Dec 01 Watch 2:38 A history of the American war on weed By PBS NewsHour On November 8, multiple states legalized marijuana for medical or recreational purposes -- so Joe Dolce’s new book on the substance's history in the U.S. is timely. Dolce argues marijuana's bad reputation is a result of political demonization, including an… Continue watching
Dec 01 Watch 2:50 News Wrap: As Tennessee wildfire smoke clears, recovery efforts intensify By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, the smoke is clearing from days of wildfires in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, and recovery efforts are in full swing. The blazes in and around the eastern city of Gatlinburg left 10 people dead before… Continue watching
Dec 01 Watch 54:14 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 1, 2016 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, President-elect Trump travels to Indiana in celebration of a jobs deal with Carrier. Also, recovery efforts mount as the Tennessee wildfires wane, the future of American manufacturing jobs, volunteer medics struggle to save lives in Mosul,… Continue watching
Dec 01 Watch 2:45 In Indiana, Trump lauds exchange of tax breaks for Carrier jobs By PBS News Hour President-elect Donald Trump traveled to Indianapolis on Thursday, touting a jobs deal he said made good on a campaign promise. In the agreement, Carrier's parent company, United Technologies, will receive $7 million in state tax breaks over 10 years, in… Continue watching
Dec 01 Obama administration supports requiring women to register for military draft By Josh Lederman, Associated Press The Obama administration's decision is a symbolic but significant shift that reflects the U.S. military's evolution from a male-dominated force to one seeking to incorporate women at all levels. Continue reading
Dec 01 Column: What Americans' declining height has to say about the economy By Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson Americans are not standing tall, and our malign neglect of the mixed economy bears a great deal of the blame. Continue reading
Dec 01 UK adopts unprecedented electronic surveillance bill. Could the U.S. be next? By Ryan Connelly Holmes The United States could look to the United Kingdom's new Snoopers Charter as a model for expanding electronic surveillance, experts say. Continue reading
Dec 01 For Americans, Trump's tariffs on imports could be costly By Paul Wiseman and Joe McDonald, Associated Press WASHINGTON — American consumers and businesses would pay — literally — if President-elect Donald Trump followed through on his campaign pledge to slap big taxes on imports from China and Mexico. Continue reading
Dec 01 Sons of Ethel Rosenberg plead with Obama to exonerate mother By Eric Tucker and Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after pleading unsuccessfully to spare her life, in a last-ditch appeal to President Barack Obama to exonerate her amid new… Continue reading
Dec 01 Universities cut some services for students over 25 By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report Forty percent of U.S. university and college undergraduate and graduate students are 25 and older, according to U.S. Education Department data. Yet colleges and universities are largely not set up to deal with them, causing their enrollment to fall. Continue reading