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A passenger recounts the moment the Amtrak train derailed: 'It was hell on Earth'

6:27pm June 28, 2022

A passenger on board the Amtrak train that crashed into a truck and derailed in Missouri on Monday, killing four people, has described the harrowing moment when his carriage rolled.

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What the former White House aide's testimony could mean for the Jan. 6 investigation

6:08pm June 28, 2022

Tuesday's surprise hearing of the Jan. 6 committee came with some explosive testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson. She was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

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FDA advisers recommend new COVID vaccines designed specifically to fend off omicron

6:08pm June 28, 2022

by Rob Stein

FDA advisers recommended the agency authorize new COVID-19 vaccines targeted at omicron to protect people against what could be another winter surge.

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51 immigrants are dead in the worst known human smuggling catastrophe in modern U.S.

6:00pm June 28, 2022

by John Burnett

Federal authorities are investigating the deaths of 51 immigrants. Most of the bodies were found Monday in the oven-like trailer of an 18-wheeler abandoned on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas.

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Trump said he knew Jan. 6 crowd members had weapons, ex-White House aide testified

6:00pm June 28, 2022

by Claudia Grisales

A former White House aide told the House Jan. 6 committee that President Trump knew the crowd was armed and tried overpowering a secret service agent to go to the Capitol.

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A video of former President Donald Trump from his Jan. 6 Rose Garden statement is played as Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing held by the House select committee investigati

Trump didn't want to stop Capitol attack, former White House aide testifies

5:55pm June 28, 2022

by NPR Washington Desk

Former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalls exchange between her boss and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who warned "Somebody is going to die and this is going to be on your effing hands."

VP Harris responds to SCOTUS ruling that there is no constitutional right to abortion

5:40pm June 28, 2022

by Asma Khalid

Vice President Harris has a long history working on reproductive rights. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with her about what the White House will do now that the Supreme Court has overturned 'Roe v. Wade.'

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A pilot shortage might be why you're facing flight delays and cancelations

5:31pm June 28, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Captain Casey Murray, President of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, about why there's a shrinking number of pilots.

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In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell gives her statement in federal court, in New York, on June 28, 2022.

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Ghislaine Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in prison

5:24pm June 28, 2022

"Today's sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a tweeted statement.

HHS Secretary Becerra on federal abortion rights

5:17pm June 28, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with President Biden's health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra, about steps the administration is prepared to take to protect women's reproductive health care.

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