Aug 31 Blue Bell ice cream hits shelves after four-month hiatus due to outbreak By Margaret Myers Blue Bell ice cream returned to stores in Texas and Alabama today, four months after voluntarily pulling all of its products due to a deadly listeria outbreak. Continue reading
Aug 31 Obama to take wilderness trip with Bear Grylls By Associated Press Survival expert Bear Grylls has bagged his biggest celebrity yet for a walk in the wilderness — President Barack Obama. Continue reading
Aug 31 Judge sides with anti-abortion group in birth control case By Eric Tucker, Associated Press A federal judge on Monday sided with an anti-abortion group that challenged a key birth control provision of the Obama administration's health care overhaul. Continue reading
Aug 31 State Department to release 7,000 pages of Clinton’s emails, 150 redacted By Matthew Lee, Associated Press The State Department is expected to release roughly 7,000 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails later Monday, including about 150 that have been censored because they contain information that has now been deemed classified. Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 25:15 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode August 30, 2015 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 30 Alaska-bound, Obama makes waves by renaming Mount McKinley By Josh Lederman, Associated Press Shrinking glaciers, Arctic temperatures and a mix of messy energy politics await President Barack Obama on his historic trip to Alaska. Even before he departed, Obama was making waves with a decision to rename Alaska's famed Mount McKinley despite a… Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 1:36 Woman completes solar-powered bike ride across U.S. By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 30 Oliver Sacks, neurologist and acclaimed author, dies at 82 By News Desk Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and author who was called the "poet laureate of medicine" died in his New York City home on Sunday. He was 82. Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch 25:15 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode August 29, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for August 29, 2015, on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the continued impact of the storm on those who left New Orleans, how FEMA has changed in the last decade, and a how legendary New Orleans… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch What you should know about the national labor ruling on subcontractors By PBS News Hour This week, the National Labor Relations Board made a ruling that could play an important role in holding companies legally responsible for employees hired through subcontractors or by independently-owned franchises. Melanie Trottman of the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching