Jim Lehrer, the longtime anchorman for PBS who appeared on the air for more than 30 years until his retirement in 2011, died Thursday at 85, the news organization announced. Lehner died “peacefully in his sleep,” according
Authorities say that four people were killed Wednesday in a crash of a small airplane at a Southern California airfield. The plane went down at Corona Municipal Airport, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, Corona police
The Senate reconvened Wednesday afternoon to hear opening arguments from the House’s impeachment managers. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff kicked off the proceedings, diving into a recitation of the facts at the center of the case,
President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial began on Tuesday, with prosecutors from the House of Representatives and lawyers for the White House debating how the case should proceed. Votes over changes to the trial format showed Democrats
On Tuesday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. case of the deadly new coronavirus. The CDC and Washington state officials said the man, in his 30s, was in good condition at Providence
With new cases reported in China’s capital and other Asian countries, the number of people known to have been infected with the “coronavirus” jumped from 62 to over 200 on Monday. Over the weekend, a third patient
On Monday, thousands of Second Amendment supporters carrying long firearms and wearing stickers reading “Guns Save Lives” descended upon Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond for a widely publicized rally to protest a recent push by state Democrats for
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed ‘outrage’ in a meeting Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the death of an American national imprisoned in Egypt since 2013. Mustafa Kassem, a 54-year-old Egyptian-American who suffered
Authorities say that a gunman opened fire on police in Honolulu Sunday, killing at least two officers before a large, multi-house fire erupted in the neighborhood. Officers were responding to an assault call in a neighborhood at
The Georgia parole board granted clemency to a death row inmate on Thursday, hours before he was to be executed for the murder of a convenience store clerk three decades ago. Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles
