Jul 02 Elsa strengthens into season’s first hurricane in Caribbean By Dánica Coto, Associated Press Elsa has strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and it's battering the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the threat of flash flooding and landslides. Continue reading
Jul 02 Some fans. No fans. Tokyo undecided as games open in 3 weeks By Kantaro Komiya, Stephen Wade, Associated Press The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has repeated that banning fans from venues is still an option with the games opening in just three weeks. Continue reading
Jul 01 Turkey officially withdraws from treaty protecting women By Zeynep Bilginsoy, Associated Press He ended the country's participation in the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention through a surprise overnight decree in March, prompting condemnation from women's rights groups and western countries. Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch 5:59 News Wrap: Biden meets with victim’s families as rescue crews halt Surfside operations In our news wrap Thursday, President Joe Biden met with first responders and families of the victims in Surfside, Florida, as rescue crews halted work at a collapsed condominium tower. The heat wave scorching the Pacific Northwest and western Canada… Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch 8:18 The Taliban are winning on the battlefield as U.S. troops withdraw. Can Afghans stop them? By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn The U.S. will soon complete the troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. Nick Schifrin talks to the lead U.S. diplomat for the region, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. Born in Afghanistan, he worked in various capacities with Presidents Ronald… Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch 8:13 IMF projects U.S. economy to grow 7% due to robust vaccinations, but warns of inflation An annual report released Thursday by the International Monetary Fund projects that the U.S. economy will grow roughly 7% this year as federal stimulus programs fuel consumer spending — but that growth raises the risk of inflation. The report also… Continue watching
Jul 01 U.S. hits 17 nations for not combating human trafficking By Matthew Lee, Associated Press The Biden administration is identifying 17 countries as not doing enough to combat human trafficking and warning them of potential sanctions. Continue reading
Jul 01 NSA discloses hacking methods it says are used by Russia By Nomaan Merchant, Eric Tucker, Frank Bajak, Associated Press U.S. and British agencies have disclosed hacking techniques they say are used by Russian intelligence to target hundreds of government agencies, energy companies and other organizations, amid a wave of devastating cyberattacks around the world. Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 6:23 News Wrap: Death toll rises to 16 in Surfside condo collapse In our news wrap Wednesday, search teams recovered four more bodies from a collapsed condominium tower in Surfside, Florida, the head of the CDC said mask guidelines will be left to local officials, an indigenous group in Canada reports finding… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 4:48 Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan warns the country could descend into civil war By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn The U.S. is on the verge of completing a unilateral and unconditional withdrawal from Afghanistan nearly 20 years after it invaded, and the outgoing U.S. military commander has delivered a new stark warning about the future of the country: the… Continue watching