Apr 08 Watch How should colleges address conflicts between academics, athletics and money? By PBS News Hour Players and fans celebrated the March Madness victory by the University of Connecticut, but the game against the University of Kentucky also highlighted one of the major debates facing NCAA basketball. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Patrick Harker, president of… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch Obama signs executive orders on pay transparency for federal contractors By PBS News Hour President Obama issued two executive orders aimed at income disparity based on gender on what the White House proclaimed Equal Pay Day. But Republicans charged the president and Democrats were playing politics rather than improving policy. Judy Woodruff gets two… Continue watching
Apr 08 Senate Finance Committee holds hearing on tax return preparer regulations By Sam Weber More than 40 million taxpayers use tax preparers who do not have to meet any standard of competency in order to prepare taxes. Continue reading
Apr 08 Airmen at odds with Air Force brass over future of beloved A-10 plane By Dan Sagalyn The Defense Department decision to retire an Air Force plane built specifically to support ground forces has ignited a firestorm of criticism from the airmen whose job is to embed with Army ground forces and spot enemy targets. Meanwhile, one… Continue reading
Apr 08 'Noah' showing in England canceled by flood By Willis Raburu Moviegoers who attempted to flood the Vue Cinema in Exeter, England, to watch an afternoon showing of the movie "Noah" -- based on the biblical story of Noah and the great Ark -- got to witness a piece of the… Continue reading
Apr 08 Obama, Democrats look to take action on equal pay By Jim Kuhnhenn, Alan Fram, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are making a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages, linking Obama executive actions with pending Senate legislation aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors… Continue reading
Apr 08 Democrats make push to appeal to women in 2014 elections By Domenico Montanaro, Terence Burlij, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: "Equal Pay Day" Why women matter to 2014 Scott Brown to make it official Thursday Mudslinging in Mississippi Democrats try to fire up women: In a coordinated effort with congressional Democrats ahead of this fall's… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch Researchers track New Hampshire moose in hopes of pinpointing cause of population decline By PBS News Hour In some regions of northern New England, the moose population is down as much 40 percent in the last three years. The cause of this iconic animal’s dramatic die-off is not yet known, but researchers’ main theory is centered on… Continue watching
Apr 07 Watch Journalist, naturalist and novelist Peter Matthiessen, 86, took readers to new territory By PBS News Hour Peter Matthiessen was a co-founder of The Paris Review, an author of more than 30 books, and winner of the National Book Award in both fiction and non-fiction. He succumbed to leukemia at the age of 86, just days before… Continue watching
Apr 07 Watch Mickey Rooney, irrepressible performer who spent his life on stage and screen, dead at 93 By PBS News Hour Mickey Rooney's career as an entertainer began while he was a toddler, and lasted for nine decades. He was Hollywood's top box office star by his teen years, and his hit movies included “Boys Town,” "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,… Continue watching