Dec 21 Obama: Now is the time for US to seize opportunities in Cuba By Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said his plan to normalize relations with Cuba gives the U.S. a chance to influence events at an important moment of change for the communist nation, and he brushed off critics who accuse him of… Continue reading
Dec 21 US efforts toward Israeli-Palestinian peace remain at standstill By Lara Jakes, Associated Press Secretary of State John Kerry is ending 2014 much in the same way he started it, frustrated in efforts to push Israel and Palestinians toward peace. Continue reading
Dec 20 Watch 25:21 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Dec. 20, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Dec. 20, North Korea says it was not behind the cyber attack on Sony Pictures and warns of consequences if the U.S. retaliates and in Iraq, Kurdish forces supported by U.S. airstrikes make gains against… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch Obama unleashed: President goes his own way in final years in office By PBS News Hour President Obama, in an apparently unprecedented step, only took questions from female reporters during a news conference Friday. It might be a very small example of how the president, often criticized for his caution, is now doing things his own… Continue watching
Dec 20 Gunman ‘assassinates’ two NYPD officers in Brooklyn ambush By Andrew Mach Two New York City Police Department officers were shot and killed in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn on Saturday, and the gunman also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Continue reading
Dec 20 Watch 3:59 What’s behind the recent retreat of ISIS in Northern Iraq? By PBS News Hour Over the past few days, pro-Western Kurdish fighters, with the aid of American air power, have forced ISIS fighters in Northern Iraq to retreat from territory they seized last summer. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies… Continue watching
Dec 20 China arrests US aid worker on North Korea border By Carey Reed Chinese authorities arrested Christian missionary Peter Hahn near the China-North Korea border on Friday. Continue reading
Dec 20 New fish species discovered in deepest part of Pacific Ocean By Carey Reed Researchers discovered a new fish species living at the greatest depths ever explored of the world's largest ocean. Continue reading
Dec 20 Watch 10:02 Freedom of religion? Mosque debate in Georgia town reveals sharp divide By PBS News Hour In Kennesaw, Ga., the city council recently rejected, then approved a bid to house a mosque at a shopping mall. The vote has ignited a fierce debate in the community over how residents feel about Muslims and their First Amendment… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch 25:22 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Dec. 14, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Dec. 14, the Senate passes the $1.1 trillion spending bill that will keep the government running in a late night deal. And, in our signature segment, two years after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook… Continue watching