Dec 20 D.C. Council passes one of the nation's most generous paid family leave bills By Alison Thoet With Tuesday’s vote, the paid leave program will be funded by a new business tax that would raise $250 million a year to cover costs. Continue reading
Dec 20 'Flint deserves better'; four more charged in ongoing Flint water investigation By Joshua Barajas Video by PBS NewsHour Four former Flint, Michigan leaders, including two emergency managers, now face felony charges for their involvement in the city's water crisis, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced today. In a news conference Tuesday, Schuette said a… Continue reading
Dec 19 Watch 54:25 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 19, 2016 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, a truck plows into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing and wounding shoppers. Also: Evacuations resume in Eastern Aleppo, protests greet the Electoral College, Politics Monday on today's political significance, a memorial for victims of lynching… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch News Wrap: Electoral College confirms election of Donald Trump By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the Electoral College confirmed Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race. Mr. Trump was on track for 304 electoral votes, losing two defectors in Texas. Hillary Clinton lost four in Washington state. Also, state legislators… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch 7:46 Lynching memorial aims to help U.S. acknowledge a history of terror By PBS News Hour Lynchings -- unlawful executions used to terrorise and subdue black communities into passivity -- are perhaps one of the least discussed legacies of slavery and the Jim Crow South. A new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, will commemorate victims of these… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch 9:19 How Bruce Springsteen tackles truth, in song and memoir By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 19 Obama pardons 78 people, shortens the sentence for another 153 By Kevin Freking, Associated Press The White House said this was the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any president. Continue reading
Dec 19 Obama administration sets rule to protect streams near coal mines By Matthew Daly, Associated Press The long-anticipated move met quick resistance from Republicans today who vowed to overturn it under President-elect Donald Trump. Continue reading
Dec 19 Famed Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at 99 By Alison Thoet Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress made glamorous American celebrity, died Sunday of a heart attack at age 99. Continue reading
Dec 19 Chief Justice Roberts denies bid to force Senate action on Garland nomination By Associated Press Chief Justice John Roberts has denied a lawyer's bid to get the Supreme Court to force the Senate to consider the high court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. Continue reading