Mar 01 It is now a crime to say Poland helped Nazi Germany during Holocaust By Associated Press For years Polish officials have struggled to fight phrases like "Polish death camps" that are sometimes used abroad to refer to Auschwitz and other death camps that Nazi Germany built and operated on occupied Polish territory during World War II. Continue reading
Mar 01 Vladimir Putin boasts Russia’s nuclear weapons can pierce any defense By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press In a state-of-the-nation speech, Putin said the creation of the new weapons has made NATO's U.S.-led missile defense "useless," and means an effective end to what he described as Western efforts to stymie Russia's development. Continue reading
Feb 28 Is Sweden proof that school choice doesn’t improve education? By Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report Betsy DeVos’s school choice ideas are a reality in Sweden, where student performance has suffered. In the second of a three-part series, find out how school choice works in other parts of the world. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch 8:49 To measure the prowess of North Korean missiles, researchers spy with open-source clues By Miles O'Brien As North Korean missiles fly farther and more frequently under Kim Jong-un, the outside world watches warily, using a network of early-warning radar, sensors and satellites that track the test weapons in real time. In the third installment of our… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 6:52 South Korea ‘very much worried’ by possible U.S. military strike on North Korea, says adviser By PBS News Hour A senior policy adviser to the South Korean president says his country is “very much worried about American unilateral military action on North Korea" and a possible "full-blown escalation conflict.” Moon Chung-in, the South Korean president's senior foreign policy and… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 7:37 The ‘silent massacre’ killing El Salvador’s sugarcane workers By Fred de Sam Lazaro A mysterious, chronic kidney disease is wreaking havoc on farm workers in Central America, particularly those who harvest sugar. Despite the risks, Salvadoran cane cutters continue the grueling work, pushed by economic troubles. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch all of Miles O’Brien’s coverage of North Korea’s nuclear program By PBS News Hour Continue reading
Feb 28 Inside the study showing conservatives retweeted Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals By Rashmi Shivni Computational social scientists found that 40,000 American Twitter users retweeted Russian trolls more than 80,000 times in a single month before the 2016 election. Continue reading
Feb 28 No civilians exit Syria rebel-held region on day 2 of pause By Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press BEIRUT — No civilians exited the rebel-held Syria region near the capital Damascus on Wednesday, the second day of a Russia-ordered brief daily humanitarian pause amid reports of ground battles as government troops attempted to push their way into the… Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch 6:36 Can the U.S. force Microsoft to give up emails stored abroad? Supreme Court weighs privacy vs. security By PBS News Hour A case involving Microsoft and overseas data puts a familiar tech issue before the Supreme Court: the balancing act between the interests of law enforcement and personal privacy. Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins Judy Woodruff to break… Continue watching