Jul 13 Watch 8:54 Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows By PBS News Hour It was an unprecedented meeting of the minds and it happened at Harvard Medical School. The subject of April’s confab? Medical cannabis. Researchers suspect cannabis can do so many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions and Crohn’s disease. There… Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch 2:05 Turning 315 billion pounds of plastic ocean pollution into sea-saving art By PBS News Hour At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, a massive exhibit made entirely of 315 pounds of plastic pollution fished from the Pacific is on display. Called "Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea," it features 17 sculptures, from jellyfish to shark. The… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch 5:37 Help purge bad cops, black Dallas police leader urges Obama By PBS News Hour These are especially difficult times for black law enforcement officers who, painfully sometimes, see that the complaints that some of their fellow cops are racist are real. Hari Sreenivasan holds a frank discussion with Lieutenant Thomas Glover, the president of… Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch 4:08 Could convention rule changes cost Trump the nomination? By PBS News Hour If the forces opposed to Donald Trump have any hope of derailing the presumptive nominee, it would be through changes in the convention rules—rules that would free delegates from the requirement to vote on the first ballot for the candidate… Continue watching
Jul 09 Watch 3:49 Report finds racial disparities in police use of force By PBS News Hour A report released by the Center for Policing Equity on Friday found that African Americans are more likely than white Americans to be subjected to the use of force by police. University of California at Berkeley Professor Jack Glaser, one… Continue watching
Jul 03 8 things you didn’t know about the Fourth of July By Daniel Costa-Roberts, Daniel Moritz-Rabson Here are eight things you might not have known about America's birthday. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch 8:15 After historic victory, Clinton on ‘great threat’ of Trump By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 25 Government wastes billions of dollars on old computers, report says By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The White House has been pushing to replace workhorse systems that date back more than 50 years in some cases. But the government is expected to spend $7 billion less on modernization in 2017 than in 2010, said the Government… Continue reading
May 25 State Department email audit faults Hillary Clinton By Bradley Klapper, Michael Biesecker, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The 78-page report says the department and its secretaries were "slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership."… Continue reading
May 23 Watch 9:03 Vietnam’s new economy and old culture drawing back children of U.S. immigrants By PBS News Hour Continue watching