Jan 24 How have Trump’s comments on race affected you? By Laura Santhanam The PBS NewsHour wants to hear your story. Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch 5:39 News Wrap: Congress ends shutdown, sending federal employees back to work By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of federal employees got back to work, there were new questions about the prospects for an immigration bill as Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's office said he has withdrawn an offer to… Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch 17:08 One year in, voters reflect on life in the Trump era By PBS News Hour A year into the Trump presidency, Judy Woodruff checks back in with a group of voters from the swing state of Virginia to get their reactions on a range of issues, from the economy and democracy to immigration and tolerance. Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch 8:33 Meet the pro-gun, pro-immigrant sheriff bringing police reform to Trump country By John Carlos Frey, Mike Fritz Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood is both pro-gun and pro-immigrant and he's been endorsed by both the NRA and the NAACP. Special correspondent John Carlos Frey reports in collaboration with the Marshall Project on why Sheriff Chitwood’s appeal often cuts… Continue watching
Jan 23 Senate approves Jerome Powell as next chair of the Federal Reserve By Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press Powell will succeed Janet Yellen, the first woman to lead the Fed, when her term ends Feb. 3. Continue reading
Jan 23 2 dead, 17 wounded after shooting at Kentucky high school By Hannah Grabenstein Officials said that the shooter, a 15-year-old male student, was taken into custody nonviolently at the scene and will be charged with both murder and attempted murder. Continue reading
Jan 23 How a pro-Trump county elected a pro-immigrant reformer as sheriff By Simone Weichselbaum, The Marshall Project Sheriff Michael Chitwood is a brash and uncensored police leader who is a vocal defender of undocumented immigrants. Continue reading
Jan 23 5 important stories you missed while the government was shut down By Joshua Barajas, Hannah Grabenstein, Erica R. Hendry These days, it’s hard to stop news from Washington, D.C., from flooding your news feed. We take a moment every week to bring you important stories beyond the White House and the Capitol. Here’s what we’re reading now. Continue reading
Jan 22 Sessions: DOJ will leave ‘no stone unturned’ on missing texts from agent removed from Russia probe By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The department last month began providing lawmakers with copies of text communications to and from the veteran counterintelligence agent, Peter Strzok, who was reassigned from Mueller's Russia investigation following the discovery of anti-Trump messages he had traded by phone with… Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch 6:09 Will Trump’s wall ever be built? By PBS News Hour President Donald Trump signed an executive order last year calling for the construction of a new border wall spanning the length of the U.S.-Mexico border. While prototypes have been built in California, there is still no funding from Congress to… Continue watching