PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a key player in American public broadcasting and serves as a distributor of television programs. Based in Arlington, Virginia, PBS operates as a non-profit organization and is the leading source of TV content for public television stations across the United States. It offers a wide range of popular series, including Keeping Up Appearances, BBC World News, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA, Sesame Street, Doctor Who, PBS NewsHour, Walking with Dinosaurs, Masterpiece, Nature, American Masters, Frontline, and Antiques Roadshow.

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What’s in the first draft of the GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ cutting taxes and spending

10 hours ago | pbs.org | Kyle Midura

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Audio House Republicans advanced the largest portions of the Trump agenda package, which the president calls the big, beautiful bill, out of committee. It includes trillions in tax cuts along with changes to Medicaid that would affect millions of people. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports on what’s in this sweeping plan.
Microsoft is laying off about 3% of its workforce

1 day ago | pbs.org | Matt O'Brien

Economy May 13, 2025 3:24 PM EDT Microsoft began laying off nearly 3 percent of its entire workforce Tuesday, its largest mass layoff in more than two years. The tech giant didn’t disclose the total amount of lost jobs but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount.
WATCH: Schumer vows to hold up DOJ nominees for answers about Qatar’s jet gift to Trump

1 day ago | pbs.org | Mary Clare Jalonick

Politics May 13, 2025 2:29 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he will hold up all Department of Justice nominations on the Senate floor until he gets more answers about the free Air Force One replacement that President Donald Trump says would be donated by Qatar. Trump said this week that he wants to accept the $400 million plane, and that it would later be donated to a presidential library.
Pope Leo and Trump are the most powerful Americans, but lead in different roles and realms

1 day ago | pbs.org | Laurie Kellman

The motto of one newly elected American world leader: ” Fight! ” The other introduced himself to the world with his first public word as pope: “ Peace.”The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark — politically, personally or in their world views. They lead in different roles and realms.
Trump says he will lift sanctions on Syria, moves to restore relations with new leader

1 day ago | pbs.org | Zeke Miller |Bassem Mroue |Aamer Madhani

World May 13, 2025 1:00 PM EDT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will move to normalize relations and lift sanctions on Syria’s new government to give the country “a chance at peace.”Trump was set to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of former leader Bashar Assad.
Polls close in Albanians election dominated by uphill efforts to join the EU

3 days ago | pbs.org | Llazar Semini

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanians voted Sunday in parliamentary elections after a boisterous campaign dominated by the country’s uphill effort to join the European Union and Prime Minister Edi Rama’s bid for a fourth term in office. Polls closed at 7 p.m. Sunday and vote counting is expected to conclude within 48 hours in an election in which 140 lawmakers will be selected to four-year terms.
New book ‘Four Mothers’ explores the first year of parenthood around the world

3 days ago | pbs.org | Satvi Sunkara

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Audio This Mother’s Day, we explore how government policies and society’s expectations shape the experience of new moms. Ali Rogin speaks with journalist Abigail Leonard, whose new book “Four Mothers” follows the ups and downs of the first year of motherhood around the world.
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center

3 days ago | pbs.org | Rodrique Ngowi |Claire Rush

BOSTON (AP) — A Tufts University student from Turkey returned to Boston on Saturday, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she was held for over six weeks. Upon arrival at Logan Airport, Rumeysa Ozturk told reporters she was excited to get back to her studies during what has been a “very difficult” period. “In the last 45 days, I lost both my freedom and also my education during a crucial time for my doctoral studies,” she said.
Passenger bus in Sri Lanka skids off cliff, killing 21 people and injuring dozens more

3 days ago | pbs.org | Bharatha Mallawarachi

World May 11, 2025 1:15 PM EDT COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said. The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday near the town of Kotmale, about 140 kilometers (86 miles) east of Colombo, the capital, in a mountainous area of central Sri Lanka, police said.
Ukraine and European allies urge Putin to commit to 30-day ceasefire or face new sanctions

4 days ago | pbs.org | Samya Kullab |Illia Novikov

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Leaders from four major European countries threatened to ratchet up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin if he does not accept an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine that they offered on Saturday in a strong show of unity with Kyiv. The leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland said their proposal for a ceasefire to start on Monday was supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, whom they had briefed over the phone earlier in the day.