Aug 14 U.S. producer prices surge in July as Trump tariffs push costs higher By Paul Wiseman, Associated Press The Labor Department reported Thursday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — was up 0.9% last month from June and 3.3% from a year earlier. Continue reading
Aug 13 Watch 8:34 Trump decries crime rates, but his administration has slashed prevention efforts By John Yang, Sam Lane, Jackson Hudgins President Trump moved to take over policing in Washington, D.C. to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime," but the data doesn’t back up many of his claims. Murder and violent crime dropped significantly across the U.S. last year, a trend… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 5:32 Trump's AI chip deal sparks legal questions and national security concerns By Amna Nawaz, Karina Cuevas President Trump stunned many in the tech world after announcing a controversial deal with chipmakers Nvidia and AMD, allowing them to sell advanced artificial intelligence chips to China in exchange for giving the U.S. government a 15% cut of their… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 8:58 Ms. Rachel on advocating for Gaza's children: 'I wish leaders would hear their voices' By Geoff Bennett, Courtney Norris She’s the preschool teacher to millions, though most of her students have never set foot in her classroom. Rachel Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, is the creator of the wildly popular YouTube series "Songs for Littles," a lifeline for parents… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 2:46 How Maryland's riverkeepers protect the state's waterways By Chaeeun Yoo, Tomas Rubio, Kyra Svab, Cori Kipps, Marie Cusick Fred Tutman is the riverkeeper of Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway. He's an advocate for the Patuxent River and one of the longest-serving waterkeepers in the Chesapeake region. Our journalism training program, PBS News Student Reporting Labs, traveled to… Continue watching
Aug 13 DC man arrested for hurling sandwich at a federal law enforcement official By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press A man has been arrested on a charge that he hurled a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital amid a surge in law enforcement patrols ordered by the White House, according to a court filing Wednesday. Continue reading
Aug 13 LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Erin Forecasters predicted the storm would peak Thursday and said it could regain strength and once again become a major hurricane, Category 3 or greater, but it was not forecast to make landfall along the East Coast before turning farther out… Continue reading
Aug 13 Parents and child killed when tree falls on car amid heavy rain and flooding in Tennessee By Associated Press A mother, father and child were killed when a tree fell on their car during heavy rain and flooding in Tennessee, an official said Wednesday. Continue reading
Aug 13 U.S. sanctions cartel associates accused of scamming elderly Americans By Associated Press The U.S. imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Mexican companies and four people it says worked with a powerful drug trafficking cartel to scam elderly Americans in a multimillion-dollar timeshare fraud. Continue reading
Aug 13 Early education experts see this new Trump rule as 'the wrong step at the wrong time' By Laura Santhanam Shutting off federal loans for these students could turn people away from the profession altogether, at a time when teachers are burnt out and leaving classrooms and daycares, early childhood educators and experts told PBS News. Continue reading