Mar 11 Watch 3:52 News Wrap: Military investigates Florida helicopter crash By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, seven marines and four national guard crewmen were presumed dead after a military helicopter crashed during a night training mission in Florida. Also, the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, resigned in the wake of mounting… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch 7:31 University of Oklahoma president: Colleges have to be a loud voice against racism By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch 3:53 Winter weather adds stress for Boston's struggling workers By PBS News Hour In Boston, brutal winter weather shuttered schools, offices and businesses for days at a time. While some may have welcomed the snow days, some hourly workers faced the choice between giving up a day of wages or making the grueling,… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch 1:42 Racist video by University of Oklahoma frat prompts protest, apologies and expulsions By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 11 Rap music not to blame for racist frat video, Twitter says By Eric Krupke During a discussion this morning on the recent video featuring members of a fraternity at Oklahoma University chanting racist slurs, the hosts of "Morning Joe" laid the blame on someone other than the fraternity brothers: the rapper Waka Flocka… Continue reading
Mar 11 Hidden in plain sight, rare coins spend 80 years unseen on college shelf By Lorna Baldwin University at Buffalo faculty member Philip Kiernan heard a rumor back in 2010 and went on a hunt for a collection of rare, ancient and priceless Greek and Roman coins. Not in Greece and not in Italy. The hunt was… Continue reading
Mar 11 FTC sues DirecTV for 'deceptively advertising' programming costs By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The government is taking the nation's biggest satellite TV provider to court, accusing DirecTV of misleading millions of consumers about the cost of its programming. Continue reading
Mar 11 Inspector general: State Department employees not archiving enough email By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The State Department's internal watchdog has found that many department employees are not preserving emails for the public record as required by the government. Continue reading
Mar 11 I can get my Social Security abroad, so why not my Medicare? By Philip Moeller If health care costs are lower in other countries, wouldn't Medicare save money by allowing beneficiaries to receive medical care overseas? Making Sen$e Medicare columnist Phil Moeller gets lots of questions from retirees hoping to receive Medicare abroad the same… Continue reading
Mar 11 'Sad to read and sadder to live': Members of Ferguson Commission react to DOJ report By Nora Daly We continue the conversation on the Justice Department's report on the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. Join us for a Twitter chat Wednesday with a member of the Ferguson Commission from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT. Follow along using #NewsHourChats. Continue reading