Apr 30 Watch 5:56 Chicago warns of humanitarian crisis as city struggles to house migrants By John Yang, Claire Mufson More than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since August, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing asylum-seekers to so-called sanctuary cities as a protest against immigration policies. City officials say daily arrivals have increased tenfold over the last two… Continue watching
Apr 30 Analysis: Why protecting very large swaths of land matters for wildlife conservation By David Jachowski, The Conversation Conserving grassland wildlife in the U.S. Great Plains and elsewhere will require public and private organizations to work together to create new, larger protected areas where they can roam. Continue reading
Apr 30 New York City shuts down 4 parking garages after deadly collapse By Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated to the point where… Continue reading
Apr 30 WATCH: Gwen Ifill, Bill Plante honored at White House press dinner with lifetime awards By News Desk and Associated Press The late PBS NewsHour anchor Gwen Ifill and CBS News correspondent Bill Plante were posthumously awarded the Dunnigan-Payne Prize for lifetime career achievement Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Continue reading
Apr 30 Texas mass shooting suspect remains at large, 'could be anywhere,' sheriff says By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press A widening manhunt for a Texas gunman who killed five neighbors continued turning up nothing Sunday as officers knocked on doors, the governor put up $50,000 in reward money and the FBI acknowledged they had “zero leads” after nearly two… Continue reading
Apr 30 Tornado flips cars, closes major roads in coastal Florida city By Associated Press A tornado touched down in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Saturday as a powerful storm system brought intense rain and powerful winds to the state, overturning cars, damaging homes and snapping tree branches. Continue reading
Apr 30 Army identifies 3 soldiers killed in helicopter crash en route to Alaska base By Martha Bellisle, Associated Press The U.S. Army identified on Saturday the three soldiers who were killed when two helicopters collided in Alaska while returning from a training mission. Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch 3:09 News Wrap: Hundreds of Americans evacuated from Khartoum amid fighting in Sudan In our news wrap Saturday, the U.S. completed the first land evacuation of private American citizens from Sudan’s capital, Russia says Ukrainian drones struck a fuel depot in Crimea, a manhunt is underway for a suspect in the fatal shooting… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch 4:31 Study finds Black people live longer in places with more Black doctors By John Yang, Kaisha Young Life expectancy in the U.S. is at its lowest point in nearly two decades, and the projected life spans of Black and Native Americans are shorter than white Americans. According to new research, Black people live longer in areas with… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch 5:16 How Montana is tackling the teacher shortage crisis in rural schools By Stan Parker, Montana PBS Montana has faced a staggering teacher shortage for years, especially schools in rural areas and on Native American reservations. The pandemic brought new urgency and new ideas for how to ease the crisis, including a new program that hopes to… Continue watching