• Student shoots 2 administrators at Denver high school, police say

    Student shoots 2 administrators at Denver high school, police say

    Mar 23, 2023 12:16 AM EDT

    ... East High School sophomore and volunteer with Students Demand Action in Colorado. “Our school experience should not be completely shaped by gun violence,” she added. Lyle had transferred to East High School after being disciplined and removed from a high school in nearby Aurora during last school year because of ...

  • WATCH: Biden and First Lady Jill Biden mark Women's History Month at White House event

    WATCH: Biden and First Lady Jill Biden mark Women's History Month at White House event

    Mar 22, 2023 08:36 PM EDT

    ... remarks in the player above. The first lady, speaking ahead of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, didn't mince words as she lamented that women find themselves relitigating “battles that we thought we had won a long time ago.” “We need more men to hold each other ...

  • What a conservative activist hopes to achieve with a billion-dollar donation

    What a conservative activist hopes to achieve with a billion-dollar donation

    Mar 17, 2023 10:35 PM EDT

    ... this says about the future of dark money and politics in general?Andrea Bernstein: Yes, everybody we spoke with for the story was sort of lamenting the way that systems have become broken, the way partisanship and just sort of division has seeped into the political system, and how difficult ...

  • Pfizer buys Seagen for $43 billion, seeks new cancer treatments

    Pfizer buys Seagen for $43 billion, seeks new cancer treatments

    Mar 13, 2023 03:23 PM EDT

    ... cancer and advanced breast cancer. "We think this really changes dramatically the oncology presence of Pfizer, makes it one of a kind," Bourla said. Seagen's top seller, Adcetris, treats lymph system cancers. It brought in $839 million in sales last year, a 19 percent increase over the previous year.

  • Deadly shooting at Hamburg Jehovah's Witnesses hall leaves 7 dead

    Deadly shooting at Hamburg Jehovah's Witnesses hall leaves 7 dead

    Mar 10, 2023 02:51 PM EDT

    ... witnesses and authorities. They did not fire their weapons, but officials said their intervention likely prevented further loss of life. Scholz, a former Hamburg mayor, lamented the "terrible incident in my home city." "We are speechless in view of this violence," Scholz said at an event in Munich. "We are ...

  • Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won't challenge Trump in 2024

    Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won't challenge Trump in 2024

    Mar 05, 2023 03:53 PM EDT

    ... in 2015. Hogan sent the National Guard to prevent further rioting. In June of that year, he was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma but continued working while receiving treatment. He has been in remission since November 2015. In 2018, he became only the second Republican governor in ...

  • WATCH: State Department holds briefing as U.S. and Russia hold first major talks since invasion

    WATCH: State Department holds briefing as U.S. and Russia hold first major talks since invasion

    Mar 02, 2023 04:34 PM EDT

    China and Russia objected to two paragraphs taken from the previous G-20 declaration in Bali last year, according to a summary of Thursday's meeting released by India. And Blinken lamented that "Russia and China were the only two countries that made clear that they would not sign off ...

  • As LGBTQ book challenges rise, some Louisiana librarians are scared to go to work

    As LGBTQ book challenges rise, some Louisiana librarians are scared to go to work

    Feb 27, 2023 06:31 PM EDT

    Lynette Mejia, co-founder of Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship, called the report “a waste of precious taxpayer dollars” and “political stunts by a candidate desperate to co-opt national culture wars for his own political benefit here at home.” The ACLU of Louisiana blasted the report. “Overbroad laws restricting free ...

  • 80 migrants rescued from wrecked boat off Italian coast, nearly 60 dead, dozens missing

    80 migrants rescued from wrecked boat off Italian coast, nearly 60 dead, dozens missing

    Feb 26, 2023 06:10 PM EDT

    ... the vessels need more time to return to the sea after bringing those rescued aboard, often hundreds of migrants, safely to shore. Humanitarian organizations have lamented that the crackdown also includes an order to the charity boats not to remain at sea after the first rescue operation in hopes of ...

  • As U.S. shot down shot down Chinese balloon, calls to China went unanswered

    As U.S. shot down shot down Chinese balloon, calls to China went unanswered

    Feb 10, 2023 03:18 PM EDT

    ... Americans and Chinese would have one less way of averting greater conflict.. "My worry is that the EP-3 type incident will happen again," said Lyle Morris, a country director for China for the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2019 to 2021, now a senior fellow at the ...