Feb 20 Kansas may be the first state to ban common abortion procedure By Marina Lopes Kansas’ state senate on Friday approved a bill banning an abortion method commonly used to terminate pregnancies in the second trimester, a victory for anti-abortion activists in what could become the country’s first ban of the procedure. Continue reading
Feb 20 Will your job exist in the future, or will a robot have replaced you? By Simone Pathe In the long view of history, technological advancement unleashed by the Industrial Revolution has come to be seen as a net positive for economic development and everyone’s well-being, even those workers who initially lost their jobs. There’s reason to wonder,… Continue reading
Feb 20 Is your child's personal data safe at school? By Kyla Calvert Mason Earlier this month, students and parents in Washington, D.C. and Miami learned that massive amounts of student information gathered by schools had been compromised or stolen. In Miami, a man was arrested with students' names, social security numbers… Continue reading
Feb 20 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it sent about 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers the wrong tax information, and officials are asking those consumers to delay filing their 2014 taxes. Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch 53:25 PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 19, 2015 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses preventing violent extremism at its root. Also: How terrorists finance their deadly work, the secretary of health and human services on the successes and challenges of Obamacare, Yazidi girls trapped by… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 6:27 What's the price of paying for hostages? The economics behind funding and fighting terrorism By PBS News Hour Hostage-taking has become an important moneymaker for terror groups including the Islamic State. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at the larger price of paying ransom and cost-effective ways of fighting terror. Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 6:48 A look at the challenges threatening the health of Obamacare By PBS News Hour More than 11 million people have enrolled for health insurance in the second year of the new marketplaces, and more than 80 percent of enrollees have been eligible for subsidies. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can provide… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch Ban Ki-moon on preventing terrorism by protecting human rights By PBS News Hour In an interview with Judy Woodruff, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that military action cannot be not the sole response to extremism, and stresses the importance of protecting the rights of marginalized people. They also discuss Syria's President Bashar al-Assad,… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 7:07 News Wrap: Two deaths linked to 'superbug' infection in Los Angeles By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, two patients at a UCLA hospital have died from a “superbug” outbreak that has infected at least seven people; 170 others may have been exposed. Also, an arctic blast swept through the South, reaching Florida’s… Continue watching
Feb 19 ASU and Arizona PBS's new project sheds light on the state's deadly heroin problem By Anna Sillers Arizona is one of the first states heroin reaches when it travels into the U.S. from the southwest border and the state has seen a massive increase in heroin use and overdoses in the past year. A new short film… Continue reading