May 04 Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, emails this month By Erica Werner, Associated Press Hillary Rodham Clinton is willing to testify on Capitol Hill later this month about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and about her email practices, her attorney told lawmakers in a letter Monday. Continue reading
May 04 Former CIA leader defends drone strikes, torture By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ordered a barrage of CIA drone strikes in Yemen in 2013 that killed the al-Qaida operatives behind the most serious plotting against American interests in years, a former CIA leader says in a new memoir… Continue reading
May 04 Supreme Court rejects inmate's appeal for sex-change surgery By Mark Pratt, Associated Press BOSTON — A nearly two-decade legal fight by a convicted murderer in Massachusetts to get taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery ended in failure Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her final appeal. Continue reading
May 04 Dallas gunman identified as jihadist terrorism suspect By Marina Lopes Law enforcement officials identified the two gunmen killed by police on Sunday after they opened fire outside a cartoon-drawing contest of the Prophet Muhammad in a Dallas suburb. One of them was being investigated by the FBI. Continue reading
May 04 Smith College changes admission policy to allow transgender applicants By Joshua Barajas Smith College, the largest of the Seven Sisters schools, voted to change its admission policy Saturday to allow transgender students at the all-female institution. Continue reading
May 03 Watch 2:59 Bulk of women soldiers who report sexual assault report retaliation By PBS News Hour A survey published this week showed that a large percentage of women soldiers who reported unwanted sexual advances said they faced retaliation. USA Today reporter Tom Vanden Brook joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss. Continue watching
May 03 Watch 3:16 How did Iowa's Avian Flu outbreak get so bad? By PBS News Hour Iowa, the country's largest egg-producing state, declared a major outbreak of the Avian Flu. And to try and contain the disease, millions of chickens and turkeys there and in Wisconsin and Minnesota have been killed. Amy Mayer, a reporter for… Continue watching
May 03 Food servers in Capitol Hill grapple with low wages By Charles Babington, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Many of the Capitol's food servers, who make the meals, bus the tables and run the cash registers in the restaurants and carryouts that serve lawmakers, earn less than $11 an hour. Continue reading
May 03 Pentagon sexual assault report shows high rates of perceived retaliation persist By Daniel Costa-Roberts A new Department of Defense report released Friday shows that rates of retaliation against victims remain stubbornly high despite a marked decrease in military sexual assaults and increased reporting of such crimes in the 2014 fiscal year. Continue reading
May 03 Baltimore unrest raises questions about O'Malley's record as mayor By Associated Press Weeks before the former Maryland governor expects to enter the 2016 presidential race, Baltimore's story of turnaround has been marred by unrest after the police-custody death of Freddie Gray. Continue reading