• Poll: Most Americans think the U.S. has strayed from its founding principles

    Poll: Most Americans think the U.S. has strayed from its founding principles

    Jul 01, 2026 09:00 AM EDT

    ... and use what the Constitution has laid out for us, that some sort of violent turn of events would not need to happen,” she said. PBS News' Doug Adams, Matt Loffman, Kyle Midura, Liz Landers and Jonah Anderson contributed to this report. PBS News, NPR and Marist Poll conducted a ...

  • Electric grid faces political roadblocks as it struggles with data center demand

    Electric grid faces political roadblocks as it struggles with data center demand

    Mar 10, 2026 10:30 PM EDT

    Miles O'Brien: Tech companies are scrambling to find data center locations. One of the biggest moves so far, Microsoft's $7 billion investment in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, where it is building one of the largest and most powerful data centers in the United States. Bobby Hollis: Wisconsin presented an ...

  • How to navigate challenging conversations this Thanksgiving

    How to navigate challenging conversations this Thanksgiving

    Nov 27, 2025 11:35 PM EDT

    Millions are spending time with family and loved ones this Thanksgiving, but more time together can also mean more tension. The latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll shows that Americans are finding it difficult to talk politics with each other. We hear from a few of our poll respondents and ...

  • Young photographer documents disappearing salt marshes to inspire action

    Young photographer documents disappearing salt marshes to inspire action

    Oct 21, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    Soren Goldsmith: I ended up heading to the University of Wisconsin for engineering. And suddenly I had all these resources at my disposal. I had mechanical engineers, environmental engineers, civil engineers, computer engineers that were able to combine their expertise onto one project, because a camera trap is a complex ...

  • News Wrap: Supreme Court lets Trump strip humanitarian parole protections from migrants

    News Wrap: Supreme Court lets Trump strip humanitarian parole protections from migrants

    May 30, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Friday, the Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to strip the legal status of people from countries facing war and political turmoil, former President Biden gave his first public remarks since he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer and PBS is suing ...

  • Provision in GOP budget bill puts millions at risk of losing SNAP benefits

    Provision in GOP budget bill puts millions at risk of losing SNAP benefits

    May 29, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... would pay 25 percent of the benefits in their state. There's some time to work out the error issues here. But, just this week, Wisconsin, which has a low error rate, said that this would cost it hundreds of millions of dollars and sent out a warning about that ...

  • Elon Musk leaving Trump administration after efforts to slash federal budget through DOGE

    Elon Musk leaving Trump administration after efforts to slash federal budget through DOGE

    May 29, 2025 03:06 PM EDT

    Musk's concerns are shared by some Republican lawmakers. "I sympathize with Elon being discouraged," said Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. Speaking at a Milwaukee Press Club event on Wednesday, Johnson added that he was "pretty confident" there was enough opposition "to slow this process down until the president, our leadership ...

  • Jimmy Carter, 39th president, humanitarian and Nobel laureate, dies at 100

    Jimmy Carter, 39th president, humanitarian and Nobel laureate, dies at 100

    Dec 29, 2024 09:33 PM EDT

    ... a general election fight with Ford. “There’s an intensity of commitment to my campaign,” he told the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, a predecessor to the PBS News Hour, in April 1976. “A depth of sacrifice among people who volunteer to go all the way to New Hampshire at their own ...

  • News Wrap: Biden administration allows Ukraine to fire long-range missiles into Russia

    News Wrap: Biden administration allows Ukraine to fire long-range missiles into Russia

    Nov 17, 2024 10:45 PM EDT

    ... had sexually assaulted many young athletes. Karolyi maintained he was unaware of Nassar's actions. Bela Karolyi was 82 years old. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, the deep ties American evangelical Christians have to Israel, and the desperate journey a refugee from Cameroon went through to make Wisconsin ...

  • The early results from battlegrounds and key races we'll be watching

    The early results from battlegrounds and key races we'll be watching

    Nov 05, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    ... there is a kind of backlash against Kamala Harris there, maybe third-party voting there. So we will watch that carefully. Let's talk about Wisconsin, and about the same sort of area of Wisconsin. You have got Milwaukee right here. Want to point out another county right there, sort ...