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On 9/11, the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 stormed the cockpit, forcing the hijacked jet to crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. But before the world knew of their bravery, members of Washington, D.C.’s Air National Guard were prepared to make their own sacrifice. Nick Schifrin shares the story of pilot Heather "Lucky" Penney.
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It's been four years since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision opened the door to state abortion bans. Now, a new study finds those bans are hurting women who aren't seeking abortions at all. Researchers found delays in miscarriage treatment increase the risk to a woman’s health and fertility and prolong the grief of a lost pregnancy. Sarah Varney has more.
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Billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post-inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump at the Capital One Arena. “Some elections are important, some are not. But this one, this one really mattered and I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” Musk said before putting his hand on his chest and then raising it in a salute that appeared similar to the “Sieg Heil” used by Nazis at their victory rallies. “It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured," Musk said. Trump named Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the "Department of Government Efficiency," an outside commission aimed at identifying federal programs and spending to cut. After Trump was sworn in, multiple lawsuits were filed against the Trump administration claiming that the move violates federal transparency laws.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday at the United Nations that he is changing the term "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" because it's "more accurate," as he dismissed global concerns about the technology and its effects on humanity. "From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's, will be changed to use the much more accurate term super, as opposed to artificial," Trump said during his address to the UN General Assembly. "So it's super intelligence." His comments follow repeated warnings about how rapid advances in AI threaten to outpace humans' ability to safely develop the technology, including calls from prominent tech leaders for stronger government oversight. Trump dismissed most of the concerns over AI, saying the people who are warning that AI is going to "kill us" are the same ones who warned about global warming, a real, human-driven phenomenon that the president has dismissed as a hoax. While Trump said "we have to be careful" with AI, he said the U.S. is only "going to encourage it, not rein it in." "I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," he said.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris was in Michigan to campaign for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a roundtable in Detroit focused on Black maternal health. Harris, who lost the state in 2024, criticized President Trump and aimed to boost El-Sayed. Lisa Desjardins has more.
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The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
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Donald Trump talked to reporters near Ground Zero two days after the Twin Towers were attacked, unearthed archival footage from PBS News shows. In a video shot by a crew for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on Sept. 13, 2001, Trump, then a real estate developer, said he was there to check on his construction crew. “It’s just terrible. I can’t get anywhere. Something I’ve never seen before,” Trump said of the scene. “And dangerous. We have a lot of buildings still in a form of collapse, so it’s very dangerous and it’s tough.” Trump was having a building constructed in New York City at the time, which he said was “OK” after the attack. He told reporters that he had about 100 workers helping to dig out rubble at the World Trade Center, and another 100 to 150 were “coming.” At an event this week paying tribute to fallen heroes of 9/11, now-President Trump spoke about his experience visiting the site of the New York attacks. “I was building a big building in New York and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened and they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me. We went down as a big group of people. It wasn't too much we could do, I'll be honest. It was raw. Nobody's seen anything like it ever,” Trump said on Sept. 8, 2026, at a ceremony near the White House. He has shared the story about sending workers to the scene to aid in the recovery more than once over the years. Our partners at PolitiFact worked to fact-check his claims, and they were unable to verify that he brought hundreds of workers to help with “digging out.” The NewsHour footage does not appear to show anyone from a Trump construction crew. In the 2001 video, when asked for his opinion as a developer about the prospect of repairing the damage, Trump said “you can do anything nowadays with the right money and the right talent” and that he thought the city would be rebuilt in “maybe not the same form, but in some form.” “It’s going to take a long time, but they’re tough. New Yorkers are tough,” he said. “The country is tough. And hopefully we’ll — there’ll be great retribution.”
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Texas has been reliably Republican for three decades, despite repeated Democratic hopes that shifting demographics might change its politics. But this year, Republican divisions, political scandals, rising prices and fights over big tech are giving Democrats new hope of an upset in the Texas Senate race. Liz Landers reports.
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For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat common but often debilitating conditions, including uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, including preventing some cancers. But the politics and restrictions surrounding these drugs in the U.S. could affect the research. Sarah Varney has more.
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Video taken on June 8 and 9 from atop the Washington Monument shows people gathering on the National Mall shortly before a large anti-Trump message appeared in dead or discolored grass there. Seen from above, the faint outline of the numbers "86 47" can be seen; "86" is slang for removing or getting rid of something, and Trump is the 47th president. The Interior Department says it is investigating. The same number sequence, "86 47," spelled out in seashells was part of an image that former FBI Director James Comey once shared on social media. He's been charged with making threats against the president, which he denies. Footage via EarthCam
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When the president has an open event, the designated TV pool network distributes it live to media outlets worldwide. But on Monday, those cameras were dark. That's because the White House TV pool banded together and refused to cover President Donald Trump's events after he banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW for their coverage. The three news organizations sued the Trump administration in response. PBS News White House correspondent Liz Landers (Liz Landers) explains what happened.
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Canadians are giving the United States the "silent treatment" amid the ongoing trade war and rhetoric from the Trump administration, says Christopher Sands (Christopher Sands) of Johns Hopkins University. "Canadians are not crossing the border," he told Compass Points host Nick Schifrin. "They're boycotting our products. A lot of people aren't taking vacations or coming to see sporting events in the United States." Sands added that he wishes more Americans would speak out against the trade war and President Donald Trump's recent comments about their northern neighbor. "One of the reasons this is so damaging is that Canadians are in a nationalist mood and they're feeling insulted, and their American friends and relatives are brushing it off," he said. "That's not the response Canadians want." Compass Points from PBS News analyzes prominent international affairs topics and America’s role in a shifting world, breaking down global conflicts, rising tensions, and their implications for U.S. interests. Visit the PBS News website to watch this week's episode.
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In June, the Supreme Court cleared the way to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in the U.S. Late last month, the Trump administration let that status expire, and, overnight, about 350,000 Haitians became at risk of deportation. The impact is now hitting Springfield, Ohio, a city that has been a political flashpoint in the immigration debate. Watch part of Stephanie Sy's report.
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For perspective on what the president is trying to achieve with tonight's speech, the limits of his authority and the potential consequences for future elections, we turn to Ty Cobb, an attorney who served as special counsel during the first Trump administration. Geoff Bennett spoke with him a short time ago.
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The trade war between the U.S. and Canada is intensifying after negotiations broke down over the weekend. President Trump announced that tariffs on Canadian-made cars, trucks and auto parts will rise to 50% at the start of the new year, part of a broader round of 50% tariffs covering $28 billion in Canadian goods. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country had been preparing for a fundamental shift in its relationship with the U.S., which it no longer views as a reliable partner. Geoff Bennett speaks to Peter Armstrong for more.
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As a bass extraordinaire, big band leader, composer and educator, Christian McBride has been called one of the hardest-working men in jazz. He’s as comfortable performing with jazz icons as he is with artists like Sting and Billie Eilish. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown recently met McBride at his hometown jazz festival for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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The scale of the disaster in the Himalayas is becoming clearer after catastrophic flooding tore through parts of Nepal and Tibet. Scientists now believe the disaster was likely triggered by the collapse of a glacier high in the mountains, unleashing a torrent of water, mud and debris that swept away entire communities. Geoff Bennett has more.
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OpenAI announced it had discovered six new instances of “concerning or unexpected” behavior by its artificial intelligence models. It follows repeated warnings about how rapid advances in AI threaten to outpace the ability to develop the tech safely. One of those warnings came from Jacob Coxon, who spent the last three years conducting research at Anthropic and OpenAI before he publicly resigned. Geoff Bennett speaks to Coxon for more.
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