Jan 17 Surgeon General report links more health problems to smoking tobacco By News Desk The Surgeon General's office has significantly expanded the already long list of diseases caused by smoking cigarettes to now include diabetes, arthritis, liver and colorectal cancers, birth defects such as cleft palate and cleft lip, and more. In a 980-page… Continue reading
Jan 17 California governor declares drought emergency By Alexis Cox California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency. Continue reading
Jan 17 Oklahoma Sen. Coburn announces early retirement By News Desk Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., announced he will retire from office at the end of the 113th Congress. Screen grab by NewsHour Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., announced late Thursday that he will retire from the… Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch News Wrap: Miss. man pleads guilty to sending poisoned letters to politicians By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, James Everett Dutschke of Mississippi pleaded guilty to sending letters laced with the toxic substance ricin to the president, a U.S. senator and a judge. Also, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in… Continue watching
Jan 17 Obama backs limits on NSA phone data collection By Associated Press Video still by PBS NewsHour WASHINGTON -- Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately… Continue reading
Jan 17 Supreme Court may reconsider warrantless cellphone searches By Associated Press Photo by Bill Heinsohn The Supreme Court decided 40 years ago that police don't need a search warrant to look through anything a person is carrying when arrested. But that was long before smartphones gave people the… Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch News Wrap: Justice Department expected to expand limits of racial profiling By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 16 West Virginia water restrictions trickling away By Zachary Treu As chemical levels drop to below the Centers for Disease Control's one-part-per-million safety standard, West Virginia officials have lifted the ban on drinking tap water for many but not all affected residents, according to a Reuters report. The restrictions,… Continue reading
Jan 16 Obama pushes new measures to get poor students into college By Elizabeth Jones Now in college with a full-ride scholarship, Troy Simon admitted to an audience at the White House that he couldn't have made the jump from being unable to read at age 14 to pursuing higher education without help. That… Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch Big trucks lose weight, gain greater efficiency for Detroit Auto Show By PBS News Hour Continue watching