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June 23, 2015
• Pakistan Heat Wave Kills At Least 748 People; Channel Train Service Resumes After Strike Disruption; Wikileaks: U.S. Spied On Three French Presidents; Source: Prison Worker Plied Guards With Baked Goods; Supreme Court Lawmakers Vote On Confederate Flag Bill; Relative: Australian ISIS Fighters Killed By Drone; Tal Abyad Cleared Of ISIS But Fear Remains; Druze Anger Over Israeli Help To Syrian Rebels; Queen Elizabeth On State Visit To Germany; Japan's Middle-Aged Virgins. Aired 3-4a ET
• Joyce Mitchell Sought Special Favors for Inmates; S.S. State Rep. Bill Chumley says Confederate Flag Misused, Mis-Education Brought Debate to This Point; White Supremacist Group Similar to ISIS Terrorist Group; North Carolina Teen's Arrest Underscores ISIS Influence in U.S.; Tal Abyad Residents Try to Rebuild Lives After ISIS; Record-Breaking Heat Wave Causes Death in Pakistan; Pension Reform Infuriates Greek Citizens; How U.S. Alleges Chinese Hack May Have Occurred; North Korea Sentences Two South Koreans "Spies" to Hard Labor for Life; U.K. Arrests Rwanda Intelligence Chief; Heat Wave Hits Pakistan; Japan's Middle-Aged Virgins. Aired 2-3a ET
• How Much Mitchell Helped Convicts Escape; Gene Palmer's Attorney Says Mitchell Manipulated Palmer, Had No Knowledge of Escape; Confederate Flag Issue Affects Big Business; Confederate Flag Issue Sparks Intensity, Anger; Baltimore Newspaper Reports Freddie Gray Autopsy Results; Two Sentenced in North Korea to Hard Labor for Life; Funeral Services for Nun Who Succeeded Mother Teresa; Trump Makes Impression on Voters. Aired 1-2a ET
• Tom Brady Fighting to Play Full Season; Police Sang Lullaby to Girl Involved in Car Accident; Authorities Closing in on David Sweat and Richard Matt. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• President Obama on Race; Confederate Flag Controversy; Manhunt. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Obama Says He's "Fearless" in Interview; New Details in Manhunt for Escaped Convicts in New York; Debate Grows on Removing Confederate Flag from S.C. Capitol Grounds; New Details in Washington, D.C. Mansion Murders. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Manhunt for Escaped Prisoners; Confederate Flag Debate; Obama's Candid Interview. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Candidates Embrace Flag Removal after Hedging; Joyce Mitchell's Husband Speaks Out; More than One in Four Americans Have No Savings. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• South Carolina Governor Calls to Remove Confederate Flag from Capitol; DNA Link Re-energized Search. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Manhunt for Escaped New York Prisoners; Smuggling into Prisons; Former ISIS Stronghold; Special Report of DC Mansion Murders Tonight; Tom Brady Files Appeal Against Suspensions. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Joyce Mitchell's Husband Speaks Out; Prisoners' DNA Link Re- energizes Search; Manhunt Intensifies Near Burglarized Cabin; S.C. Gov.: Remove the Confederate Flag from Capitol; Prisoners' DNA Link Re-Energizes Search. Aired 9-9:30a ET


June 22, 2015
• Escaped Killers' DNA Found In New York Cabin; 2016 Hopefuls Weigh In On Controversial Flag; President Obama Speaks Candidly On Race In The U.S.; Positive Signs After Summit On Greece Wraps; Samsung Apologizes For MERS Outbreak; U.S. Blames China For Hacking Of Government Systems; After ISIS Driven Out, Scars Remain In Tal Abyad; U.N.: War Crimes Likely Both Sides In Gaza War; China's Dog-Eating Festival Draws Outrage; Taylor Swift Takes On Apple And Wins. Aired 3- 4a ET
• DNA Clue in Escaped Convicts Manhunt; Attorney Says Gene Palmer Didn't Know of Convict Escape; Fears Greece will Exit Eurozone; How ISIS Delivered Justice in Tal Abyad; Inside White a Supremacist Movement; Nikki Haley Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag from Capitol Grounds; Obama Trying to Make a Point Using "N" Word; U.S. Government Security Breach Larger Than Thought; South Korea's Samsung Medical Center Apologizes over MERS Handling; Karachi, Pakistan, Stifled by Heat. Aired 2-3a ET
• New Lead in Escaped Convict Manhunt; Leading S.C. Figures Say Confederate Flag Must Go; AME Church Killers Wanted to Start Civil War; Greece Must Reach Deal Before Debt Deadline to Avoid Default; Samsung Medical Center Apologizes for Its Handling of South Korean MERS Outbreak; U.S. Accuses China of Security Breach Prior to China's D.C. Meeting; Iraq Battle Against ISIS Force Families to Flee; Obama Uses "N" Word When Talking Race Relations; Obama Trying to Make a Point Using "N" Word; Inside White Supremacist Movement; Chile Declares Environmental Emergency; Taylor Swift Takes on Apple, Wins. Aired 1-2a ET
• South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag from Capitol Grounds; Breaking News in Prison Escape Manhunt in Upstate New York; 3:30-4p ET
• Will Confederate Flag Come Down?; Manhunt. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Lindsey Graham Calls for Confederate Flag to Come Down; Possible DNA Clue in Manhunt for Escaped Convicts; Pressure to Bring Down Confederate Flag in S.C. Grows; Food Stamp Usage Grows in U.S.; Hackers Target Large Polish Airline. Aired 2:30-3p ET>
• Evidence Found in Cabin; Confederate Flag Controversy; Solidarity in Charleston; Obama Talks Racism. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Manhunt for New York Prison Escapees; President Uses N-Word to Make Point on Race; The Seventies; Jordan Spieth Wins PGA Tour. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Inmates' DNA Found in Burglarized Cabin; Community Unites as Manifesto Spews Hate; GOP Hopeful Grapple with Confederate Flag Debate. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Search for Escaped Prison Inmates; Afghan Parliament Attack; Being Black in Charleston; Authorities Have Collected DNA Evidence from Escaped Convicts; Taylor Swift Takes on Apple. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Search Focuses on Area Near Burglarized Cabin; Charleston Community Unites in Wake of Massacre; Pressure Grows to Remove Confederate Flag; President Uses N-Word to Make Point on Race. Aired 9-9:30a ET


June 21, 2015
• Charleston Shooting Victims Remembered; Crowds Gather Outside Church To Show Support; 911 Caller Speaks Out About Tip Call; Reports: Explosion, Gunfire Outside Afghan Parliament; EU Official: Greek Proposal "Good Basis For Progress"; A New Blueprint For The Battle Against ISIS; A Young Man Driven By Hate; Japan Votes To Ease Dancing Ban. Aired 3-4a ET
• Prayer, Healing In Charleston, S.C., Following Shooting; Confessed Shoot Dylann Roof Wanted to Start Race War; Greece Presents New Proposal Hoping to Avoid Default; New Strategy May Be Working Against ISIS; Heat Wave Kills At Least 140 in Karachi, Pakistan. Aired 2-3a ET
• Worshippers Fill the Pews of Emanuel AME; Obama: I'm Not Politicizing the Issue; Police Swarm Rural New York County; Interview with Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard; Remembering the Victims. Aired 6- 7p ET
• Emanuel AME Church Reopens for Sunday Service; Richard Matt and David Sweat Were Sighted. Aired 5-6p ET
• Manhunt Search Centers 300 Miles South of Prison; Corrections Officer Under Investigation about Escape; Healing Begins at First Service Since Church Shooting; Reward For Capture Of Two Escaped Convicts Up To $150,000; Latest Sightings Of Escaped Convicts Along Railroad In Friendship, NY; Emanuel AME Massacre Reignites Political Fight Over Confederate Flag At S.C. State House. Aired 4-5p ET
• Church Bells Ringing in Charleston; New Orleans Manhunt Over; Gunfire Rings Out at Child's Birthday Party; New Sightings of Two Escaped Killers. Aired 3-4p ET
• Emanuel AME Church Reopens for Sunday Service; Richard Matt and David Sweat Sighted; Churches Hold Memorial Walk To Emanuel AME; Perimeter Set Up Around Town Near New York-Pennsylvania Border. Aired 2-3p ET


June 20, 2015
• "Credible Sighting" of Two Most Wanted Fugitives. Aired 7-8p ET
• Credible sighting of Richard Matt and David Sweat near the town of Friendship, New York; Charleston's Emanuel AME church will re-open its doors for worship tomorrow morning; Aired 6-7p ET
• Authorities Chase Lead Near Allegany County, New York; Police Ask Reporters To Leave "Hot Spot" Near Chase; Urgent Search For Killers Near New York/Pennsylvania State Line; Police Chase New Lead on Escaped Killers; Prison Administrator Put on on Leave; Interview with Cemetery Caretaker in Search Area; Racist Manifesto Found Online Allegedly by Confessed Shooter Dylann Roof. Aired 5-6p ET
• Dylann Roof Confesses to Shooting Nine in Emanuel AME Church; Charleston Mass Shooting Revives Flag Debate; Clinton Talks Tough on Race, Guns in U.S. Aired 4-5p ET
• Dylann Roof Confesses To Role In Charleston Massacre; Escaped Convicts Still On The Loose. Aired 3-4p ET
• South Carolina Church to Reopen for Sunday Services after Shooting; Website and Manifesto Possibly Linked to South Carolina Church Gunman; FBI Director Denies South Carolina Church Shooting Terrorist Act; Security Experts Discusses Security Measures for Churches; Family and Friends of Church Shooting Victims Express Forgiveness to Gunman; Two Escaped New York Prisoners Remain at Large; Prisoner in New Orleans Kills Prison Officer and Escapes. Aired 2-3p ET
• Racist Manifesto Surfaces Online; New Possible Sighting of Escaped Killers; Clinton Addresses Church Shooting; The Road Ahead of Charleston; Interview with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio; Shooting Renews Calls to Remove Confederate Flags; Aired 1-2p ET
• Church Members Rally Together After Attack; Escaped Killers Possibly Seen Near New York-Pennsylvania Border; DOJ: May Prosecute Church Massacre as Act of Terrorism; FBI Director: "This Is Not Terrorism"; Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Charleston's Church Massacre. Aired 12-1p ET
• Charleston Church Massacre; Escaped Killers on U.S. Marshal "Most Wanted"; Friend: Roof Wanted To "Do Something Crazy"; Church Invested In Security After Shooting; Judge Was Reprimanded For Racist Remark In Court. Aired 11a-12p ET
• Mourners Gather for Rally in Queens in Response to South Carolina Church Shooting; Family and Friends of Church Shooting Victims Express Forgiveness to Gunman; Two Escaped New York Prisoner Remain at Large; President Speaks about Gun Control in Wake of South Carolina Church Shooting. Aired 10-11a ET


June 19, 2015
• Mass Shooting Suspect Makes First Court Appearance; Shooting Revives Gun Control Debate In U.S.; Confederate Flag Still Flying After Charleston Attack; Police Hunt Escaped Killers; Greek Pensioners Anxious About Economy; Plane Stowaway Found Dead On Rooftop; Sadness, Rage And Resilience In Charleston; First Day Of Yemen Peace Talks Yield No Deal; Palestinians Make Long Awaited Trip To Holy Site; Victims Of Burundi Turmoil Share Their Fears. Aired 3-4a ET
• Suspect in the Emanuel AME Church Shooting in Charleston Captured; New Details in Dylann Roof's Arrest. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• South Carolina Shooting Suspect in Court. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Victim Family Attends Church Massacre Suspect's Court Appearance. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Prayer Vigil Planned; Dylann Roof Hearing. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Escaped Killers Added to "15 Most Wanted" List; Charleston Church Massacre; Brian Williams Breaks His Silence. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Charleston Church Shooting Suspect Behind Bars; Anger Over the Confederate Flag; Shooting Suspect to Appear in Court; Remembering the Victims; Interview with Malcolm Graham; Suspect Confessed to Killings. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Church Massacre Called Terrorism; Dylann Roof Waves Council; Confederate Flag Controversy; Lyle Mitchell's Attorney Speaks About Client; Richard Matt and David Sweat Added to Most Wanted List. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Survivor's Friend Recounts Shooting Incident; Remembering the Victims of the Charleston Church Shooting; Obama Revives Gun Control Debate After Shooting. Aired 9-9:30a ET


June 18, 2015


June 17, 2015
• Nine Killed In South Carolina Church Shooting; Prison Worker Warned Husband About Murder Plot; Pope Francis Addresses Climate Change; Greece Central Bank Warns Of Doomsday Scenario; Hong Kong Divided Over China-Backed Election Plan; Police Release Enhanced Mugshots Of Prison Escapees; Druze Villages Caught Up In Syria's Civil War. Aired 3-4a ET
• 9 Dead after White Gunman Opened Fire at Predominantly Black Church in S.C.; Enhanced Mug Shots on Escaped Convicts Released as Search Expands; Report on Young Immigrants Traveling from Egypt to Italy; As Pope Francis Focuses on Climate A Look at Where Climate Change is Having an Impact; Hong Kong Election Reform Fails Vote. Aired 2-3a ET
• 9 Dead after White Gunman Opened Fire at Predominantly Black Church in S.C.; Brian Williams Reaches Agreement to Stay with NBC News; Manhunt Continues for Escaped Convicts in New York; Hong Kong Lawmakers Reject Electoral Reform Backed By Beijing; Pope Francis Expected to Challenge Skeptics of Climate Change; Rachel Dolezal Asserts She is Black. Aired 1-2a ET
• Update on Joyce Mitchell's Involvement in the Escape of David Sweat and Richard Matt; Rachel Dolezal Accused of Faking her Race; Tens of Thousands of Haitian Immigrants on the Verge of Being Kicked out of the Dominican Republic. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Bernie Sanders Gaining Ground; Donald Trump Under Fire; Manhunt Continues. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• FBI Agent Attacked In ISIS-Related Raid; Theories On Where Escaped Convicts Can Be; Focus On Sharks As Another Attack Occurs. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Agent Attacked in ISIS Investigation; Attracted to Killers; Dolezal Compared to Jenner; 10-Year-Old Stumps for Trump. Aired 2- 2:30p ET
• Jeb Bush Charms in "Tonight Show Appearance"; Escaped Animals Still on the Loose; Pope to Release Statement on Climate Change; Did St. Louis Cardinals Hack the Astros? Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Search Area for the Fugitives Expanding; How Officers Guard Against Manipulation; Is Former NAACP Leader Being Held Accountable?; Tensions Grow Between Russia and NATO. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Pope to Release Statement on Environment; Is Rachel Dolezal Using Race to Get Ahead?; Shark Attack Victim Speaks Out; Fed Expected to Raise Rates in September; Golden State Winners. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Search Area for the Fugitives Expands; Donald Trump Would Bomb ISIS?; Jeb Bush Slow Jams the News; Putin: Adding 40 Ballistic Missiles This Year; Interview with Republican Congressman Mac Thornberry of Texas. Aired 9-9:30a ET


June 16, 2015
• Was Mitchell's Husband Warned About plot to Kill Him; Former NAACP's Rachel Dolezal Firing Back on Race Controversy; U.S., Allies Stage Show of Force After Putin Vows to Add Missiles to Russia's Nuclear Arsenal; Hong Kong Readies for Confrontations over Chief Executive Elections; Donald Trump Jumps into 2016 Presidential Race; Jeb Bush Starts Presidential Campaign with Appearance on "The Tonight Show"; NBA Crowns a New Champ; U.S. Takes Out Top Jihadi with Drone Strike; Wives, Children Disappear on Trip to Middle East; Balcony Collapse in Berkeley Kills 6; Massive Wildfire Grows in Alaska; Mother Fighting for Her Life after Contracting Mysterious Deadly Flesh-Eating Bacteria. Aired 1-2a ET
• Tropical Storm Bill Could Bring More Flooding to Texas; Donald Trump Announces Run for Presidency; Major League Baseball Rivalry Taken to Whole New Level; Aired 3:30-4pm ET
• U.S. Delivers Blow To Al Qaeda; Former NAACP Leader Speaks Out; Manhunt. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Tropical Storm Bill Making Landfall in Texas; FDA Says Trans Fat Not Safe for Human Consumption; Bike Arrested in Waco Shootout Says Arrests Bogus. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Joyce Mitchell's Lawyer Speaks; Manhunt Continues; White Ex- NAACP Leader Speaks; Trump Running for President. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Trump to Make Announcement in NYC Today; Inside the Minds of Voters; Former NAACP Leader Speaks Up; Did Inmates Find Perfect Storm of Failures? Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Tropical Storm Bill Slamming Texas Coast; New Indictment in Texas Cartoon Shooting; Top Al Qaeda Leader Killed in Yemen; Husband Visits Escape Suspect in Jail; U.S. Drone Strike Kills Terror Leader; Donald Trump to Make an Announcement; Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Prison Escape Help; Jeb Bush Enters 2016 Race; Trump Announcement Today; Syrian Refugees on the Turkey Border; Double Shark Attacks in North Carolina; Can LeBron Carry the Cleveland Cavs to Victory? Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Five Dead in Berkeley Balcony Collapse; Tropical Storm Bill Slamming Texas Coast; Al Qaeda Number Two Leader Killed in Yemen; Former NAACP Leader Breaks Her Silence; Source: Inmates Plotted to Kill Husband. Aired 9-9:30a ET


June 15, 2015
• 17-Year Old British Teen Becomes ISIS Suicide Bomber; Sudan President Omar al Bashir Escapes Arrest in South Africa; Jeb Bush Announces 2016 Run for Presidency; Texas Prepares for Worst as Tropical Storm Bill Takes Aim; 2 Shark Attacks at North Carolina Beaches; Raging Floodwaters Result in Animals Escaping Tbilisi Zoo in Republic of Georgia; Breaking News in Manhunt, Female Prison Employee Who Helped; The Threat of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; Civil Rights Leader Resigns Post, Parents Baffled She Claimed to be Black; 3 More MERS Patients in South Korea Die; Thousands of Syrian Refugees Rushed to Turkish Border Fleeing Intense Fighting Against ISIS. Aired 1-2a ET
• Jeb Bush to Officially Announce Run for Presidency. Aired 3:30p-4:00p ET.
• Private White House Party; Jeb Bush's Presidential Announcement; Manhunt. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Man Jailed Three Years Without Trial Kills Himself; Brothers of Kalief Talk About His Life; Libyan Government Claims Terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar Is Dead; "Jurassic World" Is Summer Movie Magic. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Prisoners Planned To Kill Husband; Two Shark Attacks; Rachel Dolezal Resigns; Death After Rikers. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• U.S. Airstrike Targets key Terrorist in Libya; Dallas Police Attacker's Mom Speaks; Prison Break Manhunt; Two Shark Attacks on Same Beach. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• New Details on Prison Escapees; Jeb Bush to Kick Off Presidential Campaign Today; New York Prison Employee Appears in Court; Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Trade Fight in the House; New Details Behind the Dallas Shootout; The Controversy of Rachel Dolezal's Race; Warning Signs for Gunman Who Attacked Dallas Police. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Double Shark Attack in North Carolina Beach; New York Prison Employee Charged for Helping Convicts to Escape; Jeb Bush to Kick Off Presidential Campaign Today; Interview with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. Aired 9-9:30a ET


June 14, 2015


June 13, 2015
• Dallas Gunman Targeting Police HQ is Dead; Hillary Clinton to New York Crowd: "It Is Time"; Exclusive Interview with Secretary Arne Duncan, Katia Beauchamp and Andrew Yang. Aired 6-7p ET
• Gunman Shot Dead By Sniper After Car Chase; Judge: Boulware Has Long History of Mental Illness; Prison Worker Charged As Hunt For Killers Intensifies; Hillary Clinton Talks Capitalizing on Country's Economic Rebound; Judge Thought Dallas Gunman After Her; Prosecutor's Office Releases Report on Tamir Rice's Death, Gives Go-Ahead to Charge Officers. Aired 5-6p ET
• Dallas Gunman Shot Dead by Sniper After Car Chase; Prison Break Manhunt Continues; The Race for 2016; Tamir Rice Shooting: Prosecutor Releases Investigation Results; NAACP Leader Accused of Faking Blackness. Aired 4-5p ET
• Man Attacks Dallas Police HQ Just After Midnight; Hunt Continues for Two Cold-Blooded Killers; New Docs Shedding Light on Killing of 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice; Hillary Clinton's First Major Rally; Republican Presidential Hopefuls at Mitt Romney's Retreat; Interview with Marc Benioff. Aired 3-4p ET
• Dallas Police Headquarters Attacked; Manhunt for Escaped Killers Follows 700 Leads. Aired 1-2p ET
• Hillary Clinton Speaks on Roosevelt Island; Interview with Hillary's Press Secretary Brian Fallon. Aired 12-1p ET
• Dallas Police Department Attacked; Prison Worker Charged As Hunt For Killers Intensifies; Hillary Clinton Gives Major Speech in New York. Aired 11a-12p ET
• Man Attacks Police Station in Dallas, Texas; Suspect in Standoff with Police in Dallas after Attack Police Station. Aired 10- 11a ET


June 12, 2015


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