• News Wrap: More than 200 ships blocked as efforts to clear Suez Canal fail

    News Wrap: More than 200 ships blocked as efforts to clear Suez Canal fail

    Mar 26, 2021 10:50 PM EST

    ... longer, but it's going to take us a little while longer. Our advice is clear. We're vaccinating really, really quickly. And we're just asking people to hang on a little while longer in terms of the masks and mitigation strategies, so that we can get the majority ...

  • Fauci says travel ban may be 'premature' in light of coronavirus mutation

    Fauci says travel ban may be 'premature' in light of coronavirus mutation

    Dec 21, 2020 11:50 PM EST

    ... a friend of a friend. You don't know where they have been, where they have come from, or what their exposure is. We're just asking. We're in the middle, Judy, of a significant surge. If you look at a map of the country, and you look at ...

  • DHS official says voters should be confident in election -- and patient for its results

    DHS official says voters should be confident in election -- and patient for its results

    Oct 28, 2020 10:38 PM EST

    ... or, rather, the official process that state -- set in state law dictates that it takes a little bit longer. And we're -- again, we're just asking people to have a little patience. It may take a little bit longer due to the expanded absentee ballots. And it may take ...

  • Leader of Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Programme on global starvation crisis

    Leader of Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Programme on global starvation crisis

    Oct 09, 2020 10:45 PM EST

    It literally is -- the starvation rate is spiking because of COVID and economic deterioration. The billionaires have got to step in. We're just asking them to step in this one time to help humanity. The world needs them. And I will be very disappointed if they don't. But ...

  • Is U.S. regulatory framework capable of reining in big tech companies?

    Is U.S. regulatory framework capable of reining in big tech companies?

    Jul 29, 2020 10:37 PM EST

    ... features that others have led in, as have others copied and adapted features that we have... (CROSSTALK) Rep. Pamila Jayapal: I'm not concerned about others. I'm just asking you, Mr. Zuckerberg. Since March of 2012, after that e-mail conversation, how many competitors did Facebook end up copying?

  • Some US police resist enforcing coronavirus mask mandates

    Some US police resist enforcing coronavirus mask mandates

    Jul 26, 2020 07:27 PM EST

    ... say penalties were never their goal and that they never envisioned police having to respond to every complaint about someone not wearing one. “Nobody’s asking for a masking gestapo,” Patterson said. “We’re just asking for good behavior and support from our local communities.”___ Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz ...

  • One Minnesota mayor on why communities need 'deep soul searching' after George Floyd's death

    One Minnesota mayor on why communities need 'deep soul searching' after George Floyd's death

    May 31, 2020 09:04 PM EST

    ... of relatively few elected leaders around the country who knows what it feels like to be pulled over for driving while black. The question you just asked me is a central part of why I ran for mayor in the first place. We've worked in the past couple of ...

  • Protesters converge on White House for second straight day

    Protesters converge on White House for second straight day

    May 31, 2020 01:15 PM EST

    ... MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???” Trump later rejected the suggestion that he was stoking a potential conflict between protesters and his supporters. “I was just asking. But I have no idea if they are going to be here," he said. “MAGA is Make America Great Again. By the way ...

  • Imports of medical supplies plummet as demand in U.S. soars

    Imports of medical supplies plummet as demand in U.S. soars

    Mar 20, 2020 10:30 PM EST

    ... the painter booties and jumpsuits they had to wear while caring for people. "It's so frustrating because we feel like health care workers are being asked for a lot — and that's fine, we can do our job. We're just asking for the equipment we need," she said.

  • Inmates fearful of virus argue for release

    Inmates fearful of virus argue for release

    Mar 18, 2020 06:06 PM EST

    ... The 81-year-old Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence for bilking thousands of investors in a $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme, had just asked last month to be released early in light of his terminal kidney disease. Now his attorney is calling on all at-risk federal ...