Jan 31 More than 2M vehicles recalled in latest case of faulty air bags By Associated Press More than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles are being recalled for faulty air bags that may inflate while the car is running. Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 1:49 Ensuring a daughter's health by checking in at 'Midnight Three & Six' By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, a short documentary from The New York Times explores a family’s daily struggles monitoring and managing their daughter’s Type 1 diabetes. Continue watching
Jan 30 Watch 11:56 Shields and Brooks on Koch brothers' near-billion dollar spending plan, no third run for Romney By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including Mitt Romney’s decision not to make a third presidential run, the Koch brothers’ plan to spend $889 million on the… Continue watching
Jan 30 Watch 6:36 After a season of scandal, will viewers hold NFL more accountable? By PBS News Hour From domestic violence to deflated footballs, this NFL season has been rife with scandal, and yet its viewership has remained loyal. Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, Hari Sreenivasan takes stock of the year in pro-football with Kevin Blackistone of ESPN… Continue watching
Jan 30 Watch 8:17 What an indie movie deal means in the age of on-demand By PBS News Hour The Sundance Film Festival is both celebration and marketplace for those who love, create and deal in independent cinema, making it a touchstone for the health of the industry. While technology has made it cheaper and easier to make a… Continue watching
Jan 30 Watch 7:43 A push to use the human genome to make medicine more precise By PBS News Hour President Obama introduced a new plan to create a database of genetic information of a million Americans in order to better tailor medical treatments for groups of patients. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien interviews Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes… Continue watching
Jan 30 Watch 5:33 News Wrap: U.S. economy slows but wages rise By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the government reported that GDP growth slowed significantly in the last part of 2014, but wages and benefits rose at the best pace in six years. Also, former Gov. Mitt Romney announced he will not… Continue watching
Jan 30 Artist behind Newsweek cover: it's not sexist, it depicts the ugliness of sexism By Ruth Tam Newsweek’s current cover story on sexism in Silicon Valley is getting negative attention for dressing up what it defiles: unequal footing for women in technology. Continue reading
Jan 30 How do you count a city's homeless population? You walk the streets By Colleen Shalby Nearly 300 volunteers have until 2 a.m. to find and survey every homeless person they can find on the streets of Washington, D.C. It’s part of Department of Housing and Urban Development's annual point-in-time count of the homeless. Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 3:44 How do you count the homeless population in one night? By PBS News Hour Continue watching