Apr 19 U.S. seeks to ID remains of ‘unknown’ Pearl Harbor victims By Carey Reed The remains of hundreds of unaccounted-for Pearl Harbor service members will be exhumed and analyzed for identification, following a broadening of U.S. military disinterment policy announced by the Department of Defense earlier this week. Continue reading
Apr 19 HIV-stricken Indiana county sees uptick in new cases By Daniel Costa-Roberts A southeastern Indiana county at the epicenter of a drug-related HIV crisis has seen a significant uptick in new cases of the virus since it began a temporary needle exchange program more than two weeks ago. Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch 3:14 Report: FBI investigators overstated evidence against criminal defendants By PBS News Hour The Justice Department and FBI formally acknowledged that FBI forensic investigators routinely gave flawed testimony overstating evidence against criminal defendants during the 1980s and 1990s. In more than a dozen cases, defendants were later executed or died in prison. Spencer… Continue watching
Apr 19 Watch 2:13 U.S. troops are in Ukraine for training and the Kremlin isn’t happy about it By PBS News Hour The United States Army announced on Friday that about 300 troops, based in Italy, had arrived in western Ukraine for a six-month training rotation for three battalions of Ukraine’s National Guard. It is the first training mission by American troops… Continue watching
Apr 19 Watch 2:16 What’s behind the wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa? By PBS News Hour Over the weekend, South African leader Jacob Zuma canceled a trip overseas following a wave of xenophobic violence against immigrants. David Smith of the Guardian joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Johannesburg to discuss the backlash. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch 25:16 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode April 18, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, April 18th, 2015, the Islamic State expands its reach as authorities blame the terror group for a suicide bombing that killed dozens of people in Afghanistan. Later, a former national security official weighs in on… Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch 8:00 The hack attack that takes your computer hostage till you pay By PBS News Hour Ransomware, a type of software that computer hackers use to hold individuals' data hostage by blocking access to files unless they agree to pay a ransom, is on the rise. And because anyone with an internet connection is vulnerable, the… Continue watching
Apr 18 Last month was the hottest March since record keeping began By Triana Kalmanoff Last month the average global temperature was the highest recorded for March since record keeping began in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. Continue reading
Apr 18 S.C. activists demand DOJ probe local police killings since 1994 By Daniel Costa-Roberts Civil rights groups in North Charleston, South Carolina have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into all the fatal officer-involved shootings in Charleston County since 1994. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch 5:01 Threat of terror groups builds following ISIS suicide bombing in Afghanistan By PBS News Hour Saturday's bombing in Afghanistan caps a chaotic week throughout much of the Muslim world. Violent conflicts are now raging in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, and the threat posed by terror groups like ISIS and al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula… Continue watching