Nov 16 POLL: Would you support a ban on the sale of tobacco products? By News Desk The town of Westminster, Mass., could become the first in the nation to entirely ban the sale of tobacco products, including cigarettes, chewing tobacco and e-cigarettes. What if a similar ban was proposed where you live?… Continue reading
Nov 16 Watch Massachusetts town mulls nation's first total tobacco ban By PBS News Hour The town of Westminster, Mass., could become the first in the nation to ban the sale of tobacco products if a proposal from the city's board of health passes in December. The unprecedented pitch would ban the sale cigarettes, chewing… Continue watching
Nov 15 AT&T will no longer use 'supercookies' to track mobile behavior By Carey Reed AT&T said Friday that it will no longer use hidden, undeletable codes to track mobile users' online behaviors for marketing purposes, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Nov. 15, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, Vladimir Putin is accused of aggression at a contentious meeting in Australia and an expert speaks on whether there is a new cold war on the horizon. In our signature segment from… Continue watching
Nov 15 NYC mayor signs laws to limit cooperation with immigration feds By Long Li New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed two bills into law on Friday that serve to limit the city's cooperation with federal immigration officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Continue reading
Nov 14 Watch In 'Rosewater,' remembering humor and humanity after torture By PBS News Hour In 2009, journalist Maziar Bahari was held for months in solitary confinement in a Tehran prison after being charged with being a spy. He turned his real ordeal into a memoir, which has now been dramatized as "Rosewater," a new… Continue watching
Nov 14 Watch Shields and Brooks on the China carbon deal, Obama's immigration action By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including the carbon deal between the United States and China, legislative action on the Keystone XL pipeline and how Republicans may… Continue watching
Nov 14 Watch How should the U.S. deal with decaying nuclear arms infrastructure? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 14 Watch Atlantic City shuffles for business as casino luck runs out By PBS News Hour Casinos have been Atlantic City’s lifeblood. Now, they’re bottoming out at alarming rates -- four have already closed this year, leaving thousands unemployed. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores the gamble that elevated Atlantic City in its prime, and how residents… Continue watching
Nov 14 Watch CDC director Frieden: We're 'nowhere near out of the woods' with Ebola By PBS News Hour Hospital officials in Omaha, Nebraska, are preparing to treat a surgeon who was reportedly infected with the Ebola virus while treating patients in Sierra Leone, where the outbreak continues to be dire. In Liberia, infections rates seem to be slowing,… Continue watching