• Lack of attention paid to woman's disappearance highlights plight of missing Latinas

    Lack of attention paid to woman's disappearance highlights plight of missing Latinas

    Mar 28, 2023 10:35 PM EDT

    ... Reina's story. She believes the case has largely been ignored by media outlets because of what's known as missing white woman syndrome, a term famously coined by the "NewsHour"'s Gwen Ifill. Woman: Tonight, the mystery deepens in the desperate search for 39-year-old Ana Walshe. Laura ...

  • Biden's pick to lead FAA encounters stormy confirmation hearing

    Biden's pick to lead FAA encounters stormy confirmation hearing

    Mar 01, 2023 10:58 PM EDT

    ... s involvement in an investigation into corruption at the Los Angeles transit agency that he ran for six years. Washington's name appeared in a search warrant, but he said no law enforcement agencies have contacted him about the matter. Republicans also brought up a new lawsuit that accuses Washington ...

  • What humans can learn from some of nature's most skilled hibernators

    What humans can learn from some of nature's most skilled hibernators

    Feb 02, 2023 10:24 PM EDT

    Maybe you can relate: Winter isn’t always the ideal time to be an animal. The sun is low, temperatures flirt with freezing (or worse) and fresh food is scarce. Some of us migrate in search of brighter skies until spring rolls around. But a subset of creatures who tough ...

  • News Wrap: Fed raises interest rates by quarter point, says more hikes likely

    News Wrap: Fed raises interest rates by quarter point, says more hikes likely

    Feb 01, 2023 11:50 PM EDT

    ... smashed into a residential building in eastern Ukraine, killing 2. ... Geoff Bennett: In the day's other headlines: The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark short-term interest rate again, but this time by just a quarter-point, Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged that inflation seems to be cooling, but he ...

  • Republican-led House committees launch hearings to scrutinize Biden's border policies

    Republican-led House committees launch hearings to scrutinize Biden's border policies

    Feb 01, 2023 11:35 PM EDT

    ... are seeing steps in the opposite direction, that this administration is embracing some of the policies of the previous administration to manage in a long-term way immigration at the border. Lisa Desjardins: Back at today's hearing, the mixed search for light...Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO): And I ...

  • WATCH: White House holds news briefing amid continuing fallout over found documents

    WATCH: White House holds news briefing amid continuing fallout over found documents

    Jan 23, 2023 04:41 PM EDT

    Reporters continued to grill the White House Monday on what President Joe Biden knew or didn't know after a Friday search of his Delaware home by the FBI, which turned up even more classified documents. Watch the briefing in the player above. "The FBI was invited into the president ...

  • Welfare misuse scandal highlights wealth divide in Mississippi

    Welfare misuse scandal highlights wealth divide in Mississippi

    Jan 03, 2023 07:46 PM EDT

    ... four children aged 8 and younger. Mississippi requires TANF recipients to prove they are actively looking for employment and Nichols, of Jackson, said the job search is time-consuming. "It's work, and sometimes work takes away my ability to find a true, stable job," she said. TANF is for ...

  • News Wrap: Biden pauses student loan payments as debt cancelation plan faces legal battle

    News Wrap: Biden pauses student loan payments as debt cancelation plan faces legal battle

    Nov 22, 2022 11:55 PM EDT

    ... Good evening. I'm Judy Woodruff. On the "NewsHour" tonight: the aftermath. The death toll from an earthquake in Indonesia rises, as rescue workers desperately search for survivors. Then: lockdown again. China closes many public spaces and resumes mass testing in another attempt to stop the coronavirus under the Communist ...

  • What are special counsels and what do they do?

    What are special counsels and what do they do?

    Nov 19, 2022 06:30 PM EDT

    ... to the ability to bring indictments, special counsels are vested with bread-and-butter law enforcement tools such as the power to issue subpoenas and search warrants. Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who as special counsel in the Trump administration led the investigation into possible coordination between Russia and ...

  • Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse likely to resign Senate seat

    Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse likely to resign Senate seat

    Oct 07, 2022 01:42 PM EDT

    "If UF wants to go big, I'm excited about the wide range of opportunities," he said. Sasse is a second-term senator who has had a complicated relationship with Republicans in his own state after his outspoken criticism of Trump. He was one of seven Republican senators to ...