Jan 02 Watch 9:56 How the GOP plans to begin dismantling Obama’s legacy By PBS News Hour The new Congress starts work this week, with the Republicans in control of both houses. Soon, they’ll also have the White House. What’s on the GOP agenda? William Brangham talks to Lisa Desjardins, Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report… Continue watching
Jan 02 5 things to know about the incoming Republican Congress By Donna Cassata, Associated Press On Tuesday at noon, members of the 115th Congress will be sworn in, with an emboldened GOP intent on unraveling eight years of President Barack Obama's Democratic agenda. Continue reading
Jan 02 What’s on Obama’s to-do list in the closing stretch of his presidency? By Josh Lederman, Associated Press Obama's final days in office will include a bid to protect his endangered health care law, a major farewell speech and the ongoing handover of power to Donald Trump. Continue reading
Jan 02 Medicare launches revamp for treatments of heart attacks, hip fractures By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The cardiac and hip fracture experiments are the latest development in a big push under the Obama administration to reinvent Medicare. Continue reading
Jan 02 Trump still not sold on Russian link to hacking By Jill Colvin, Associated Press Trump has repeatedly cast aside allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia tried to influence the presidential election through hacking. Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 3:48 News Wrap: In Syria, fragile cease-fire appears to hold By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, Russian president Vladimir Putin slammed U.S. sanctions and the expulsion of Russian diplomats over election-season hacking attacks, but said he would not answer in kind by expelling U.S. diplomats. Also, a fragile cease-fire appeared to… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 6:19 Why deterring Putin from foreign meddling is practically impossible By PBS News Hour On Friday, President Vladimir Putin slammed U.S. plans to retaliate for Russia’s election hacking but said he would not toss out U.S. diplomats in turn. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 12:02 Brooks and Corn on Obama’s active final weeks and the Trump-Putin ‘bromance’ By PBS News Hour In foreign affairs, it was not a quiet few days leading up to the New Year's weekend -- from Secretary of State John Kerry’s blunt parting speech about Israel to President Obama’s announcement of retaliation against the Kremlin for election… Continue watching
Dec 30 Timeline: Three decades of diplomatic spats between U.S. and Moscow By Robert Burns, Associated Press U.S. relations with Moscow during and after the Cold War have been marred by diplomatic dustups ranging from espionage scandals to an Olympics boycott. Continue reading
Dec 30 Here’s what President Obama is doing to protect the Affordable Care Act By Josh Lederman, Associated Press President Barack Obama will strategize next week with Democratic lawmakers about how to prevent Republicans from destroying his Affordable Care Act. Continue reading