Oct 14 Watch Should terminally ill patients be able to choose when they die? By PBS News Hour After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard moved her family from California to Oregon to die on her own terms. Oregon law allows Maynard to take lethal prescription medication to end her life. Jeffrey Brown gets debate… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch In 'Innovators,' Isaacson tells story of digital revolutionaries By PBS News Hour After profiling visionary individuals like Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson has turned his attention to a whole group of creative minds, weaving the tale of the many inventive thinkers who launched the digital revolution. Judy Woodruff sits… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch What Wall Street's wild swings say about the global economy By PBS News Hour Lately the financial markets have been swinging from record leaps to sudden drops. Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, says that while the U.S. economy is continuing its recovery, the rest of the world is… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Independently minded Coloradans make Senate race unpredictable By PBS News Hour In Colorado, one of the GOP’s main midterm battlegrounds to take control of the Senate, the candidates seem to be advocating to women to decide the race. But Rocky Mountain voters are just as likely to legalize marijuana as expand… Continue watching
Oct 14 Walter Isaacson on confronting morality, innovation and privacy in the digital age By Jordan Vesey In his new book “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,” Walter Isaacson outlines the most crucial inventions of the digital age. Continue reading
Oct 14 Mark Zuckerberg to give $25M to fight Ebola By Ashira Morris Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that the he and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, will give $25 million to help prevent the spread of Ebola. Continue reading
Oct 14 New report details Pentagon's plan for addressing global challenges associated with climate change By Adelyn Baxter The Pentagon announced Monday they have developed a comprehensive strategy outlining the ways the Department of Defense plans to adapt to and mitigate the effects of rising temperatures and sea levels. Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch Walter Isaacson on confronting morality, innovation and privacy in the digital age By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 14 DSCC stops running TV ads in Kentucky Senate race By Adam Beam, Associated Press The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has stopped running TV ads in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race, a severe blow to Alison Lundergan Grimes in her challenge to Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Continue reading
Oct 14 Still no foie gras for Californians, SCOTUS says By Anna Christiansen The French delicacy, made commercially from the livers of force-fed ducks, has long been the subject of debate by animal welfare organizations. In order to grow the organ beyond normal size, animals are force fed through a metal tube several… Continue reading