May 17 Explosion outside fertility clinic in California kills 1; police say act appeared ‘intentional’ By Eric Tucker, Gene Johnson, Associated Press An explosion that heavily damaged a fertility clinic in the California city of Palm Springs appears to have been intentional, local authorities said. One person was found dead, and the FBI said it was sending investigators, including bomb technicians, to… Continue reading
May 17 Watch 3:00 News Wrap: Deadly storms rip through Kentucky and Missouri In our news wrap Saturday, severe storms in the Midwest and South left nearly two dozen people dead, the Supreme Court said the Trump administration cannot deport a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas using the Alien Enemies Act, Trump… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 6:40 The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE By Ali Rogin, Cameron Lawson, Mike Fritz This week marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Philadelphia’s history. In May 1985, the city’s police department dropped an improvised bomb on a residential home that housed the Black revolutionary organization MOVE. The bomb and… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 4:33 Tracing one Hmong family’s journey from Laos to Rhode Island By Isabella Jibilian, Rhode Island PBS The Hmong are an ethnic group living primarily in China and Southeast Asia. There are communities of Hmong migrants across the globe. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Isabella Jibilian of Rhode Island PBS Weekly spoke with a… Continue watching
May 17 Severe weather leaves at least 14 dead in Kentucky, 7 dead in Missouri By Michael Phillis, Corey Williams, John Hanna, Associated Press Storm systems sweeping across parts of the Midwest and South have left at least 21 dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado crumbled buildings and flipped a car over on an interstate. Continue reading
May 17 Authorities search for escapees after 10 break out of New Orleans jail through hole in cell wall By Jack Brook, Jim Mustian, Sara Cline, Associated Press Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food,… Continue reading
May 16 What would help families have more babies? Here’s what readers said By Hannah Grabenstein, Vivian Hoang PBS News asked readers to share their thoughts on having children and incentivizing childbirth — and more than 900 people responded. Here's what they said. Continue reading
May 16 FEMA will shift more disaster recovery responsibilities to the states, acting chief says By Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Associated Press In comments that cemented the Trump administration's intent to bring about a major shift in the agency's mission, David Richardson said FEMA's intent for the 2025 “disaster season” will be to strengthen states' abilities for response and recovery while coordinating… Continue reading
May 16 Fact-checking Trump’s claim that prescription drug price drops could happen ‘almost immediately’ By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact Experts said Trump’s action could potentially lower the cost of prescription drugs, perhaps by the 30 percent to 80 percent scale Trump said, but they cautioned that the order’s required procedural steps would make it far from an immediate fix. Continue reading
May 16 Man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison By Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press During the trial, the 77-year-old author was the key witness, describing how he believed he was dying when a masked attacker plunged a knife into his head and body more than a dozen times as he was being introduced at… Continue reading