Jan 02 Watch 3:54 Jean Berko Gleason’s Brief But Spectacular take on language Psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason is a professor emerita at Boston University and a pioneer in the field of children’s language. Even as a child, Berko Gleason loved and connected with language. It also made a big impression on her how… Continue watching
Jan 02 U.S. starts sending asylum-seekers back across Arizona border By Astrid Galvan, Christopher Sherman, Associated Press Authorities are expanding a program known as Remain in Mexico that requires tens of thousands of asylum seekers to wait out their immigration court hearings in Mexico. Continue reading
Jan 02 Backlog of toxic Superfund clean-ups grows under Trump By Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Brown, Ed White, Associated Press The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund clean-up projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era, according to 2019 figures quietly… Continue reading
Jan 02 Employees clash with Amazon over climate change By Joseph Pisani, Associated Press Amazon has an enormous carbon footprint. And Amazon workers have been vocal in criticizing some of the company's practices. Continue reading
Jan 02 Duke Energy agrees to remove coal ash in North Carolina By Associated Press The Department of Environmental Quality said in a press release that it will be the largest coal ash cleanup in the nation’s history. Continue reading
Jan 02 2020 brings higher labor costs for small businesses By Joyce M. Rosenberg, Associated Press A look at a handful of the 2020 changes in federal, state and local laws and regulations from minimum wage to plastic bag bans. Continue reading
Jan 02 3 ways that the U.S. population will change over the next decade By Dudley L. Poston, Jr., The Conversation What does the U.S. population look like today, and what will it look like 10 years from now, in 2030?… Continue reading
Jan 02 Larsen, who threw the only no-hitter World Series game, dies at 90 By Associated Press Don Larsen threw a perfect game in 1956 with the New York Yankees for the only no-hitter in World Series history. Continue reading
Jan 01 Watch 7:02 From marijuana legalization to minimum wage, how state laws are changing in 2020 Now that 2020 has arrived, scores of new laws are going into effect across the country. From legalization of marijuana and criminal justice reform to raising minimum wage and the cost of electric cars, state legislatures are having a major… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch 7:42 Local newsrooms across the country are closing. Here’s why that matters Across the country, local newspapers are printing fewer pages, less frequently -- and sometimes collapsing entirely. Recent studies paint a grim picture of the decline in local newspapers and the impact it has on American politics. Jeffrey Brown reports and… Continue watching