A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, whose blend of art and activism has long focused on human rights. Jeffrey Brown reports for our series, Art in Action, exploring the intersection of art and democracy as part of our CANVAS coverage. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
The Trump administration's push to expand immigration enforcement -- as part of its deportation efforts -- has created job opportunities in small towns and cities.
We head to one of them -- Folkston, Georgia, a community of about 2,800 residents..
That number will soon swell as immigrant detainees fill up a growing ICE detention center at the edge of town.
The center is in a old prison run by the private prison corporation, the GEO Group, and is set to become the nation’s largest detention facility.We hear about the hopes and fears of the town's residents.
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Our picture of the U.S. economy grows fuzzier each day the government shutdown continues. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which publishes the most reliable economic data, has been a barebones operation since the shutdown began. In this episode, how this month’s data from the public and private sectors may be affected. Plus: Recruiters give mixed takes on the job market, oil services companies are up against low prices and a supply glut, and streaming platforms set their sights on video games and podcasts.
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Michael Townsend and director Jeremy Workman tell the wild true story of an eight-artist collective that built a hidden home inside Providence Place Mall—part prank, part art project, and a pointed reply to gentrification. They revisit grainy 2003–07 footage, a tape-art 9/11 memorial, and the logistics (and ethics) of living behind a cinderblock wall in America's retail cathedral. Plus: a look at Christine Lagarde's plan to collateralize frozen Russian assets for a Ukraine loan—and why that's diplomacy by euphemism. Also: "No Kings" rallies, protest as pressure valve, and the politics of bounce houses versus Red Scare rhetoric.
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Nearly seven million Americans peacefully took to the streets out of their love for this country, and Trump in response acted out like a toddler obsessed with own poop. Indeed, our commander-in-chief really does have more affinity for the Sharia law dictators in the sand kingdoms than he does for Saturday’s true patriots. This may be the moment when the Dems and its allies take the patriotism banner back from Republicans. Plus, the lengths the administration went to imprison immigrants in El Salvador, the Dem base wants a fight over the shutdown, and Trump keeps serving up reasons why the Trump/Russia conspiracy has survived for so long.
AWS goes down again. Is it time to re-assess risk in the cloud and AI-era, where so much of the digital assistance we get is housed someplace we can’t see and controlled by someone we don’t know?
David Meier, Tom King, and Tim Beyers:
- Discuss the failures that led to the AWS outage this morning and which companies are services were impacted as a result.
- Debate whether companies have become too dependent on AWS and its peers, especially when virtually all the in-demand AI services we’re banking on are hosted in these clouds.
- Play another game of Faker or Breaker with three companies impacted by the AWS outage.
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P.M. Edition for Oct. 20. The cost of home and auto insurance in the U.S. has risen so dramatically that lawmakers in some states are considering price controls. But, as WSJ reporter Jean Eaglesham tells us, that approach may have downsides. Plus, millions of internet users struggled to use major websites and apps today as an Amazon Web Services outage persisted for hours. And Apple closed at a record high following news of strong iPhone sales. Alex Ossola hosts.
Amazon's cloud computing service says there are still significant errors for some services, after a widespread outage that disrupted hundreds of websites and apps worldwide. Some applications are back online, and Amazon says it has fixed the underlying problem.
Also in the programme: a group of blind patients in Britain can read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye; Britain's royals struggle to counter allegations from beyond the grave; and how hard will the Louvre jewel thieves find it to dispose of their ill-gotten gains?
(Picture: An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services data centre in Ashburn, Virginia. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
