Jun 28 Watch 9:48 Should a juvenile sex offender be locked up indefinitely? By William Brangham, Mike Fritz Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch 6:24 Innovative program helps even the playing field for poor students — and boost graduation rates By PBS News Hour For Georgia State’s Tyler Mulvenna, a $900 grant from an innovative retention program let him live on campus, work less and do what he came to do: study. The school, worried about abysmal graduation rates for poor students found, a… Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch 2:51 Remembering Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt, 'unparalleled' women's sports pioneer By PBS News Hour "Pat Summitt is an unparalleled figure in collegiate sports,” a speaker said as President Barack Obama awarded the legendary Tennessee Lady Vols coach a Medal of Freedom four years ago. Summitt died Tuesday at age 64 after years of battling… Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch 5:49 Two years, $7 million, 800 pages later, GOP Benghazi report lands with a thud By PBS News Hour Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton loomed large in the House Republican probe of the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in the Benghazi attack. Hauled before a GOP panel, she was grilled for eight hours. On Tuesday, an… Continue watching
Jun 28 Inside Minnesota's sex offender facility, where no one has ever been released By Mike Fritz, William Brangham, Abbey Oldham The PBS NewsHour was recently granted rare access to Minnesota’s Sex Offender Program in the rural town of Moose Lake, MN. It is one of two state-run facilities that house more than 700 sex offenders. They’re all being held under… Continue reading
Jun 28 Supreme Court leans left in term unsettled by Scalia's death By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death transformed the Supreme Court's term, shifted power to its liberal wing and started a transition that will be greatly affected by who wins the presidency. Continue reading
Jun 28 Tennessee college basketball coaching legend Pat Summitt dies at 64 By Joshua Barajas Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history, died Tuesday from complications from an early onset Alzheimer's-type dementia. She was 64. Continue reading
Jun 28 Volkswagen to pay $15 billion in U.S. emissions settlement By News Desk German automaker Volkswagen AG will pay more than $15 billion to settle customer and government claims that it cheated on emissions tests. Continue reading
Jun 27 Watch 7:40 The impact of the Supreme Court's Texas abortion clinic ruling By PBS News Hour Abortion rights groups say the Supreme Court’s ruling against Texas’ stringent restrictions on abortion doctors and clinics was a major blow against “sham” laws trying to take away a woman’s right to choose. Gwen Ifill gets reaction from Nancy Northup… Continue watching
Jun 27 Watch 5:45 Abortion rights activists hail Supreme Court ruling against doctor restrictions By PBS News Hour In the Supreme Court’s biggest abortion case in nearly 25 years, the justices voted 5-3 to strike down a Texas law — widely copied in other states — that imposed tight restrictions on family planning centers and doctors who perform… Continue watching