Jul 01 Judge strikes down Mississippi's anti-LGBTQ law By Laura Santhanam A federal judge struck Mississippi's law that would have allowed business and government employees to deny service to LGBTQ people based on religious beliefs. Continue reading
Jul 01 Federal officials grapple with how to display Confederate flag By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press The National Park Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Army have longstanding guidelines for its cemeteries that permit display of the Confederate flag one or two days a year. This is particularly true in Southern states that celebrate… Continue reading
Jul 01 How drones raised privacy concerns across cyberspace By Jen Fifield, Stateline States this year enacted dozens of laws intended to give people greater control over who has access to their private activity and information, and where and how it is collected, stored, shared and used. Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 52:28 PBS NewsHour full episode June 30, 2016 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, the Pentagon lifts the ban to allow transgender people to openly serve in the armed forces. Also: Identifying the Istanbul airport bombers, Samantha Power on our perception of refugees, a luxury company brings manufacturing back to… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 3:21 How will lifting the ban on transgender soldiers affect the military? By PBS News Hour The Pentagon has lifted its ban on transgender troops. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the move Thursday and officials said health services for trans soldiers, including sexual reassignment surgery, will be covered in 90 days. Of the military’s 1.5 million… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch How Shinola Turned Detroit Into a Luxury Brand By PBS News Hour When it comes to luxury items, consumer minds are likely to think about some of the world’s fashion meccas. Think Paris. Milan. New York. But Detroit? One growing company would like to think so. With its line of watches, bikes,… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 11:27 Can Hillary Clinton convince voters that she's honest and trustworthy? By PBS News Hour From Whitewater to Benghazi and her secret speeches to Wall Streeters, Hillary Clinton has a trust problem, polls find. She admitted Monday that she has to do more to change the perception. Political director Lisa Desjardins reports and Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 7:28 Taking on the plight of refugees — and the misperceptions By PBS News Hour Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, says the tens of millions of refugees around the world should be embraced, not feared. But she also said it’s important for screening systems to be in place. She notes that more… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 6:35 The unsung women heroes of America's space program By PBS News Hour They were living, breathing, walking, talking calculators who were key to America’s early space program. And they were women — and largely forgotten. At the time, the supercomputers that NASA now uses to crunch its numbers didn’t exist. Nathalia Holt… Continue watching
Jun 30 Adnan Syed of 'Serial' will receive a new trial By Corinne Segal Adnan Syed, who was found guilty of murdering his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999, will receive a new trial, his legal team announced on Thursday. Continue reading