Apr 16 Day After ‘Act of Terror,’ Investigators in Boston Search for Clues By News Desk PBS NewsHour will live stream briefings and press conferences from Boston and the White House in the player above. Check back all day for updates. 2:29 p.m.: The Associated Press has identified 29-year-old Krystle Campbell of Medford, Mass., as one… Continue reading
Apr 16 Boston Blasts Put Politics On Hold By Christina Bellantoni Unclaimed finish line bags remain at the scene of the blasts. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. And sometimes, politics just takes a pause. With more questions than answers in the hours since two explosions rocked the scene at the finish… Continue reading
Apr 16 Farmer: U.S. Guest Worker Program Still ‘Riddled With Bureaucratic Procedures’ EmbedVideo(6207, 482, 304); Hari Sreenivasan talks with South Carolina peach farmer Chalmers Carr about the changing debate over immigration. The last time the nation heard the terms "amnesty" and "pathway to citizenship" batted around with such frequency… Continue reading
Apr 15 Explosions Rock Finish Line at Boston Marathon By News Desk // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and others, including an FBI Special Agent-in-Charge, gave a press conference Monday evening updating the situation on the explosions at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 100. The FBI was now… Continue reading
Apr 15 Doctor on the Scene in Boston: ‘Tons of Mangled Extremities on the Ground’ EmbedVideo(6206, 482, 304); Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Dr. Albert Pendleton who was one of the first doctors on the scene of the explosions that killed three people and injured several others near the finish line of the Boston Marathon… Continue reading
Apr 15 Increased Border Security Is ‘Window Dressing,’ Says Border Patrol Union EmbedVideo(6189, 482, 304); Hari Sreenivasan talks with Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, about the changing debate over immigration. The last time the nation heard the terms "amnesty" and "pathway to citizenship" batted… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch Comic Legend Jonathan Winters Dies at 87 Pioneering comic Jonathan Winters brought his own brand of wild, improvisational stand-up to television in the 1950s, and continued to perform for nearly five decades. Winters died Thursday at the age of 87. Jeffrey Brown remembers the comedian with a… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Online Streaming Television Service Aereo Tests Traditional Broadcast Networks Online Streaming Television Service Aereo Tests Traditional Broadcast Networks… Continue watching
Apr 12 Remembering Jonathan Winters, 1925-2013 By Tom LeGro Tributes are pouring in for comedian Jonathan Winters, who died Thursday at age 87. Watch Jim Lehrer's interview with Winters after he received the 1999 Mark Twain Prize from the Kennedy Center. This interview originally aired Oct. 21, 1999. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch ‘Shepherd in Combat Boots:’ Korean War Army Chaplain Awarded Medal of Honor 'Shepherd in Combat Boots': Korean War Army Chaplain Awarded Medal of Honor… Continue watching