolution and legacy

    Aug 11, 2023 10:25 PM EDT

    That was M.C. Lyte back in 1988. How do you see the role of women in what was largely a -- and is still largely a male-dominated field? Nelson George: Well, the women are doing very well right now. I just think it wasn't -- it wasn't it ...

  • Ecuador detains 6 Colombians in assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio

    Ecuador detains 6 Colombians in assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio

    Aug 11, 2023 07:04 PM EDT

    ... their lives by taking outdoor exercise classes and daily walks because they are resigned to living amid the violence. Among them was Marjorie Lino, who lamented the danger as she walked with a friend along the main road that leads to one of the country’s most violent neighborhoods. “When ...

  • How the Hawaii fires will take a toll on the state's natural treasures

    How the Hawaii fires will take a toll on the state's natural treasures

    Aug 11, 2023 01:34 PM EDT

    ... said. Landscape and soil changesElizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, a nonprofit working with communities to prevent and mitigate fires, lamented the changes wrought by fire. Invasive and fire-prone grass species have moved in over time and during a fire they can burn into ...

  • White House holds first-ever summit on the ransomware crisis plaguing the nation's public schools

    White House holds first-ever summit on the ransomware crisis plaguing the nation's public schools

    Aug 08, 2023 09:33 PM EDT

    ... criminal extortionists and urging educators to avail themselves of federal resources already available. Education tech experts praised the Biden administration for the consciousness-raising but lamented that limited federal funds currently exist for them to tackle a scourge that cash-strapped school districts have been ill-equipped to defend effectively ...