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Las Vegas man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Brandon Durham was tussling with a female intruder over a knife when an officer shot him multiple times.

Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced
Posted on Wednesday April 19, 2023

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell
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Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory
Posted on Monday April 17, 2023

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case'
Posted on Wednesday April 19, 2023

The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems.

'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlement
Posted on Tuesday April 18, 2023

A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, a lawyer for the company said.

US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment
Posted on Thursday November 21, 2024

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade

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Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

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Idaho college killings to remain a death penalty case
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

The judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger's murder case has ruled the death penalty will remain on the table, rejecting a request from Kohberger's defense attorneys.

2 dead in Washington state as bomb cyclone hammers West Coast
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Two people were killed by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm hits the Pacific Northwest.

WATCH: Dog finds bed in Costco aisle, refuses to leave without it
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Blue got to take the bed home!

GREG GUTFELD: Trump's triggering foreign leaders like a quarter pounder at a PETA rally
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld says foreign leaders are suddenly ''making nice'' with President-elect Donald Trump on ‘Gutfeld!’

Trump team 'confident' Senate Republicans will approve cabinet selections
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

President-elect Trump's team is confident that Senate Republicans will approve his cabinet selection after the president-elect picked cabinet nominees at a rapid-fire pace.

2024 CMA Awards: Complete winners list
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

The 2024 CMA Awards gave out their awards Wednesday night, with stars like Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson taking home some of the biggest wins of the night.

Senate rejects Bernie Sanders' effort to block weapons sales to Israel
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Sen. Bernie Sanders' effort to prevent the White House from selling certain weapons to Israel was overwhelmingly rejected by the U.S. Senate Wednesday by a margin of roughly 60 votes.

Tennessee man convicted for Jan. 6 riot found guilty of plotting to kill FBI agents who investigated him
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

A Tennessee man was found guilty of plotting to have the FBI agents who investigated him for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol murdered.

Federal Inquiry Traced Matt Gaetz’s Venmo Payments to Women
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

A document prepared by federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, who denies wrongdoing.

JD Vance Courts Senators With Matt Gaetz, Controversial Cabinet Pick
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Vice President-elect JD Vance was on Capitol Hill with Matt Gaetz, the former representative whom President-elect Donald J. Trump wants as his attorney general.

Police Report Offers Graphic Details of Sexual Assault Claim Against Hegseth
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was never charged with a crime and vehemently denied to the police that a sexual encounter was coerced.

Ukraine Fires Long-Range Storm Shadow Missiles Into Russia
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Britain allowed Ukrainians to use Storm Shadows a week after President Biden authorized the use of American-made missiles inside Russia, a shift from a more cautious military strategy.

Ukraine Strikes Inside Russia With U.S. Missiles
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

The next two or three months in Ukraine are likely to be exceedingly violent, in a war that has already been the deadliest in Europe in the past 80 years. Marc Santora, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia, explains why.

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"48 Hours" show schedule
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

True crime. Real justice. To miss it would be a crime.

11/20: CBS Evening News
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Man convicted of murder in slaying of Laken Riley; Restoring Pacific Northwest forests decimated by wildfires

Justice Department calls for break up of Google and sale of Chrome
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

The proposed breakup calls for Google to sell its industry-leading Chrome web browser and impose restrictions designed to prevent its Android smartphone software from favoring its search engine.

American dies in Laos amid reports that several tourists suffered alcohol poisoning
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

The American died in the tourist town of Vang Vieng, Laos, the State Department confirmed.

Are food recalls and outbreaks on the rise?
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

The FDA says America's food supply is still "one of the safest in the world," despite some recent high-profile recalls and outbreaks.

Author Kamel Daoud sued over claim he used life of wife’s patient in novel
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Woman says French-Algerian writer’s prize-winning Houris uses her story as she told it to therapist Aicha Dehdouh

Two complaints have been filed in Algeria against the French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, the winner of France’s most prestigious literary award, and his wife, a therapist, alleging that they used a patient’s life story as the basis for his prize-winning novel.

The writer, the first Algerian novelist to be awarded the Prix Goncourt, won this year’s prize for his novel Houris, a fictional account of a young woman who lost her voice when an Islamist cut her throat during the country’s brutal 1992-2002 civil war.

Extremist Timbuktu Islamic police chief sentenced to 10 years in jail by ICC
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud had been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity

The international criminal court has sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out when he headed the Islamic police in Timbuktu in Mali, west Africa.

Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was convicted in June of torture, religious persecution and other inhumane acts. Judges found he was a “key figure” in a reign of terror after Islamic extremist rebels overran the ancient desert city in 2012.

Miss Universe runner-up to move to Nigeria after South Africa nationality row
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Furore over whether Chidimma Adetshina was really South African led to invitation to represent Nigeria

A beauty queen who pulled out of the Miss South Africa competition when her nationality was questioned has said she wants to relocate to Nigeria, after coming second in the Miss Universe pageant while representing the West African country.

Chidimma Adetshina, whose father is Nigerian, was crowned Miss Universe Africa and Oceania and came runner-up to Denmark’s Victoria Kjær Theilvig in Mexico on Saturday night.

South African officials weigh up rescue mission for illegal miners underground
Posted on Tuesday November 19, 2024

Police say 350-400 people have stayed in Stilfontein mine to avoid arrest after minister vowed to ‘smoke them out’

South African authorities are assessing whether it is safe to rescue potentially thousands of illegal miners who may be trapped underground, after police stopped food, water and medicine being delivered to them about two weeks ago to try to force the miners to the surface.

A police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe, insisted to reporters on Tuesday that the miners were not trapped in the abandoned goldmine in Stilfontein, a town about 100 miles south-west of Johannesburg, but rather staying underground to avoid being arrested.

Australian goldminer to pay Mali $160m to free detained CEO and executives
Posted on Monday November 18, 2024

Group were held after a meeting about what mining firm referred to as unsubstantiated claims regarding taxes and levies

An Australian goldmining company has agreed to pay $160m ($A247m, £126m) to Mali’s government after the west African country’s junta detained its chief executive and two other employees.

Resolute Mining’s chief executive, Terence Holohan, and the other two employees were detained on 8 November in Mali’s capital, Bamako, at the end of a meeting with government officials over tax and other state claims that the miner had previously said were “unsubstantiated”.

After a court win, the Justice Department is trying to make Google sell its Chrome browser
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

If a judge orders Google to sell Chrome, it could dramatically upend the multibillion-dollar online search business.

U.S. charges Indian billionaire with defrauding investors, hiding bribery scheme
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

One of the world's richest people has been indicted on charges he duped investors in a massive solar energy project in India by concealing that it was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme.

Witnesses say Israel is using sniper drones in Gaza and they're shooting civilians
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Last week British surgeon Nizam Mamode testified in front of a committee in the U.K. Parliament. Dr. Mamode had recently returned from working at a hospital in Central Gaza.

He told parliamentary members what he witnessed, including drones that would come down and "pick off civilians, children. And we had description after description. This is not, you know, an occasional thing. This was day after day after day."

For months, NPR has been collecting eyewitness accounts from Gaza that corroborate Dr. Mamode's testimony, saying the Israeli military has been using sniper drone technology and that they're not just shooting enemies, but also civilians.|

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Federal courts trumpet steps to protect workers after #MeToo movement
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

The federal courts say they have taken "extensive" steps to protect workers from abuse, discrimination and harassment since the rise of the #MeToo movement, but critics say many workers don't trust the internal system for reporting complaints.

The International Space Station adjusts its orbit to avoid space debris
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

There are at least 19,000 pieces of space debris in Earth's orbit, not including active satellites, that the U.S is monitoring.

‘Nobody should be surprised Matt Gaetz is a maverick’ or even ‘reckless at times’: GOP senator
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) joins Meet the Press NOW to talk about President-elect Trump’s expected nominations of Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth to lead the departments of Justice and Defense, and how he expects to vote on Cabinet confirmations.

After a stinging election defeat, the Democrats' next big race kicks off: From the Politics Desk
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

As Democrats dissect what went wrong in the election, the are beginning the process of choosing their next national party committee chair.

Three of Trump's Cabinet selections face allegations of sexual misconduct
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Three of President-elect Donald Trump’s high-profile picks to join his Cabinet have faced serious allegations of sexual impropriety.

Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and 'large-scale firings'
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Incoming Trump administration advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy floated ending remote work for federal workers, calling it a “privilege” left over from the pandemic.

Defense Secretary Austin says women in military 'make us stronger'
Posted on Wednesday November 20, 2024

Outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called women and racial diversity in the armed forces as vital to its strength, he said in an interview with NBC News.