Mar 15 Watch 2:49 U.S. uses sanctions to strike back at Russia for 2016 election meddling By PBS News Hour The Trump administration officially moved to punish Russia for cyberattacks and election meddling in the U.S. and Europe by imposing sanctions against 19 Russians -- 13 of whom have been indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. That word came… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch 5:18 Syria’s war keeps raging, amid threats of a new Hezbollah-Israel conflict By PBS News Hour What began seven years ago as an uprising against the Assad regime has become a regional proxy war. Now there is talk of another war in the offing, one between Hezbollah and Israel. What would that look like, and how… Continue watching
Mar 15 U.S., France, Germany, UK blame Russia in joint statement for attack on ex-spy By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press The statement is the fruit of British efforts to enlist international support as it tries to hold Russia accountable for the March 4 attack that left former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal seriously ill. Continue reading
Mar 15 UN gets $100 million in new funds for Palestinian aid after U.S. cuts By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press The United Nations, however, it is still facing a nearly $350 million shortfall this year. Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch 8:54 Expelling diplomats over ex-spy attack will do ‘catastrophic damage’ to Russia in UK, says ambassador By PBS News Hour British Prime Minister Theresa May leveled her diplomatic fire at Moscow on Wednesday in retribution for the apparent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter. Libby Wiener of Independent Television News reports and UK Ambassador to the U.S. Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch 8:24 To douse growing anti-Semitism, Germans call for Holocaust education for recent migrants By Malcolm Brabant With more than a million newcomers to Germany since 2015, there's been a resulting rise in anti-Semitism. Now there are growing calls to mandate that refugees and Muslim migrants visit concentration camps to help improve their understanding of the country's… Continue watching
Mar 14 4 experts grade Rex Tillerson’s short tenure as secretary of state By Harry Zahn Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, served just more than 13 months as secretary of state. Here's what experts say he did, and did not, accomplish. Continue reading
Mar 14 Stephen Hawking, explorer of the universe, dead at 76 By Nsikan Akpan Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most recognizable scientists, died early Wednesday morning. He was 76. Continue reading
Mar 14 UK expelling 23 Russian diplomats over nerve-agent attack By Jill Lawless, Danica Kirka, Associated Press LONDON — Britain announced Wednesday it will expel 23 Russian diplomats — the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War — and break off high-level contacts with the Kremlin over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy and his daughter… Continue reading
Mar 14 Trump’s pick to lead CIA to face questions about torture By Deb Reichmann, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next director of the CIA is a career spymaster who oversaw torture at a secret prison during one of the darkest chapters in the agency’s history. If confirmed, 61-year-old Gina Haspel… Continue reading