May 19 Watch News Wrap: Credit Suisse enters plea deal in tax evasion case By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, banking giant Credit Suisse admitted to helping wealthy Americans dodge taxes as part of a federal plea deal. The bank will pay $2.8 billion in penalties. Also, the Balkans suffered the worst flooding in more… Continue watching
May 19 Justice Department announces charges against Chinese cyberspies By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The indictments will accuse individuals of participating in cyber-espionage on behalf of a foreign government, said the official, who revealed this information only on grounds of anonymity because this person wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the case in advance of… Continue reading
May 19 Photo: Beach audience for a World War II bomb detonation By News Desk People on the beach watched the detonation of a World War II-era airplane bomb in Wassenaar, Netherlands Monday. Continue reading
May 19 Uruguay will exempt marijuana from taxes By Dave Sloan With Uruguay’s intention to halt the smuggling of marijuana on the black market, the country will exempt all pot production and sales from taxes with in hopes of weakening illegal competition through price reduction. Continue reading
May 19 Dispatch from ground zero for the Donetsk People's Republic By Margaret Warner DONETSK, Eastern Ukraine -- Just two months ago, this 11-story building in the heart of the state capital was the symbol of Ukrainian central government power in its easternmost region, Donetsk. We were there to interview the new governor, steel… Continue reading
May 19 Inspired by a plastic bag's potential, nonprofit trains mothers in Ghana By Larisa Epatko Friends Rebecca Brandt and Callie Brauel quickly learned two things while they were studying and volunteering in Ghana’s capital Accra: everyone drinks water out of disposable bags, which end up discarded in the streets, and tens of thousands of children… Continue reading
May 18 Watch Swiss voters reject plan to set a minimum wage By PBS News Hour Swiss voters rejected 3-to-1 a plan to establish what would have been the world’s highest minimum wage. Supporters said the plan would reduce income inequality. Business leaders had argued against it, saying it would make Switzerland less competitive with other… Continue watching
May 18 Watch Can cross-border cooperation save the endangered rhino? By PBS News Hour Only about 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild today -- 73 percent of those wild rhinos are in South Africa -- and most of those live in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Authorities are desperately trying to combat a dramatic… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Unsure of Putin's next Ukraine move, U.S. and E.U. try to send clear sanction signals By PBS News Hour President Obama and France’s President Francois Hollande agreed that Russia will face “significant additional costs” for undermining the Ukrainian government. Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner joins Judy Woodruff to discuss a show of solidarity in Eastern Ukraine against the pro-Russian… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Can India's next prime minister deliver on economic promises? By PBS News Hour Why did Narendra Modi resonate with so many voters in India’s record-breaking election? Sumit Ganguly of Indiana University and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution join Judy Woodruff for more on his background and his appeal, concerns about whether he… Continue watching