Sep 28 Watch Obama Looks to Aid Chicago's Olympic Bid at Finish Line President Obama will travel to Copenhagen this week to lobby on behalf of his hometown of Chicago and its bid to land the 2016 summer games. Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch Learning to Read and Bat at Summer Camp As summer gives way to fall, education correspondent John Tulenko reports on a camp that promotes practicing both reading and batting. Continue watching
Jun 17 SILVERDOCS Festival Opens With a Slam Called the "premier showcase for documentary films" by the Hollywood Reporter, the American Film Institute SILVERDOCS festival brings a full slate of documentary films and the International Documentary Conference to Silver Spring, Md. Continue reading
May 15 Conversation: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Discuss Their New Film, 'Sugar' By Arts Desk The new film, "Sugar," is a dramatic telling of the story of a young Dominican-born baseball player as he learns some lessons about baseball and life at a training camp in his homeland and as a minor league player in… Continue reading
Apr 08 Watch Other News: Death Toll Rises in Italian Earthquake In other news, the death toll from Monday's earthquake in central Italy continued to rise and a bomb near a sacred Baghdad shrine killed at least seven people and wounded 20. Continue watching
Apr 06 Watch During March Madness, Echoes of Games Past Sportswriter Seth Davis's new book "When March Went Mad" details the extraordinary 1979 NCAA championship game that featured the match-up between Michigan State University's Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Indiana State University's Larry Bird. Davis talks about how the legendary game… Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch New Steroid Revelations Cast Fresh Scrutiny on Baseball Yankees star Alex Rodriguez recently admitted to using steroids early in his career and Miguel Tejada of the Houston Astros is now charged with lying to Congress about steroid use in professional baseball. Sports writers discuss the "steroids era" of… Continue watching
Feb 02 Watch In Other News, Senate Debates Stimulus Plan as Pittsburgh Heralds Super Bowl Win The Senate resumed debate on the $900 economic stimulus package that hit snags among Republicans concerned about the rising costs of the package. Jim Lehrer reports on this and other top news of the day. Continue watching
Feb 02 Weekly Poem: 'Pittsburgh' In honor of the Steelers' Super Bowl victory, we've gone into the Poetry Series archive. Continue reading
Dec 08 Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy Protection By PBS News Hour Media conglomerate Tribune Co. filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, as the owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Cubs and several other newspapers and TV stations tries to restructure its debt of $13 billion. Continue reading