Jun 24 Wealthier Areas of U.S. Experience Largest Rise in Uninsured Rates By Dante Chinni By the measure of our 12 Patchwork Nation communities, the places experiencing some of those increases are a surprise - and perhaps add fuel to the fire for change. Continue reading
Jun 24 Kodak Retires Iconic Kodachrome Film Eastman Kodak Co. announced this week that it was retiring its iconic Kodachrome film because of declining demand. Introduced in 1935, Kodachrome became the world's first commercially successful color film. Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch Investigators Search for Clues in Fatal D.C. Train Crash Federal investigators on Tuesday worked to discover what caused two trains to collide yesterday in the nation's capital, killing nine people and injuring more than 75 others. Kwame Holman reports. Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Other News: National Security Adviser Meets with Afghan Candidates In other news, U.S. national security adviser James Jones met with candidates in Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election to press for a free and fair contest, and U.S. airstrikes in Pakistan reportedly killed nine people at a Taliban training camp. Continue watching
Jun 23 Investigators Look to Determine Cause of Deadly D.C. Subway Crash By PBS News Hour As the search for victims continues in Monday's deadly subway train collision in the nation's capital, investigators are also hunting for clues in hopes of pinpointing a cause for the worst crash in the Metrorail system's 33-year history. Continue reading
Jun 23 Tonight Show's Ed McMahon Dies at Age 86 Ed McMahon, television's most famous late-night sidekick, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. The cause has not been released, though a friend reported he had been suffering from bone cancer, as well as other illnesses, for the last few years. He… Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch After Reporters' Escape From Taliban, Media Weigh Ethical Questions New York Times reporter David Rohde and an Afghan journalist escaped a Taliban compound after being held since November, surprising many who had not been aware of the kidnapping. Times executive editor Bill Keller and Kelly McBride of the Poynter… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 9:28 Generation Next: Young Grads Turn to Service Amid Tight Job Market By PBS News Hour At community resource centers across the country, young people like Brian Marroquin, a recent graduate of VCU, are deferring their careers to focus on community service. Judy Woodruff examines the trend as part of the Generation Next series. Continue watching
Jun 19 Iran's Supreme Leader Sides With Ahmadinejad in Disputed Election By Admin, PBS News Hour Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday defended President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the rightful winner in the country's June 12 elections and disputed any possibility that the vote was rigged, as other candidates have contended. Continue reading
Jun 19 Making Sen$e 2.0 Attention all teachers, viewers, readers, skimmers, and occasional passersby: The second edition of our Economics-for-Everyone Web site, Making Sen$e, is now up and running. Please visit and please, please respond with suggestions as to what you’d like to… Continue reading