Impeachment Trial Recap: Trump Lawyers Forge Ahead, Rejecting Bolton Relevance
Updated at 9:27 p.m. ET President Trump's lawyers tore into Democrats' impeachment allegations on Monday with a legal and political pageant that culminated with a rejection of the relevance of new allegations from John Bolton. Retired law professor Alan Dershowitz closed the day's arguments with a stemwinder about what he called the constitutional weaknesses of the case against Trump. The framers of the Constitution intended for the foundation of the law to be precisely defined crimes that...
Democrats Renew Demand For Bolton Testimony In Senate Trial After New Report
Updated at 1:20 a.m. ET Democrats are pressing the Senate to call former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in President Trump's impeachment trial following a new report that House impeachment managers describe as "explosive." The New York Times reported Sunday evening that Bolton wrote in a forthcoming book that the president told him in August he wanted to continue withholding close to $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine until that country's government agreed to...
U.S. Plane Goes Down In Afghanistan, Prompting Wave Of Questions, Contradictions
Updated at 1:49 p.m. ET A plane crashed Monday in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, and within hours, a swarm of conflicting reports had coalesced around the wreckage. According to a U.S. official, the plane — a U.S. Bombardier E-11A — had two people on board, both of whom died in the crash. The official told NPR that the plane went down because of mechanical problems. But that's not the only account of the incident. A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, told NPR that...
2020 Grammy Awards: The Full List Of Winners
The complete list of winners of the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, presented on Jan. 26, 2020, is below. In the weeks leading up to this year's Grammys, the Recording Academy, which presents the awards, was embroiled in a controversy that became public when it announced on Jan. 16 that its recently appointed CEO, Deborah Dugan, had been put on administrative leave following an accusation of misconduct. A few days later, Dugan filed a discrimination complaint against the Academy that contained a...
75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Survivors Urge World To Remember
Alina Dabrowska was 20 years old when she first heard about Auschwitz. She was an inmate at a prison in Nazi-occupied Poland — incarcerated for helping Allied forces — and one day in 1943, while walking the grounds, a new arrival warned her about it. "She said, 'You're all going to Auschwitz! Do you know what kind of camp that is?' " Dabrowska recalls. "She told us that if someone is out of strength, they were immediately killed. She told us many horrible things. None of us believed her."...
When Insurance Won't Cover Drugs, Americans Make 'Tough Choices' About Their Health
The majority of Americans have health insurance that includes coverage for prescription drugs. But unfortunately that doesn't ensure that they can afford the specific drugs their doctors prescribe for them. In fact, many Americans report that their insurance plans sometimes don't cover a drug they need — and nearly half the people whom this happens to say they simply don't fill the prescription. That's according to a poll released this month on income inequality from NPR, the Robert Wood...
Coronavirus FAQs: Do Masks Help? Is The Disease Really So Mysterious?
Many reports refer to the newly identified coronavirus in Wuhan, China, as a "mystery" virus. Is it really a mystery? Do masks help keep you from getting infected? If an animal carries the virus, will cooking it make it safe to consume? These are some of the questions circulating about the virus called 2019-nCoV. Here are some answers. Will a mask protect me? There's a run on masks in China, with the belief that wearing one in public will protect an individual from exposure to droplets...
Election Officials To Convene Amid Historic Focus On Voting And Interference
Top election officials from all 50 states are meeting in Washington this week to prepare for 2020 — a gathering amid widespread concern over whether the upcoming elections will be fair and accurate, as well as free of the kind of foreign interference that marred the 2016 campaign. Despite major government efforts to upgrade security, an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that about 41% of Americans surveyed do not think the country is prepared to protect the U.S. election system from another...
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