Feb 13 Watch After Dorner Police Standoff, Big Bear Community Feels Bittersweet Relief After Dorner Police Standoff, Big Bear Community Feels Bittersweet Relief… Continue watching
Feb 13 Help Us Translate the 2013 State of the Union Address ( {"video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvK-o6u82tI"} ) Do you read or write in a language other than English? If so, the PBS NewsHour needs your help. Please join our all-volunteer captioning and translation team, and help us translate President Barack… Continue reading
Feb 13 Ouster of Scientist from EPA Panel Shows Industry Clout Deborah Rice served as chair of an EPA panel assessing the safety levels of flame retardants in 2007, but her removal from that panel led some to believe that a powerful industry lobbying group had influenced the EPA and unfairly… Continue reading
Feb 13 Watch Investigation Continues on Former L.A. Policeman on Deadly Shooting Spree The week-long manhunt for ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner seems to be at an end. A police standoff in southern California ended in the burning down of a cabin where Dorner was allegedly hiding. Continue watching
Feb 12 Obama: Nation Stronger, GOP Should Back His Plans Vice President Joe Biden, left, House Speaker John Boehner, right, listen as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech. Photo by Jim Bourg/Reuters WASHINGTON (AP) -- Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided… Continue reading
Feb 12 Google Earth Keeps Watch on World’s Nuclear Sites North Korea tested its third nuclear device Tuesday at its Punggye-Ri site, the same location of its first two tests in 2006 and 2009. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an artificial, or manmade, 5.1 magnitude earthquake. The Institute… Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch Shields and Brooks: Using SOTU to Set Agenda, Tackle ‘New Budget Reality’ Shields and Brooks: Using SOTU to Set Agenda, Tackle 'New Budget Reality'… Continue watching
Feb 12 Watch Growing Demand for Palm Oil Drives Malaysia to Employ Child Migrant Workers Growing Demand for Palm Oil Drives Malaysia to Employ Child Migrant Workers… Continue watching
Feb 12 Volunteer Translators Give Obama’s State of the Union Global Reach Two years ago, PBS NewsHour partnered with the Participatory Culture Foundation to launch a captioning and translation team of volunteers to subtitle and translate President Barack Obama's 2011 State of the Union address. Powered through the translation… Continue reading
Feb 12 North Korea Admits to Carrying Out Third Nuclear Test By News Desk An official points to North Korea's Kilju, where the North conducted a nuclear test, on a map on a screen at the Korea Meteorological Agency in Seoul on Feb. 12. Photo by Lee Ji-Eun/Yonhap/Reuters. By Geoffrey Cain and Faine… Continue reading