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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to reporters in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, after releasing her plan to pay for single-payer health care.

Here's How Warren Finds $20.5 Trillion To Pay For 'Medicare For All'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren released her plan to pay for single-payer health care without imposing new taxes on the middle class. She's looking to employers and billionaires, in addition to other sources.

Supporters of Planned Parenthood dressed as characters from The Handmaid's Tale protest last June outside the Capitol against Senate Republicans' health care bill.

Planned Parenthood Plans Major Political Effort In Key States For 2018 Midterms

Planned Parenthood says it will be a major presence in Senate and gubernatorial races in eight battleground states in this year's midterm elections. It promises to spend record dollars as well.

Clear-eyed and intimate, "Farmsteaders" follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather's dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, "Farmsteaders" points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us.

POV: Farmsteaders

Airs Monday, Sept. 2, 2019 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. on KPBS 2

Big Family: The Story Of Bluegrass Music

Airs Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

The empty frame (center) from which thieves cut Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee remains on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 2010. The painting was one of more than a dozen works stolen from the museum in 1990.

Hot Tip On Old Heist Could Be Worth $10 Million, Gardner Museum Says

It's been 27 years since thieves made off with more than a dozen works of art from Boston's Gardner Museum. But the museum's trustees hold out hope — and have doubled the bounty on the masterpieces.

Penguin on the ice. Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places — beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic — NOVA uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.

NOVA: Polar Extremes

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV. In this two-hour special, renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson takes us on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of our planet. Following a trail of strange fossils found in all the wrong places—beech trees in Antarctica, hippo-like mammals in the Arctic—Johnson uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-high ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.

Dr. Ian Miller (Left, Curator of Paleobotany at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science) and Dr. Tyler Lyson (Right, Curator of Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science) look for fossil concretions at the Corral Bluffs site. (undated photo)

NOVA: Rise Of The Mammals

Stream now with the PBS app / Tune in Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. Now, hidden inside ordinary-looking rocks, an astonishing trove of fossils reveals a dramatic new picture of how rat-sized creatures ballooned in size and began to evolve into the vast array of species.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., waves as he marches with supporters in the Nashua Pride Parade in Nashua, N.H. on June 29, 2019.

Age Isn't Everything, Says Bernie Sanders. 'It Is What You Stand For'

The presidential hopeful told NPR that arguments he and Joe Biden are too old to be president are "pretty superficial." And he warned that moderation may not excite voters enough to win in 2020.

A sign at the San Diego VA Medical Center, Nov. 15, 2018.

VA's New Program Helps Vets Seek Care From Outside Doctors

The new program replaces the sometimes troubled Choice program, passed in the wake of the wait time scandal, where veterans were waited months for basic care at the VA.

"Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said in a statement.

HUD Slaps Facebook With Housing Discrimination Charge

The Department of Housing and Urban Development says Facebook allowed advertisers to use their platform to unlawfully discriminate by restricting which users can see housing ads.

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