Sep 11 The NewsHour is LIVE! By News Desk It's 6 p.m. EDT -- the PBS NewsHour is live! Join co-anchors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as they talk to former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinksi, Senator John McCain, and other guests during tonight's show. Watch us live… Continue reading
Sep 11 The Fixable Crisis of Traffic Fatalities The following is a part of the Roads Kill Project of the Pulitzer Center. This Saturday on NewsHour Weekend, we look at recent changes to drunken-driving laws in British Columbia that have led to a roughly 50… Continue reading
Sep 11 #Iwastheonly girl in my school who wore a headscarf .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } NPR's CodeSwitch, a blog that… Continue reading
Sep 11 How do you decide who to trust to deliver your news? This week's #NewsHourChats is about the changing news industry. What do these changes say about the future of journalism? What do you look for in news coverage? How do you decide who to trust? Weigh in on those and… Continue reading
Sep 11 Alternative college ratings rank bang-for-buck education Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. In response to U.S. News and World Report's famous college ranking, Washington Monthly puts out its own College Guide and Rankings issue that measures factors such as the graduation rate of low-income… Continue reading
Sep 11 A look at the man behind the college rankings The release of U.S. News and World Report's 2014 college rankings Tuesday unleashed the usual obsessing. The Chronicle of Higher Education cleanly summarizes some of the methodological changes in this year's rankings, which included decreasing the weight… Continue reading
Sep 11 #Remembering 9/11: The homepage of The New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001 Twitter: Before everything changed, this was the @nytimes homepage we woke up to on morning of 9/11. http://t.co/YFeofRiUDs pic.twitter.com/oUgIZGMTe0— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) September 11, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 11 America's underground adopted children trade Photo by Ben Nguyen/Flick Many parents spend years waiting to adopt a child, but some decide to give up their newest family members days after receiving them. An investigative report released Monday exposes the vast underground network of… Continue reading
Sep 11 1,140 cancer cases tied to 9/11 'just the tip of the iceberg' Photo by Gary Friedman/AFP/Getty Images As the world marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a study from Mount Sinai Medical Center has found a 15 percent higher cancer rate among first responders than those not… Continue reading
Sep 11 NASA remembers Sept. 11 .embed-container {position: relative; padding-bottom: 120%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden;} .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } NASA posted this Instagram photo Wednesday morning, showing smoke billowing… Continue reading