Jan 05 Watch 4:29 View of death penalty is key criteria in jury selection for Tsarnaev case - Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch 2:28 Jury selection begins in Boston Marathon bombing trial - Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 05 Ferguson grand jury member files lawsuit to lift lifetime gag order By Eric Krupke A member of the grand jury that decided in November not to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging a gag order that prevents jurors from… Continue reading
Jan 05 Congress is still really religious and really Christian By Domenico Montanaro Despite a growing number of Americans who say they are religiously unaffiliated, Congress is dominated by those who identify with a religion. Continue reading
Jan 05 Canadian university suspends 13 dentistry students for misogynistic Facebook group By Colleen Shalby Thirteen fourth-year male dentistry students were suspended from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia after a Facebook group called “DDS Gentlemen's Club” filled with violent sexual comments about their female peers was discovered. Continue reading
Jan 05 Mark Zuckerberg's first book club choice sells out on Amazon By Anna Sillers The first book that Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg has chosen for his bi-monthly book club, “The End of Power” by Moisés Naím, has already sold out on Amazon. Continue reading
Jan 05 The cost of using misnomers when it comes to transgender men and women By Colleen Shalby Last week, when transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn took her life by jumping in front of a trailer-tractor, initial headlines read that a “17-year-old boy” was killed on an interstate in Ohio. But when the Cincinnati Enquirer learned the full… Continue reading
Jan 05 Why we think the way we do about men, women and work By Mukesh Eswaran Should women work outside the home? Are they more competitive than men? Our attitudes toward these questions are invariably conditioned by social norms. That's why, argues Mukesh Eswaran, gender matters in economics. He's the author of the textbook of the… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 8:10 What's the state of relations between the police and communities of color? By PBS News Hour In the wake of police-involved shootings in Ferguson and Cleveland, the death of Eric Garner in New York, and the subsequent protests that followed those events, NewsHour Weekend examines the state of relations between the police and communities of color… Continue watching
Jan 04 Here's what you may have missed from NewsHour Weekend in 2014 By News Desk From a candid interview with Bryan Cranston to the roots of gang violence in El Salvador, here's a look back at some of the what you may have missed from NewsHour Weekend's first full calendar year on air. Continue reading