Sep 19 Watch Looking back on 10 years since the Gulf Coast’s ‘forgotten storm,’ Hurricane Rita By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 19 Trump argues against gun control, background checks in policy paper By Jill Colvin, Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who once advocated certain gun control measures, says he is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and that gun rights should not be infringed upon. Continue reading
Sep 19 Black Lives Matter movement won’t endorse a presidential candidate By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by confronting candidates about the treatment of African-Americans in the United States, one of the group's founders says. Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 2:18 Baratunde Thurston on fighting racist absurdity with laughs By PBS News Hour When you're the one black friend, says Baratunde Thurston, you're kind of like a double agent trying to prevent thermonuclear war. The former Onion digital director, “Daily Show” producer and author of “How to Be Black,” gives his Brief but… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch 6:59 An art collector with Broad influence opens his own museum By PBS News Hour Billionaire Eli Broad began his fortune building tract homes in the Detroit suburbs, and over the decades he and his wife also built an impressive art collection. Now the brand new Broad Museum is set to open in Los Angeles,… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch 5:17 Smartphone user? The 2016 candidates are watching you By PBS News Hour If you own a smartphone, you are already on the frontline of the 2016 presidential race. On the left and the right, campaigns are amassing information about you and figuring out how to influence you with individualized marketing. And that's… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch 8:52 News Wrap: Overwhelmed Croatia moves migrants to Hungary By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, after 17,000 migrants surged across Croatia's border with Serbia in just days, Croatia's government announced it could not cope and began moving people into Hungarian territory. Also, Taliban gunmen stormed an air force base in… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch 13:25 Shields and Brooks on GOP debate standouts, Pope Francis goes to Washington By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including how the second Republican debate helped or hurt the candidates, why Donald Trump didn’t contradict bigoted remarks at a campaign… Continue watching
Sep 18 Video shows California police striking teenager after allegedly jaywalking By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Footage emerged Thursday of police officers in Stockton, California, violently arresting a 16-year-old boy for allegedly jaywalking. Continue reading
Sep 18 House votes to block Planned Parenthood’s federal funds By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press A divided House voted Friday to block Planned Parenthood's federal funds for a year, as Republican leaders tried to keep GOP outrage over abortion from spiraling into an impasse with President Barack Obama that could shut down the government. Continue reading