Sep 09 Watch 2:41 News Wrap: House votes to let families of 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, two days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. House gave final approval for 9/11 victims’ families to sue Saudi Arabia, although the White House has made suggestions of a veto. Also,… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch 7:14 Standing up Afghan army is like ‘trying to build an airplane while in flight,’ says top U.S. general By PBS News Hour U.S. and coalition forces have been in Afghanistan for 15 years since the 9/11 attacks. Though their numbers have drastically decreased as the U.S. has trained Afghan security forces, it is not easy to build an army in the middle… Continue watching
Sep 06 Watch 8:43 Can the high-tech hunt for terrorists stop lone wolf attacks? By PBS News Hour Take a look at the room 9/11 built: The operations center at the National Counterterrorism Center aggregates data in hopes that analysts will be able to predict the next terrorist attack. With the advent of “social media intelligence,” answers are… Continue watching
Jul 31 How texting 911 could help people in crisis By Sarah Breitenbach, Stateline So far few states and cities have adopted 911 texting, but that will change over the next several years, as utility companies abandon old copper phone lines for fiber optic cables. Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch 1:52 News Wrap: Congress releases report on the Saudis and 9/11, Iraqis protest prime minister By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 11 Watch 54:18 PBS NewsHour full episode September 11, 2015 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, a look at the many faces of the great migration in Europe, as the U.S. decides to open its doors to more refugees. Also, Shields and Brooks analyze the week’s news, a look back at the… Continue watching
Dec 04 Helping Afghan farmers regrow the economy By Larisa Epatko Dana Freyer was in her law office in Times Square overlooking downtown Manhattan when the hijacked airplanes struck the World Trade Center towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. A couple of months later, the United States would lead… Continue reading
Sep 11 What my students and a book taught me about 9/11 By Bernie Heidkamp As with most moments in my adult life, it was my students and literature that taught me the most significant lessons about the meaning of 9/11. Continue reading
Sep 11 ‘Light footprint’ president makes case for intervention By Domenico Montanaro, Terence Burlij, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: Obama tries to sell the public on fighting Islamic State group A shift from ‘light footprint’ West Point speech Looking for an ‘Obama Doctrine’? Keep looking (or stop) Obama just ramped up the ‘Global… Continue reading
Sep 09 ‘Are we gonna die?’ Answering my third grade students on 9/11 By Jillian Baden Bershtein I was new at this. I was 23. How was I to contain my fear and anxiety in front of my kids? What would I tell them?… Continue reading