Jun 14 Watch Six Months After Newtown, Battle Over Gun Control Continues Twenty-six seconds of silence were observed in honor of the victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a memorial organized to mark six months since the massacre. Margaret Warner reports on how lawmakers and activists are engaged in the… Continue watching
Jun 14 Watch Painful Options Ahead: Detroit to Default on $2.5 Billion Debt Painful Options Ahead: Detroit Defaults on Billion-Dollar Debt… Continue watching
Jun 14 NewsHour: Not Just a TV Show In a recent New York Times article, media reporter Elizabeth Jensen underscored the financial and new media challenges faced by the PBS NewsHour. Jensen cited anonymous public television sources who critiqued the NewsHour's broadcast format and its website:… Continue reading
Jun 13 Is the NewsHour Worth Saving? PBS NewsHour senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff anchored 50 hours of live coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in 2012. TV critic David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun used recent news of layoffs at the PBS… Continue reading
Jun 13 China Needs Milk and California Has Too Much. Is It a Match? By Larisa Epatko California dairy farmers are pumping out milk at higher rates each year to try to make a profit in light of the rising associated costs of corn and soy used in cow feed. Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch ‘Whitey’ Bulger Trial Stars Institutional Corruption, ‘Criminal With Scruples’ 'Whitey' Bulger Trial Stars Institutional Corruption, 'Criminal With Scruples'… Continue watching
Jun 11 Google: We Turned Over Information on a ‘Tiny Fraction’ of Users By Larisa Epatko In his first U.S. television interview since the latest news broke of the government's surveillance program, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond told PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown on Tuesday that the company has given the U.S. government information… Continue reading
Jun 11 Watch News Wrap: Senate Votes to Begin Formal Debate on Immigration Reform Bill In other news Tuesday, the Senate passed a key procedural vote on the immigration reform bill. The bill cleared more than the 60 votes needed to begin formal debate on the measure. Also, Russia's lower house of Parliament passed a… Continue watching
Jun 07 Will You Work Forever? EmbedVideo(6642, 482, 304); Video shot and produced by David Pelcyger Next week, PBS NewsHour will launch an interactive project on the so-called "death of retirement." Many of us will continue to work well past the traditional retirement… Continue reading
Jun 07 Obama Administration Defends Surveillance Programs By Christina Bellantoni A look inside the NSA Threat Operations Center located at Fort Meade, Maryland. "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type." That's the memorable closing quote from an unnamed "career intelligence officer" who provided the Washington Post… Continue reading