Apr 05 Watch Robert Kennedy’s moving remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. By Mary Fecteau After Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, Kennedy delivered a meditation that mourned King, embraced his message of non-violence and challenged America to confront the “mindless menace of violence” that pervades society. Continue reading
Apr 05 Trump bashes immigration policies at tax cut event By Catherine Lucey, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press In recent weeks, Trump has been pushing back more against the restraints of the office to offer more unvarnished opinions and take policy moves that some aides were trying to forestall. Continue reading
Apr 05 White House says German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Trump in coming weeks By Associated Press It would mark her second visit to Trump in Washington and her first since being sworn in for a fourth term last month. Continue reading
Apr 05 New York police fatally shoot man after mistaking metal pipe for gun By Joshua Barajas New York police officers fatally shot Saheed Vassell after they received reports that he was threatening people in Brooklyn with a gun. But investigators later found a metal pipe -- not a gun -- at the scene, angering residents who… Continue reading
Apr 05 Why U.S. militarization of border isn’t new By Russell Contreras, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Donald Trump's promise to use the National Guard to secure the U.S.-Mexico border isn't a new concept and is something the U.S. has done in the past for varying reasons. Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch 4:22 News Wrap: Trump moves to deploy National Guard to border By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, President Trump moved to have governors deploy the National Guard at the U.S.-Mexico border. Also, the White House underscored the president’s message that the U.S. military's mission in Syria is coming to a "rapid end,"… Continue watching
Apr 04 Bill Cosby jury selected after dispute over racial discrimination By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press A jury of seven men and five women — 10 of them white, two of them black — was selected Wednesday after the defense made accusations of racial discrimination. Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch 5:56 50 years on, Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy lives out loud By PBS News Hour On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- in Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking sanitation workers -- was shot to death on a hotel balcony. What followed was a national reckoning and the greatest wave of social… Continue watching
Apr 04 Watch 15:38 Where the march for civil rights stands today By PBS News Hour Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for Americans' civil rights -- and his assassination 50 years ago in Memphis -- changed the world. Judy Woodruff sits down with civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, syndicated columnist Connie Schultz, Vann Newkirk of The… Continue watching
Apr 04 Zuckerberg admits to mistakes on Facebook By Associated Press Referring to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, he said that it isn't enough for Facebook to believe app developers when they say they follow the rules. He says Facebook has to ensure they do. Continue reading