Feb 23 WATCH: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defends White House decision to withdraw transgender bathroom rules By News Desk Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at 12:50 p.m. EST Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, the annual gathering that draws an estimated 10,000 activists to National Harbor in Maryland. Continue reading
Feb 23 Conservatives learn dealing with Trump can be complicated By Lisa Lerer and Andrew Taylor, Associated Press WASHINGTON — For the past eight years, thousands of conservative activists have descended on Washington each spring with dreams of putting a Republican in the White House. Continue reading
Feb 22 A British photojournalist asked people around D.C. to sum up their feelings about President Trump with one gesture By Sebastian Rich Never in my much-travelled life have I boarded a large commercial airliner where the cabin crew outnumbered the fare-paying passengers. To me this encapsulated heaven on Earth for the often poverty-stricken freelance journalist! To have a choice were I could… Continue reading
Feb 22 Trump administration lifts transgender bathroom guidance By Maria Danilova, Sadie Gurman, Associated Press The administration came down on the side of states' rights, lifting federal guidelines that had been issued by the Obama administration. Continue reading
Feb 22 Watch 53:59 PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 22, 2017 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, hundreds flee amid flooding in Northern California. Also: A major change on school bathrooms and transgender youth, newspaper editors explain readers' views on the political climate, Syrian refugees who would prefer not to move to the… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch 5:00 How scrapping transgender bathroom guidelines impacts schools By PBS News Hour Federal guidelines advising schools to let transgender kids use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity are being withdrawn by the Departments of Justice and Education. What will the Trump administration’s change mean for schools and students? William Brangham… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch 11:22 How Americans see President Trump, according to three regional newspapers By PBS News Hour What do Americans think of President Trump’s time in office so far? Judy Woodruff asks newspaper editors from around the nation -- David Bradley of the St. Joseph News-Press, David Haynes of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Lee Ann Colacioppo… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch 15:18 Erie longs for its manufacturing past, but what’s the future? By PBS News Hour Erie County, Pennsylvania, has long been a manufacturing center, but jobs have been declining since the 1970s. In collaboration with the NewsHour and Marketplace, Frontline offers a look at the hopes and hardships in regions that voted for President Trump. Continue watching
Feb 22 Texas, Trump administration seek to delay voter ID hearing By David Saleh Rauf, Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department joined Texas' attorney general Wednesday in asking a federal court to delay a hearing on the state's voter ID law, the latest signal that the federal government might drop its opposition to the law now that… Continue reading
Feb 22 DNC race remains tight as energized Democrats combat Trump By Lisa Lerer and Bill Barrow, Associated Press A tight race between former Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota marks the first heavily contested battle to run the organization in recent history, a reflection of a newly energized Democratic Party struggling to find the… Continue reading