Jan 24 Help us translate President Obama's 2014 State of the Union address By Joshua Barajas If you read or write in a language other than English, the PBS NewsHour needs your help. Join our all-volunteer captioning and translation team to help us translate President Barack Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address and the Republican… Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch Federal oversight board says NSA should stop collecting phone records entirely By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 22 If history repeats, Obama's State of the Union won't compel Congress to act By Associated Press When President Barack Obama delivered his 2013 State of the Union, he asked Congress to tackle many issues, including immigration reform, a minimum wage hike and gun legislation. But one year later, little progress has been made on the… Continue reading
Jan 21 American anxiety about inequality reinforces recent political rhetoric By Simone Pathe President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty 50 years ago this month. Today, Democrats and Republicans still argue over ways to eliminate poverty and spur job growth. Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch Can the tech industry strike the privacy, safety balance? By Gwen Ifill, PBS News Hour Even before President Obama outlined his proposed changes in how the NSA should collect data for surveillance, many tech giants were vocal in their criticism. Gwen Ifill discusses what's at stake with Christian Dawson of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition and… Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch European critics react to proposed NSA changes By PBS News Hour In his speech on Friday, President Obama discussed how the U.S. will change its intelligence gathering practices. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Geoff Dyer, Foreign Policy correspondent at the Financial Times, about the speech and how it was received by American… Continue watching
Jan 17 President Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill By News Desk Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep federal government running through September: http://t.co/jUUVLI8IhK — The Associated Press (@AP) January 17, 2014 … Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch Brooks and Marcus on Obama's surveillance reforms, Benghazi attack blame By PBS News Hour New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus join Gwen Ifill to discuss the week's top political news, including whether or not President Obama went far enough with his recommended surveillance reforms, who's blame for the… Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch News Wrap: Miss. man pleads guilty to sending poisoned letters to politicians By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, James Everett Dutschke of Mississippi pleaded guilty to sending letters laced with the toxic substance ricin to the president, a U.S. senator and a judge. Also, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in… Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch Obama unveils new limits on U.S. spying while defending surveillance operations By PBS News Hour President Obama called for several changes to U.S. spying practices including ending the NSA's storage of bulk phone metadata. Kwame Holman reports on the president's reforms and Hari Sreenivasan gets reaction from Kate Martin of the Center for National Security… Continue watching