Mar 23 Watch Kansas offers incentives to bring people back to the plains By PBS News Hour The Great Plains have been losing population since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. NewsHour travels to Kansas to find out about a state plan that offers incentives to attract new residents to Rural Opportunity Zones. Will deals on student… Continue watching
Mar 22 Michigan issues first marriage licenses to same-sex couples By Kayla Ruble Same-sex couples lined up outside courthouses in Michigan on Saturday to receive the first gay marriage licenses issued by the state, fresh off of a U.S. District court judge's decision on Friday to overturn the state’s 10-year ban on gay… Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch What can the Dutch teach the U.S. about selling pot? By PBS News Hour As Colorado and Washington begin selling legal marijuana, questions remain about the practical process of changing drug policy. NewsHour travels to the Netherlands -- the one nation that's been openly selling pot for over 40 years -- to see what… Continue watching
Mar 21 Watch Shields and Brooks on strengthening Russia sanctions, midterm election math By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 21 Obama meets with Facebook, Google, Netflix and Dropbox on privacy By Josh Lederman, Associated Press A week before a self-imposed deadline for a review of National Security Agency programs, President Barack Obama sought Friday to assure leading Internet and tech executives that his administration is committed to protecting people's privacy. Continue reading
Mar 21 UN: Threatened forests create jobs and fight climate change By Lorna Baldwin 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods. Yet they are disappearing at the rate of 32 million acres every single year. Continue reading
Mar 21 Five things to know about today's report on unequal education By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press Minority students are less likely to have access to advanced math and science classes and veteran teachers. Black students of any age, even the youngest preschoolers, are more likely to be suspended. And students with disabilities are more likely than… Continue reading
Mar 21 Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox finds $119 million in missing bitcoins By Justin Scuiletti Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which filed for bankruptcy in February after losing 744,408 bitcoins belonging to customers in addition to 100,000 it owned, reports it has found nearly a quarter of its lost cache in a forgotten online wallet. Continue reading
Mar 21 Basketball fans win when underdogs prevail in March By Robert Pursell Raise your hand if you have ever filled out a bracket for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Now keep them up if you’ve ever torn it up after watching an unheard-of university (Mercer?) ruin your picks. It’s OK to admit… Continue reading
Mar 21 Treasure hunt for long-buried 'E.T.' video games to begin in New Mexico By Justin Scuiletti E.T. may have phoned home in the hit 1982 feature film, but the mass-produced 1982 video game of the same name had trouble finding enough homes to play it. In fact, so many cartridges went unsold or returned that a… Continue reading