Sep 30 Trump lashes out at San Juan mayor who begged for more help By Jill Colvin, Associated Press President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at the mayor of San Juan and other officials in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico. Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 4:18 News Wrap: Hurricane Harvey caused potentially dangerous chemical spill, says EPA By PBS News Hour In our News Wrap Friday, the EPA warned that Hurricane Harvey caused a potentially dangerous chemical spill from a Houston-area Superfund site. The EPA detected high levels of dioxins in the San Jacinto River, which are linked to cancer and… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 3:33 Why I broke the rule of survival for black Americans By PBS News Hour Riley Temple was walking his dog around his Washington, D.C., neighborhood where he has lived for the past 25 years when a confrontation with the police made him break the rule that all black people are told to obey in… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 6:45 What happens to U.S.-Cuba relations amid mysterious attacks on diplomats? By PBS News Hour The State Department ordered all non-emergency embassy staff in Cuba to leave the island on Friday after 21 workers suffered mysterious ailments, including hearing loss, dizziness and headaches. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Josh Lederman of the Associated Press and María… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 4:37 Opioid addiction is the biggest drug epidemic in U.S. history. How’d we get here? By PBS News Hour Every day brings another story about the depth of the country’s opioid crisis. A rise of pain killer prescriptions from doctors and a pharmaceutical industry eager to boost sales in the 1990s sparked a wave of addiction that shot up… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 6:23 Desperation in Puerto Rico fuels frustration with federal response By PBS News Hour Long lines are a stark fact of life for the people of Puerto Rico, with little assistance from the outside world reaching small towns nine days after Hurricane Maria. But the U.S. military and Puerto Rican National Guard units are… Continue watching
Sep 29 Tennessee church suspect may have sought Charleston revenge By Sadie Gurman and Eric Tucker, Associated Press A note found in the car of a man charged with spraying deadly gunfire at a Tennessee church made reference to revenge for a white supremacist's massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, two years earlier, law enforcement… Continue reading
Sep 29 Poll: Americans divided on NFL protests By Laura Santhanam A Newshour/Marist poll shows stark divisions across different racial and ethnic groups, and also along party lines. Continue reading
Sep 29 San Juan mayor angry at Trump official ‘good news story’ remark By Darlene Superville, Luis Alonso Lugo, Associated Press President Donald Trump pledged a relentless effort to help Puerto Ricans recover from hurricane devastation Friday after his homeland security chief stirred a tempest of her own making by declaring the federal response a "good news story."… Continue reading
Sep 29 Column: As ‘America’s sport,’ the NFL cannot escape politics By Mychal Denzel Smith The NFL, by way of embracing all the iconography of America, has also invited the pointed backlash to that iconography. Continue reading