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President Trump's immigration campaign faced intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill, and his border czar announced a significant drawdown of its operations in Minnesota. Lisa Desjardins reports on the latest. | PBS NewsHour
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Though the White House is considering how to address gun violence across the country, President Donald Trump has "made it clear he's always going to protect the constitutional right" of Americans to own guns, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Friday. Pointing to recent mass shootings in Michigan and Minnesota, as well as the political assassinations of a Minnesota lawmaker and the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, PBS News White House Correspondent Liz Landers asked Leavitt about
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Though the White House is considering how to address gun violence across the country, President Donald Trump has "made it clear he's always going to protect the constitutional right" of Americans to own guns, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Friday. Pointing to recent mass shootings in Michigan and Minnesota, as well as the political assassinations of a Minnesota lawmaker and the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, PBS News White House Correspondent Liz Landers asked Leavitt about
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President Trump's immigration campaign faced intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill, and his border czar announced a significant drawdown of its operations in Minnesota. Lisa Desjardins reports on the latest. | PBS NewsHour
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In recent years, hospital systems have been buying up medical practices at a rapid pace. Now, patients getting routine medical care are being hit with high costs and unexpected hospital fees — even if they never visited a hospital. Special correspondent Megan Thompson reports. | PBS NewsHour
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Though the White House is considering how to address gun violence across the country, President Donald Trump has "made it clear he's always going to protect the constitutional right" of Americans to own guns, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Friday. Pointing to recent mass shootings in Michigan and Minnesota, as well as the political assassinations of a Minnesota lawmaker and the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, PBS News White House Correspondent Liz Landers asked Leavitt about
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Charlotte is the latest U.S. city targeted by the Trump administration as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration. How are local officials responding to federal officials on city streets? Watch William Brangham's interview with George Dunlap, a commissioner for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, which includes Charlotte. | PBS NewsHour
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Charlotte is the latest U.S. city targeted by the Trump administration as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration. How are local officials responding to federal officials on city streets? Watch William Brangham's interview with George Dunlap, a commissioner for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, which includes Charlotte. | PBS NewsHour
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW joined PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett on Friday to discuss the week in politics, including President Donald Trump’s attempts to address his sinking approval ratings on the economy, the Department of Justice beginning to release the Epstein files and the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. | PBS NewsHour
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW joined PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett on Friday to discuss the week in politics, including President Donald Trump’s attempts to address his sinking approval ratings on the economy, the Department of Justice beginning to release the Epstein files and the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. | PBS NewsHour
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the president “stands strongly” behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his work at the Pentagon. Leavitt’s statement comes amid recent reporting about Hegseth’s use of the commercial Signal app again while discussing operational details of military action in Yemen. Additionally, on Friday, at least three Pentagon staffers – members of Hegseth’s inner circle – were fired following an investigation into information leaks. Another fo
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the president “stands strongly” behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his work at the Pentagon. Leavitt’s statement comes amid recent reporting about Hegseth’s use of the commercial Signal app again while discussing operational details of military action in Yemen. Additionally, on Friday, at least three Pentagon staffers – members of Hegseth’s inner circle – were fired following an investigation into information leaks. Another fo
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As the Trump administration continues to escalate immigration enforcement operations around the country, the Department of Homeland Security claims 75 percent of the people arrested by ICE have committed violent crimes. “Seventy-five percent of those illegal aliens who have been arrested have prior convictions,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told PBS News Hour’s Amna Nawaz on Wednesday. McLaughlin’s comments come as recent reports show that most of the people taken
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As the Trump administration continues to escalate immigration enforcement operations around the country, the Department of Homeland Security claims 75 percent of the people arrested by ICE have committed violent crimes. “Seventy-five percent of those illegal aliens who have been arrested have prior convictions,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told PBS News Hour’s Amna Nawaz on Wednesday. McLaughlin’s comments come as recent reports show that most of the people taken
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Our new show, Horizons, dives into the science, health, technology and environmental issues making headlines each week. Host William Brangham explores these topics through in-depth discussions with leading experts and professionals. In our inaugural episode, Brangham speaks with three professionals about the intersection of food and health in the U.S., the Make America Healthy Again movement and updates to the federal nutrition guidelines. Ashley Gearhardt is a professor of psychology and clinic
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After weeks of escalating tensions, President Donald Trump increased pressure on Venezuela Saturday by declaring that the nation's airspace should be considered closed — even though he does not have the legal authority to close it. With a substantial U.S. military buildup in the region, the announcement fuels speculation about what’s next. Earlier this week in a Thanksgiving call to service members, Trump said his war on drug smuggling would soon enter a new phase. “And in recent weeks, you have
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Rescue crews are airlifting hundreds of evacuees in rural Alaska after the remnants of a typhoon brought hurricane-force winds and record-breaking storm surge to the state's remote western coast. PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett discussed the storm with Sage Smiley, the news director at KYUK in Bethel, Alaska, a town that has become a hub for the recovery effort in recent days. | PBS NewsHour
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Top Senate Democrats are blasting the White House after being excluded from a classified briefing on recent U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. The Trump administration says the strikes are targeting suspected drug traffickers. The briefing held on Wednesday included more than a dozen Republican senators, but no Democrats. The development comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are already raising concerns about transparency and oversight. Sen. Mark Warner
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday that the Trump administration's recent military action in Venezuela "appears to be a power grab" that lacks further planning to avoid "another endless foreign war." "The future of Venezuela should be decided by the Venezuelan people, nobody else," Jeffries told PBS News Hour's Amna Nawaz. "It doesn't appear that the Trump administration has a plan to effectuate that." The Democratic leader's comments came one day before the Senate advanced a r
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Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his decision to replace a panel of vaccine experts who make key recommendations. Schrier, a pediatrician, said she found this move “deeply concerning.” The lawmaker then asked the HHS secretary if he’s treated patients, including babies, who have measles, bacterial meningitis, whooping cough, among other illnesses, to which he said no. Schrier said thankfully, doctors have not had to treat these
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President Donald Trump suggested using the military against what he sees as threats within the United States on Tuesday, warning of a "war from within." "Defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority," Trump said. "Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia, while America is under invasion from within." Trump, along with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, spoke to nearly the entire senior
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump on Monday for his recent comments about hating his opponents, saying the president is "authentically himself." While speaking at conservative activist Charlie Kirk's memorial service in Arizona on Sunday, Trump said he disagreed with Kirk on wanting the best for his opponents. "That’s where I disagreed with Charlie," Trump said. "I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry." His comments came after
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Former President Joe Biden said Tuesday evening that the Trump administration has “taken a hatchet” to the agency that manages Social Security. “In fewer than 100 days, this new administration has done so much damage and so much destruction,” Biden said during his 30-minute remarks at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago. “It’s kind of breathtaking.” The former president referred to Social Security as a “sacred promise” and discussed th
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There are now more than 120 confirmed measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas, raising questions about vaccine hesitancy in some communities and the growing challenge of these periodic outbreaks. It’s the largest measles outbreak Texas has seen in more than 30 years with unvaccinated people accounting for almost all the cases and children among the most affected. The Texas Department of State and Health Services announced Wednesday that an unvaccinated “school-aged child” in West Te
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This week, ahead of the State of the Union, the ROTOR Act failed to pass in the House of Representatives. The bill was crafted after last January’s mid-air crash between a landing American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter on a training flight in Washington D.C. 67 people were killed. The bill would have closed a loophole that allows military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, and requires all aircraft to have systems receive location broadcasts from other planes and helic
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Political fallout is mounting after the Justice Department released 3 million more files related to investigations of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The department is under fire for how it has handled the release, with advocates raising questions about transparency and if it has done enough to hold Epstein’s associates accountable. Ali Rogin reports on the latest documents. | PBS NewsHour
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The fallout from the recent release of Epstein files continued on Monday. Epstein's longtime associate and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from a congressional committee. She said she was invoking her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid self-incrimination. It came on the same day that lawmakers were given access to view unredacted files. Ali Rogin reports. | PBS NewsHour
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President Donald Trump expanded on his recent comments about what he says were the end of his ties with financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling reporters Tuesday that Epstein was “taking” workers from his Mar-a-Lago spa. Trump’s remarks to reporters aboard Air Force One follow his comments from Monday that Epstein “stole people that worked for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata.” A reporter asked Trump on
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The leader of the labor union that represents nearly 18,000 Border Patrol agents defended on Wednesday the actions of federal agents in immigration enforcement operations. "The way the media spins everything, the way they attack our law enforcement officers, they make it seem as if we're out there doing things that are illegal, [that] we're kidnapping American citizens, we're taking people off the streets," Paul Perez of the National Border Patrol Council told PBS News' Amna Nawaz. "That's not w
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The U.S. Justice Department released 3 million more files related to the investigations of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. The department has come under fire for how it has handled the release, with advocates raising questions about transparency and whether the department has done enough to hold Epstein's associates accountable. For a closer look and analysis at legal issues surrounding the latest release of Epstein files, Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) interviewed Bar
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"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, continues airing this week on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history of the war of independence from Britain, and the beginnings of the American experiment in democracy, comes at a moment of deep divisions. Jeffrey Brown has our look for our Art in Action series, which explores the intersection of art and democracy as part of our CANVAS coverage. | PBS NewsHour
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PBS News is debuting two new shows this weekend. “Horizons from PBS News,” hosted by William Brangham, will explore the forces shaping our daily lives, from science to health and technology. “Compass Points from PBS News,” hosted by Nick Schifrin, will unpack global events and what they mean here at home. Viewers can watch these programs on YouTube and PBS. | PBS NewsHour
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As many people try to stick with their New Year's resolutions, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg says focusing on "small wins" is what can lead to real change. "It's these small baby steps, it's the science of small wins that convinces us that we can change," Duhigg told PBS News' Amna Nawaz. "When we convince ourselves that we can change, the change becomes much more easy to achieve." Duhigg, author of "The Power of Habit," sat down with Nawaz for the latest episode of PBS News'
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW joined PBS News Hour's Amna Nawaz on Friday to discuss the week in politics, including how President Donald Trump's string of seeming disappointments this week is raising some doubts about his grip on the Republican Party and his ability to govern in his second term. | PBS NewsHour
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