Mar 04 Watch 4:04 Rubio, moderators push back on Trump's policy assertions By PBS News Hour Thursday’s debate saw the last vestiges of civility stripped away from the GOP race, with the night’s rhetoric ranging from personal slights to outright vulgarity. Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz attacked Donald Trump for alleged fraud and for… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch 5:14 News Wrap: U.S. economy stays strong despite global slowdown By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, despite global economic slowdown, the U.S. economy added 242,000 jobs in February and kept unemployment steady at 4.9 percent, numbers President Obama said prove his detractors wrong. Also, Beijing announced that it will increase its… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch 54:17 PBS NewsHour full episode March 4, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Thursday night’s GOP debate sees Republican contenders abandon civility in favor of hostility. Also: Brazil’s former president is detained in corruption probe, how the EU is handling the migrant crisis, why rural hospitals are dying out,… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch 1:25 Facing mounting GOP opposition, Trump withdraws from CPAC By PBS News Hour Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has canceled his scheduled appearance at the ongoing Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., following concerted efforts by establishment GOP figures to rally the electorate against him. But even when he’s absent, Trump is still… Continue watching
Mar 04 Ben Carson declines to endorse a GOP candidate By Associated Press Ben Carson, who recently ended his White House bid, is declining to endorse any candidate for the Republican nomination, though he says he has "talked to all of them this week."… Continue reading
Mar 04 Sen. Mike Lee of Utah: Federal aid not needed in Flint water crisis By Matthew Daly, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said Friday that federal aid is not needed in Flint, Michigan, where lead-contaminated pipes have resulted in an ongoing public health emergency. Continue reading
Mar 04 Swallowing hard, Trump's rivals vow to back him if nominated By Nancy Benac and Steve Peoples, Associated Press DETROIT — The Republican establishment and its last best hopes to defeat Donald Trump spent a long and extraordinary day denouncing the billionaire businessman as dangerous, a "phony" and a "con man" unfit for office. Then, when it was all… Continue reading
Mar 04 Mitt Romney says he will not run for president By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says there are "no circumstances" in which he will join the 2016 race for the White House, even as he calls for an alternative candidate to front-runner Donald Trump. Continue reading
Mar 04 Fact checking the 11th Republican debate By Calvin Woodward and Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press On taxes, trade and drug prices, viewers of the latest Republican debate didn't get a straight story. And Donald Trump spun fiction about 9/11. A look at some of the claims made Thursday night at the 11th Republican debate. Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 7:46 GOP schism deepens after Trump's Super Tuesday wins By PBS News Hour The increasingly pronounced fracturing of the Republican party was on full display Thursday, as mainstream leaders rallied against presumptive nominee Donald Trump. Judy Woodruff talks with former Republican Utah governor Michael Leavitt and Stephen Moore of the conservative political group… Continue watching