Feb 20 What to expect as the South Carolina primary and Nevada caucuses unfold By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press On the Republican side, the presidential hopes of Jeb Bush, Ben Carson and John Kasich may hang in the balance. Continue reading
Feb 20 Poll shows income gap, Wall Street major issues for Democrats By Ken Thomas, Emily Swanson, Associated Press A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that most Democrats consider income inequality a very important issue and half of them think tougher regulations of the financial markets imposed after the 2008 financial crisis did… Continue reading
Feb 20 GOP House primaries to test establishment popularity By Alan Fram, Associated Press Next month, GOP House members in a crescent curving from Texas to Illinois face the first congressional primaries in this incumbent-bashing, anti-establishment season of billionaire Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the leading Republican presidential contenders. Continue reading
Feb 20 Cruz attends Scalia mass, as GOP candidates set focus on South Carolina By Associated Press Ted Cruz has taken time away from campaigning in South Carolina to attend the funeral Mass in Washington for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch 4:24 The sharp-edged politics that make South Carolina unique By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 54:16 PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 19, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, with less than 24 hours to go before polls open in South Carolina’s Republican primary, trailing GOP contenders make one last push for support. Also: a look at South Carolina’s sharp-edged political scene, Shields and Brooks… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 3:58 Candidates make last pitches as voting in South Carolina and Nevada nears By PBS News Hour With less than 24 hours before Republican polls open in South Carolina, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Pope Francis rolled back on their rhetoric following tensions over Trump’s immigration policy. Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush made last minute… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 6:36 How will Iran choose its next Supreme Leader? By PBS News Hour Iranians will go to the polls next week to choose a new Parliament, as well as select the council that will in turn choose the country’s next Supreme Leader after Ayatollah Khamenei’s death. But how will the recent nuclear deal… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 12:53 Shields and Brooks on Trump v. Pope and Scalia's Supreme Court successor By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including Donald Trump’s war of words with Pope Francis, GOP candidates’ strategies in South Carolina, burgeoning support for Bernie Sanders… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 6:44 News Wrap: Thousands gather at Supreme Court to pay respects to Antonin Scalia By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, President Obama and thousands of others gathered at the Supreme Court to pay their somber respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Also, a Kurdish separatist group claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s bombing in the Turkish… Continue watching