• Camp Mystic's reopening plans in Texas has drawn outrage, but some families want to return

    Camp Mystic's reopening plans in Texas has drawn outrage, but some families want to return

    Dec 23, 2025 07:27 PM EDT

    ... recovery efforts after devastating Texas floods The devastating July floods were hardly the first to strike the area known as "Flash Flood Alley," where the limestone hills quickly gather water and funnel it into narrow river banks. This year was at least the fifth time in a century that flooding ...

  • As medication costs rise, decreasing insurance coverage has deadly consequences

    As medication costs rise, decreasing insurance coverage has deadly consequences

    Dec 21, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... a while. Marisa Wojcik (voice-over): Kevin Voltz ran into similar problems with his self-funded health plan. In his case, he was battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of blood cancer. Kevin Voltz: All of a sudden, my numbers were at like 167,000 compared to like 4 or ...

  • Israeli Cabinet approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank

    Israeli Cabinet approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank

    Dec 21, 2025 05:46 PM EDT

    Israel’s Cabinet has approved a proposal for 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, the far-right finance minister said Sunday, as the government pushes ahead with a construction binge in the territory that further threatens the possibility of a Palestinian state.

  • The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime broadcasting home ABC

    The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime broadcasting home ABC

    Dec 17, 2025 06:58 PM EDT

    ... with YouTube to be the future home of the Oscars and our year-round Academy programming,” said academy chief executive Bill Kramer and academy president Lynette Howell Taylor. “The Academy is an international organization, and this partnership will allow us to expand access to the work of the Academy to ...

  • House passes annual defense bill to raise troop pay and overhaul weapons purchases

    House passes annual defense bill to raise troop pay and overhaul weapons purchases

    Dec 11, 2025 12:00 AM EDT

    ... Smith, the top Democrat on the armed services panel, called the bill “the most ambitious swing at acquisition reform that we’ve taken.” Still, Smith lamented that the bill does not do as much as Democrats would like to rein in the Trump administration but called it “a step in ...

  • James Solomon wins Jersey City mayoral election, defeating ex-Gov. Jim McGreevey

    James Solomon wins Jersey City mayoral election, defeating ex-Gov. Jim McGreevey

    Dec 03, 2025 06:41 PM EDT

    ... to Jersey City in 2013, is married and has three daughters. In 2015, about a month after his wedding, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Now in full remission, he told The AP in an interview that that challenge inspired him to run for public office. “I had one ...

  • Pope Leo XIV encourages Turkey to be a force for stability and peace as he opens first foreign trip

    Pope Leo XIV encourages Turkey to be a force for stability and peace as he opens first foreign trip

    Nov 27, 2025 02:54 PM EDT

    ... stabilization force in Gaza to help oversee a fragile ceasefire. Leo didn’t cite the conflicts specifically, but he quoted his predecessor, Pope Francis, in lamenting that the wars ravaging the world today amount to a “third world war fought piecemeal,” with resources spent on armaments instead of fighting hunger ...

  • The factors influencing turkey prices this Thanksgiving

    The factors influencing turkey prices this Thanksgiving

    Nov 26, 2025 11:30 PM EDT

    ... is also more expensive due to tariffs, but: David Ortega: Domestic wine prices are slightly down compared from last year. That has to do with some excess supply, but also some softening demand. Tim McPhillips: For PBS News, in charge of key lime pie this Thanksgiving, I'm Tim McPhillips.

  • 5 things to know as Zelenskyy faces growing pressures

    5 things to know as Zelenskyy faces growing pressures

    Nov 21, 2025 05:39 PM EDT

    ... The Russian army continues to steadily advance in multiple areas. In the northeastern Kharkiv region, Russian forces are pushing on the cities of Kupiansk and Lyman, which Ukraine wrested back from Russia in the first year of the war. But the fiercest battles are around the besieged Ukrainian city of ...

  • Federal immigration crackdown in Charlotte has ended, sheriff says

    Federal immigration crackdown in Charlotte has ended, sheriff says

    Nov 20, 2025 07:43 PM EDT

    ... on Tuesday. Agents were seen in a suburb where officials say almost 20% of the population was born outside the U.S. Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, a Democrat, said Thursday she was glad the enforcement operation had apparently ended.“I’m relieved for our community and the residents, businesses, and ...