Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Opening statements to begin in trial for suspect in death of Mollie Tibbetts
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Attorneys on Tuesday completed selection of a jury for the first-degree murder trial of the farm laborer charged with fatally stabbing a University of Iowa student while she was...
May 19, 2021
WATCH: NewsNation Now Morning News Update 5/19/21
CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) - NewsNation Now digital anchor Ji Suk Yi brings you today's top headlines LIVE at 6, 7 and 8 a.m. (ET). Tracking unaccompanied children in US custodySubscribe to newslettersF...
May 19, 2021
House votes to create panel to probe Jan. 6 insurrection, pushing bill to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Wednesday to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the legislation to an uncertain future in the Senate as R...
May 19, 2021
Amazon to extend pause on police use of facial recognition
NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon said Tuesday that it will extend its ban on police use of its face-recognition technology beyond the one-year pause it announced last year. Amazon and other technology companies...
May 19, 2021
Woman testifies that she woke to find 'That '70s Show' actor Danny Masterson raping her
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In hours of often tearful testimony, a woman told a judge Tuesday that she was slipping in and out of consciousness on a night 18 years ago when she said she found actor Danny Maste...
May 19, 2021
'Tragic but justified:' Legal, police experts examine decision not to charge officers in fatal shooting of Andrew Brown
(NewsNation Now) - Officials in North Carolina announced officers involved in the shooting death of Andrew Brown would not face charges Tuesday, with the district attorney calling the incident, "tragi...
May 18, 2021
New York AG says Trump Organization now under ‘criminal’ investigation
NEW YORK (WPIX) - New York Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's business empire, expanding what had previously been a civil probe,...
May 18, 2021
After record 'deaths of despair' in 2019, early pandemic data is grim
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - New data show the heavy mental and emotional toll that the pandemic took on Americans in 2020, one year after the country saw record highs in alcohol- and drug-related deaths. I...
May 18, 2021
Biden faces scrutiny from progressives over stance in Israel-Hamas conflict
DEARBORN, Mich. (NewsNation Now) - President Joe Biden traveled to Dearborn, Michigan to tout his push for electric vehicles, but was overshadowed by a split with the left of his party over his stance...
May 18, 2021
Congress OKs bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress approved legislation Tuesday intended to curtail a striking rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, sending President Joe Biden a bipartisan denun...
May 18, 2021