Feb 20 Watch 5:22 News Wrap: Bone-chilling cold breaks records for East Coast By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, Washington, New York, Trenton and Baltimore all broke temperature records during a burst of arctic air that wreaked havoc by freezing pipes. Also, about 800,000 people who use HealthCare.gov received the wrong tax information from… Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch 8:13 How one Egyptian youth became an Islamic State militant By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 6:27 What’s the price of paying for hostages? The economics behind funding and fighting terrorism By PBS News Hour Hostage-taking has become an important moneymaker for terror groups including the Islamic State. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at the larger price of paying ransom and cost-effective ways of fighting terror. Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch Ban Ki-moon on preventing terrorism by protecting human rights By PBS News Hour In an interview with Judy Woodruff, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that military action cannot be not the sole response to extremism, and stresses the importance of protecting the rights of marginalized people. They also discuss Syria's President Bashar al-Assad,… Continue watching
Feb 19 Mission to retake Mosul likely to begin in April, May By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The operation to retake Iraq's second largest city from Islamic State militants will likely begin in April or May and will involve about 12 Iraqi brigades, or between 20,000 and 25,000 troops, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday. Continue reading
Feb 19 Obama: Nations have ‘responsibility’ to deny that extremism represents Islam By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — In the fight against violent extremism, President Barack Obama has argued the U.S. has one thing going for it that Europe doesn't: a long tradition of warmly embracing its immigrants, including Muslims. Continue reading
Feb 18 Watch 10:11 What can the U.S. do to stop radicalization at home? By PBS News Hour With growing concern over global extremism, the question of how to counter and prevent radicalization is the focus of a three-day summit at the White House. Judy Woodruff talks to Zainab Al-Suwaij of the American Islamic Congress and Matthew Levitt… Continue watching
Feb 18 Obama to call for joint efforts against violent extremism at summit By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The summit President Barack Obama is convening Wednesday on the threat of violent extremism is not the summit he envisioned. Planned for last October, the summit never happened before the midterm elections. In the months since, the situation… Continue reading
Feb 16 Watch 7:42 Islamic State exploits the chaos of civil war in Libya By PBS News Hour The murder of Egyptian Christian hostages by the Islamic State in Libya raises the alarm that the militant group is expanding from its territory in Syria and Iraq. Gwen Ifill talks to Frederic Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment for International… Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch 2:30 Egypt launches airstrikes at Islamic State in Libya after Christian killings By PBS News Hour Continue watching