Jan 12 Why the Federal Reserve's independence from the White House matters By Chris Rugaber, Associated Press The Justice Department is threatening the Federal Reserve with a criminal indictment over the testimony of Fed Chair Jerome Powell this summer regarding its building renovations. Continue reading
Jan 12 Paramount's next step in hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. is naming its own board of directors By Associated Press Warner's leadership has repeatedly rebuffed overtures from Skydance-owned Paramount — and urged shareholders to back the sale of its streaming and studio business to Netflix for $72 billion. Continue reading
Jan 12 Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospital systems By Associated Press The union says about 15,000 nurses are participating in the strike. Continue reading
Jan 11 Watch 6:41 Highlights from PBS News Weekend as show goes off the air By John Yang, Lorna Baldwin, Satvi Sunkara, Veronica Vela, Zoie Lambert This Sunday is the final broadcast of PBS News Weekend, at least for the foreseeable future. PBS cancelled the show due to the loss of federal funding for public media. As our team signs off the air, anchor John Yang… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 5:45 ICE shootings spark outrage, protests across the country demanding accountability By John Yang, Kaisha Young This week’s series of shootings by federal agents enforcing Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration have sparked a weekend of protests. Voices of anger and outrage were heard at rallies and demonstrations across the country. John Yang speaks with Lisa Gilbert,… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 6:14 New book offers glimpse inside world of controversial tech firm Palantir and its CEO By Ali Rogin, Andrew Corkery Palantir Technologies is one of the most secretive and powerful companies in Silicon Valley. It develops software that can quickly analyze massive amounts of data, used by government agencies, the military and major corporations. Ali Rogin speaks with Michael Steinberger,… Continue watching
Jan 10 Protests against ICE spread across U.S. after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer there and the shooting of two people in Portland, Oregon. It was was one of hundreds of protests planned in towns and cities across the… Continue reading
Jan 10 Suspect charged with murder in Mississippi after 6 killed in shootings By Associated Press Authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people — including a child — were killed in a series of shootings in northeast Mississippi. Continue reading
Jan 09 'We had whistles. They had guns,' says wife of Minnesota woman killed by ICE agent By Michael Biesecker, Associated Press The wife of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed in her car by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, says the couple had stopped to support their neighbors on the day of the shooting and described the mother of three as… Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch 7:25 The mounting economic challenges weakening the job market By Paul Solman, Ryan Connelly Holmes The U.S. economy added a modest 50,000 jobs in December. It was below expectations and capped the weakest year for job growth since the pandemic. Employers added a total of 584,000 jobs for all of 2025, a big drop from… Continue watching