Aug 13 Watch Snowden and supporters fear Americans will lose interest from ‘NSA fatigue’ By PBS News Hour NSA leaker Edward Snowden discloses in an extensive profile in Wired magazine that the U.S. government ran a top secret cyber-war program, which he claims could accidentally start a war. Gwen Ifill gets an update on Snowden and his latest… Continue watching
Aug 13 Obama considering military options for rescuing Iraqi refugees By Robert Burns, Julie Pace, Associated Press A Pentagon official says a team of U.S. Army Special Forces were flown atop Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq to get a firsthand look at possible ways to rescue stranded Iraqi civilians suffering from thirst and hunger. Continue reading
Aug 13 UPDATE: U.S. Postal Service announces $2 billion spring loss despite uptick in revenue By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service lost $2 billion this spring despite increasing its volume and charging consumers more money to send mail, officials said Monday. Continue reading
Aug 13 With jobs on the line, why are Market Basket employees so loyal to Artie T? By Simone Pathe Despite an ultimatum from the Market Basket board that striking employees will lose their jobs if they don't return to work by Friday, many of the New England grocer's workers refuse to come back without the return of former CEO… Continue reading
Aug 13 Why safe reporting on suicide matters By Corinne Segal The death earlier this week of actor and comedian Robin Williams again brought into the spotlight the pitfalls of irresponsible reporting on suicide. Continue reading
Aug 13 Stanford professor first woman to receive ‘Nobel Prize’ for math By News Desk Maryam Mirzakhani, a mathematics professor at Stanford University in California, is the first woman to receive the Fields Medal -- considered the “Nobel Prize” of mathematics -- since the award was established in 1936. Continue reading
Aug 13 Cultivating the land to turn over a new leaf By Larisa Epatko Cathrine Sneed, founder of The Garden Project -- a farm-based education program for ex-offenders and at-risk youth -- says she isn’t teaching gardening so much as teaching people how to work. Continue reading
Aug 13 Golden Age of Hollywood’s Lauren Bacall dead at 89 By News Desk Husky-voiced actress Lauren Bacall, who leapt to fame after starring in her first movie at age 19, died Tuesday in New York City at the age of 89. Continue reading
Aug 12 Watch Robin Williams made transformation look effortless By PBS News Hour The death of Robin Williams, beloved American comedian and actor, has sparked an outpouring of shock and sadness. Jeffrey Brown joins A. O. Scott of The New York Times and Budd Friedman, founder of Improv Comedy Club, to look back… Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch PBS NewsHour | Full Episode | August 12, 2014 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, an experimental drug is approved for use in treating Ebola patients, but the drugmaker’s supply might be running out. Also: Iraq struggles with political turmoil and a raging insurgency, increasing riots in Missouri over the police… Continue watching