Jul 24 Watch Border Patrol agent: Serious concerns about potential troop deployments By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Watch News Wrap: Air Algerie plane apparently crashed in Mali desert By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Obama considers refugee status for immigrant minors from Honduras By Josh Lederman, Julie Pace, Associated Press The officials cautioned that no final decision on the matter had been made and said the proposal was among a range of ideas the White House was considering. The officials briefed reporters ahead of President Barack Obama's meeting Friday with… Continue reading
Jul 24 Twitter Chat: Should homelessness be a crime? By Nora Daly A new report released last week by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty observed an increase in laws targeting the homeless, such as bans on loitering, sitting and sleeping in public. Join us in a Twitter chat on… Continue reading
Jul 24 House, Senate VA committees offer competing veteran health bills By Associated Press WASHINGTON — With Congress scheduled to recess in a week, the chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees offered competing proposals Thursday to fix a veterans' health care program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified records… Continue reading
Jul 24 Twitter has ‘a lot of work to do’ when it comes to diversity in the workplace By Colleen Shalby Twitter released the gender and ethnicity make-up of employees Wednesday, and by their admission, there is room for improvement. Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch Extended interview | Medal of Honor winner Pitts honored for Afghan battle heroism By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Are drug companies using safety rules to block generic competition? By Megan Thompson A new study claims pharmaceutical companies may be misusing FDA safety guidelines to block generic drugs from market, costing the health care system more than $5 billion dollars a year. Continue reading
Jul 24 Central American leaders seek solution to child migrant crisis in U.S. By Associated Press The presidents of Honduras and Guatemala are meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill amid a stalemate over the immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. Continue reading
Jul 24 Why regulators should go to work on Wall Street By Simone Pathe The revolving door is a popular scapegoat for regulatory inefficiency, but new research from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests it shouldn't be blamed. Furthermore, locking the doors between the private and public sectors could actually make regulatory agencies… Continue reading