Jul 30 How to resupply a nuclear submarine By Dan Sagalyn, Jamie McIntyre The USS Pennsylvania is a stealth submarine on active patrol in the Pacific Ocean. Armed with up to 24 Trident D-5 nuclear missiles, the Ohio-class vessel is part of America’s fleet of 14 nuclear armed submarines. Maintaining a ship like… Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch 5:54 A Catholic enigma found in a grave at Jamestown By PBS News Hour In 2013 archaeologists discovered the remains of four early colony leaders buried 400 years ago at the Jamestown settlement in Virginia. On top of one of the graves was a silver box resembling a religious artifact, presenting a mystery for… Continue watching
Jul 29 America’s famous swimming ponies make their annual trek across ocean channel By Corinne Segal Tens of thousands of spectators gathered today to watch an annual pony swim, now in its 90th year, from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island on Virginia's eastern shore. Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch 8:50 New Mexicans claim cancer is living legacy of world’s first atomic bomb test By PBS News Hour This July marks the 70th anniversary of the first ever test of an atomic bomb in New Mexico. But a group called the Downwinders -- local residents whose homes were downwind of the blast site -- aren't celebrating the milestone. Continue watching
Jul 28 Not everyone’s sold on Seuss By Joshua Barajas Parents have worried about whether it is confusing to introduce nonsense words while their children are actively learning dictionary words. Continue reading
Jul 27 ‘I was a slave’: Nigerian women escape sexual bondage in Italy By Jason Berry, The GroundTruth Project CASERTA, Italy — She is 32 and demure, with a poise that belies the image of a woman who was enslaved for five years in a Nigerian prostitution ring on the outskirts of Naples, the raffish Mediterranean port city 22… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch 4:26 What happens when Photoshop goes too far? By PBS News Hour A New York exhibit chronicles prominent cases of images altered by journalists and asks: If seeing is believing, how often are you, the viewer or reader, being misled? Saskia de Melker reports. Continue watching
Jul 26 Trump: Walker ‘undeserving’ after mishandling Wisconsin’s budget By Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opened up a line of attack Saturday on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, accusing the leader in recent polls in Iowa of running his neighboring state into financial trouble. Continue reading
Jul 25 Fiat Chrysler announces recall after hackers gain control of moving car By Daniel Costa-Roberts Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced a voluntary recall of roughly 1.4 million vehicles Friday in response to an incident earlier in the week in which hackers demonstrated that they could take control of one of the company's cars using the Internet… Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch 3:58 Feeling electric: Inside Bob Dylan’s rock ’n’ roll breakthrough 50 years ago By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan stunned the crowd at the annual Newport, Rhode Island, folk festival by using an electric guitar. The influential singer-songwriter who made his mark singing with an acoustic guitar and harmonica was booed, but it was… Continue watching