Search

Ben Pickering shows off a new Ambush AR-15 rifle after winning a drawing at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis on Friday.

At The NRA Meeting: Come For The Guns, Stay For The Camaraderie

Upwards of 70,000 people are attending the NRA's annual convention this weekend. They're hearing from plenty of politicians, but for most it's a social confab and a chance to try out new weapons.

Urban Seed plans to grow 25 different crops, from bell peppers to beets to alpine strawberries, in high-tech greenhouses smack in the middle of Las Vegas.

Farm Of The Future: What Grows In Las Vegas Stays In Las Vegas

Crops like radishes, jicama and cilantro will soon be grown close to the Strip, so restaurants will have immediate access to fresh ingredients, instead of having to wait for trucks from California.

Nurse Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).

MERCY STREET: Season 2

Airs Sundays, Jan. 22 - Feb. 19 & March 5, 2017 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

French wine maker Laurent Ponsot speaks to the media outside federal court in Manhattan after wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan was found guilty Wednesday of masterminding a lucrative scheme to sell fake vintage wine in New York and London. The Indonesian-born Kurniawan remained impassive as the verdict was read out. He faces up to 40 years in jail and will be sentenced at a later date.

The Man Who Duped Millionaires Into Paying Big Bucks For Fake Wine

He was the man with "the nose of a blood hound," as one wine critic once put it.

The Armas family is traveling to Washington, D.C., for an immigrant rights protest this weekend. Desiree Armas (right) and her parents are living in the country illegally.

Trump's Promises Of Deportations Create Uncertainty For N.J. Family

Desiree Armas is a straight-A high school senior who hopes to go to college. But she and her parents are in the U.S. illegally. They're now in limbo, fearful of what's ahead under the new president.

The police force for protection of Italy's cultural heritage is headquartered in Rome's Piazza Sant'Ignazio.

For Italy's Art Police, An Ongoing Fight Against Pillage Of Priceless Works

Italy is an art theft playground. An elite police squad combats the illicit trade in antiquities and art, but the chase is still on for a stolen Caravaggio painting — No. 1 on the most-wanted list.

The interior of one of several large warehouses at Kandahar Airfield. Because the U.S. military can't use them, they'll likely pass to the Afghan government.

Military Finds U.S. Paid $14.7 Million For Overdue Warehouses In Afghanistan

In early 2014, the Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency accepted a newly built warehouse facility. There was one snag: The agency was poised to leave the country.

A missile. "Command And Control" reveals the long-hidden story of a deadly 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark. Portions of the film were shot in an abandoned Titan II missile silo in Ariz.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Command And Control

Airs Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017 at 9 p.m. & Sunday, Jan. 15 at 1 p.m. on KPBS TV

Harry McCabe (from left), deputy U.S. marshal; Julius Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel; Anthony H. Pavone, deputy U.S. marshal, in New York on March 8, 1951.

Grand Jury Testimony In Cold War-Era Rosenberg Case Released

David Greenglass' courtroom testimony helped execute his sister Ethel Rosenberg and her husband, Julius Rosenberg, in 1953. But he later suggested to a reporter it was his own wife who played a role.

Investigators Link Insurer Cyber Breach To Foreign Nation

A foreign government was likely behind a cyber breach of health insurance company Anthem Inc. that compromised more than 78 million consumers' records, investigators said Friday.

Search results for