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President Joe Biden will address a joint session of Congress for the first time on April 28. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi extended the invitation to Biden, “to share your vision for addressing the challenges and opportunities of this historic moment.” The speech will come just before Biden’s 100th day in office, and will provide him an opportunity to update the American public on his progress toward fulfilling his promises. It will also give him a chance to make the case for the $2.3 trillion infrastructure package he unveiled earlier this month, which the House is aiming to pass…
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley is stepping down after more than 40 years of military service. Milley and his wife were honored with a “clap out” ceremony at the Pentagon on Thursday. Appointed to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff — a group of top military officers that advises the president and members of their cabinet — by former President Donald Trump, Milley spent the past two years under the Biden administration shoring up support from allies around the world for the ongoing war in Ukraine. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG…
A little more than a week after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush delivered an address to the nation before a joint session of session of Congress. On 9/11, al Qaeda hijackers commandeered four commercial airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. and a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands. In the address, Bush demanded the Taliban in Afghanistan, “Deliver to United States authorities all the leaders of al Qaeda who hide in your land. …Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, and hand over every…
Thursday on the NewsHour, we report from Florida where residents are assessing the damage Hurricane Idalia left in its wake. A New Hampshire lawsuit tests the idea of using the 14th Amendment to keep former President Trump off the ballot in 2024. Plus, 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, Japan takes up the task of developing a stable energy supply without relying on fossil fuels. WATCH TODAY’S SEGMENTS: Residents in Florida’s Big Bend begin recovery after Idalia https://youtu.be/nYYUQWwdCzE News Wrap: McConnell cleared to continue working https://youtu.be/tBuj9JL-gz8 Trump pleads not guilty in Georgia election case https://youtu.be/pZhfUVhkefQ Can the 14th…
Percocet or pot? An increasing number of Americans are choosing to use legalized cannabis instead of highly addictive opioids to control chronic pain but not in the NFL where a blanket ban is still in place. A group of retired players are working toward changing that, knowing firsthand what it’s like to live on pills. Katie Couric of Yahoo News reports. source
A growing number of North Carolina’s farmers are turning to hemp production as a new source of revenue, spurred by the popularity of CBD products and the Trump administration’s trade war with China, which has hit the state’s tobacco industry especially hard by decimating the export market. But is hemp production the future of family farms in North Carolina? Hari Sreenivasan reports. More from today’s show in North Carolina: How North Carolina became a swing state: https://youtu.be/BmMqK_P-S2g What impact will North Carolina have on the 2020 election? https://youtu.be/PbFv9Om422M * Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more…
As national attitudes and laws around cannabis use have evolved, so have the commercially grown strains of the plant. Some marijuana varieties today contain levels of THC, the drug’s psychoactive compound, as high as 50 percent, compared to around 5 percent a generation ago. But as science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports, the effects of cannabis on the human brain are still relatively unknown. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Snapchat: @pbsnews Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts…
As medical marijuana has become legal in much of the U.S., more senior citizens are starting to use it to manage pain and opioid addiction. In Arizona, one retired police officer overcame his own personal biases to become a medical cannabis coach. He now teaches some of the state’s elderly population how to use medical marijuana for the first time. Arizona Public Media’s Andrew Brown reports. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Snapchat: @pbsnews Subscribe: PBS…