Oct 29 State police using shotguns to deflate runaway blimp By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press MUNCY, Pa. — State police were using shotguns Thursday to deflate a wayward surveillance blimp that broke loose in Maryland before coming down into trees in the Pennsylvania countryside. Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch 8:33 Treasury Secretary Lew on Congress ‘coming to terms’ with the debt limit By PBS News Hour The bipartisan budget deal passed by the House is the product of negotiations between Congressional leaders and the White House. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew sits down with Gwen Ifill to discuss how Congress achieved its moment of breakthrough, plus a… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 6:10 Will Yahoo, Twitter find success in rebooting business? By PBS News Hour Yahoo is working on streamlining its strategy, while over at Twitter there's a new permanent CEO. What’s making these tech giants adjust how they do business? Hari Sreenivasan talks with Jon Kelly of Vanity Fair. Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch A cappella group Pentatonix goes back to basics on new album By PBS News Hour A cappella group Pentatonix burst onto the music scene on NBC’s reality competition “The Sing-Off,” eventually scoring a Grammy and a number one record. With their new album, they are going in a new direction with original songs and trying… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 9:40 What happens when police become school disciplinarians? By PBS News Hour Yet another viral video has reignited the national conversation on the interaction between police and people of color, specifically within school. A South Carolina sheriff's deputy was fired after manhandling a teenager in a high school classroom. Gwen Ifill discusses… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 1:41 Flying through an icy plume to test a moon’s hospitality By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, a NASA spacecraft flew into an icy spray coming off one of Saturn’s moon to figure out whether it has hydrothermal vents that could support life. A NASA video explains the science… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 2:24 Approving budget deal, House ties up loose ends for incoming speaker By PBS News Hour Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the new GOP nominee to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House, laid out his first policy position Wednesday: supporting the new bipartisan budget deal. The House passed the agreement, averting a looming federal default… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 5:33 What’s making the rural American West more diverse By PBS News Hour Wyoming is the least populated state in the country, and one of the whitest. But that could be changing slowly. Since 2010, the state's African-American population has nearly doubled, a demographic shift that's taking place all over the West, and… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 4:51 News Wrap: Dennis Hastert pleads guilty to fraud By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty for evading federal banking laws in a hush money scheme. He said he did not want the FBI to know why he paid $3.5 million to… Continue watching
Oct 28 GOP nominates Ryan as speaker, House set to OK By Alan Fram, Associated Press House Republicans nominated Rep. Paul Ryan on Wednesday to become the chamber's next speaker, rallying behind a youthful overachiever they hope will guide them out of weeks of internal feuding and disarray and point the party toward accomplishments they can… Continue reading