Mar 20 Watch 4:43 This week in politics: Ukraine and Supreme Court nominee hearings By PBS NewsHour Between the war in Ukraine and the upcoming confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kentaji Brown Jackson, political divisions are emerging. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the political implications on these topics and… Continue watching
Mar 19 AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Jackson’s judicial record By Will Wessert, Calvin Woodward, Associated Press In the court of public opinion — like the Supreme Court nomination hearings coming this week — politicians ask questions of witnesses to score points for their side. In the court of law, judges ask questions to get answers. That… Continue reading
Mar 18 Informant provides key details about plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer By Ed White, Associated Press Jurors in Michigan have heard from an Army veteran who became an FBI informant after hearing members of a militia talk about killing police. Continue reading
Mar 18 U.N. food agency official alarmed by Afghanistan food, fuel prices By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Afghanistan has been sinking deeper into poverty and economic crisis since the Taliban takeover and as many as 95 percent of the country's 38 million people don't have enough to eat or money to buy the food. Continue reading
Mar 18 As Ukrainians quickly cross U.S. border, Russians find barriers By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press The scene Friday reflected a quiet but unmistakable shift in disparate treatment of Russians and Ukrainians who enter Mexico as tourists and fly to Tijuana, hoping to enter the U.S. for a chance at asylum. Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch 11:39 Brooks and Capehart on U.S. military aid for Ukraine, GOP opposition to COVID funding New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including President Biden's announcement of a new round of military assistance for Ukraine and Republican opposition to his administration's… Continue watching
Mar 18 Federal report finds unsafe conditions in New Mexico migrant jail By Ben Fox, Associated Press A government watchdog has found unsanitary and unsafe conditions at a New Mexico jail used to hold migrants and says it should be immediately closed. Continue reading
Mar 18 WATCH: Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosts Malawian president By Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera to the State Department for bilateral talks on Friday. Watch the meeting in the player above. Blinken called Malawi “a remarkable democratic success story,” and applauded its opposition to… Continue reading
Mar 18 Drought-stricken California imposes new round of water cuts By Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press State water officials said Friday they'll only give 5 percent of requested water supplies to contractors of the State Water Project, which provides water for 27 million people and a swath of farmland. Continue reading
Mar 18 NASA says there is still cooperation with Russian colleagues By Alex Sanz, Associated Press NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday played down recent comments by the head of Russia's space agency that the U.S. would have to use broomsticks to fly to space after Russia said it would stop supplying rocket engines to U.S. Continue reading