Mar 12 Lawmakers look to curb foreign influence in state elections By Rebecca Beitsch, Stateline Bills under consideration in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Washington state would bar political spending by businesses in which non-U.S. citizens have a significant ownership stake. Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch 22:23 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode March 11, 2017 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, March 11, Vice President Mike Pence is promoting a new GOP healthcare plan in Kentucky, the state with the highest rate of people covered under the Affordable Care Act. Later, hear about an American who… Continue watching
Mar 11 Now-fired Preet Bharara proud of 'absolute independence' By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Preet Bharara, an outspoken Manhattan federal prosecutor known for crusading against public corruption, announced he was fired Saturday after he refused a request a day earlier to resign. Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch 3:54 Pruitt dismisses climate science, environmental policy in flux By PBS News Hour Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, defied longstanding scientific consensus in an interview this week when he said that neither human activity nor carbon dioxide emissions are the primary cause of global warming. Pruitt has stacked… Continue watching
Mar 11 Ex-Trump adviser swaps messages with DNC hacking suspect By Associated Press A political consultant and former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump says he communicated last year with an individual involved in hacking Democratic National Committee emails. Continue reading
Mar 11 Federal judges find Texas gerrymandered maps on racial lines By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press Federal judges found more problems in Texas' voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities. Continue reading
Mar 11 Pence appeals for complete GOP support for health overhaul By Ken Thomas, Associated Press Vice President Mike Pence is taking the Trump administration's case for a health care overhaul to Kentucky, where one of the state's GOP senators has been a leading critic of the White House-backed overhaul. Continue reading
Mar 11 Judge: Revised Trump ban cannot be enforced on Syrian family By Todd Richmond, Associated Press A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a Syrian family looking to escape their war-torn homeland by fleeing to Wisconsin. Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch 53:19 PBS NewsHour full episode March 10, 2017 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, President Trump touts the GOP's new health care bill as Republicans wrangle over how to replace Obamacare. Also: A growing scandal in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mark Shields and Michael Gerson analyze the week's news, a… Continue watching
Mar 10 Watch 12:20 Shields and Gerson on GOP health care bill conflict, Trump's wiretap tweet By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the political disagreement over the House Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor… Continue watching