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
Dec 18 Watch 3:26 Under Trump, White House staff shifts to right By PBS News Hour Since winning the election six weeks ago, Donald Trump has nominated most of his cabinet and picked top White House staff, all significant players in shaping U.S. policy. He’ll also have Republican majorities in both houses of Congress on his… Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch 3:31 Heroin deaths exceeded gun homicides in 2015 By PBS News Hour Last year, more than 30,000 people died from opioid overdoses, which cause almost two-thirds of all overdoses in the U.S., according to data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those data also show that last… Continue watching
Dec 18 Election questions leave U.S. distrustful, like other nations By Bradley Klapper, Associated Press Americans' enduring confidence that their elections are unimpeachably fair is teetering. Continue reading
Dec 18 From media cutoffs to lockdown, tracing the fallout from the U.S. prison strike By Kamala Kelkar On Sept. 9, thousands of inmates began a labor strike across the country. Here's what followed that strike. Continue reading