• Charleena Lyles’ family takes legal action against Seattle

    Charleena Lyles’ family takes legal action against Seattle

    Aug 13, 2017 03:51 PM EDT

    ... Lyles, a 30-year-old pregnant mother of four, in her own apartment. The officers have said, after responding to a 911 burglary call from Lyles, she threatened and tried to stab them with kitchen knives. Based on a police recording of the incident, the claim says the officers failed ...

  • Before you lament the end of your internet privacy, read this

    Before you lament the end of your internet privacy, read this

    Mar 31, 2017 08:27 PM EDT

    ... browsing history with advertisers. A companion bill passed 50-48 last week in the Senate. President Donald Trump signed the bill Monday. Now, before you lament the end of your internet privacy -- take a deep breath. As Wired reporter Klint Finley told the NewsHour, those FCC rules never actually went ...

  • What's on Congress' lame duck to-do list?

    What's on Congress' lame duck to-do list?

    Nov 14, 2016 08:09 PM EDT

    ... and what to leave for next year in hopes of getting a better deal with Trump. Here are the highlights of the agenda of the lame-duck Congress which returns on Monday: SPENDING Fighting and dysfunction have stalled 11 of the 12 annual agency spending bills, leaving more than $1 ...

  • When MLK Jr. lamented ‘we have not learned the simple art of living together’

    When MLK Jr. lamented ‘we have not learned the simple art of living together’

    Jan 19, 2016 01:37 AM EDT

    In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, the Nobel Prize Foundation released the full audio recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 Peace Prize acceptance speech.

  • Obama hopes to stave off lame-duck status in final year

    Obama hopes to stave off lame-duck status in final year

    Dec 26, 2015 08:32 PM EDT

    President Obama is planning widespread international travel and may use executive actions on gun laws and the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in an effort to avoid lame-duck status in his final year in the White House.

  • Confirming death, France laments lack of intelligence sharing over Paris suspect’s movements

    Confirming death, France laments lack of intelligence sharing over Paris suspect’s movements

    Nov 20, 2015 12:34 AM EDT

    The so-called mastermind of the Paris attacks was killed in a battle with police in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday, confirmed authorities. While the French Assembly voted to extend a national state of emergency for three months, Belgian police made more arrests in a neighborhood with ties to the attackers. Judy Woodruff speaks...

  • Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti laments changing San Francisco

    Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti laments changing San Francisco

    Mar 24, 2015 11:57 PM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: Everywhere we look these days, there's evidence of the tech boom, supposedly exciting, thrilling, wonderful for us all. Well, maybe not for all of us. One of San Francisco's legendary figures, who celebrates a birthday today, laments what it's done to his city. Jeffrey ...

  • News Wrap: Pope Francis laments suffering from Ebola, terrorism at Christmas

    News Wrap: Pope Francis laments suffering from Ebola, terrorism at Christmas

    Dec 26, 2014 12:14 AM EDT

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN: This Christmas brought all the traditional celebrations of the day, but along with them, new calls for an end to suffering. The most ardent of those appeals came from the Vatican. The crowds who filled St. Peter's Square heard a holiday lament from Pope Francis. "There ...

  • How lame might the lame-duck Congress be?

    How lame might the lame-duck Congress be?

    Dec 02, 2014 02:29 PM EDT

    Today in the Morning Line: Congress has two weeks left and some hefty legislating to do. Spending bill, Ebola, IS funding, military reauthorization, tax extenders top list of priorities Republicans do not want a shutdown Mary Landrieu accuses GOP opponent of preferring slavery to welfare for African Americans Two weeks to go - Congress likely...

  • Gwen's Take: When a lame duck … just isn’t

    Gwen's Take: When a lame duck … just isn’t

    Nov 21, 2014 03:40 PM EDT

    I’ve spent so many years talking about lame ducks in the White House and Congress, and it’s never occurred to me to find out what the heck it means. It turns out it’s an old English hunting term -- something about firing at a duck without quite killing ...