May 31 Watch 3:23 Obama to highlight economic progress in NewsHour town hall By PBS News Hour Elkhart, Indiana, was one of the cities hit worst by the financial crisis in 2009 and was the first city President Obama visited after taking office, though the city remains deeply divided along partisan lines. Obama will return to Elkhart… Continue watching
May 31 UnitedHealthcare to pull out of Obamacare markets in California By Chad Terhune, Kaiser Health News UnitedHealth Group Inc. is leaving California’s insurance exchange at the end of this year, state officials confirmed Tuesday. Continue reading
May 31 This Chicago doctor stumbled on a hidden epidemic of fetal brain damage By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News Dr. Carl Bell, a psychiatrist in Chicago, began sounding the alarm about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder four years ago. Continue reading
May 30 How might cellphone signals cause cancer? By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American The release of a study Friday linking cancer in rats to the type of radiation emitted by cell phones presents some of the strongest implications in more than two decades of research that higher doses of such signals could be… Continue reading
May 29 Watch 3:37 Drug tests present major hurdle for employers By PBS News Hour As the unemployment rate drops across the country, employers are running into another problem – finding potential job candidates who will take and pass drug tests. Even though the country is amid an opioid epidemic, employers say marijuana has been… Continue watching
May 28 Watch 3:33 Alzheimer’s could be caused by past infections, researchers say By PBS News Hour More than five million Americans live with Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease, and it is also the fifth leading cause of death for people over 65 years old in the U.S. A new study suggests it may stem from the… Continue watching
May 27 Watch 4:40 ‘Top Chef’ Tom Colicchio on America’s staggering waste of food The United States wastes roughly 70 billion pounds of food every year, an estimated quarter of all food produced in the country. Now, TV “Top Chef” Tom Colicchio aims to bring the issue to the highest levels of government with… Continue watching
May 27 Watch 8:03 Meet the ‘courtroom dogs’ who help child crime victims tell their stories By PBS News Hour Getting child crime victims to open up is never easy for investigators and asking them to tell their stories to a jury can be brutally traumatizing. To help these kids overcome their fears, some courtrooms across the country are employing… Continue watching
May 27 Watch 52:36 PBS NewsHour full episode May 27, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima and pays tribute to the bombing victims. Also: Inside Obama’s nuclear legacy, a new film recognizes American POWs killed at Hiroshima, the fight for food… Continue watching
May 27 Major U.S. study links cellphone exposure to cancer in rats By Megan Thielking, Dylan Scott, STAT A major new study provides evidence of a possible link between cellphone exposure and cancer, at least in rats — findings that are likely to spark a fierce new debate about the 21st century’s most ubiquitous tech gadget. Continue reading