• Police arrest man after series of knife attacks that killed 2 in New York City

    Police arrest man after series of knife attacks that killed 2 in New York City

    Nov 18, 2024 07:18 PM EDT

    ... kitchen knives he was carrying, authorities said. The suspect's and victims' names weren't immediately released. “Three New Yorkers. Unprovoked attacks that left us searching for answers on how something like this could happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference. He called the violence “a clear, clear ...

  • 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 EDT

    ... begun charging rioters through a bottom-up investigative strategy heavily focused on the most violent offenders who attacked police and far-right militia group members who were suspected of planning and coordination. Another investigative effort searching for financial ties between the rioters and Trump allies ultimately hit a dead end.

  • These are the pressing gender-related issues facing Mexico's next president

    These are the pressing gender-related issues facing Mexico's next president

    Jun 03, 2024 03:19 PM EDT

    ... in 2023. Thousands more have disappeared. In many cases, it is their mothers, feeling abandoned by the government, who have taken on the task of searching for them. Most femicides go unpunished due to Mexico’s inefficient justice system, which frequently dismisses reported crimes or fails to properly investigate and ...

  • Progressive Democrats break fundraising records in election fight against pro-Israel PACs

    Progressive Democrats break fundraising records in election fight against pro-Israel PACs

    Feb 08, 2024 09:30 PM EDT

    ... who do not take corporate PAC money, who rely on grassroots fundraising. So this is not a fair fight," said Usamah Andrabi, the communications director for Justice Democrats. "It has never been a fair fight.” Looking for candidates Beyond the four members of the squad — Bowman, Lee, Omar and Bush ...

  • Communication outage hits flood-stricken city in Libya, complicating search efforts

    Communication outage hits flood-stricken city in Libya, complicating search efforts

    Sep 20, 2023 08:43 PM EDT

    CAIRO (AP) — A day-long communication outage in a flood-stricken city in eastern Libya further complicated the work of teams searching for bodies under the rubble and at sea Wednesday. The country’s chief prosecutor, meanwhile, vowed to take “serious measures” to deliver justice for the victims of the ...

  • Niger’s junta rejects diplomatic UN visit over ‘atmosphere of menace’

    Niger’s junta rejects diplomatic UN visit over ‘atmosphere of menace’

    Aug 08, 2023 08:01 PM EDT

    ... open to dialogue. On Sunday, it closed the country’s airspace and accused foreign powers of preparing an attack. Analysts and diplomats say the window for military intervention is closing and without regional support for the use of force, ECOWAS and others are searching for a way out. “A lot ...

  • July 15, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    July 15, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Jul 15, 2023 10:15 PM EDT

    In South Korea, at least 26 people are dead and 10 missing after days of torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding. Rescue workers are searching for people and houses buried by mud. More than 5,000 people have evacuated their homes and tens of thousands of homes are without electricity ...

  • After Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, an armed man was arrested there, prosecutors say

    After Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, an armed man was arrested there, prosecutors say

    Jul 06, 2023 09:55 PM EDT

    ... Washington state and had served in Iraq before being honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy. “Mr. Taranto has been available and in plain sight for the last two and a half years,” wrote the lawyer, Kathryn D’Adamo Guevara. According to the Justice Department's detention memo, Taranto's ...

  • Court says FBI broke rules when scouring foreign intelligence for information on Jan. 6, racial protests

    Court says FBI broke rules when scouring foreign intelligence for information on Jan. 6, racial protests

    May 19, 2023 09:34 PM EDT

    ... member of Congress, and is unrelated to an episode described in March by Rep. Darin LaHood, an Illinois Republican, who accused the FBI of wrongly searching for his name in foreign surveillance data. Senior FBI officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to reporters under ground rules set by the government ...

  • Guardsman accused of document leak spoke of 'violence and murder,' prosecutors say

    Guardsman accused of document leak spoke of 'violence and murder,' prosecutors say

    Apr 27, 2023 01:55 PM EDT

    ... a story about the breach of documents — searching for the word "leak" in a classified system, according to court papers. The FBI says that was reason to believe Teixeira was trying to find information about the investigation into who was responsible for the leaks.Tucker and Copp reported from Washington.