May 24 DC community tries new anti-poverty program By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press Modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, "promised neighborhoods" are being planned or underway in at least 20 states. Continue reading
May 24 Watch A chance encounter leads to a story of immigrant success By PBS News Hour Correspondent John Larson heads out on a reporting trip and discovers a powerful story en route. The young man sitting next to him in coach reveals his immigrant family's success story and their fierce devotion to America. Continue watching
May 23 Watch New series reveals ‘The Cost of Not Caring’ for Americans with mental illness By PBS News Hour Mental health funding has suffered cuts and negligence in recent decades, leaving hundreds of thousands of Americans on the streets, behind bars, in homeless shelters, or simply isolated and miserable. With their new series “The Cost of Not Caring,” USA… Continue watching
May 23 Watch What would Plato ask a neuroscientist? By PBS News Hour Can we reconcile the advancements of our modern world with Plato’s philosophical questions of free will? In “Plato at the Googleplex,” author Rebecca Goldstein imagines how Plato would approach neuroscience, the Internet and other technologies that make philosophy obsolete to… Continue watching
May 23 Watch Memphis churches rally to close disparity in breast cancer survival rates By PBS News Hour The rate of breast cancer deaths for African American women nationally is 40 percent greater than that of white women, according to a study published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology. In Memphis, the city with the widest disparity, a… Continue watching
May 23 Watch Shields and Gerson on conservative candidates, Shinseki under fire By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist MIchael Gerson join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including primary election contests in Kentucky, Oregon and Georgia, and calls from some lawmakers for Secretary Eric Shinseki to step down after… Continue watching
May 23 Weeks-long computer crash sends U.S. immigration courts back to pencils and paper By Elizabeth Summers Judges were forced to resort to old-fashioned technology, using four-track tape recorders or pencils and paper in the absence of their usual digital audio recording system. Immigrants and family members looking for information on pending cases from the agency’s phone… Continue reading
May 23 E. coli outbreak in Portland water and Idaho sprouts By Ariel Min This week may have been a good week for E. coli, but not for us. The deadly bacteria broke out in several U.S. communities. Continue reading
May 23 Tennessee turns back to the electric chair By Sarah Corapi Amid scrutiny over a botched Oklahoma execution last month and a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs, a back-up method for carrying out death sentences has gotten the green light in Tennessee: the electric chair. Continue reading
May 23 Donald Sterling wants his wife to sell L.A. Clippers By Sam Lane Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has agreed to allow his estranged wife Shelly Sterling negotiate the team's sale, ESPN reports. The National Basketball Association banned Donald Sterling from the league for life after an audio recording revealed… Continue reading