Aug 04 Toledo mayor lifts city’s water ban By News Desk Toldeo’s mayor says the city’s tap water is safe to drink, lifting a ban that has affected nearly 400,000 people in northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan since Saturday. Mayor D. Michael Collins lifted the ban at a Monday morning news… Continue reading
Aug 04 Republicans struggle to nail down a platform on immigration By Charles Babington, Associated Press While often a flashpoint issue among Republicans in their primaries this year, the party could get a grace period of sorts in November. Immigration appears likely to have only a modest impact on the roughly 10 Senate races that will… Continue reading
Aug 03 UPDATE: New York becomes latest state to challenge teacher tenure law By Tracy Wholf Two separate education advocacy groups have filed suits in New York challenging the state’s teacher tenure laws, claiming that current laws, which protect teacher employment, violate the constitutional rights of children and make it difficult to dismiss ineffective teachers. Continue reading
Aug 03 Hear from the scientists who saw the Ohio algae blooms coming By Hari Sreenivasan For a second day, residents of Toledo, Ohio, are not able to drink water flowing from their taps. The water is unsafe because of an algae bloom in Lake Erie, which is affecting the city and… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Colorado issues licenses to drivers who lack legal residency By PBS News Hour This week, Colorado became the most recent state to begin issuing drivers licenses to people regardless of their immigration status - joining eleven other states and Washington D.C. For more, Ivan Moreno of the Associated Press joins Hari Sreenivasan via… Continue watching
Aug 03 Following ‘Rim Fire,’ what should be done with the trees left behind? By Xander Landen A year after a California wildfire known as the “Rim Fire” burnt through over 250,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests, environmentalists and loggers are debating what to do with the blackened woodland it left behind. The timber industry believes… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Upwardly mobile: Paraclimbers overcome perceived limitations of disability By PBS News Hour Last month in Atlanta, 39 competitors took part in the first ever National Paraclimbing Championships sponsored by USA Climbing, the governing body of competitive climbing in the United States. NewsHour Weekend visited with some of the athletes in Brooklyn as… Continue watching
Aug 03 Arizona inmate received 15 doses of lethal injection before he died By Xander Landen Documents released by the State of Arizona on Friday reveal that Arizona inmate Joseph R. Wood III was injected with 15 times the recommended dosage of lethal medication before he died. Continue reading
Aug 03 Republicans still don’t know what to do about illegal immigration By Charles Babington, Associated Press Despite passing a measure to speed deportations in the House late last week, the issue of illegal immigration still vexes Republicans who have declared their party must resolve the problem before campaigns for the 2016 presidential election begin in earnest. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend | Full Episode | Saturday, August 2, 2014 By PBS News Hour On tonight’s program, new efforts are underway in Egypt to try to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Later, what will happen to the thousands of children in this country illegally now that Congress has recessed without funding a… Continue watching