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Newsrooms across the country, including PBS News, rely on the Associated Press on election night.
@LisaDNews
walks through how the AP makes calls on this major voting day, from calculating the "expected vote" to conducting voter surveys. Here are a few key terms to know.
Our White House correspondent
@Yamiche
Alcindor has been named the recipient of the prestigious Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage by the
@whca
.
"Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores. When it ended, this country could've extended its hallowed principles — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — to all, regardless of color," writer Ta-Nehisi Coates told Congress. "But America had other principles in mind"
BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two charges: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
The vote on the second charge (obstruction of Congress) was 229-198, and one member voting present.
WATCH:
@Yamiche
asked the president about a reorganization of the National Security Council that dismantled a key pandemics team in 2018.
President Trump: "I just think it's a nasty question... You say we did that, I don't know anything about it."
Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has been caught up in a political storm for several weeks.
@GeoffRBennett
spoke with Khan earlier today from his residence in Lahore.
A deepfake video of President Joe Biden bearing our logo is circulating on social media. Biden did not make this statement. PBS News did not authorize the use of this video and we do not condone altering news video or audio in any way that could mislead the audience.
A federal judge has ordered that DACA — a program that protects migrants brought to the U.S. illegally, as children, from deportation — be restored.
The judge says the Department of Homeland Security must resume accepting requests for DACA status immediately.
Gwen Ifill, who was co-anchor & managing editor of the PBS NewsHour until her death in November, 2016, posthumously received the highest professional honor awarded by The Society of Professional Journalists for her extraordinary contribution to the profession of journalism. (1/2)
The gruesome discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief.
@IAmAmnaNawaz
reports.
"John and I had our disagreements, of course. But in the America John Lewis fought for, and the America I believe in, differences of opinion are inevitable elements and evidence of democracy in action."
— Former President George W. Bush
Saturday marks four years since the passing of Gwen Ifill.
"As we come close to the end of a busy year of news, we like to think that she's looking over our shoulder and smiling,"
@JudyWoodruff
says in remembering her friend and co-anchor.
WATCH: Sen. Mitt Romney announces that he will vote to convict President Trump.
"The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust," the Utah Republican said in his floor speech.
More:
#ImpeachmentPBS
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@NewsHour
White House correspondent
@Yamiche
Alcindor today at a WH news conference asked
@realdonaldtrump
whether calling himself a nationalist on the campaign trail has been emboldening white nationalists. President Trump replied, "That's such a racist question."
"If there wasn't such acute hatred for President Trump, such a 'Trump derangement syndrome' on the left...," a meeting with a Russian leader could have happened sooner says Sen.
@randpaul
. The blow back from the meeting, "really shows people hatred for President Trump."
Postal workers are warning of what they call 'substandard performance' by the U.S. Postal Service. The American Postal Workers Union is calling for the public’s help in demanding improved staffing and better customer service.
.
@Yamiche
: "Black unemployment went up by 0.1%, Asian American unemployment went up by 0.5% how is that a victory?"
President Trump: "You are something else."
"President Joe Biden is the right man for this moment. Vice President Kamala Harris is reflective of so much progress that we have made. And I think, as a team, they are going to lead a renewal of our democracy," says
@staceyabrams
.
Four days after an attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump, the public is still in the dark over the extent of his injuries, what treatment he received in the hospital, and whether there may be any long-term effects on his health.
The current Marine Corps commandant is required to retire on Monday, but due to a hold on hundreds of military promotions by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, there is no confirmed replacement.
If this continues, other branches will face the same problem soon.
"They are playing with fire in that America is tired of this. They're tired of the chaos. They're tired of the negativity. They're tired of the childish name-calling. What they saw today was a vibrant vision of America," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says.
Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost has defeated Republican Calvin Wimbish for a Florida U.S. House seat, making him the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in Congress.
WATCH: During an event with Team USA Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, President Trump said, "What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And I watched — it's a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could."
"They deprived me of a childhood that I never had. Yes, I’m angry," says Holocaust survivor Reva Kibort. "But, at the same time, I'm also very happy that I'm here in America and for the opportunities that I had."
#BriefButSpectacular
#HolocaustMemorialDay
#HMD2019
NEW: We spoke to 74 former Joe Biden staffers, most of whom were women, to get a broader picture of:
• his behavior toward women throughout his career
• how they see Tara Reade’s allegation
• whether there was evidence of a larger pattern
“This is no longer just about the crazy stuff he says and does that everybody shrugs at or worries about,”
@HillaryClinton
said of President Trump. “This is a direct threat to the national security of America.”
With heavy hearts we report the death of PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer at age 85. A giant in journalism, his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news remain the core of our work.
Dozens of aging bridges in 16 states will be replaced or improved with the help of $5 billion in federal grants announced Wednesday by President Joe Biden’s administration, the latest beneficiaries of a massive infrastructure law.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria.
She told
@JudyWoodruff
the move was a “betrayal” of Kurdish allies and would lead to a “resurgence of militancy” in the region.
"We're not saying that climate change is literally causing the events to occur. What we can conclude, with a great deal of confidence now, is that climate change is making these events more extreme,"
@MichaelEMann
says of events like droughts, heatwaves and fires taking place now
Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam is poised to win a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, marking a stunning reversal of fortune.
Former special counsel Robert Mueller's main point last week? His report speaks for itself. But the dense report is 448 pages long, and you may not have time to read it.
@WmBrangham
and
@LisaDNews
are your guides through key parts of the report, starting tonight.
"This trial is not born from hatred, far from it. It's born from love of country -- our country, our desire to maintain it, our desire to see America at its best," says Rep. Neguse during closing arguments of former President Trump's second impeachment trial.
NEW: The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges hold classes entirely online this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“[The children] did not have shoes or blankets in the detention center, and there were people in the cells that had to sleep standing up. They did not have enough to eat...."
READ about the bleak picture of
#familyseparation
via
@TwitterMoments
Amid the alarming images of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of people have also seen misleading, manipulated or false information about the conflict on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Telegram. (
@ConversationUS
)
“In our regular lives, I think the word we would use is lie. So, I think we as journalists should use it in our articles as well,” says the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale, of reporting on the president’s false claims
The current Marine Corps commandant is required to retire on Monday, but due to a hold on hundreds of military promotions by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, there is no confirmed replacement.
If this continues, other branches will face the same problem soon.
.
@TorontoStar
's
@ddale8
told
@NewsHour
that when he's fact-checking President Trump and it's clear he has "simply fabricated something," Dale is comfortable calling it a lie.
"No campaign, no politician, no political party, no candidate is going to stop the count here in Michigan. We are committed to getting this right," says Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's Secretary of State.
#Election2020
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed off on a two-year spending plan Wednesday after gutting a Republican tax cut and using his broad veto powers to increase school funding for centuries.
.
@WmBrangham
: The sense of urgency around climate change is not as intense as you feel it ought to be. Why?
@GretaThunberg
, in part: "Humans are social animals. We follow the stream ... I'm on the autism spectrum and I don't usually follow social 'coding.' ... I go my own way."
"People keep putting up these goalposts. He meets them, and then they move them again," Jonathan Capehart says. "They want someone else as if they're living in some Aaron Sorkin fantasyland that everything will work itself out in the end."
Prince Harry’s lawyer leveled explosive new allegations Wednesday that Rupert Murdoch was aware of cover-ups at his British tabloids that used unlawful techniques to spy on the Duke of Sussex and others.
Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani who was convicted of fraud and campaign finance crimes in 2021, said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump and his allies had lied about President Joe Biden and his family’s ties to corruption in Ukraine to gain an advantage
WATCH: Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan says she is "insulted" over Rep. Doug Collins' suggestion that she wouldn't care about the facts surrounding the impeachment inquiry.
#ImpeachmentPBS
More:
WATCH:
@SenKamalaHarris
: "Has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone?"
Attorney General William Barr: "I'm trying to grapple with the word 'suggest.' ... They have not asked me to open an investigation..."
A group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith adviser to former President Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Trump.
"The president is not at all involved in these COVID negotiations. He's not at all involved in selling the American people on the idea that the vaccine is safe. Instead, what the president's doing is tweeting," says
@Yamiche
.
'The unemployment rate does not illustrate the lived experience of any of the Americans I'm talking to on the trail. The fact is millions of Americans have dropped out of the workforce,' Democratic presidential candidate
@AndrewYang
tells
@Yamiche
.
Author
@StephenKing
has written more than 60 books, with many adapted for the screen including "The Shinning" and "Shawshank Redemption."
@JeffreyBrown
spoke to King about his latest book, "You Like It Darker," and the long arc of his career.
Iowa’s state auditor has again called for Gov. Kim Reynolds to return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds that were used to pay for 21 governor’s office staff members for three months in 2020.
Michelle Obama: Trump seeking a 'Black job'
"For years Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us," said
@MichelleObama
.
“I want to know - who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs?’”
Civil rights figure Juanita Abernathy has died. Behind the scenes, she wrote the plan for the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. She was 88 years old.
President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, lending the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples.
Heman Bekele spent the last year developing a bar of soap that could treat skin cancer. It was the winning entry at the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge, considered one of the top science and engineering competitions for fifth through eighth graders.
Gwen Ifill, the
@NewsHour
's beloved former co-anchor, is being commemorated by the USPS with her own Forever stamp.
USPS celebrated the release of the stamp in a dedication ceremony at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
WATCH: A video shown at the Democratic National Convention replayed some of the violence, destruction and chaos unleashed during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and included recordings of former President Donald Trump urging protesters on that day and afterward.
NEW: House passes $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid Package, the largest economic stimulus legislation in U.S. history. The bill is expected to grant around $1,200 direct payments to individuals.
WATCH: President-elect Joe Biden calls for a national minimum wage of $15 an hour.
"No one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line," he explains.
WATCH:
@Yamiche
asks President Trump about his calls for Russia to rejoin the G-7, what the political impact might be and why he repeats a misleading statement that "Putin outsmarted" former President Obama.
Congratulations to our anchor & managing editor
@JudyWoodruff
who has been named the recipient of
@TheEmmys
’ Lifetime Achievement Award in Television News!
#EmmyIcons
“The World Health Organization put together a test kit; 60 countries accepted it. America decide to go its own way and not follow the WHO test kit,” says
@ashishkjha
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, and Louie Gohmert are believed to have been involved in the planning of the Jan. 6 protest that result in violence at the U.S. Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump "resorted to crimes" to attempt to stay in office after losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, federal prosecutors allege in a newly unsealed court filing released Wednesday.
In the filing submitted by special counsel Jack Smith,
Research suggests that covering all of California’s canals with solar panels could save up to 63 billion gallons of water and generate 13 gigawatts of renewable power annually.
Sen. Warren raised $24.6 million over the past three months, relying largely on a massive small donor operation to solidify her status as a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Jill Biden at the Democratic National Convention:
"How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole — with love and understanding, and with small acts of kindness, with bravery, with unwavering faith."
Entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic candidate
@AndrewYang
tells NewsHour Weekend he was ‘honored and disappointed’ to be the lone candidate of color at the last debate.
Alexei Navalny was buried today on the outskirts of Moscow, two weeks after his sudden death in a Siberian prison camp.
He was mourned by thousands in the streets amid threats by the Kremlin and a massive police presence.
@nickschifrin
reports.
We’re saddened to share that Robert MacNeil, a driving force behind the show that would become the NewsHour on PBS, died Friday at the age of 93.
A lifelong lover of language, literature and the arts, MacNeil’s trade was using words. Combined with his reporter’s knack for being
Donald Trump “resorted to crimes” in a failed bid to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, federal prosecutors said in a newly unsealed court filing that argues that the former president is not entitled to immunity from prosecution.