Nation Mar 21 Trump call to Putin draws condemnation as leaked details show widening rift with staff President Trump's phone call congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his landslide re-election drew criticism on Wednesday from lawmakers and former national security officials. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that Trump had ignored instructions from advisors not to congratulate…
Nation Mar 21 Sen. King: 2018 elections are 'vulnerable' and U.S. is failing to deter our adversaries Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, says King joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the ongoing Russia investigation, failures by Facebook to regulate the use of its own data, President Trump’s congratulatory call to Russian President Vladimir Putin and securing state election systems.
Nation Mar 21 Black men face economic disadvantages even if they start out in wealthier households, new study shows White boys who grow up in rich households are likely to stay rich, but black boys who are also raised at the top are more likely to become poor. That's according to a new study that underscores just how big…
Nation Mar 21 For a woman with fainting spells, her dog is her lifesaver In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Adele is a specially trained cardiac alert dog, who would jump into action whenever her owner’s blood pressure dropped.
Episode Mar 20 PBS NewsHour full episode March 20, 2018 Tuesday on the NewsHour, a data firm linked to the Trump campaign exploited millions of personal information from the social media giant Facebook. Also: Congress races toward another deadline to pass a spending bill, an abortion case before the Supreme…
Nation Mar 20 News Wrap: Investigators search Texas FedEx after package bound for Austin explodes In our news wrap Tuesday, the investigation of apparent serial bombings in Texas shifted after a package with an Austin address exploded at a FedEx shipping center outside San Antonio. Also, a 17-year-old student shot and wounded two fellow students…
Nation Mar 20 Facebook faces scrutiny for how user data was used to influence elections British-based research firm Cambridge Analytica has been accused of harvesting data from more than 50 million Facebook users, and misleading the tech giant about it. New undercover video captured the CEO talking about their work for the Trump campaign. Meanwhile,…
Nation Mar 20 Investor says he tried to warn Facebook about 'bad actors' harming innocent people Roger McNamee, one of Facebook’s original investors and a mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, says he was concerned about the way “bad actors were taking the tools created for advertisers and using them to harm innocent people,” and alerted Zuckerberg and…
Politics Mar 20 These spending bill sticking points are making lawmakers scramble to avert another shutdown Congress is negotiating a $1.3 trillion government spending bill before a Friday deadline, but a local transportation in New York and New Jersey has become a major sticking point. Special correspondent David Cruz of NJTV reports, then Lisa Desjardins joins…
Politics Mar 20 Truth in advertising or free speech burden? California law on 'crisis pregnancy centers' tested at high court A Supreme Court case centering on abortion and free speech involves California's so-called crisis pregnancy centers -- clinics run by anti-abortion groups -- and whether state law can require those centers to more fully disclose what they are and what…