Dec 10 Watch 4:27 Russia aimed to help Trump through hacking, CIA finds By PBS News Hour The Washington Post reported that the CIA has determined that Russian hacking was, in fact, an attempt to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House. Trump’s team questioned the report’s credibility in a statement Friday. Greg Miller of the… Continue watching
Dec 10 Recounts bring Stein publicity that eluded her on the trail By Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press Jill Stein is now gaining arguably more attention than she ever did on the campaign trail by pushing for recounts of the presidential contest in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 12:06 Shields and Brooks on Trump’s understanding of presidential power By PBS News Hour Names of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks continue to emerge on a daily basis. Judy Woodruff sits down with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks to discuss whether Mr. Trump’s Cabinet choices are antithetical to… Continue watching
Dec 09 Judge refuses to stop Wisconsin recount; Michigan judges recuse themselves from Stein appeal By Todd Richmond, Associated Press A federal judge refused to halt Wisconsin's presidential recount Friday, telling President-elect Donald Trump's supporters that the recount probably won't change anything anyway. Meanwhile, two Michigan Supreme Court members who made Trump's list of possible U.S. Supreme Court nominees on… Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch 10:30 Remembering John Glenn, space pioneer and American statesman By PBS News Hour Former astronaut and senator John Glenn has died at age 95. In every chapter of his life, whether on Earth or above it, Glenn accumulated achievements -- serving as a Marine fighter pilot in two wars and later launching into… Continue watching
Dec 08 The chaos and fog of the first night of Marine Corps boot camp By Dan Sagalyn On Day 1, scores of young men and women arrive at Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to begin the process of becoming Marines. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch 2:59 Learning a foreign language revealed a world I never knew existed By PBS News Hour Growing up in a small town in North Carolina, Lauren Collins never needed to speak a foreign language outside of high school Spanish classes. It wasn’t until she met her French-speaking husband and moved to Switzerland that she felt the… Continue watching
Dec 07 What Amazon’s cashier-free store could mean for millions of workers By Alison Thoet On Monday, Amazon forayed into the brick and mortar grocery industry with the launch of Amazon Go. But the high-tech market could drastically change shopping and eventually eliminate the need for millions of cashiers. Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch 7:13 Why the Pentagon ‘buried and killed’ a study on potential cost savings By PBS News Hour Leaders at the Department of Defense periodically conduct efficiency reviews, looking for ways to cut costs. One such report, ordered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work in 2014, was scrapped after it identified wasteful spending and suggested measures to… Continue watching
Dec 06 Trending story that Clinton won just 57 counties is untrue By Associated Press NEW YORK — A trending story that claims Hillary Clinton won a total of 57 counties in the presidential election is untrue. Continue reading