Arts Aug 16 How Aretha Franklin shaped generations of music “If there’s a heaven, this is what it sounds like.”…
World Aug 15 What happens when migrant children are deported home Central American migrant children face intensified violence and poverty when they're deported back to their home countries, according to a new UNICEF report released today.
Nation Aug 15 How Catholic churches in Pennsylvania hid decades of abuse A nearly 900-page report last week includes dozens of testimonies provided by victims and reveals a pattern of systematic cover-ups by senior church officials.
Nation Aug 14 5 important stories that have nothing to do with the Omarosa-Trump feud The Hurricane Maria deathtoll in Puerto Rico is more than 20 times higher than the government estimated, a jury has awards $289 million in damages to a man who claims a popular herbicide caused his cancer and other stories we're…
Nation Aug 10 For 7 weeks, Sofi begged to go home. Now reunited, her journey isn’t over When a young girl named Sofi and her grandmother came legally to a U.S. immigration checkpoint, they tried to apply for asylum but were separated by U.S. officials. After 47 days, their story took a happier turn late Thursday in…
Politics Aug 10 3-year-old ‘Sofi’ reunites with her mother Seven weeks ago, Angelica and her 3-year-old granddaughter, Sofi, were separated after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at a legal point of entry, seeking asylum. On Thursday, they were reunited in San Francisco. The PBS NewsHour's Amna Nawaz has been…
Nation Aug 07 Fatal police shooting of Joseph Santos was ‘not justified,’ officials say. Here’s what we know Here’s what we know about what happened, what police and the community have said about the Pennsylvania shooting, and what's next.
Nation Aug 07 Kansas man sentenced to life in prison for 2017 shooting that targeted Indian men The white man who fatally shot Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounded two other men at a bar in northeastern Kansas last year targeted them "because of their race, color, and national origin," federal prosecutors said.
Nation Aug 06 5 important stories that deserve a closer look A new law in France will give fines to street harassers, a county in Georgia will place a long rifle in every high school and middle school this fall and other stories we're reading now.
Nation Aug 03 7 takeaways from the final police report on the Las Vegas shooting There was no clear motive for the shooting, but the report contained more details from Stephen Paddock's personal life.