Apr 19 U.S. seeks to ID remains of 'unknown' Pearl Harbor victims By Carey Reed The remains of hundreds of unaccounted-for Pearl Harbor service members will be exhumed and analyzed for identification, following a broadening of U.S. military disinterment policy announced by the Department of Defense earlier this week. Continue reading
Apr 19 HIV-stricken Indiana county sees uptick in new cases By Daniel Costa-Roberts A southeastern Indiana county at the epicenter of a drug-related HIV crisis has seen a significant uptick in new cases of the virus since it began a temporary needle exchange program more than two weeks ago. Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch 3:14 Report: FBI investigators overstated evidence against criminal defendants By PBS News Hour The Justice Department and FBI formally acknowledged that FBI forensic investigators routinely gave flawed testimony overstating evidence against criminal defendants during the 1980s and 1990s. In more than a dozen cases, defendants were later executed or died in prison. Spencer… Continue watching
Apr 19 This time around, Clinton aligns position with progressive Democrats By Associated Press As a presidential candidate in 2008, she opposed gay marriage, equivocated on granting driver's licenses to people who were living in the U.S. illegally and endured heavy criticism from rival Barack Obama over her stance on campaign finance. During the… Continue reading
Apr 19 United Airlines prevents security analyst from boarding after tweet By Jack Gillum, Associated Press United Airlines stopped a prominent security researcher from boarding a California-bound flight late Saturday, following a social media post by the researcher days earlier suggesting the airline's onboard systems could be hacked. Continue reading
Apr 19 Five things to know about GOP hopefuls in New Hampshire By Steve Peoples, Associated Press Republican presidential candidates and hopefuls were in New Hampshire this weekend for a party conference, the first gathering of its kind this year in the first-in-the-nation primary state. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch 25:16 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode April 18, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, April 18th, 2015, the Islamic State expands its reach as authorities blame the terror group for a suicide bombing that killed dozens of people in Afghanistan. Later, a former national security official weighs in on… Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch 8:00 The hack attack that takes your computer hostage till you pay By PBS News Hour Ransomware, a type of software that computer hackers use to hold individuals' data hostage by blocking access to files unless they agree to pay a ransom, is on the rise. And because anyone with an internet connection is vulnerable, the… Continue watching
Apr 18 S.C. activists demand DOJ probe local police killings since 1994 By Daniel Costa-Roberts Civil rights groups in North Charleston, South Carolina have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into all the fatal officer-involved shootings in Charleston County since 1994. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch 3:09 Why are psychiatrists turning away patients who can't pay cash? By PBS News Hour Fewer and fewer psychiatrists are accepting patients who use either private insurance or Medicare rather than cash to pay for sessions. That means low-income people often can't get proper psychiatric care, a development that can have tragic consequences. Bloomberg's Shannon… Continue watching