Jan 09 A guide to this week’s confirmation hearings: Jeff Sessions, Rex Tillerson and more By Joshua Barajas After weeks of filling out his Cabinet, President-elect Donald Trump's nominees must now face confirmation hearings before Senate committees. Continue reading
Jan 08 Watch 3:43 Amid ethics concerns, Senate confirmation process set to begin By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 08 Doctors admonish us to leave earwax alone. Why won’t anyone listen? By Eric Boodman, STAT Few pieces of medical advice have been so consistent for so long, and so ignored, as the admonition not to use foreign objects to remove earwax. Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch 5:17 Russia’s election intervention is ‘new reality, new weapon’ By PBS News Hour On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will hold a meeting about the intelligence report released this week that concludes the Russian government tried to influence the U.S. election. To break down what is in the report and… Continue watching
Jan 07 Ethics agency has ‘great concern’ about confirmations before reviews are cleared By Lisa Desjardins Several of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees have not yet completed the required ethics review process. Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch 12:19 Shields and Brooks on Trump’s ‘disdain’ for the intelligence community By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the U.S. intelligence report on Russian intervention in the presidential election and its implications for American democracy and foreign policy. They also review highlights… Continue watching
Jan 06 Column: Can librarians help solve the fake news problem? By Donald A. Barclay for The Conversation As a long-time academic librarian, I have spent a good part of my career teaching college students to think critically about information. For me, the recent spate of stories about large segments of the population falling for fake news stories… Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch 23:05 Biden: Trump’s belittling of U.S. intelligence agencies is ‘dangerous,’ ‘mindless’ By Judy Woodruff, Rachel Wellford As the Obama years come to a close, Vice President Joe Biden sits down with Judy Woodruff to discuss his thoughts on his tenure, the election and the future of the country. They discuss the fate of the Affordable Care… Continue watching
Jan 05 ‘Grow up, Donald… Time to be an adult,’ Biden says in PBS NewsHour interview By Daniel Bush Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized President-elect Donald Trump's attacks on the U.S. intelligence community and his grasp of health care policy, which is now up for debate on Capitol Hill as Republicans move to undo the Affordable Care… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 9:27 Demand for clean energy inspires new generation to innovate nuclear power By PBS News Hour The next generation of nuclear power is coming, as concerns about climate change bring the industry out of hibernation. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on how new startups and young scientists are hoping to develop solutions for safely generating vast… Continue watching