Jun 06 Watch 22:54 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode June 6, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, June 6, 2015, are Chinese hackers accessing U.S. databases to recruit spies? After more violence, new promises to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria. And in our signature segment, some drug companies may be paying to… Continue watching
Jun 06 Photos: Senior volunteers give San Diego police a helping hand By Daniel Costa-Roberts If you got in a fender bender, you probably wouldn't expect the first responder to be an unarmed octogenarian -- but that scenario is entirely possible in San Diego. Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 3:37 Is Gawker's vote to unionize a turning point for Internet culture? By PBS News Hour For the first time ever, workers at a major online media outlet, Gawker Media, voted earlier this week in a landslide to unionize. Gabriel Arana, senior media editor at The Huffington Post, joins Alison Stewart to discuss. Continue watching
Jun 06 Former BP exec acquitted on charges of lying to investigators after oil spill By Kenzi Abou-Sabe Former BP executive David Rainey was acquitted on charges of lying to congressional investigators after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Continue reading
Jun 06 Government officials warned of fraud after hacking By Ted Bridis, Ken Dilanian and Eric Tucker, Associated Press An immense hack of millions of government personnel files is being treated as the work of foreign spies who could use the information to fake their way into more-secure computers and plunder U.S. secrets. Federal employees were told in a… Continue reading
Jun 06 Audit estimates Social Security overpaid on disabilities by nearly half By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press Social Security overpaid nearly half the people receiving disability benefits over the past decade, according to a government watchdog, raising questions about the management of the cash-strapped program. Continue reading
Jun 06 Obamas, Clintons among thousands who turn out for Beau Biden funeral By Josh Lederman, Associated Press Mourning a loss that touched people from the streets of Delaware to the White House and beyond, President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Vice President Joe Biden in bidding farewell Saturday to his eldest son, Beau. Continue reading
Jun 06 New sexual assault claims against Hastert jarring, former colleagues say By Alan Fram, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Dennis Hastert's former House colleagues say the emergence of sexual abuse allegations against him has been jarring, at odds with a reason they anointed him speaker in the late 1990s - his squeaky-clean reputation. Continue reading
Jun 05 Watch 8:14 Safeguard or scam? Automated traffic cameras in legal limbo in Ohio By PBS News Hour Automated traffic cameras are used by hundreds of towns across the country to detect and ticket motor violations, but not without controversy. Advocates say they make communities safer, but foes argue they raise revenues. Ohio officials passed a law banning… Continue watching
Jun 05 Watch 54:10 PBS NewsHour full episode June 5, 2015 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, strong job growth and wage increases in May signal a step in the right direction for the U.S. economy. Also: The FBI investigates a massive cybersecurity breach in the government, the search for a cheap and… Continue watching