Jul 08 Watch White House proposal to stem flow of migrant children aims to tackle root causes By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 08 The top tweets from Brazil vs. Germany World Cup match By Larisa Epatko It only took six minutes for Germany to get four more goals to speed past Brazil 5-0 by half time. Continue reading
Jul 08 How Obama would use $3.7 billion on border crisis By Domenico Montanaro President Barack Obama asked Congress Tuesday for $3.7 billion to deal with the influx of unaccompanied minors at the Southern U.S. border. Continue reading
Jul 08 Get in line if you dare — world’s tallest water slide opens Thursday By Lorna Baldwin http://youtu.be/NG-uY2wze2Y?t=4s It’s named the Verrückt, which in German means “insane”. At 168 feet tall, or 17 stories high, it has the seal of approval from Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest water slide. To… Continue reading
Jul 08 Hobby Lobby hobbles worker voice By Christopher Mackin Worker-ownership adviser Christopher Mackin sees the American workplace lagging behind our political democracy, where "one person, one vote" is the law of the land. But he's hopeful that anger about the Supreme Court's recent Hobby Lobby decision will fuel a… Continue reading
Jul 08 ‘Sleeping Fan’ strikes ESPN, MLB, Yankees with $10 million lawsuit By Diane Jeanty A sleeping baseball fan featured during ESPN commentary is striking back with a $10 million lawsuit Commentary from two ESPN announcers about a sleeping baseball fan could be a $10 million problem for Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees… Continue reading
Jul 08 Obama seeks $3.7 billion to deal with border kids By Jim Kuhnhenn and Erica Werner, Associated Press President Barack Obama is preparing to ask Congress for emergency spending of more than $2 billion to deal with the crisis of unaccompanied kids at the Southern border, but for now he won't seek legal changes to send the children… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch Is hope of citizenship or endemic violence driving migrant children to cross the border? By PBS News Hour More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained trying to cross into the U.S. since October. Most hail from areas rife with poverty, violence and smugglers. Judy Woodruff gets debate from Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress and… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Is GI Bill benefitting for-profit colleges instead of helping veterans? By PBS News Hour Veterans can receive the full cost of a college education under the GI Bill, but recently funds from the bill have flowed mostly to for-profit schools, even though veterans’ prospects are often not appreciably better after attending them. Aaron Glantz… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Protests spotlight debate over undocumented migrant children By PBS News Hour Protests in the Southern California town of Murietta have added pressure to the mounting debate over how to receive a flood of unaccompanied children migrants from Central America trying to cross into the United States. President Obama has called the… Continue watching