World Apr 21 PHOTO: Raining pamphlets in India A small plane showered pamphlets over Jalandhar, India Monday encouraging residents to vote in the Punjab election for Lok Sabha, or House of the People. The April 30 election will determine which of the 253 candidates will end…
Politics Apr 17 Live Chat: Gwen Ifill answers your questions Do you have questions for Gwen Ifill? Join her for a live chat, hosted by PBS’ Washington Week, at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday.
Economy Apr 16 PHOTO: Sports car gets a bird’s eye view of the Big Apple A 2015 Ford Mustang sits atop the observation deck of New York's Empire State Building Wednesday in celebration of the sports car's 50th birthday. The automobile was brought up in separate parts and assembled atop the skyscraper, where it…
Nation Apr 16 Death toll rises to 39 in Washington mudslide The death toll from the mudslide that hit the Washington town of Oso has risen to 39. The Snohomish County sheriff's office still lists seven people as missing from the March 22 landslide that buried some 30 homes in the…
World Apr 16 Ferry carrying 459 sinks off coast of S. Korea; Four confirmed dead A ferry carrying 459 people sank off of South Korea’s southern coast Wednesday. At least four people are confirmed dead with 55 injured. Nearly 300 people are still missing. Most of the passengers on the boat were high school students…
Science Apr 15 Tyrannosaurus Rex arrives via Fed Ex at Smithsonian Museum A truck carrying a nearly-complete Tyrannosaurus Rex arrived at the loading dock of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History just after 6 a.m. EDT, Tuesday morning. The dinosaur had just completed its 2,000-mile journey from Bozeman, Mont., where…
World Apr 14 In Eastern Ukraine, deadline passes for protesters to quit occupation A 2 a.m. EDT deadline, set by acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov, passed Monday without any action to make pro-Russian protesters vacate government buildings in Eastern Ukraine.
World Apr 13 Papyrus referencing Jesus’ wife dates back to ancient times Experts at Columbia, MIT and Harvard have concluded through scientific testing that a small papyrus fragment that quotes Jesus making references to “my wife,” is in fact from ancient times. What do these new findings reveal? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with…
Nation Apr 12 Walmart announces plan to cut prices on some organic products Organic food sales totaled some $30 billion in the U.S. last year and suppliers can barely keep up with demand. Earlier this week, the nation’s largest retailer, Walmart, announced that it would slash prices of some of its organic products…
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