Jun 30 Watch 3:21 How will lifting the ban on transgender soldiers affect the military? By PBS News Hour The Pentagon has lifted its ban on transgender troops. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the move Thursday and officials said health services for trans soldiers, including sexual reassignment surgery, will be covered in 90 days. Of the military’s 1.5 million… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 3:27 Turkey buries its dead amid growing demands to take on ISIS By PBS News Hour As the Turks went about the sad task of burying the victims of the Istanbul airport terror attack, civilian fears mounted and calls increased for Ankara to act against ISIS. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been criticized for turning… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 11:27 Can Hillary Clinton convince voters that she's honest and trustworthy? By PBS News Hour From Whitewater to Benghazi and her secret speeches to Wall Streeters, Hillary Clinton has a trust problem, polls find. She admitted Monday that she has to do more to change the perception. Political director Lisa Desjardins reports and Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Jun 30 Paul Ryan, House schedule vote on gun restrictions for suspected terrorists By Alan Fram, Associated Press House will vote next week on barring guns for suspected terrorists, according to U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan. Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 2:56 News Wrap: Obama warns against Trump isolationism By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch 54:11 PBS NewsHour full episode June 29, 2016 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, an update on the deadly attack at Istanbul’s busy airport. Also: CIA Director John Brennan talks global security, the education of incarcerated teens, the Juno spacecraft’s five-year mission to Jupiter, why the head of the 2016… Continue watching
Jun 29 GOP morphing into the anti-trade deal party By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press Donald Trump's break with conservative economic thinking on free trade comes as Republicans are increasingly relying on older, struggling white voters who are the most skeptical of trade deals. Continue reading
Jun 29 Trump gets rock-bottom ratings in international survey By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press A new multi-nation survey finds that confidence in Donald Trump's ability to manage foreign policy should he become U.S. president is rock-bottom in a host of countries in Europe and Asia. Continue reading
Jun 29 Clinton says it's 'time to move on' from Benghazi. Republicans say it's unlikely By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Hillary Clinton says it's "time to move on" after a congressional report on the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks accused the Obama administration of lethal mistakes, but produced no new evidence pointing to wrongdoing by the former secretary of state. Continue reading
Jun 28 Watch 5:37 Digging into the Brexit vote's stark generation gap By PBS News Hour In British households and across the United Kingdom, the question of whether the nation should break away from the European Union split along one clear dividing line. In general, older voters voted to leave, while younger voters wanted to remain. Continue watching