Mar 28 Watch 8:23 How increased security affects life for border residents By PBS News Hour In a sleepy, no-stoplight town 25 miles from the Arizona-Mexico border, you'll pass surveillance towers, border agents on patrol and checkpoints. This is life along the border, where security has been ramped up significantly since 9/11, sweeping up American citizens… Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch 2:36 Trump launches aggressive campaign to dismantle Obama climate agenda By PBS News Hour In his first salvo against Obama-era climate policy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend, rescind or open review more than a half dozen major regulations, in an effort to help the coal,… Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch 3:28 News Wrap: 'Fair chance' U.S. airstrike played role in Mosul civilian deaths By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, the U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, says there's a "fair chance" that a U.S. airstrike played a role in killing scores of civilians in Mosul, but voiced doubt that the weapon used… Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch 54:34 PBS NewsHour full episode March 28, 2017 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, President Trump starts the rollback of Obama-era clean energy policies in a move to create jobs and energy independence. Also: The House Intelligence Committee chair under fire, life under the watchful eye of U.S. Border Patrol,… Continue watching
Mar 28 Remembering Bill Minor, a lion of journalism in the South By Morgan Till A Louisianan by birth, the WWII veteran came home from the Pacific to fight new battles throughout his native South, trading the guns of a Navy destroyer for the printing presses of the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, heading its Jackson… Continue reading
Mar 28 Analysis: Many rural millennials are alienated from politics By Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and Felicia Sullivan for The Conversation Like older voters, young ones were divided by the 2016 presidential election. A recent study of millennial voters by Tufts University found that young people had starkly different opinions about politics and civic institutions based on race,… Continue reading
Mar 28 Read the full text of Trump's executive order on energy and climate change By News Desk On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to boost U.S. energy independence by rolling back or reviewing clean energy policies instituted before and during the Obama administration. Continue reading
Mar 28 This man has tried crossing the U.S.-Mexico border 5 times. He says he won't try again By Joshua Barajas PBS NewsHour visited a soup kitchen for recently deported migrants in Mexico that’s a stone’s throw from the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales, Arizona. There, he met a husband and father who, days earlier, tried to cross the border… Continue reading
Mar 28 Lawyer says Trump administration tried to stop former acting AG Sally Yates' Russia testimony By Eileen Sullivan, Eric Tucker, Associated Press White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says White House has ‘no problem’ with former AG Sally Yates testifying on Russia. Continue reading
Mar 28 In Supreme Court deportation case, justices weigh immigrants' legal rights By Mark Sherman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court tried to figure out Tuesday whether immigrants should get a second chance in court when bad legal advice leads to a guilty plea and certain deportation. The justices seemed divided during an argument about what… Continue reading