Apr 29 Buses carrying Central American migrants roll to U.S. border By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Hundreds of Central American migrants arrived at the U.S. border Sunday for a rally, to be followed by a planned mass attempt to apply for asylum. Continue reading
Apr 29 Health care new front for transgender rights under Trump By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Trump administration is coming under fire for rewriting a federal rule that bars discrimination in health care due to gender identity. Continue reading
Apr 29 Seoul: North Korea's Kim vows to shut nuke test site in May By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to shut down his country's nuclear test site in May and disclose the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul's presidential office said Sunday. Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch 4:34 How will Mike Pompeo shape U.S. foreign policy? By PBS News Hour Hours after he was confirmed as Secretary of State this week, Mike Pompeo addressed NATO in Brussels and is also slated to visit key U.S. allies Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan on his first diplomatic trip. A few days earlier,… Continue watching
Apr 28 Asylum-seekers in Mexico snub warnings of stern U.S. response By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months. Continue reading
Apr 28 Residents of this city already worried about the coal-burning plant nearby. Then came Hurricane Maria. By Kamala Kelkar, Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green Residents say they inhale or ingest traces of coal ash as wind carries it into their communities, covering their trees, houses, cars and land with residue. Continue reading
Apr 28 He was a champion of public health — but played a role in the horrors of Tuskegee. Should a college expunge his name? By Megha Satyanarayana, STAT Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. has been called an architect of the syphilis experiments on black men and women in Tuskegee, Alabama. Continue reading
Apr 28 Land deal will preserve site linked to Lost Colony mystery By Martha Waggoner, Associated Press The 16th century English colonists who vanished after being left in the New World have piqued popular imagination and intrigued historians for centuries. Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch 3:35 'I didn't come here to cross illegally. I came here for help' By Jean Guerrero, KPBS More than 300 Central Americans have arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, in recent days, and plan on Sunday to ask for asylum at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. But President Trump has tweeted that Homeland Security is instructed to turn… Continue watching
Apr 27 Watch 7:40 A national memorial confronts the terror of lynching By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe A new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, looks to confront one of this country’s greatest shames: its brutal history of racial terror and the systematic lynching of thousands of African Americans. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching