Jun 11 Watch Brat topples Cantor in show of grassroots enthusiasm over GOP establishment By PBS News Hour The defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by David Brat shakes the stability of a more fragile GOP establishment. Gwen Ifill is joined by former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks and Ed O'Keefe of The Washington… Continue watching
Jun 11 Watch House GOP’s second-in-command to step down after primary upset By PBS News Hour Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., announced his decision to step down from his leadership post less than 24 hours after he became the first House majority leader to be defeated in a primary. Cantor was ousted by David Brat, a virtually… Continue watching
Jun 11 America’s oldest working lighthouse turns 250 By Lorna Baldwin For 250 years the Sandy Hook lighthouse in New Jersey has guided sailors safely in and out of New York Harbor… Continue reading
Jun 11 Watch World Cup fans on why soccer slowly gaining steam in US By Larisa Epatko Continue watching
Jun 11 Popular Twitter app TweetDeck hacked; shut down By Colleen Shalby TweetDeck, the tweet sharing and scheduling site connected to Twitter, was hacked on Wednesday. Continue reading
Jun 11 What Congress can learn from the general store owner who crafted U.S. borrowing limits By Bill White Former deputy energy secretary and mayor of Houston Bill White details how America's borrowing used to be manageable and how it can be once more -- if only the federal government would divide spending bills into parts financed by taxes… Continue reading
Jun 11 Watch: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel defends Bergdahl’s release as legal By Bradley Klapper, Associated Press Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Congress Wednesday that officials of Qatar negotiating the release of captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl told the U.S. that "time was not on our side" and a leak about the exchange would sabotage the deal. Continue reading
Jun 11 Air Force to offer medals, money, modernization to boost ‘decrepit’ nuclear missile force By Robert Burns, Associated Press After a string of recent training failures, security missteps, leadership lapses, morale problems and stunning discipline breakdowns in the Air Force, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has demanded action to restore public confidence in the nation's nuclear force. Continue reading
Jun 11 The long, unfortunate history of friendly fire accidents in U.S. conflicts By Nancy Benac, Associated Press The deaths of five Americans killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan stand as a fresh reminder of the dangers of friendly fire, an element of war that is older than the nation. Continue reading
Jun 10 Watch Young people learn trade of preservation with hands-on work at Shenandoah By PBS News Hour Continue watching