Arts May 20 Led Zeppelin accused of plagiarism, 40 years after the release of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8AVbwB_6E The band Spirit claims that Led Zeppelin stole an instrumental piece of music from their single “Taurus” and used it for the opening of “Stairway to Heaven. More than 40 years after Led Zeppelin released their “Stairway to Heaven”…
Economy May 14 Dean Baquet replaces Jill Abramson as New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, the New York Times’ first female executive editor, is leaving her post after three years. Taking her place is the Times’ managing editor Dean Baquet, the first African-American to hold the position.
World May 09 ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ photos on Twitter are not of missing Nigerians The photos portray girls in Guinea-Bissau -- more than 1,000 miles away from Nigeria -- who are completely unrelated to more than 200 girls that Boko Haram kidnapped.
Nation May 07 Twitter Chat: What does it mean to be a parent? Are you a parent? How do you balance work and family? With so many books and constantly changing parenting fads, whose advice do you follow? Join NewsHour and Jennifer Senior -- author of "All Joy and No Fun" -- on…
Nation May 06 Artist turns street into giant water slide How do you turn ordinary places into extraordinary works of art? For some, a flash mob is one way. For artist Luke Jerram, the answer was a giant water slide.
Arts May 05 Shakespeare loses to the Wu-Tang Clan in vocabulary duel “To be, or not to be” could have been the perfect start to a rap song. Some have even called Shakespeare the original rapper, his use of iambic pentameter the first dropped beat. So, it seems fitting that when comparing…
Nation Apr 30 Who ended up paying attention to the Heartbleed bug? Pew Research Center surveyed 1,501 American adults and asked them what steps, if any, they took following the Heartbleed revelation.
Arts Apr 30 Join Library of Congress for discussion on poetry In celebration of National Poetry Month, PBS NewsHour’s Mike Melia will join the Library of Congress for a webcast discussion at 12 p.m. EDT Wednesday about that very question.
Arts Apr 23 Your photos of places that have gone ‘extinct’ We want you to tell us about the spaces in your life that have, more or less, gone extinct.
Science Apr 22 What’s it like to be a fossil? The ‘Nation’s T.rex’ weighed in on Twitter PBS NewsHour will hosted a a Twitter chat with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the "Nations' T.Rex."…