Sep 05 The dy(e)ing art of Mexico’s Mixtecs By Carey Reed For centuries, the indigenous Mixtec people of Mexico's Oaxaca region have used the purple dye that comes from milking a sea snail to make their brightly colored clothing, but the snail – and their way of life – is in… Continue reading
Sep 05 Japan allows residents to return to town near Fukushima By Carey Reed Residents returned to a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Saturday, as Japanese government officials celebrated a lift on a four-and-a-half-year evacuation order, deeming the area safe after radiation levels had fallen. Continue reading
Sep 05 Watch 8:18 Tribal Justice: Prosecuting non-Natives for sexual assault on reservations By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 05 Cooperation in Congress key to tackling full fall agenda By Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram, Associated Press Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through a contentious spring and summer - cooperation between Republicans and President Barack Obama. Continue reading
Sep 05 Clinton: Use of private email system not ‘best choice’ By Ken Thomas, Associated Press Hillary Rodham Clinton says her use of a private email system at the State Department wasn't the "best choice" and acknowledged she didn't "stop and think" about her email set-up when she became President Barack Obama's secretary of state in… Continue reading
Aug 30 Looking for a way to store data for millennia? Try DNA. By Carey Reed, Andrew Mach The breakthrough could lead to the creation of digital archives, storing everything from ancient texts to Wikipedia pages in DNA form that could survive for hundreds of thousands of years without the loss of any data. Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 2:58 Thousands take to Beirut streets, bolstered by ‘You Stink’ campaign By PBS News Hour Thousands gathered in the capital city of Beirut on Saturday to demand changes to the government -- including an effort to have the garbage picked up, something that hasn’t happened in a month. For the latest on the “You Stink”… Continue watching
Aug 30 European leaders call emergency meeting to address migrant crisis By Andrew Mach Officials from Germany, Great Britain and France called for a more comprehensive plan on Sunday to process and distribute the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have poured into Europe this year, undertaking journeys that have turned deadly and exposing… Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 3:56 Photos document life as a black lesbian in South Africa By PBS News Hour South African photographer and activist Zanele Muholi is on a mission to bring the experience of black lesbians in her home country to the forefront, as many members of the community face high rates of violence, including incidents of so-called… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch 6:16 Study finds trauma effects may linger in body chemistry of next generation By PBS News Hour New research on survivors of the Holocaust shows how catastrophic events can alter our body chemistry, and how these changes can transmit to the next generation. The result? Our children may suffer the effects of a traumatic event they never… Continue watching