Law

There are now safety guidelines for people who hire domestic workers in California

4:35pm February 02, 2023

by Farida Jhabvala Romero / KQED

California has issued voluntary safety guidelines for employers of domestic service workers. These employees have been historically excluded from basic workplace protections.

A look at the London skyline visible from Tate Modern's terrace on Oct. 27, 2016.

Tate Modern's terrace is a nuisance for wealthy neighbors, top U.K. court rules

3:47pm February 02, 2023

by Emily Olson

For years, tourists have peered into multi-million-dollar apartments from the top of London's busiest art gallery. Britain's Supreme Court says that has to change.

Politics & Government

Morning news brief

7:28am February 02, 2023

by Steve Isnkeep

U.S. aims to expand its access to military bases in the Philippines. FBI searches Biden's vacation home for classified data. Republicans hold their first hearing of the new Congress about the border.

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The lawyer for a leading accuser of R. Kelly says prosecutors shouldn't have dropped charges against Kelly before his appeals of federal criminal convictions were resolved. The singer is seen here in a courthouse in Chicago.

An R. Kelly victim says Chicago prosecutor made a mistake in dropping sex abuse case

5:36pm February 01, 2023

by Bill Chappell

Jerhonda Pace, who was part of a successful federal case against Kelly in New York as well as the case in Illinois, says Kelly is still fighting to appeal his federal conviction.

A grand jury indictment says that Josh Sills of the Philadelphia Eagles football team allegedly engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with a woman and held her against her will in December 2019.

Sports

A Philadelphia Eagles player is indicted on rape and kidnapping charges

5:12pm February 01, 2023

by Vanessa Romo

Josh Sills, a reserve offensive lineman for the Super Bowl-headed team, was indicted in Ohio on Tuesday. The charges stem from an alleged 2019 incident, when Sills was still in college.

President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.

Politics & Government

FBI searched Biden's Delaware vacation home as part of classified document probe

3:40pm February 01, 2023

by Washington Desk

No documents with classified markings were found, though Biden's lawyer said "some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as vice president" were taken for further review.

The image from video released on Jan. 27, 2023, by the City of Memphis, shows police officers talking after a brutal attack on Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers on Jan. 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Nichols died on Jan. 10. The five officers have since been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other offenses.

National

4 of the 5 officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death had prior violations at work

3:28pm February 01, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Five officers have been indicted over the beating death of Nichols. Four of them had been disciplined earlier by the Memphis police department for car crashes, failure to report use of force and more.

Alec Baldwin attends a news conference at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 21, 2015. The actor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set in 2021.

Prosecutors file charges against Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting on movie set

5:38pm January 31, 2023

by The Associated Press

The actor and a weapons specialist have been formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set in 2021.

New York state records show nearly half the state's 600-plus nursing homes hired real estate, management and staffing companies run or controlled by their owners, frequently paying them well above the cost of services. Meanwhile, in the pandemic's height, the federal government was giving the facilities hundreds of millions in fiscal relief.

Health & Safety

Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest

12:10pm January 31, 2023

by Jordan Rau

As the U.S. government debates whether to require higher staffing levels at nursing homes, financial records show some owners routinely push profits to sister companies while residents are neglected.

Emergency personnel respond to a vehicle over the side of Highway 1 on Jan. 1, 2023, in California's San Mateo County. The driver who plunged off the treacherous cliff, seriously injuring himself, his wife and their two young children, has been charged with attempted murder.

National

The driver of a car that plunged off a California cliff charged with attempted murder

10:45am January 31, 2023

by The Associated Press

The driver of a car that plunged off a treacherous cliff in northern California, seriously injuring himself, his wife and their two young children, was charged with attempted murder.