Apr 22 The Latest Hunger Strike at Guantanamo EmbedVideo(6274, 482, 304); PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez talks to the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg on the 9/11 Guantanamo hearing delays, the uncertain status of 86 detainees at the detention center and the men leading the latest hunger… Continue reading
Apr 22 Watch Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strike Grows as More Than Half of Prisoners Refuse Food Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strike Grows as Over Half of Prisoners Refuse Food… Continue watching
Apr 22 Undocumented Individuals 'Deeply Rooted' in U.S. Communities, Former INS Chief Says EmbedVideo(6273, 482, 304); Former INS Commissioner Doris Meissner describes the makeup of the 11 million undocumented people currently living in the U.S. An agreement between labor groups and lawmakers seems to have set the stage for the unveiling last… Continue reading
Apr 22 The Importance of Reflecting on Death, Especially After Boston Top photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Last Monday afternoon, author Erica Brown had some time on her hands in Boston. She was there to address a cultural arts gathering, and, with a few hours before… Continue reading
Apr 19 One Year Later: What Happened to #stopKony? EmbedVideo(6239, 482, 304); The Daily Download's Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz discuss the #stopKony movement's effectiveness with PBS NewsHour's Christina Bellantoni. The Kony 2012 video skyrocketed to almost 100 million views on YouTube in the course of one… Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch Shields and Brooks on Resilience During National Trauma, Failure of the Gun Bill Shields and Brooks on Resilience During National Trauma, Failure of the Gun Bill… Continue watching
Apr 19 Boston Bombing Suspects' Uncle: 'Turn Yourself In' EmbedVideo(6256, 482, 304); Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of the two Boston Marathon bombings suspects, attributes their alleged actions to "being losers." He pleaded with the younger suspect, who is still at large, to turn himself in and ask for forgiveness. Continue reading
Apr 19 Slow-moving Sequestration Still Figures in Budget Negotiations According to a new Wall Street Journal-NBC poll, fewer than 20 percent of Americans report feeling any impact of sequestration -- the $85 billion dollars in across-the-board federal spending cuts that got underway March 1. But Democrats maintain the forced… Continue reading
Apr 19 Pakistan Elections Could Mark Historic Transfer of Power By Cat Wise Election sign for Imran Khan who heads the party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The former cricket champion-turned-politician casts himself as an anti-corruption crusader. Photo by Daniel Sagalyn. If everything goes according to plan, Pakistan's election on May 11 will be the first… Continue reading
Apr 18 Two Earth-Sized Planets with Earth-Like Temperatures Discovered by Kepler The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Photo by NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech. Two Earth-sized planets with… Continue reading