Jan 10 'I won't stop serving you,' President Obama tells crowd in farewell address By Daniel Bush In his final major speech before leaving the White House, President Obama on Tuesday marked the country’s progress since he took office on a range of social and economic fronts, but warned Americans not to become complacent in the face… Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch: Donald Trump's first news conference as president-elect By News Desk Defiant and unyielding, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday adamantly denied reports that Russia had obtained compromising personal and financial information about him. His extraordinary defense, coming just nine days before Trump's inauguration, dominated a highly anticipated press conference in which… Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch 55:43 Watch President Barack Obama's full farewell speech By PBS News Hour President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address Tuesday from Chicago. Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 7:05 Can a president's farewell speech help write history? By PBS News Hour President Obama will deliver a farewell address to the nation in Chicago on Tuesday evening. Why do presidents give goodbye remarks? Judy Woodruff gets historical context on past speeches and the shaping of political legacy from presidential historian Michael Beschloss… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 14:26 How Obama left his mark on the criminal justice system By PBS News Hour President Obama has commuted the sentences of more federal prisoners than any other president, and he’s on track to leave far fewer federal inmates in federal prison since the 1960s. Hari Sreenivasan offers a look through the life of a… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 6:16 In hearing, Sessions says he'll put law above his own views By PBS News Hour It’s the first day of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet. Attorney general nominee Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions spent the day before the Senate Judiciary Committee defending his views on race and civil rights and separating himself from the… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 3:23 Top intelligence officials stop short of providing evidence of Russian hacking at Senate hearing By PBS News Hour The nation’s top intelligence officials appeared publically before the Senate Intelligence Committee, days after the release of a report on the alleged role of Russian influence during the presidential election. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports. Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 3:26 Kerry: 'We have a problem' if people don't care about accountability or policy being made on Twitter By PBS News Hour Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry joined other Obama administration officials for an event Tuesday at the U.S. Institute of Peace focusing on the importance of a smooth political transition. Judy Woodruff sat down with him to ask about the… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 54:06 PBS NewsHour full episode Jan. 10, 2017 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, Jeff Sessions lays out legal limits to President-elect Trump's campaign statements at his confirmation hearing. Also: U.S. intelligence chiefs lay out the case of Russian hacking, Iran mourns the loss of a leading moderate voice, President… Continue watching
Jan 10 Trump pegs vaccine skeptic to run safety commission, alarming doctors By Lauran Neergaard and Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump is reviving long debunked attempts to link vaccines to autism, asking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- a vocal skeptic -- to chair a commission on vaccination safety. Continue reading