Oct 10 Watch 4:24 News Wrap: Hurricane Maria death toll rises in Puerto Rico By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, the confirmed death toll in Puerto Rico rose to 43 nearly three weeks after Hurricane Maria wrecked the island. Authorities blamed infections and bad road conditions, among other factors. Also, President Trump denied he was… Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch 8:57 How Sinclair Broadcasting puts a partisan tilt on trusted local news By PBS News Hour The country’s largest owner of local TV stations, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which reaches over a third of homes across the nation, wants to get even bigger by merging with the Tribune Media Company. But Sinclair is raising concerns among… Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch 12:30 What revoking the Clean Power Plan means, from both sides By PBS News Hour EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has begun the process to roll back the Obama-era rule aimed at cutting carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants. The move comes as part of President Trump’s pledge to unwind many of former President Obama’s… Continue watching
Oct 10 Court can’t suspend Keystone XL pipeline decision, Trump administration says By Matthew Brown, Associated Press Justice Department attorneys are due in U.S. District Court in Montana on Wednesday to defend the administration's March approval of the 1,179-mile pipeline — a lightning rod in the debate over what to do about climate change. Continue reading
Oct 10 Google ‘Top stories’ featured false news about rumored Antifa civil war By Cameron Hickey, Miles O'Brien We reached out to Google to ask about the misinformation we found for the “Antifa civil war” search in “Top stories,” and they declined to comment. However, by the following day, searches for those same terms did not return any… Continue reading
Oct 10 Wildfires are sweeping through California. Here’s what you need to know By Jennifer Hijazi, Joshua Barajas One Cal Fire official called this multiplicity of fires “unprecedented.”… Continue reading
Oct 10 WATCH: First lady Melania Trump visits infant opioid treatment center in West Virginia By Joshua Barajas Trump will visit Lily's Place, a drug treatment center where staff ease help infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, a cluster of symptoms that stem from a newborn's exposure to opioids during a mother's pregnancy. Continue reading
Oct 09 Texas Tech student accused in fatal shooting of campus police officer By Joshua Barajas A 19-year-old Texas Tech University student shot and killed a campus police officer after he was taken into custody following a "student welfare check" during which campus officials found evidence of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Continue reading
Oct 09 5 overlooked stories that are worth your time By Joshua Barajas, Larisa Epatko, Jennifer Hijazi, Erica R. Hendry The latest on protests in St. Louis, a plague sweeping Madagascar and other stories you may have missed in the rush of news. Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch 3:46 Starmaker Harvey Weinstein eclipsed by sexual harassment revelations By PBS News Hour Harvey Weinstein, one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, has been fired from the influential film company he founded after The New York Times detailed three decades of sexual harassment allegations against him from scores of women who worked… Continue watching