Oct 21 Watch 9:44 Why student debt is 'a crisis' for some borrowers By PBS News Hour Student debt has been a prominent topic during this year's presidential campaign, with several candidates touting plans for tuition-free college. Indeed, more than 40 million Americans carry debt from student loans, totaling around $1.3 trillion nationally. While the median debt… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch 53:50 PBS NewsHour full episode Oct. 21, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton return to the campaign trail after exchanging vicious jabs during a charity dinner. Also, Russia extends Aleppo's "humanitarian pause," how the electoral map is shifting, an NSA contractor is expected to… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch 6:46 What the latest polls mean for the presidency -- and Congress By PBS News Hour With just over two weeks until Election Day, there are some surprising shifts occurring in the electoral map. Judy Woodruff speaks with correspondent Lisa Desjardins and Nathan Gonzales of The Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report about which voters are deserting… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch 5:27 NSA contractor suspected of espionage is deemed a flight risk By PBS News Hour The National Security Agency contractor accused of mishandling massive amounts of classified data has been deemed a flight risk. In August, Harold Martin was arrested at his home in Maryland, where the equivalent of half a billion pages of documents… Continue watching
Oct 21 Internet struggles? It's not you. A colossal attack has crippled America's web address book By Nsikan Akpan Early Friday, Hackers struck the New Hampshire-based web company Dyn, which controls one of the cornerstones of U.S. internet infrastructure. Continue reading
Oct 21 FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? By Kenya Downs In 2006, the FBI warned that white supremacists infiltrating local and state law enforcement posed a threat to national security. Some are asking, what's been done to curb the trend in the decade since?… Continue reading
Oct 21 7 reasons flesh-eating screwworms are as gross as you think By Nsikan Akpan, Courtney Norris As Florida's outbreak of flesh-eating screwworms continues to expand, here are 7 things you didn’t know about the parasites. Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch 54:01 PBS NewsHour full episode Oct. 20, 2016 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, Donald Trump's attack on the integrity of the election has both Democrats and Republicans coming to the defense of a pillar of democracy. Also: Key moments from the final debate, why rural voters feel abandoned, David… Continue watching
Oct 20 Watch 8:52 What people living in poverty want the presidential candidates to know By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 20 Watchdog says EPA delayed Flint emergency order By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Inspector General Arthur Elkins says the Flint water crisis should have generated "a greater sense of urgency" at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Continue reading