Jan 02 Watch 4:08 Another border clash as thousands of migrants wait in Mexico, ‘in limbo’ Chaos erupted again at the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, as border patrol officers fired tear gas at migrants they say were throwing rocks. Meanwhile, other migrants reportedly tried to cross the border. U.S. officials say no children were harmed. For context… Continue watching
Jan 02 Watch 8:17 Racing to understand the polio-like illness paralyzing kids By Amna Nawaz, Jason Kane For the past few years, a rare polio-like illness has been striking otherwise healthy children, often after a mild respiratory illness or fever. Cases of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, reached record-high numbers in 2018, and doctors still cannot pinpoint… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch 6:24 How upcoming state laws could make it to Washington next As the calendar turned to 2019 this week, new laws are taking effect, and new state legislatures are looking to push even more changes. In some states, these measures will address gun safety, roll back business licensing regulations and legalize… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch 7:06 Will drug companies be held accountable for America’s opioid epidemic? The nation’s opioid crisis was declared a public health emergency in 2017 and received new funding this past October. But rampant addiction led to some 40,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. last year, and 2019 could see the culmination of… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch 3:34 The stories student reporters want to see in 2019 By Student Reporting Labs Participants from the NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs, a project that teaches young reporters about journalism and media literacy, share what they’d like to see from the media in 2019. Continue watching
Jan 01 U.S. fires tear gas across Mexico border to stop migrants By Associated Press U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who tried to breach the border fence in Tijuana. Continue reading
Jan 01 WATCH: NASA shares latest on New Horizons’ mission Ten hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter 4 billion miles away, flight controllers in Laurel, Maryland, received word from the spacecraft late Tuesday morning. Continue reading
Jan 01 U.S. nuclear and missile arsenal apologizes for New Year’s Eve tweet By Associated Press The first tweet read in part: "#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball...if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger."… Continue reading
Jan 01 Georgia may update election system amid criticism By Kate Brumback, Associated Press Cybersecurity experts have warned that the touchscreen voting machines Georgia has used since 2002 are unreliable and vulnerable to hacking, and provide no way to do an audit or confirm that votes have been recorded correctly because there's no paper… Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch 4:38 News Wrap: House Democrats to propose funding plan In our news wrap Monday, the partial government shutdown reached day 10, but House Democrats are formulating a plan that could end it. Their forthcoming proposal would fund the Department of Homeland Security into early February, allocating $1.3 billion for… Continue watching