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
Dec 01 WATCH: Trump victory lap takes him to Indiana, Carrier plant By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump is poised to take a victory lap on Thursday, appearing first in Indiana to salute workers at a factory where he says he saved hundreds of jobs from moving to Mexico. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch 53:23 PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 30, 2016 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, President-elect Donald Trump selects commerce and treasury secretaries. Also: No criminal charges are filed in the killing of Keith Lamont Scott, Trump's economic team of elites, Fidel Castro's funeral procession begins, devising solutions for the Middle… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch 4:21 News Wrap: No criminal charges for officer who fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, the North Carolina police officer who fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott in September will not face criminal charges. The prosecutor said there was evidence that Scott, a black man, was holding a gun and ignored… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch After populist campaign, Trump assembles economic team of elites By PBS News Hour President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed economic team suggests a preference for Wall Street veterans, in a reversal of his campaign promise to surround himself with establishment outsiders. Judy Woodruff speaks with David Wessel of The Brookings Institution about the “elite” appointments,… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch 5:11 Sen. Thune on Wilbur Ross, Trump's trade policy and entitlements By PBS News Hour On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump announced billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as his choice to head the Department of Commerce. Hari Sreenivasan asks Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a leading Senate Republican, about how Ross’ business dealings will be evaluated for potential… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch 9:00 Can a task force of foreign policy experts spark change in the Middle East? By PBS News Hour As chairs of the Middle East Strategy Task Force, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley are leading a bipartisan effort to stabilize one of the world's most volatile regions. Albright and Hadley join… Continue watching
Nov 30 Column: Our planet will suffer if Trump shutters NASA Earth science By David Biello The end of ice on Earth is merely one thing we won’t be able to monitor if NASA stops using satellites to look at our home, author David Biello writes… Continue reading
Nov 30 Obama administration announces smoking ban in public housing nationwide By Kevin Freking, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Smoking will be prohibited in public housing developments nationwide under a final rule announced Wednesday by the Obama administration. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has been encouraging local public agencies to enact smoking bans, and some… Continue reading
Nov 30 Supreme Court weighs bond hearings for detained immigrants By Mark Sherman, Associated Press A seemingly divided Supreme Court on Wednesday tried to figure out whether the government can detain immigrants indefinitely without providing hearings in which they could argue for their release. Continue reading