Jan 04 Watch 3:35 Obama, Pence huddle with their parties on the fate of health care By PBS News Hour At the Capitol, President Obama met privately with Democrats, urging them to defend his signature health care law. At the same time, a few floors up, Vice President-elect Pence rallied Republicans to dismantle Obamacare. Lisa Desjardins reports on what we… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch 8:13 Why trust is essential between the president and intelligence community By PBS News Hour President-elect Donald Trump has routinely taken a skeptical stance toward the U.S. intelligence community. As the release nears of a report on alleged Russian hacking in the U.S. election, Judy Woodruff gets views from James Woolsey, senior advisor to the… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch 8:50 Why the NAACP and others are protesting Trump's attorney general pick By PBS News Hour The NAACP mounted protests across Alabama on Tuesday against the president-elect’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, including at the senator’s office, where NAACP president Cornell Brooks and others staged a sit-in. Alison Stewart speaks with Sari Horwitz… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch 8:19 Part 2 -- John Brennan on what his CIA successor needs to worry about By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 04 Global warming hiatus didn't happen, study finds By Mark Fischetti, Scientific American An independent study confirms NOAA didn't "cook the books" to dismiss claims of a global warming hiatus. Continue reading
Jan 04 Trump names Wall Street lawyer Clayton as SEC chairman By Marcy Gordon, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday chose a Wall Street attorney with experience in corporate mergers and public stock launches as his nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Continue reading
Jan 04 Pence, Obama in dueling meetings at Capitol on Affordable Care Act By Alan Fram, Associated Press Sixteen days before leaving the White House, Obama championed his landmark overhaul before Democratic lawmakers and urged them to remind voters of how the statute has helped them. Continue reading
Jan 04 Gun violence spreads like an infectious disease, new research finds By Megan Thielking, STAT Gun violence in Chicago spreads like an infectious disease — and now, researchers have figured out a way to predict who’s most likely get sick next. Continue reading
Jan 04 NAACP sit-in at Jeff Sessions' office ends in six arrests By Joshua Barajas Police arrested six protesters, including the national NAACP president, after they spent hours staging a sit-in Tuesday at a Mobile, Alabama, office of Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. attorney general. Continue reading
Jan 04 Hawaii residents renew push for stricter pesticide rules By Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press Hawaii residents concerned about pesticide use by major agriculture companies on the islands are planning a push to strengthen regulation over chemicals they fear harm their health. Continue reading