Apr 23 Welcome the Stranger: Convincing Evangelicals to Support Immigration Reform EmbedVideo(6286, 482, 304); Ray Suarez spoke with Jenny Hwang, the co-author of "Welcoming the Stranger," a book published in 2009 urging evangelicals to look at comprehensive immigration reform based on biblical principles. Recently, there has been a wave of… Continue reading
Apr 23 Evangelicals Rally for Pathway to Citizenship and Immigration Reform Hundreds of Evangelical leaders rallied in Washington to gather political support for comprehensive immigration reform. Continue reading
Apr 23 The Tuesday Cutline…a Winner! Did this week's photo of Elmo tickle you with laughter?… Continue reading
Apr 23 Boston 10th in Funds Received for ‘High Threat’ Urban Areas Terrorism has been in the headlines in Boston before. Ten al-Qaida hijackers departed from Boston's Logan airport on Sept. 11, 2001. And in 2012, Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Mass., a Boston suburb, was convicted of conspiracy to provide… Continue reading
Apr 23 Gitmo by the Numbers By Larisa Epatko The prison at Guantanamo Bay holds 166 detainees captured and transferred to Cuba in coordination with U.S. counterterrorism operations abroad. Continue reading
Apr 23 Boston Bombings Rouse Debate in Senate Immigration Hearing Thousands of people rally for immigration reform in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. There was little doubt last week's Boston Marathon bombings would be raised during Monday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the… Continue reading
Apr 22 The Importance of Reflecting on Death, Especially After Boston Top photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Last Monday afternoon, author Erica Brown had some time on her hands in Boston. She was there to address a cultural arts gathering, and, with a few hours before… Continue reading
Apr 19 Second Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Custody By News Desk PBS NewsHour will livestream updates, including news briefings, from Boston as they happen in the player above. "We've closed an important chapter in this tragedy."-President Obama to.pbs.org/ZxeNm9 — NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 20, 2013 Updated 10:07 p.m. Continue reading
Apr 19 One Year Later: What Happened to #stopKony? EmbedVideo(6239, 482, 304); The Daily Download's Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz discuss the #stopKony movement's effectiveness with PBS NewsHour's Christina Bellantoni. The Kony 2012 video skyrocketed to almost 100 million views on YouTube in the course of one… Continue reading
Apr 19 Boston Streets Eerily Quiet; Bruins, Sox Postpone Games By Jason Kane Police on School and Arsenel streets on Friday in Watertown, Mass. Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images. Updated 6:04 p.m. In a news conference in Watertown, Mass., Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told Boston area residents that they may leave their homes,… Continue reading