Apr 20 Watch 5:52 Convicted former CIA contractor speaks out about prisoner interrogation By PBS News Hour Only once has a CIA-connected interrogator been brought to trial in a torture-related case. David Passaro was convicted of abusing a prisoner who died after three days of interrogation at a remote base in Afghanistan. Passaro, now out of prison,… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch 7:31 GOP contenders fight to stand out to New Hampshire voters By PBS News Hour Gwen Ifill talks to Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post and Tamara Keith of NPR about a trip to New Hampshire by GOP candidates -- both those who have officially announced and those who haven’t -- and why Hillary Clinton… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch 5:09 News Wrap: Six arrested for conspiring to join Islamic State By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, six Minnesota men will face trial for allegedly trying to join the Islamic State. The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said the six had Somali backgrounds and had been conspiring for 10 months. Also, the U.S. Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch 7:25 Five years on, what do we know about BP oil spill damage? By PBS News Hour How is the Gulf Coast coping with the effects of the massive 2010 BP oil spill five years later? Judy Woodruff talks to John Young, president of Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish, and Mark Schleifstein of Nola.com and The Times-Picayune about the… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch 3:38 How the BP oil spill hurt Gulf Coast wildlife and livelihoods By PBS News Hour Five years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 and sending a torrent of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. When it was finally capped, more than 100 million gallons had spilled, resulting in the deaths of… Continue watching
Apr 20 Obama honors Ohio State football team at White House By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press President Barack Obama honored the national champion Ohio State football team Monday, taking just a little bit of credit for the new playoff system that the Buckeyes mastered. Continue reading
Apr 20 Lelisa Desisa and Caroline Rotich take first place in Boston Marathon By Anna Sillers Two years since the Boston Marathon bombings and just weeks since Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of the 2013 bombings, more than 30,000 participants kicked off the 119th Boston Marathon Monday morning. Continue reading
Apr 20 Full list of 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism and the arts By News Desk The Pulitzer Prizes for works of journalism and the arts produced in 2014 were announced Monday -- with magazines officially eligible for the first time. Continue reading
Apr 20 U.S. warship heads to Yemeni waters; could block Iran weapons By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the waters off Yemen to beef up security and join other American ships that are prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthi rebels… Continue reading
Apr 20 TSA adding new security measures for airline, airport staff By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is tightening security rules for airline and airport workers in the wake of a criminal case in which an Atlanta baggage handler was accused of smuggling guns on commercial jets, Homeland Security Jeh Johnson… Continue reading