Feb 13 Watch Investigation Continues on Former L.A. Policeman on Deadly Shooting Spree The week-long manhunt for ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner seems to be at an end. A police standoff in southern California ended in the burning down of a cabin where Dorner was allegedly hiding. Continue watching
Feb 12 Obama: Nation Stronger, GOP Should Back His Plans Vice President Joe Biden, left, House Speaker John Boehner, right, listen as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech. Photo by Jim Bourg/Reuters WASHINGTON (AP) -- Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided… Continue reading
Feb 12 Google Earth Keeps Watch on World’s Nuclear Sites North Korea tested its third nuclear device Tuesday at its Punggye-Ri site, the same location of its first two tests in 2006 and 2009. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an artificial, or manmade, 5.1 magnitude earthquake. The Institute… Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch Shields and Brooks: Using SOTU to Set Agenda, Tackle ‘New Budget Reality’ Shields and Brooks: Using SOTU to Set Agenda, Tackle 'New Budget Reality'… Continue watching
Feb 12 Watch Growing Demand for Palm Oil Drives Malaysia to Employ Child Migrant Workers Growing Demand for Palm Oil Drives Malaysia to Employ Child Migrant Workers… Continue watching
Feb 12 Watch Assessing the Threat of North Korea’s Nuclear Program North Korea's launch of another nuclear test has triggered panic in the west. Jeffrey Brown gets an assessment of North Korea's nuclear capabilities from Charles "Jack" Pritchard, former special envoy for North Korea negotiations under President George W. Bush, and… Continue watching
Feb 12 Volunteer Translators Give Obama’s State of the Union Global Reach Two years ago, PBS NewsHour partnered with the Participatory Culture Foundation to launch a captioning and translation team of volunteers to subtitle and translate President Barack Obama's 2011 State of the Union address. Powered through the translation… Continue reading
Feb 12 Filipino Shopkeepers Get Help Breaking Into Mobile Phone Market By Larisa Epatko Mark Ruiz, a young Filipino social entrepreneur we profiled last year in our Agents for Change series, is about to embark on the next chapter of his Hapinoy project by helping small shopkeepers in his home country adapt to the… Continue reading
Feb 12 North Korea Admits to Carrying Out Third Nuclear Test By News Desk An official points to North Korea's Kilju, where the North conducted a nuclear test, on a map on a screen at the Korea Meteorological Agency in Seoul on Feb. 12. Photo by Lee Ji-Eun/Yonhap/Reuters. By Geoffrey Cain and Faine… Continue reading
Feb 12 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro Two women dressed as clowns and their dog take a break during a clown parade Sunday in Sesimbra, Portugal. Continue reading