Mar 28 U.S. will recognize 300 same-sex marriages in Mich., Holder says By Joshua Barajas U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that the federal government will recognize the 300 same-sex marriages that took place last week in Michigan. Holder said in a statement that these Michigan couples will receive federal benefits. Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch Washington landslide search teams and volunteers make progress despite mud like wet concrete By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Debating Kansas' mandate on tighter voter ID enforcement By PBS News Hour In a recent spate of voter identification controversies sweeping the country, a federal judge in Kansas ordered election officials to help Kansas and Arizona enforce laws requiring new voters to show proof of citizenship. Hari Sreenivasan get two views from… Continue watching
Mar 27 U.S. 'underbanked' population increasingly using mobile banking By Simone Pathe Mobile banking is on the rise, especially among those consumers who are "underbanked" and rely on other financial services besides a traditional bank account. Continue reading
Mar 27 Instagram reaches 200 million users, passes Twitter in U.S. mobile use By Colleen Shalby Mashable reported Wednesday that during a phone conference about Facebook’s purchase of virtual reality company Oculus VR, Mark Zuckerberg casually dropped the fact that Instagram now has two million users. Continue reading
Mar 27 Latest landslide science not connecting with county planning By Ashley Ahearn, KUOW/EarthFix The technology exists, but the degree to which planners are using the latest mapping technology to make decisions about development in landslide-prone areas varies county to county. Continue reading
Mar 27 Typhoid Mary's life sentence in quarantine By Dr. Howard Markel North Brother Island is a 16.5-acre bump of land jutting out of the East River, 1,500 feet east of 140th Street in the South Bronx and 2,500 feet west of Riker’s Island. Once the site of New York City’s lazaretto,… Continue reading
Mar 27 A history of papal visits by U.S. presidents By Rachel Wellford With his visit to Vatican City, President Obama continues the tradition of presidential meetings with the pope that began with the 28th president of the United States. Continue reading
Mar 27 Connecticut to become first state to adopt $10.10 minimum wage By Robert Pursell Furthering the recent calls by President Barack Obama to fight poverty and inequality, Connecticut lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday to raise the state’s hourly minimum wage to $10.10 by 2017, making it the highest for any state in the country… Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch Obama administration extends health care sign-up completion deadline to April 15 By PBS News Hour Five days before the March 31 enrollment deadline, the Obama administration says that Americans will have more time to sign up on federal health care exchanges if they’ve begun but can’t finish the process on time. Gwen Ifill talks to… Continue watching