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Abortion rights activists are working on a counterattack to the 200 bills that have passed in states across the U.S. since 2010.

Google moved from purchasing small, emerging companies to swallowing an established giant when it announced Monday that it is buying YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The deal marries the Internet's most prominent search engine with its most prominent video-sharing Web site.

Friday, July 12, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encore Monday, July 15 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. The Drowning Men hit the stage with special guest Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly. The band formed out of childhood friendships and together create a raw pop sound mingled with mandolin, theremin, and accordion melodies. Then next up: the sultry, swinging blues of the late Candye Kane.

To understand just how deep the GOP resistance to Obamacare runs -- and why some Republicans would risk a federal government shutdown to defund it -- look no further than the special House election in Alabama.

Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft will be on the Capitol Hill hot seat for their role in helping the Chinese government monitor and censor the Internet. The House International Relations subcommittee on global human rights will hold hearings Wednesday about high-tech firms doing business in China.

Microsoft has made a $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, an aggressive move by the software giant to gain market share on the Internet and compete with Google. Microsoft and Yahoo have talked about merging for years. This time, a hostile but very rich offer could seal the deal.

Starting this year, farmers across the Midwest can sign up for a service that lets big agribusiness collect data from their farms, minute by minute, as they plant and harvest their crops.

Although historians speculate whether the date was actually the 12th or 13th, there is no argument that Opha May Johnson was the first woman to enter the Marine Corps, enlisting in the reserve as a clerk, in August 1918.

Dean Baquet, the new executive editor of The New York Times, is a proud defender of old-school newsroom values. But, he says, he recognizes that both he and the Times need to adapt to the digital era.

In an interview with NPR, The New York Times' new executive editor Dean Baquet said Jill Abramson was fired because of her failed relationship with the publisher and with senior editors.