Jul 26 Watch 3:00 News Wrap: ISIS claims throat-slit slay of Catholic priest in France By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the brutal throat-slit murder of a Catholic priest during morning Mass in France’s Normandy region. The two attackers were later shot dead. Also, in Australia, Prime Minister [Malcolm… Continue watching
Jul 26 Sanders supporters walk off convention floor, blame ‘rigged system’ for his loss By Daniel Bush PHILADELPHIA -- Bernie Sanders delegates walked off the convention hall floor Tuesday night after Hillary Clinton formally received the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, an embarrassing turn of events for Clinton as she seeks to unify the party. Continue reading
Jul 25 After turmoil, Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Warren thrill convention By Julie Pace and Ken Thomas, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Ending months of animosity, Bernie Sanders robustly embraced his former rival Hillary Clinton Monday night as a champion for the same economic causes that enlivened his supporters, signaling it was time for them, too, to rally behind the… Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch 7:45 The one word Democrats hoped to avoid at convention — ‘emails’ — is back By PBS News Hour The Democratic convention opened with a bang and once more the word at the center of a scandal is “emails.” Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff speak with Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New… Continue watching
Jul 25 2016 Democratic Convention Live blog By News Desk We'll be covering both party conventions gavel to gavel for the next two weeks. Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch 4:37 How will leadership changes affect the DNC? By PBS News Hour Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Convention, announced she is resigning today following a leak of thousands of emails, some that implied the party was partial to presumptive candidate Hillary Clinton. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff… Continue watching
Jul 24 This couple teaches laid-off coal miners in PA how to code By News Desk Amanda Laucher and Jonathan Graham co-founded Mined Minds, a nonprofit that offers free coding classes to laid-off coal miners and other unemployed workers. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch 11:22 Hillary Clinton’s life in the public eye By PBS News Hour As Hillary Clinton prepares to accept the Democratic nomination for president, two biographers look back at her growth as a politician. Mark Lander, who wrote "Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power," and Michael… Continue watching
Jul 23 How a Caribbean island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News More than 1,400 Americans contracted Zika while traveling outside the U.S. this year and a Caribbean-island nation is one of the top destinations where they caught the virus. Continue reading
Jul 22 Watch 12:09 Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks talk take-aways from the GOP convention, speculate on the Clinton vice presidential pick and look ahead to next week’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Also, a look back at one… Continue watching