Dec 15 Two years after Newtown shootings, the NRA won the debate over guns By Domenico Montanaro, Quinn Bowman, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe, Lisa Desjardins Today in the Morning Line: More Americans side with gun rights over control for first time Despite studies on gun-related deaths, most say gun ownership protects potential victims Giffords, Bloomberg unable to make many inroads Post-Newtown — Guns in America:… Continue reading
Dec 11 U.S. passes $18 trillion in debt, and nothing’s being done about it By Domenico Montanaro, Lisa Desjardins, Simone Pathe A story away from the pack for you this morning. Just in case you don’t check the national-debt-to-the-penny website from the Treasury Department regularly, we do. And in the past two weeks, we saw the national debt rise above $18… Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch 4:40 News Wrap: House votes to block Obama’s immigration order By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, House Republicans pushed through a bill to declare President Obama’s executive actions on immigration “null and void.” The House also passed a defense spending bill authorizing $585 billion in funding and expanding military operations in… Continue watching
Dec 04 Does the Garner case weaken the argument for body cameras? By Domenico Montanaro, Lisa Desjardins, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: Does getting caught on tape matter? Where does President Obama’s call for police cameras go from here? House GOP to hold protest vote against President Obama’s immigration executive action Body cameras: President Obama made… Continue reading
Nov 28 UN condemns U.S. over torture, immigrant detainment and police malpractice By Laura Santhanam After reviewing the recent use of history of torture in the United States, the United Nations Committee Against Torture expressed concern that the United States has not gone far enough in the “absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment” of detainees,"… Continue reading
Nov 26 Business leaders disappointed over items left out of immigration action By Erica Werner, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration left out some of the business community's top priorities, disappointing business leaders who might have stepped up to defend his policies in the face of Republican attacks. Continue reading
Nov 25 Obama to pitch immigration actions in Chicago By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, the onetime community organizer, is returning Tuesday to the city where he says he first forged his ties to the Latino community to pitch his new executive actions on immigration. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch Homeland Security secretary ‘fully confident’ in legality of Obama’s immigration action By PBS News Hour Last week, President Obama announced executive orders to defer deportation relief to nearly 5 million immigrants and expand border security. Now the task of implementation falls on the Department of Homeland Security. Secretary Jeh Johnson joins Gwen Ifill to discuss… Continue watching
Nov 21 Watch Brooks and Marcus on executive action precedent, prospective presidential candidates By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 21 Watch Republicans insist Obama has gone too far with action shielding millions from deportation By PBS News Hour President Obama announced his plan to shield nearly 5 million immigrants from deportation, and focus instead on deporting undocumented criminals and those who have entered the country recently. Republicans expressed their disapproval, including Speaker of the House John Boehner, who… Continue watching