The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., Monday was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the agency upgraded the tornado from an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale to an EF-5 based on what a damage assessment team saw on the ground. The tornado's path was 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide. The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office said the death toll from the storm is 24, including seven children.
Jeffrey Brown talks with Rebecca Lieb, a research analyst for the Altimeter Group, about the appeal of the image-centric and mobile-friendly blogging platform Tumblr for tech giant Yahoo.
Code for America, a San Francisco nonprofit, enlists high tech professionals to work with local governments to create tools to help average citizens tackle hunger, blight and other civic problems. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.
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Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
Residents of Moore, Okla., have witnessed the devastation of a massive tornado before. In 1999 PBS NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser visited residents just returning to their homes after tornadoes swept through Kansas and Oklahoma, very close to the site where Monday's twister touched down.
Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter helps users mobilize around a common cause. But what if their message is one of hate? The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group working against global racism, has compiled a list of hundreds of websites it deems hateful and is pushing their host sites to remove them.
Have you ever been skeptical of headhunter Nick Corcodilos' unconventional advice? One job seeker decided to put some Ask The Headhunter methods to the test and the results were extremely successful.
A massive tornado ravaged a suburb of Oklahoma City on Monday, leveling buildings, killing at least 51 people, and temporarily brushing aside a trio of brewing political storms that had been the focus of official Washington in recent weeks.
In Syria, Assad government troops pushed to retake a strategic town close to the Lebanese border. Hezbollah fighters joined the Syrian regime army in laying siege to Qusayr, home to an estimated 40,000 civilians. Judy Woodruff reports on the growing involvement of Hezbollah in the Syrian conflict.
The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of the DSM, which doctors use to diagnose and treat mental disorders. Judy Woodruff discusses the changes and implications for both patients and professionals with Dr. Michael First of Columbia University and Dr. Steven Hyman of the Broad Institute.
Fifty-two percent of women over 60 aren't married and nearly 70 percent of those over 75 are single. What Social Security benefits are they entitled to? And what about single or divorced men?
On Monday, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien will serve as master of ceremonies at an event honoring the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. This is the column that O'Brien wrote immediately following Ride's death in July 2012, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
While the number of illegal crossings at the border has plummeted dramatically, just as many people are dying. This means for those coming into the country illegally, it is now more deadly and more lethal, than at any time in recent U.S. immigration history.
[Need to Know]
While much criticism has been lobbed at the federal system for failing to adequately identify who is spending money to influence campaigns, 35 states have independent spending disclosure laws that are less stringent than federal election law. See a state-by-state report card.
[Center for Public Integrity]
The Invisible War is an investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film, a 2013 Oscar nominee, paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem and the systemic cover-up by the military.
[The Invisible War]
May 20, 2013
On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., setting off the political scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon.
