• Why private waste management is one of the nation's most hazardous jobs

    Why private waste management is one of the nation's most hazardous jobs

    Jan 04, 2018 09:54 PM EST

    ... a third-degree misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to a year in jail, which he began serving in June 2017. Inmates at the Eric M. Taylor Center, where Caban was incarcerated, often do the trash pick-up for the ten jails on Rikers Island. But Caban said he was working ...

  • How Trump’s love of Twitter translates abroad

    How Trump’s love of Twitter translates abroad

    Jan 03, 2018 11:30 PM EST

    ... think tank. He's written widely on international relations. Welcome to you both. Nancy McEldowney: Thank you. William Brangham: Nancy McEldowney, I would like to start with you first. This is how the president likes to communicate, and he's communicated some substantive foreign policy messages. Now, you can only ...

  • Tune into these artists for the soundtrack of 2017

    Tune into these artists for the soundtrack of 2017

    Dec 29, 2017 11:20 PM EST

    ... boisterous music. And I love Kesha. Jeffrey Brown: All right, Mikael, I think you have got a couple of big names for us, too, to start. Mikael Wood: Sure, one of the biggest, who is Taylor Swift, of course. The year started off a little rocky for her. She put ...

  • WATCH: Senate expected to continue debate of House tax bill

    WATCH: Senate expected to continue debate of House tax bill

    Nov 30, 2017 03:37 PM EST

    ... start debating the bill. Wednesday’s vote potentially could pave the way for the Senate to pass the package later this week. The Senate could start voting on amendments Thursday evening. Opposition to the tax “trigger” could doom a delicately negotiated proposal aimed at mollifying deficit hawks who worry that ...

  • In poet John Keats’ letters, a man full of life just before he died

    In poet John Keats’ letters, a man full of life just before he died

    Nov 20, 2017 11:18 PM EST

    ... to listen to the symphony of the Autumn world. Anne McCarthy, Penn State University - "This living hand, now warm and capable" The Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed to have predicted John Keats’ death almost two years before it happened. The two poets met then on Hampstead Heath, in the ...

  • GOP tax bill would be broadest tax code rewrite in 30 years

    GOP tax bill would be broadest tax code rewrite in 30 years

    Nov 03, 2017 12:34 PM EST

    ... today's seven personal income tax brackets into just four: 12 percent, 25 percent, 35 percent and 39.6 percent. —The 25 percent rate would start at $45,000 for individuals and $90,000 for married couples. —The 35 percent rate would apply to family income exceeding $260,000 and ...

  • Senate votes to debate GOP health care bill

    Senate votes to debate GOP health care bill

    Jul 25, 2017 07:28 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — With Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie, the Senate voted by a hair Tuesday to start debating Republican legislation to tear down much of the Obama health care law. The vote gives President Donald Trump and GOP leaders a crucial initial victory but launches a weeklong ...

  • Deep in coal country, West Virginia patients speak out about GOP health bill
  • Senate GOP leaders hope for health care vote next week

    Senate GOP leaders hope for health care vote next week

    Jul 11, 2017 12:01 PM EST

    Republican leaders are hoping to stage a climactic vote on their health care bill next week, though internal rifts over divisive issues like coverage requirements and Medicaid cuts leave the timing and even the measure's fate in question.

  • A public housing project where healthy living is the foundation

    A public housing project where healthy living is the foundation

    Jul 07, 2017 11:37 PM EST

    In downtown Denver, a recently built public housing project is designed to foster healthy living, with access to nutritious food, access to doctors and ease of exercise. Jeffrey Brown reports.