Oct 09 Watch 2:03 Scrambling for a speaker, Republicans appeal to Paul Ryan By PBS News Hour With Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy dropping out of the running for Speaker of the House, focus has landed on Rep. Paul Ryan. Though the congressman has rejected the idea, moderate Republicans have come out to say they would support him. Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 5:32 News Wrap: Gun rights protests greet Obama during Roseburg visit By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, hundreds of gun rights demonstrators gathered near the airport in Roseburg, Oregon, as President Obama visited to console victims and families after a mass shooting at a community college. Meanwhile, shooting episodes broke out at… Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 54:20 PBS NewsHour full episode October 9, 2015 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, the Pentagon cancels a program to train Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State. Also: Republicans struggle to find a new Speaker of the House, Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the week’s news, health effects of… Continue watching
Oct 09 Shooting outside Texas Southern University housing leaves 1 student dead By Colleen Shalby A freshman at Texas Southern University, located in Houston, was shot and killed this morning just beyond campus in a parking lot outside of student housing. One other person was shot and is in stable condition. Police said they have… Continue reading
Oct 09 Obama says Americans must ‘come together’ on gun crimes By Kevin Freking, Associated Press The public must "come together" to figure out how to keep deadly mass shootings from happening, President Barack Obama said Friday. But he emerged from a private meeting with family of the victims of last week's shooting in Oregon to… Continue reading
Oct 09 The Pope’s new ‘comedic advisor’ is a rabbi By Alison Moore The Honorary Comedic Advisor to the Pope was announced on Monday... and he’s a rabbi. Continue reading
Oct 09 This viewer mail prompted Judy Woodruff to get poetic By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins At the PBS NewsHour, we get a lot of people writing in to share their thoughts on the show. Sometimes they tell us how much a particular segment means to them, or how much they learned. Sometimes they are more… Continue reading
Oct 09 The fuss over dogs in this national park? It’s your government at work By Spencer Michels Why would we spend much time worrying about whether dogs are allowed to run off-leash in a national park on the far western coast of the U.S.? The story is a lesson in how government works, or doesn’t, depending on… Continue reading
Oct 09 Obama to focus on condolences, not gun laws, in Oregon visit By Kevin Freking, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is bringing words of comfort and sympathy to grieving families of victims of the shooting rampage in Roseburg, Oregon, muting his message about the need for new laws to stem gun violence as he visits… Continue reading
Oct 09 Shooting at Northern Arizona University leaves 1 dead, 3 injured By Joshua Barajas A gunman opened fire nearby a dormitory at Northern Arizona University early Friday morning, killing one person and wounding three others, Flagstaff school officials said. Continue reading