Jun 25 Federal college ratings plan fizzles By Kyla Calvert Mason The Obama administration is backing off plans to sort the country’s college and universities into categories based on how data like student debt load, graduation rates and graduate earnings, according to Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch 3:20 From web to TV hit, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer recount rise of 'Broad City' By PBS News Hour Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer offer their brief but spectacular take on how they went from struggling for stage time in an improv group to creating their own cable comedy show, "Broad City."… Continue watching
Jun 25 What you might not know about your spicy tuna roll By P. J. Tobia What you probably don’t know about the spicy tuna is that its main ingredient is called “tuna scrape.” Scrape is the meat left behind on the tuna’s skeleton after the fillet has been removed. It’s separated (or “scraped”) from the… Continue reading
Jun 25 Obama urges reckoning with racism's 'uncomfortable truths' By Julie Pace, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. -- For President Barack Obama, it's become an all-too-frequent ritual: honoring the victims of mass shootings in communities across the country. Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch 54:33 PBS NewsHour full episode June 24, 2015 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was formally sentenced to death for the Boston Marathon bombing. Also: Easing hostage rules to allow U.S. families to pay ransoms, the Senate grants Obama fast-track trade authority win, Charleston’s mayor on race and… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 4:36 China, U.S. wrap up talks amid growing distrust By PBS News Hour This week, high-level delegations from China and the U.S. met in Washington for their annual talks. Evan Osnos of The New Yorker joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the meeting and the tension between the two nations on issues like cyber… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 8:38 Why North Dakota's oil fields are so deadly for workers By PBS News Hour When Brendan Wegner went to work in North Dakota's Bakken oil fields, his family had no idea it was so dangerous. On average, a worker dies every six weeks. On his first day on the rig, Wegner was killed by… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 7:12 Charleston's mayor on confronting racism with honesty By PBS News Hour Long-serving Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley is leading his city through the tragedy and aftermath of the Emmanuel AME shootings. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Riley about effective policing, race relations and reaching Americans who don’t think that racism is their… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 6:49 Refusing to pay ransom won't stop kidnapping, says former hostage By PBS News Hour The White House cleared the path for the families of hostages to be able to pay ransom, and offered other changes for how the government handles hostage cases. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner gets reaction from Michael Scott Moore,… Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 4:21 How Obama's fast-track authority came to pass By PBS News Hour The Senate gave final passage to the near-dead Trade Promotion Authority, which paves the way for a major international trade pact. To explore how it was revived, Gwen Ifill talks to political director Lisa Desjardins. Continue watching