Mar 09 University of Oklahoma students and faculty react to racist frat video By Jasmine Wright Students and faculty at the University of Oklahoma are outraged by a video that went viral on YouTube Sunday night that features members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chanting racial slurs. Continue reading
Mar 09 Is right-to-work the kiss of death for labor unions? By Sarah McHaney Wisconsin labor unions took another hit today as Governor Scott Walker signed a bill known as the “right to work” into law Monday morning. In 2011, Governor Walker won a bitter fight to restrict collective bargaining for public sector… Continue reading
Mar 09 Sam Simon, co-developer of 'The Simpsons,' dies at 59 By Justin Scuiletti Sam Simon, a television producer and writer who also co-developed the long-running series "The Simpsons", died on Sunday at the age of 59. Continue reading
Mar 09 Are you celebrating Pi Day? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Saturday, March 14, is a special holiday for math-lovers. Known as Pi Day, a holiday meant to celebrate the mathematical constant pi. This irrational number is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its radius, and it starts with 3.1415926535897...the… Continue reading
Mar 09 Florida environmental officials banned from using the term 'climate change' By Anna Sillers In Florida, a state that environmental scientists have agreed would be hit hard by extreme changes in climate, is not allowed to speak about these changes. At least, not by members of the Florida's Department of Environmental Protection, the state… Continue reading
Mar 09 Your relationship means nothing to Social Security unless you're married By Laurence Kotlikoff Marriage is the only way to validate a relationship before the Social Security Administration. Even if a couple has raised children together and one partner dies, Social Security does not consider the other partner eligible for the late partner's widow(er)'s… Continue reading
Mar 09 LIVE BLOG: Follow the Boston bombing trial By News Desk Nearly two years since the attack on the Boston Marathon, the trial for suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is underway in a federal courtroom in Boston. Follow live updates from the Boston Globe. Continue reading
Mar 09 LIVE BLOG: Will the Apple Watch crack open the market for wearables? By News Desk Can the computer giant crack the trendy-but-fringe wearables market, or is the Apple Watch destined to go the same route as Google Glass?… Continue reading
Mar 09 America's boomers and undocumented immigrants need each other By Ai-jen Poo The Justice Department has issued a Monday deadline for the judge who blocked Mr. Obama's executive action on immigration to put his decision on hold while an appeal moves forward. Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 22:41 PBS NewsHour Weekend full program March 8, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, March 8, 2015, the latest from Baghdad as Iraqi forces launch an offensive against the Islamic State, why the director of the CIA plans to restructure the agency, and in our signature segment, the increasingly… Continue watching