Jan 19 Watch 6:29 News Wrap: MLK Day inspires tributes, protests and service By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, Americans observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day with marches celebrating the civil rights leader, as well as protests over the racial divide, police killings of people of color and income disparity. Also, Iran and Hezbollah… Continue watching
Jan 19 Elementary school students lend their small voices to King's big dream By Jordan Vesey In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., students from Washington, D.C.'s Watkins Elementary gathered Friday to celebrate what has become an annual tradition. Each year the fifth grade students study and reenact the "I have a Dream" speech the late… Continue reading
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Jan 19 Judy Woodruff to 'school' journalism students in Facebook chat By Nora Daly Join Judy Woodruff in this first in a series of Facebook chats for journalism students featuring PBS NewsHour journalists. Continue reading
Jan 19 The wealthiest are getting wealthier, and lobbying has a lot to do with it By Simone Pathe On the eve of the president's State of the Union address and the World Economic Forum, Oxfam is predicting a widening wealth gap and pointing a finger at the millions of dollars spent on lobbying in the United States for… Continue reading
Jan 19 MTV airs programming in black and white on MLK Day By Stacy A. Anderson, Associated Press WASHINGTON — MTV is taking the color out of its programming on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to encourage people to talk about what race means in their lives. Continue reading
Jan 18 FAA no longer letting agents skip checkpoints after inspector arrested By Andrew Mach The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration suspended a program on Saturday that allows its safety inspectors to skip security checkpoints while on the job, following the arrest of an FAA agent earlier in the week who was caught allegedly carrying a… Continue reading
Jan 18 Shots fired outside Biden's Delaware home By Ken Thomas, Associated Press The U.S. Secret Service said Sunday that multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday night. Continue reading
Jan 18 Long-lost audio of Martin Luther King Jr. speech found in UCLA storage room By Carey Reed An audio recording of a speech given by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, long thought to be lost in time, was made available to the masses this week online. Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch 25:15 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Jan. 17, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Jan. 17, new security measures go into effect throughout Western Europe. In our signature segment, NewsHour takes you to Belgium, the country with the least restrictive euthanasia laws in the world. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from… Continue watching