News

Saturday Night Live was nominated for 22 Emmy Awards. Here, Melissa McCarthy portrays White House spokesman Sean Spicer in a special segment taped in May.

Arts

Emmy Nominations 2017: 'Saturday Night Live' And 'Westworld' Lead The Way

2:14pm July 13, 2017

by Bill Chappell

With 22 nominations each, NBC's Saturday Night Live and HBO's Westworld tied for the most Emmy nods for the 2016-2017 season. Netflix garnered 91 nominations — second among networks.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions attends the National Summit on Crime Reduction and Public Safety on June 20 in Bethesda, Md.

Justice Department Releases Sessions' Disclosure Form, A Day Late

2:10pm July 13, 2017

by James Doubek

In response to a lawsuit, a judge had given the DOJ 30 days to disclose parts of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' security clearance form that dealt with contacts with foreign governments.

Chef Dadisi Olutosin makes collard greens, a beloved staple of the American South — but with a Caribbean-West African twist.

Cooking Collard Greens With A West African And Caribbean Twist

2:02pm July 13, 2017

by Rhitu Chatterjee

It's a dish that Dadisi Olutosin ate as a kid in Atlanta. As an adult he discovered its international roots and came up with a recipe that's true to his mother — and the culinary heritage of collards.

Donald Trump Jr. told Sean Hannity of Fox News that he is willing to testify under oath about his June 2016 meeting.

Politics & Government

Committee Chair Requests Donald Trump Jr. Testify On Capitol Hill

1:20pm July 13, 2017

by Geoff Bennett

A letter has been sent to Donald Trump Jr. asking him to testify as early as next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee in an open session. The president's son has said he's willing to testify.

A chair sat empty for Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in Oslo, Norway, in 2010. The rights activist was imprisoned in China in 2009.

World News

Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate And Human Rights Advocate Liu Xiaobo Dies

11:52am July 13, 2017

by Anthony Kuhn

The 61-year-old dissident died after more than seven years in prison. He was a prominent critic of China's government. "There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom," he wrote.

The Natural Cycles app was designed by a particle physicist and launched in 2014. It's now been certified as a method of birth control in the E.U.

Mobile App Designed To Prevent Pregnancy Gets EU Approval

11:31am July 13, 2017

by Lauren Silverman

For the first time, a medically approved birth control app has been certified as a method of contraception. It relies on math, an algorithm and a woman's body temperature to determine fertility.

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The HHS inspector general found that some 22,000 Medicare Part D beneficiaries seem to be doctor shopping for opioids — obtaining large amounts prescribed by four or more doctors and filled at four or more pharmacies.

'Extreme' Opioid Use And Doctor Shopping Still Plague Medicare

11:10am July 13, 2017

by Charles Ornstein

One-third of all Medicare recipients were prescribed opioids last year, the HHS inspector general says, with more than half a million getting high doses for at least three months.

Cosmo Dinardo, 20, has been deemed a person of interest in the case; his parents own the property where one of the men's body was found.

National

Police Identify 1 Of 4 Missing Men In Common Grave In Rural Pennsylvania

11:01am July 13, 2017

by Bill Chappell

"This was a homicide. Make no doubt about it," says Bucks County District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub.

Image of a CAR-T cell (reddish) attacking a leukemia cell (green). These CAR-T lymphocytes are used for immunotherapy against cancer (CAR stands for chimeric antigen receptor). After the proliferation of the CAR-expressing T cells, they are transfused bac

'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer By Harnessing Immune System Clears Key Hurdle

10:36am July 13, 2017

by Rob Stein

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommends the agency, for the first time, approve a new kind of treatment that uses genetically modified immune cells to attack cancer cells.

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Zaur Dadayev (right) was convicted of carrying out the assassination of politician Boris Nemtsov in February 2015. He's seen here in court last month, inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at the Moscow District Military Court.

World News

Killer Of Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov Is Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

9:30am July 13, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for Zaur Dadayev, a former officer in the security force of the Russian province of Chechnya.