Jan 24 Biden: Limit on Magazine Rounds a Bigger Priority In a Google Plus hangout Thursday moderated by the NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan, Vice President Joe Biden addressed many issues about gun safety, from an assault weapons ban and background checks to armed guards in schools and mental health resources. Continue reading
Jan 24 Battle Over Gun Legislation Heats Up One Million Moms for Gun Control, a group formed after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., marches across the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Not even a week into President Obama's second term, the… Continue reading
Jan 23 A ‘Fireside Hangout’ to Discuss Gun Violence With Vice President Biden By Hari Sreenivasan, News Desk Live stream courtesy of the White House. Americans huddled around radios to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats broadcast across the country. Now, anyone with an internet connection can gather 'round their computer screens to watch a live… Continue reading
Jan 23 Genes and Environment Combine to Bring on Mental Illness Koki Ito, a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, inserts DNA containing a mutated DISC1 gene into a mouse fetus. Schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses typically manifest during young adulthood or late adolescence. But what causes a… Continue reading
Jan 22 NRA Leader Wayne LaPierre Responds to Obama’s Inaugural Address EmbedVideo(5535, 482, 304); Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, responded Tuesday to President Barack Obama's second inaugural address. The president was inaugurated in Washington just one day before. LaPierre criticized the president for using… Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch Narrow Victory for Netanyahu Shows Centrist Political Shift in Israel Narrow Victory for Netanyahu Shows Centrist Political Shift in Israel… Continue watching
Jan 22 What Does Netanyahu’s Victory Mean? We Get 6 Views Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu react as results come into campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv. Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party appeared to eke out a win in Tuesday's elections, according… Continue reading
Jan 22 In Israel, Economic Inequality and Education on Voters’ Minds By P. J. Tobia Young Israelis campaign for Naftali Bennett. All photos by P.J. Tobia/PBS NewsHour. TEL AVIV, Israel -- Though the outcome of Tuesday's parliamentary elections may not be much of a mystery, Israelis from many sides of the political spectrum brought… Continue reading
Jan 22 Covering History: College Journalists Take on the Inauguration The PBS NewsHour presents: InaugBlog - Behind the Scenes from NewsHour University on Vimeo. Produced by Ed Madison, assistant professor at the University of Oregon To cover the 57th presidential inauguration, NewsHour hosted 15 student journalists… Continue reading
Jan 22 Israelis Go to Vote Amid Deep Unease By Margaret Warner Cars go by Tel Aviv's landmark Azrieli Towers skyscraper complex. Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images. TEL AVIV, Israel -- Tel Aviv, as its residents will proudly tell you, is "the city that never sleeps." Founded by Jewish immigrants in… Continue reading