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Longmont United Hospital nurse Brooke Schroeder holds a sign supporting nurses December 2, 2021. Nurses say the hospital is severely understaffed and they're trying to form a union.

Facing a new flood of COVID patients, Colorado nurses say the stress is unsustainable

3:06pm December 15, 2021

by John Daley

As unvaccinated COVID-19 patients fill ICU and acute care beds in Colorado, patients with other ailments are being turned away, and health care workers are reaching a new breaking point.

This Dec. 11, 2021 photo, provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a diving salvage unit at work in a contaminated water well near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Thousands displaced from Oahu military base due to contamination in Navy water system

1:37pm December 15, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

State health officials said samples from the Red Hill shaft contained petroleum levels 350 times the level considered safe. Some 3,000 military members and families were moved to temporary housing.

Philonise Floyd, George Floyd's brother, speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday, after Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges in George Floyd's murder.

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Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating George Floyd's civil rights

1:35pm December 15, 2021

by Bill Chappell

"Nobody is above the law, and nobody is beneath it," said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, calling Chauvin's change of plea "important and historic."

Romin Iqbal (center) of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) attends a press conference at CAIR-Columbus headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, in 2018. Iqbal was terminated for sharing information about the organization to "a known anti-Muslim hate

A leader of an Ohio Muslim organization was fired for spying for a hate group

1:28pm December 15, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations fired its Executive and Legal Director Romin Iqbal after it discovered he was passing information to a "known anti-Muslim hate group."

Beatriz and Luis Valero, and their 8-year-old granddaughter Alayah Pacheco, stand in front of what's left of their home. The family says they lost everything in last week's tornado and hope to rebuild, but they had no homeowner's insurance.

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In Kentucky towns slammed by tornadoes, weary residents are picking up the pieces

1:22pm December 15, 2021

Thousands of people lost their homes and businesses in the tornadoes that tore through Kentucky last week. Now, residents are sorting out how to move forward and whether or not to rebuild.

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O.J. Simpson attends a parole hearing at Lovelock Correctional Center in 2017 in Nevada.

O.J. Simpson is a 'completely free man' after being granted early release from parole

1:16pm December 15, 2021

by Scott Neuman

A lawyer for the former NFL star and actor, who was acquitted in the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend, said Simpson's "a completely free man now" after ending his parole for armed robbery.

Where are the students? For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping

10:57am December 15, 2021

The declines many school districts reported last year have continued, an NPR investigation finds. What educators don't know is where those students have gone.

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Keechant Sewell speaks to the media in the Queens borough of New York City on Wednesday. New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named Sewell, a Long Island police official, as the city's next police commissioner, making her the first woman to lead the natio

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New York mayor-elect taps Keechant Sewell to be the NYPD's first female commissioner

10:53am December 15, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Keechant Sewell, who is originally from Queens, has worked in the Nassau County Police Department for 23 years, most recently as chief of detectives.

Claudio Rojas, who was deported from the U.S. in 2019, is silhouetted against a curtained window of his home in Moreno, Argentina, on May 8, 2021. He was able to return to the U.S. in August.

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An immigrant activist says ICE deported him in retaliation. Now he's back in the U.S.

10:40am December 15, 2021

by Joel Rose

The Biden administration has allowed several prominent immigrants' rights activists back into the U.S. after they charged that immigration authorities were retaliating against them for speaking out.

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People in Kentucky are picking up the pieces in small towns hit by tornadoes

7:21am December 15, 2021

Thousands of people lost their homes and businesses in the tornadoes across Kentucky. Now, residents are sorting out how to move forward and whether or not to rebuild.

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