Jul 05 FLOTUS ready to 'fight until the bitter end' on nutritious meals in school By Darlene Superville, Associated Press "The last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids' health, especially when we're finally starting to see some progress on this issue," Mrs. Obama said at the White House. Continue reading
Jul 04 Watch Birth control injunction for religious college draws dissent from female justices By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch Marcus and Gerson on agreement and division at the Supreme Court, immigration protests By PBS News Hour Washington Post columnists Ruth Marcus and Michael Gerson join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on contraception, how the Obama administration is trying to quell an influx of unaccompanied migrant children trying to… Continue watching
Jul 04 Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire newspaper publisher, dies at 82 By Talia Mindich As heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortune, the notoriously reclusive Scaife,… Continue reading
Jul 04 Mississippi's black community seeks Cochran's help after runoff win By Bill Barrow, Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — After black voters helped Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran survive an intense Republican primary runoff against an insurgent conservative challenger, some civil rights leaders in the South want him to repay the favor. Their request? Cochran should lead… Continue reading
Jul 04 More than half of privately insured women get free birth control By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Recent data from the IMS Institute document a sharp change during 2013. The share of privately insured women who got their birth control pills without a copayment jumped to 56 percent, from 14 percent in 2012. The law's requirement that… Continue reading
Jul 03 Strong jobs numbers likely to give Democrats a morale boost By Domenico Montanaro, Terence Burlij, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: Thursday's jobs report McDaniel not backing down in Mississippi Georgia's new gun law takes effect The advantages of incumbency Jobs numbers: The unemployment rate dropped to 6.1 percent with 288,000 jobs added in… Continue reading
Jul 02 Watch Alleged fraud halts progress in Afghan presidential election By PBS News Hour Weeks after a presidential runoff election in Afghanistan, uncertainty still reigns over who will be the country’s next leader. Preliminary results were delayed after continued allegations of fraud. Judy Woodruff takes a closer look at the standstill with Sean Carberry… Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch How the Civil Rights Act changed America By PBS News Hour Wednesday marks 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, outlawing discrimination based on race, ethnicity and sex. Gwen Ifill is joined by Todd Purdum to discuss his new book, "An Idea Whose Time Has Come,"… Continue watching
Jul 02 Some NSA surveillance tactics considered OK by bipartisan panel By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press A bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has unanimously adopted a report that endorses some of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs. The programs provoked worldwide controversy when they were revealed last year by news organizations after leaks… Continue reading