Mar 26 Watch Death of 14-Year-Old Worker Due to Dangerous Conditions in Grain Storage Bins Investigating the Dangerous Working Conditions in Grain Storage Bins… Continue watching
Mar 26 Tuesday on the NewsHour: San Francisco Symphony on Strike By Tom LeGro The ongoing strike by the San Francisco Symphony brings back a lot of memories for PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels, some pleasant, one in particular rather daunting. Continue reading
Mar 26 The Tuesday Cutline…a Winner! By Colleen Shalby With a new pope comes plenty of new memorabilia. Not even the most unmaterialistic could escape Pope Francis on cards and trinkets across the world for the past few weeks. Continue reading
Mar 26 Supreme Court Could Avoid Ruling on Gay Marriage Ban EmbedVideo(6050, 482, 304); Following the oral arguments at the Supreme Court challenging Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, attorneys David Boies and Theodore Olson, and plaintiffs Kris Perry, Sandy Stier, Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami spoke outside the… Continue reading
Mar 26 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A butterfly lands on a girl at the "Sensational Butterflies" exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. Continue reading
Mar 26 Supreme Court Takes Up Gay Marriage for First Time By Katelyn Polantz Justin Kenny of Akron, Ohio, holds a flag Tuesday morning in front of the Supreme Court building. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Tuesday's arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court involving California's ban on same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, boil… Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch News Wrap: North Dakota Outlaws Most Abortions After Fetal Heartbeat Detected In other news Tuesday, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed legislation banning most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected -- as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Also, the Supreme Court decided that police must have a warrant… Continue watching
Mar 25 Cliburn, Checker Among New Additions to National Recording Registry By Tom LeGro, Anne Azzi Davenport Van Cliburn's triumphant Cold War performance in Moscow, the mambo music of Cuban bassist Israel "Cachao" Lopez, and Chubby Checker's "The Twist" are among the 25 sound recordings newly inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Continue reading
Mar 25 Weekly Poem: ‘Cuckoo Flower on the Witness Stand’ By Tom LeGro Li-Young Lee is the author of four books of poetry: "Behind My Eyes" (2008); "Book of My Nights" (2001); "The City in Which I Love You" (1991); and "Rose" (1986). Continue reading
Mar 25 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A man gets a tattoo at the International Tattoo Convention in Frankfurt, Germany. More than 700 artists from all over the world made more than 3,000 tattoos at the three-day show. Continue reading