Apr 20 Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter is dead at 76 By Elisabeth Ponsot Rubin "Hurricane" Cater, the celebrated boxer whose wrongful murder conviction spurred widespread debate over racial injustice, has died at 76. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch How will U.S. deliver consequences if Eastern Ukraine conflict doesn't improve? By PBS News Hour Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the Geneva deal, escalating unrest in Ukraine and the prospect of imposing additional sanctions on Russia. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Land dispute between rancher and government inspires ideological standoff with armed protesters By PBS News Hour In Nevada, armed militia members and states' rights protesters showed up at the site of a dispute between the Bureau of Land Management and a cattle farmer who has refused to pay fees for grazing his animals on public lands… Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Shields and Brooks on Keystone politics, Nevada land dispute By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the Keystone pipeline decision delay, a conflict in Nevada over private use of public land, Putin’s motives in the ongoing… Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch News Wrap: Keystone oil pipeline decision delayed again By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the State Department extended the federal review of the controversial plan to add on to the Keystone oil pipeline, citing a Nebraska legal fight for the delay. Environmental groups welcomed the news, but House Speaker… Continue watching
Apr 18 University president to grads: no selfies while receiving your diploma By Margaret Myers An effective selfie should capture a unique, once in a lifetime moment. Like winning an Oscar or meeting the president. But students graduating from Rhode Island's Bryant University can nix “receiving your college diploma” from their selfie bucket list. Continue reading
Apr 18 Cities crack down on homeless living in vehicles By Joshua Barajas At least 70 cities in the nation have passed laws that ban people from living in their vehicles. In Palo Alto, Calif., people living in their cars face a fine as high as $1,000 or a six-month jail sentence. These… Continue reading
Apr 18 Keystone pipeline review delayed by State Department By Josh Lederman, Dina Cappiello, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The State Department is giving federal agencies more time to review the Keystone XL pipeline before deciding whether to issue a permit. Continue reading
Apr 18 Michigan students march to end 'zero tolerance' approach to school discipline By Kyla Calvert Mason About 150 Michigan students, parents and educators plan to take the 90-mile trip from Detroit to the state’s capital in Lansing Monday through Wednesday to protest schools’ zero-tolerance discipline policies. That may not seem like much of an undertaking –… Continue reading
Apr 18 Writers remember Gabriel Garcia Marquez By Justin Scuiletti #GabrielMarquezGarcia and #LatinAmerica in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/EN3VuRlSU3— Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) April 18, 2014 Many took to the Internet Thursday and Friday to post tributes Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate,… Continue reading