Feb 13 Watch 4:32 California natural gas leak temporarily plugged after four months By PBS News Hour For the first time in four months, natural gas has stopped leaking from a well in Southern California. The leak released methane and other compounds, causing several thousand residents to evacuate their homes. NPR's Kelly McEvers joins Megan Thompson to… Continue watching
Feb 13 Watch 25:03 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Feb. 13, 2016 By PBS News Hour Saturday on NewsHour Weekend: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at age 79, tensions between western powers and Russia increase over a potential ceasefire in Syria. Also, how the city of Chicago is fighting foodborne illness using data analytics, algorithms… Continue watching
Feb 13 At least 3 dead in 50-car pileup in Pennsylvania By Daniel Costa-Roberts The pileup, which involved 50 or more vehicles, including roughly a dozen tractor-trailers, happened around 9:30 Saturday morning, and it was likely caused in part by the extreme winter weather that has hit much of the northeastern United States. Continue reading
Feb 13 Watch 6:23 How will the vacancy left by Scalia’s death affect the balance of the court? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 13 ‘A brilliant jurist and important American’: Reactions pour in remembering Justice Scalia By Associated Press Following news of the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, reactions poured in from influential figures around the world. Continue reading
Feb 13 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79 By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without its conservative majority and setting up an ideological confrontation over his successor in the maelstrom of a presidential election year. Continue reading
Feb 13 Army recruiting will adapt physical testing, seek to hire more women By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Beginning this summer, a visit to a local Army recruiting office will include a new set of gymnastic tests to help determine what military jobs a recruit is physically capable of performing. The new tests come as the Pentagon is… Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch 14:04 Shields and Brooks on Democratic debate strategy, Trump’s N.H. win By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to the discuss the week’s news, including takeaways from Thursday’s PBS NewsHour Democratic debate, Donald Trump’s victory in New Hampshire and how the first primary re-scrambled… Continue watching
Feb 12 Watch 8:24 Pope and patriarch meet for first time in nearly 1,000 years By PBS News Hour In the first meeting between leaders of Christianity’s largest churches since the Great Schism of 1054, Pope Francis met with Patriarch Kirill of the Eastern Orthodox Church Friday afternoon in Havana. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus… Continue watching
Feb 12 Watch 54:16 PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 12, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders meet for their sixth Democratic debate. Also: World powers strike a fragile cease-fire agreement for Syria, Egypt’s women fight sexual violence through activism, a moment 1,000 years in the making… Continue watching