Jan 25 Watch After Tight Elections, Israel’s Netanyahu Works to Build Coalition After Tight Elections, Israel's Netanyahu Works to Build Coalition… Continue watching
Jan 25 Watch Court Rules Recess National Labor Relations Board Appointments Unconstitutional Court Rules Recess National Labor Relations Board Appointments Unconstitutional… Continue watching
Jan 25 Getting Trashed on the Job: My Day in the Dump Recology collects about 1,200 tons of garbage every day in "the pit" before it is hauled to a landfill. According to Recology, over the last eight years, San Francisco has reduced the amount of trash it is sending to the… Continue reading
Jan 25 Background Checks Don’t Threaten Second Amendment, Biden Says A gun store employee in Los Angeles inspects a semi-automatic rifle. An Obama administration plan to reduce gun violence includes restricting sales of assault weapons. Photo by Reuters/ Lucy Nicholson. Vice President Joe Biden said that a proposal to… Continue reading
Jan 25 This Week on the Hill Speaker of the House John Boehner addresses the 113th Congress in the Capitol. Photo by Reuters/Kevin Lamarque. It was a busy week on Capitol Hill. Barack Obama was sworn in twice for his second term as president (once ceremonially… Continue reading
Jan 25 Is the National Debt Harmful to Our Children? By Paul Solman Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Friday's comes from a reader at Next Avenue. The NewsHour has partnered with Next… Continue reading
Jan 25 Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis? By Tom LeGro In a new book, "Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers," Dr. John J. Ross of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital looks at how disease and mood disorder may have infected the lives, creativity and words… Continue reading
Jan 25 Cloned Cave Baby Lost in Translation Reconstruction of a Neanderthal at Mettmann, Germany's Neanderthal Museum. Photo by Stefan Scheer, Courtesy Wikimedia. Who doesn't love a good story about a cloned Neanderthal baby? As they flickered across the web this week, I read them… Continue reading
Jan 25 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro A professor looks at hundreds of paintings from students that have yet to be graded in Jinan, China. The paintings are part of the provincial entrance examination for colleges of fine arts. Continue reading
Jan 25 Senate Approves Bipartisan Filibuster Reform, but Changes Are Modest The U.S. Capitol Building. Photo by Mallory Benedict for PBS NewsHour. The filibuster, with almost all of its procedural warts and bumps, survives. Democratic senators failed Wednesday to end the power of their minority party colleagues to halt… Continue reading