Jun 25 Watch 4:47 News Wrap: DOJ sues Georgia over voting restrictions it says target Black voters In our news wrap Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a federal lawsuit against Georgia's new election law, which he says denies equal access to Black voters. Republicans charged that President Joe Biden reneged on the $953 billion infrastructure compromise… Continue watching
Jun 25 Watch 6:36 Biden wants to leave some U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Taliban isn’t happy By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn Friday at the White House, President Joe Biden met with Afghanistan’s leaders, just weeks before the U.S. completes withdrawing almost all of its forces. There was a lot on the agenda: finalizing plans on how many U.S. troops to keep… Continue watching
Jun 25 Watch 5:31 An Afghan official on the tough love from Biden during White House meeting Judy Woodruff speaks to the man at the center of negotiations for Afghanistan — both with the U.S. and the Taliban — Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation. Continue watching
Jun 25 WHO says delta is ‘most transmissible’ COVID-19 variant identified so far By Maria Cheng, Associated Press The head of the World Health Organization says the COVID-19 delta variant first seen in India is "the most transmissible of the variants identified so far" and warned it is now spreading in at least 85 countries. Continue reading
Jun 25 Trudeau says Canada is ashamed about schools for Indigenous children By Rob Gillies, Associated Press ndigenous leaders said this week that 600 or more remains were discovered at the Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1899 to 1997 in the province of Saskatchewan. Last month, some 215 remains were reported at a similar school… Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch 3:43 News Wrap: Pelosi announces select committee to investigate Jan. 6 attack In our news wrap Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially announced a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. President Biden pledged that thousands of Afghan interpreters for the U.S. military will be evacuated as the Afghanistan withdrawal… Continue watching
Jun 24 Thai pro-democracy activists march against government By Chalida Ekvittayavechnukul, Associated Press Pro-democracy protesters have taken to the streets of Thailand's capital again, marking the 89th anniversary of the overthrow of the country's absolute monarchy by renewing their demands that the government step down, the constitution be amended and the monarchy become… Continue reading
Jun 24 64 dead in Ethiopian airstrike on Tigray marketplace By Associated Press The Ethiopian military insisted that only combatants were targeted, but a doctor who reached the scene on Tuesday said "most of the patients we found were mothers, children and elderly fathers. Continue reading
Jun 24 U.S. blocks solar panel materials from China over labor abuses By Ben Fox, Associated Press The moves could make it harder for the U.S. to meet renewable energy goals aimed at addressing climate change. That's because about 45% of the global supply of the polysilicon used to make photovoltaic cells for solar panels comes from… Continue reading
Jun 24 India’s Modi meets Kashmir leaders for the first time after altering region By Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press India's prime minister is meeting pro-India politicians from disputed Kashmir for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region's semi-autonomy and jailed many of them in a crackdown. Continue reading