Mar 10 Watch Teaching expectant mothers how eating well translates to long-term benefits for baby By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 10 Watch Safety advocates question delay in recall by General Motors By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 10 Watch News Wrap: Senate approves bill that bars good military service record as defense against sexual assault By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 10 Uninsured rate drops due to health care law, but signups lag among Hispanics By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds that 15.9 percent of U.S. adults are uninsured thus far in 2014, down from 17.1 percent for the last three months of 2013. Continue reading
Mar 10 Edward Snowden speaks to SXSW at noon EDT By Associated Press Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden will speak remotely by video stream at noon EDT to an audience at Austin, Texas’ South By Southwest Festival Monday. Stream by Texas Tribune… Continue reading
Mar 10 Senate Democrats plan climate change all-nighter By Ellen Rolfes Senate Democrats plan to get comfortable Monday for a scheduled all-night discussion on climate change -- pajamas are optional. Their goal: to get Congress to agree that climate change is a scientific fact. “Climate change is real, it is… Continue reading
Mar 10 U.S. intelligence officials to monitor federal employees with security clearances By Stephen Braun, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence officials are planning a sweeping system of electronic monitoring that would tap into government, financial and other databases to scan the behavior of many of the 5 million federal employees with secret clearances, current and former… Continue reading
Mar 09 Target breach renews calls for national notification standard for victims of data theft By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws and renewed a push for a single national standard. Continue reading
Mar 08 State Department confirms three Americans aboard missing jet By Associated Press The State Department confirms that three Americans were aboard the Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished Saturday. Continue reading
Mar 08 Four nations urge U.S. gas exports amid Ukraine crisis By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Four Central European nations are urging the United States to boost natural gas exports to Europe as a hedge against the possibility that Russia could cut off its supply of gas to Ukraine. Ambassadors from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia… Continue reading