Apr 22 Obama says North Carolina law should be overturned By Darlene Superville and Kevin Freking, Associated Press LONDON -- President Barack Obama called on Friday for the overturning of a North Carolina law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms conforming to the sex on their birth certificates and restricts protections for LGBT people. Continue reading
Apr 22 Ted Cruz, likable guy? He's working on that By Julie Pace and Scott Bauer, Associated Press WASHINGTON — After spending a year campaigning as a hardened, uncompromising conservative, Ted Cruz wants voters to see him in a different light. Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch 2:41 Talk of rules, for restrooms and the RNC, dominates the campaign trail By PBS News Hour Rules took center stage in the election cycle Thursday, as Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz clashed over rules regulating transgender people’s access to restrooms. Meanwhile, RNC officials left the Republican party’s rules unchanged going into July’s convention, and Bernie… Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch 45:12 PBS NewsHour full episode April 21, 2016 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, controversies over rules dominate the day on the campaign trail. Also: Inside the electoral battles for Pennsylvania and Maryland, how trade policy is playing out in the race for the White House, why the U.S.-Saudi relationship… Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch 3:36 News Wrap: Death toll in Ecuador climbs higher By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, the death toll in Ecuador reached 577 in the wake of Saturday’s earthquake, with at least 160 still unaccounted for and more than 23,000 left homeless. Also, Volkswagen submitted a formal plan today to settle… Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch 6:11 What the Maryland and Pennsylvania primaries can offer the presidential candidates By PBS News Hour Though front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton picked up big wins in New York’s delegate-rich primary, there are still key upcoming contests that could make a difference in the presidential race, especially Maryland and Pennsylvania. John Fritz of the Baltimore… Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch 6:41 Why the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia is under strain By PBS News Hour President Obama held a summit with Saudi Arabia and some of its Gulf allies to outline deeper cooperation on regional and security challenges, but those meetings come amid new strains on the partnership. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports… Continue watching
Apr 21 FBI head suggests agency paid more than $1M to access iPhone By Associated Press WASHINGTON -- FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. Continue reading
Apr 21 Trump will work with GOP leaders, advisers say By Daniel Bush HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Donald Trump has campaigned as the ultimate outsider. But now, with the Republican nomination is in sight, his top advisers are reassuring party leaders that Trump would embrace the GOP establishment if he moves on to the… Continue reading
Apr 21 GOP leaders reject change in presidential nominating rules By Alan Fram, Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Republican Party leaders turned aside an effort Thursday to change the rules at their national convention to make it harder for the GOP to choose a fresh presidential candidate, a prelude to what may be sharper battles… Continue reading