May 26 Banned airport full-body scanners to be used at prisons By Dave Sloan The Transportation Security Administration plans on placing 171 full-body scanners, which were removed from airports last year, in local and state jails and prisons, The Los Angeles Times reported. Continue reading
May 26 China plans to take 5 million polluting cars off the road By Ariel Min There are currently more than 5.33 million “yellow label” vehicles in the country that fail to meet China’s national fuel standards. The government plans to remove at least 330,000 cars from Beijing alone. Car emissions are responsible for 31 percent… Continue reading
May 26 Watch the complete documentary 'Arlington National Cemetery' By News Desk Tonight on the PBS NewsHour we're airing an excerpt from the WETA documentary, 'Arlington National Cemetery.' In our excerpt, we visit Section 60 where many of the dead from the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. Continue reading
May 26 Watch Watch Obama speak from Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 26 White House mistakenly outs top CIA spy in Afghanistan By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press The officer's name — identified as "chief of station" in Kabul — was included by U.S. embassy staff on a list of 15 senior American officials who met with President Obama during the Saturday visit. The list was sent to… Continue reading
May 26 Thousands of American military graves lie forgotten and lost abroad By Elizabeth Shell We don’t know how many Americans who died while serving at wartime are buried on foreign soil. Why? It's complicated. But one historian has been painstakingly counting, cataloguing and mapping the locations of American war dead that goes beyond the… Continue reading
May 26 Why Social Security lowballs benefit estimates By Laurence Kotlikoff Social Security's online calculators intentionally underestimate your benefits to encourage people to save more on their own, explains Social Security expert Larry Kotlikoff. Continue reading
May 26 Watch President Obama lays wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 26 Obama begins push to reshape U.S. foreign policy By Julie Pace, Associated Press But as the wars in Afghanistan winds down, President Obama finds himself struggling to articulate what role he sees the U.S. playing on the world stage for the remainder of his second term. The ongoing conflict in Syria and Russia's… Continue reading
May 26 President Obama lays wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier By News Desk President Obama, back in Washington after his surprise trip to visit troops in Afghanistan, will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier this morning at 11 a.m. EDT at Arlington National Cemetery. Continue reading