Oct 31 8 things you didn't know about Halloween By Ruth Tam 1. It was the baby boomers who made trick or treating what it is today. A movement to start trick or treating began in the late 20s and early 30s. But, according to Susan Whiteside of the National… Continue reading
Oct 31 Soldiers and civilians face different Ebola protocols By Jim Kuhnhenn, Robert Burns, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. soldier returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa would have to spend 21 days being monitored, isolated in a military facility away from family and the broader population. A returning civilian doctor or nurse… Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch Apple's CEO helps open the corporate closet By PBS News Hour Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, is the first Fortune 500 executive to come out. "I'm proud to be gay and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," wrote Cook in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek… Continue watching
Oct 30 Watch Doctors face tough treatment choices in the midst of the Ebola crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 30 Watch News Wrap: Burkina Faso declares state of emergency By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, protesters in Burkina Faso stormed the parliament and set it on fire to protest the rule of its president, who has been in power for 27 years. Also, the U.S. economy continued to make solid… Continue watching
Oct 30 Paul Krugman on why Janet Yellen is the un-central banker By Paul Krugman Paul Krugman may not be pleased with the Fed's decision Wednesday to end their bond buying, but he is heartened by Janet Yellen's concern for the unemployed. Continue reading
Oct 30 Food truck church brings faith and calzones to those in need By Fred de Sam Lazaro Every Thursday, the Rev. Margaret Kelly and a group of volunteers gather in the basement of St. Paul’s Gustavus Adolphus Church to roll out hundreds of meat- and cheese-filled calzones, to be loaded and baked in her food truck and… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Red Cross defends response to Hurricane Sandy two years on By PBS News Hour After Hurricane Sandy devastated the northeast in 2012, the Red Cross supplied food, clothes and shelter to tens of thousands left homeless by the storm. But two years later, internal documents show logistical problems and communication snafus led to wasteful… Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch 8:13 A felony for a selfie? Teen sexts pose a paradox for police By PBS NewsHour Teen sexting is very common, and in many states it’s also a crime. When a teen sends a sexually explicit photo of themselves, is that child both the perpetrator and the victim of child pornography? As part of a collaboration… Continue watching
Oct 29 Lost and found? Fragment of Earhart's missing plane identified By Lorna Baldwin After 77 years of searching, researchers announced they are one big step closer to knowing where aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and her plane ended up. An aluminum fragment found in 1991 on a remote, uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific… Continue reading