Feb 10 Protest marks public school visit by new education secretary By Maria Danilova, Associated Press Betsy DeVos was met with shouts of "stand up, fight back" from angry protesters as she made her first visit to a public school Friday as education secretary. Continue reading
Feb 10 Trump hugs ally Japan after easing U.S.-China tensions By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, fresh off patching up ties with China, reassured Japan's leader Friday that the U.S. will defend its close ally. Together, the pronouncements illustrated a shift toward a more mainstream Trump stance on U.S. policy toward… Continue reading
Feb 10 A divided Senate confirms Trump’s health secretary By Alan Fram, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans won Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary early Friday in the testy chamber’s fourth consecutive brawl over Cabinet picks. Senators approved Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to head the Health and Human Services… Continue reading
Feb 10 Here’s what the Mexico border wall looks like now By Larisa Epatko President Donald Trump wants to build up the border between Mexico and the U.S. Here's what that 1,900-mile stretch looks like now. Continue reading
Feb 10 Watch 53:37 PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 9, 2017 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, Jeff Sessions is confirmed as attorney general, while fallout mounts from President Trump's attacks on the judiciary. Also: The latest on the president's immigration order, the White House takes heat for a deadly raid in Yemen,… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 9:40 Inside Steve Bannon’s ‘weaponized’ political documentaries By PBS News Hour Steve Bannon, chief strategist to President Trump, has also worked extensively in the film world, including writing and directing documentaries on the global financial crisis, alleged corruption in the Clinton Foundation and what he sees as the rise of a… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 4:42 Why the 9th Circuit Court rejected Trump’s immigration ban appeal By PBS News Hour A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate President Trump's immigration order in a unanimous decision on Thursday. Mr. Trump called it "a political decision" and tweeted, "SEE YOU IN COURT." Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins Judy… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 5:56 News Wrap: Trump stands by criticism of courts By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump insisted that his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, did not call Mr. Trump's tweet criticizing a federal judge "disheartening" and "demoralizing," and said Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal "misrepresented Gorsuch." Also, the top U.S. Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 8:44 Do Trump’s attacks on judicial legitimacy go too far? By PBS News Hour When a federal judge in Seattle halted President Trump’s immigration ban, the president fired back, calling him a “so-called judge.” Do Mr. Trump’s comments hurt the U.S. legal system? Former Judge Paul Cassell of the U.S. District Court for Utah… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 5:44 Debate on wisdom of deadly Yemen raid gets political By PBS News Hour Questions linger over the deadly raid by U.S. Navy SEALS targeting al-Qaida in Yemen in late January. Now the success or failure of the military operation has become a political debate. Audie Cornish speaks with Nancy Youssef, national security correspondent… Continue watching