• A year after Parkland, support sinks for stricter laws on gun sales, poll says

    A year after Parkland, support sinks for stricter laws on gun sales, poll says

    Feb 14, 2019 10:00 AM EDT

    ... much change around him. “It feels like the same thing over again,” said Lopez, who attends Legacy Early College in Greenville, and talked to the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs. But that doesn’t mean the fight launched by students after Parkland is over. At the time of the shooting ...

  • WATCH: Stacey Abrams delivers Democratic response to State of the Union

    WATCH: Stacey Abrams delivers Democratic response to State of the Union

    Feb 06, 2019 12:57 AM EDT

    ... attention away from Abrams and her historic speech. Sanders struggled with black voters in his 2016 primary fight against Clinton. The Working Families Party tapped Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who, like Abrams, is black, to speak after her official response. Schumer said Tuesday that he has no problem with ...

  • Midwest sees all-time low temperatures due to polar vortex

    Midwest sees all-time low temperatures due to polar vortex

    Jan 31, 2019 11:55 PM EDT

    ... out of the woods yet. Amna Nawaz: But most vulnerable to the long stretch of cold, thousands of homeless people across the region. In Madison, Wisconsin, First United Methodist Church has been running an emergency shelter since Monday. Karen Andro is in charge. Karen Andro: In this kind of crisis ...

  • Democrats campaigned to raise teacher pay. For now, more are prepared to strike

    Democrats campaigned to raise teacher pay. For now, more are prepared to strike

    Jan 25, 2019 10:06 PM EDT

    ... Year, was elected to Congress by the state of Connecticut. The party leaned on the issue in high-profile governors’ races as well, including in Wisconsin, where the state’s superintendent of public instruction, Democrat Tony Evers, unseated the incumbent Republican Scott Walker. Yet it’s unclear how much attention ...

  • How the shutdown might end, according to game theory

    How the shutdown might end, according to game theory

    Jan 17, 2019 10:49 PM EDT

    ... largest share of undecided voters for a presidential election in 20 years, and the majority broke for Trump in 12 of 15 key states including Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Our latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll said 13 percent of registered voters are undecided about whether they would vote ...

  • As shutdown wears on, 5 stories from federal workers and their families

    As shutdown wears on, 5 stories from federal workers and their families

    Jan 09, 2019 10:43 PM EDT

    Nearly 800,000 federal employees have been furloughed or are working without pay during the fight over border wall funding between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats. In interviews with the PBS NewsHour, dozens of government workers and those around them expressed frustration with the shutdown and its impact on ...

  • How polling has changed since the 2016 election

    How polling has changed since the 2016 election

    Nov 02, 2018 10:35 PM EDT

    Democratic Congressional candidates now hold a nine-point advantage over Republicans, according to the latest poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist. But can polls be trusted? In 2016, polls in key states showed Hillary Clinton winning handily. Donald Trump won all three. Judy Woodruff discusses with NPR’s ...

  • This festival aims to bridge the urban-rural political divide ‘in a time of rot’

    This festival aims to bridge the urban-rural political divide ‘in a time of rot’

    Nov 02, 2018 10:20 PM EDT

    ... and I think that that's something that's needed. Jeffrey Brown:A fine thought in a county and country full of ferment. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jeffrey Brown in Nowhereradio, North Freedom, Wisconsin.Judy Woodruff:  All right. And we're not going to leave you there, Jeffrey ...

  • 5 dead, several injured in shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis

    5 dead, several injured in shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis

    Jun 28, 2018 07:44 PM EDT

    ... t know until you’re there and you feel helpless," he said. The Anne Arundel County Police did not immediately respond to requests from the PBS NewsHour for additional information. On its official Twitter account, Anne Arundel County Police said the building was evacuated while officers continues to search it ...

  • Utah's Navajo residents hope redistricting brings needed resources

    Utah's Navajo residents hope redistricting brings needed resources

    Jun 21, 2018 10:30 PM EDT

    ... determine which political party controls power. The U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled in two cases this term, keeping in place boundaries in Maryland and Wisconsin. A fight is still raging in one Utah county over current district lines and their effect on the voice of Native Americans. From the ...