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WATCH LIVE: Trump to address nation from White House | PBS News
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (114+ words) We lost federal funding one year ago, leaving a $4 million gap. We need 500 donors to help us close it. President Donald Trump is expected to deliver an address Thursday from the White House. The president is expected to speak at…...
WATCH LIVE: Trump expected to speak in the Rose Garden
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (79+ words) PBS The future of a free press depends on you. A free press can only endure when it is supported. Sustaining rigorous, trustworthy reporting takes people who believe it matters. WATCH LIVE: Trump expected to speak in the Rose Garden…...
New poll shows growing number of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of Iran war
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (49+ words) The latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll shows that six in 10 Americans disapprove of how President Trump is handling Iran. Lisa Desjardins joins Amna Nawaz to offer insights on the poll with a closer look at how Americans are seeing…...
WATCH: 'Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?' Trump says when Japanese reporter asks why allies didn’t know about Iran plan
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (162+ words) President Donald Trump referenced the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during an Oval Office meeting with Japan's prime minister on Thursday. Watch the clip in the video player above. A reporter asked Trump why he did not inform U.S. allies in…...
WATCH: Johnson refutes outgoing counterterrorism official's claim that Iran posed no imminent threat
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (176+ words) Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson took issue with Joe Kent, the top U.S. counterterrorism official, who resigned Tuesday and said Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States. Watch the clip in the video player above. "I got all the…...
Joe Kent, top counterterrorism official, says Iran posed no imminent threat as he resigns over Trump's war
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (292+ words) Kent said on social media that Iran "posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby." Trump has offered shifting reasons for the…...
Trump threatens to ‘knock the hell out of’ Iran's Kharg Island in impromptu phone call with PBS News
4+ mon, 5+ hour ago (599+ words) President Donald Trump threatened Monday to strike Iran's Kharg Island again following an attack last week that destroyed key military facilities, saying "I told them openly — I'll knock the hell out of it." The comments came during a three-minute phone…...
Lesson plan: Constitution Day and active citizenship
10+ mon, 11+ min ago (260+ words) Sept. 16, 2025, 5:10 p.m. Lesson originally published Sept. 12, 2021, and has been updated. Have your students watch the video clips and answer the questions below. You can use page 2 of the Google Doc worksheet for responses. (Let your students know they’ll need to make…...