Oct 29 WATCH: White House accuses media of wrongly blaming Trump for attacks By Associated Press White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that the first thing the president did was condemn the attacks and the first thing the media did was blame the president. Trump critics have said the president's harsh partisan rhetoric… Continue reading
Oct 29 After Pittsburgh shooting and packages plot, Trump calls media 'the true Enemy of the People' By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press Trump strongly condemned the Pittsburgh attack as an act of anti-Semitism, and has denounced political violence and called for unity. But just days before the midterm elections, he has continued to hold his political rallies, complete with harsh criticism of… Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch 25:01 October 28, 2018 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Oct. 28, grief and prayers in Pittsburgh after this weekend's deadly rampage at a Jewish synagogue, and the catastrophic human cost of the ongoing war in Yemen. Also, poverty on Skid Row of Los Angeles… Continue watching
Oct 28 Wait times for citizenship applications stretch to 2 years By Amy Taxin, Associated Press More than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on applications to become U.S. citizens, a process that once typically took about six months but has stretched to more than two years in some places under the administration of President Donald Trump. Continue reading
Oct 28 Enough is enough: Fed-up Americans crave unity amid violence By Claire Galofaro, Margery A. Beck, Associated Press As authorities intercepted more than a dozen pipe bombs addressed to President Donald Trump’s most ardent critics, political scientists and ordinary Americans observed, again, that rabid partisanship had devolved to the point of acts of violent extremism. Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch 4:35 Declining Mexico's offer to stay, migrants head to U.S. By PBS News Hour Thousands of migrants from Central America are expected to reach the U.S. - Mexico border in coming weeks, after declining an offer by Mexico to stay. The Trump administration, which has already stationed thousands of troops and guardsmen there, aims… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch 3:25 Tracing Cesar Sayoc's past through his recent shift into politics By PBS News Hour Cesar Sayoc, who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of sending more than a dozen mail bombs to Democratic party leaders, traversed many lifestyles until he started engaging in politics in 2015. Trevor Aaronson of the Florida Center of Investigative… Continue watching
Oct 27 Trump says Pittsburgh attack lays bare 'hate' in US By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press President Donald Trump on Saturday lamented the “devastating” attack by a shooter on a Pittsburgh synagogue, saying it lays bare the “hate in our country” and speculating that the deadly violence would have been curbed if the building had had… Continue reading
Oct 27 After arrest, Republicans struggle with mail bombs fallout By Jonathan Lemire, Catherine Lucey, Associated Press Republicans this week scrambled to draw a firm line between the alleged actions of 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc and President Donald Trump. Continue reading
Oct 26 WATCH: Trump to campaign in North Carolina By Associated Press President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. ET. Watch live in the player above. Continue reading