Mar 02 Analysis: GOP senators struggle to escape no-win border vote By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press It’s increasingly clear that Republican senators are deeply uncomfortable with President Trump’s use of executive power to build a border wall and desperate to devise a way around a looming vote that could terminate it. Continue reading
Mar 02 Back in Brooklyn, Sanders predicts White House win in 2020 By Juana Summers, Associated Press Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday returned to Brooklyn, his birthplace, for the first rally of his second presidential campaign and sought to tie his working-class background to his populist views that are helping reshape the Democratic Party. Continue reading
Mar 02 8 killed in India-Pakistan fighting amid high tensions By Roshan Mughal, Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press Indian and Pakistani soldiers have again targeted each other’s posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and two Pakistani troops, officials said Saturday. Continue reading
Mar 02 Trump rouses right with prediction of a big 2020 win at Conservative Political Action Conference By Kevin Freking, Associated Press When President Trump made his prediction of a second term, the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference responded with chants of “USA, USA, USA.”… Continue reading
Mar 02 Oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria leaves more than 50 people missing By Hilary Uguru, Associated Press Deadly accidents caused by leaking pipelines are alarmingly common. In January, an overturned oil tanker exploded in Odukpani in Cross River state while dozens of people were scooping up the leaking fuel. Police said at least 12 people were killed… Continue reading
Mar 02 North Korea’s Kim Jong Un leaves Vietnam after summit breakdown By Foster Klug, Emily Wang, Associated Press Smiling and holding up his clasped hands in a victorious pose, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday boarded his private train at the Vietnam-China border for a 60-plus-hour ride home, ending a trip to Vietnam that saw a… Continue reading
Mar 02 America’s newest crew capsule rockets toward space station By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. Continue reading
Feb 24 Congress mulls cap on what Medicare enrollees pay for drugs By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press With health care a top issue for American voters, Congress may actually be moving toward doing something this year to address the high cost of prescription drugs. Continue reading
Feb 24 Watch 25:00 February 24, 2019 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS NewsHour On this edition for Sunday, Feb. 24, a standoff on Venezuela’s border blocks humanitarian aid, scientists rate Hollywood’s portrayal of climate change on Oscar day, and newly-digitized materials from Louis Armstrong's archives are helping to carry his legacy to new… Continue watching
Feb 24 Watch 11:29 Louis Armstrong archive brings musician’s influence into the modern era By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman Louis Armstrong, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, left behind a vast trove of materials including collages, scrapbooks, and audio recordings when he died in 1971. The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens digitized its archive… Continue watching