Your local PBS station powers PBS News and keeps it free and accessible for everyone in your community.
... a podcast and public radio program, looks into why life in the oil fields has become so risky. JENNIFER GOLLAN, Reveal: When Brendan Wegner left Wisconsin for the Bakken oil fields, his parents had no idea North Dakota was the deadliest place to work in America. KEVIN WEGNER, Father of ...
... pretty clearly unmoved. REP. BRAD SHERMAN, D-Calif.: Did he persuade me that that's a good policy? No. LISA DESJARDINS: But Ron Kind of Wisconsin did pledge support. REP. RON KIND, D-Wisc.: For us as a caucus now not even to give him the decency or the respect ...
unique field brought her to South Carolina State, but that isn’t what she’d say the campus’ biggest selling point is today. “That family environment taught me to get comfortable being uncomfortable. It pushed me,” she said. “Just being in Wisconsin this semester it showed me that I felt ...
... Rubio becomes the third Republican to announce his candidacy. He joins two other senators, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker are expected to jump in shortly. While the Republicans compete to position themselves as the antidote to the incumbent president, Clinton ...
... Security shutdown showdown ends Morning Line going on a “Winter Break”: A note to our readers … tomorrow is one of your authors’ last day at PBS NewsHour after writing this item for the better part of the past year. Happily, Domenico Montanaro will stay within the public broadcasting family, going ...
... of 10, just five-hundredths of a point lower than Angelina Jolie, on Anaface.com's facial attractiveness index. That's the Web site two Wisconsin researchers used to judge the hotness or not-ness of 682 CEOs. They found that the better looking the CEO, the bigger the boost ...
An overhaul of the GED to meet Common Core standards has made the high school equivalency test more rigorous and more expensive. As a result, fewer people are taking and passing it. Gwen Ifill gets debate from Randy Trask of the GED Testing Service and Lecester Johnson of Academy of Hope about what the changes...
Teen producers find and tell stories of young people making a difference in their communities for this special PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs feature.
Tyanna Buie turned her childhood spent in foster care into an artistic exploration, using screen-printing and collage to reinterpret old photographs and memories.
Support Provided By: Learn more
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.