Jul 04 Watch Columnist Values the Right to Pursue Happiness Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page measures the importance of happiness and its part in one of the most famous phrases of the Declaration of Independence as the United States turns another year older. Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch Antiquities Exhibit Illuminates Ancient Afghan Trading A museum exhibit of ancient Afghan art demonstrates the country's rich and diverse culture. Jeffrey Brown visits the relics that have survived the tumult of recent history in Afghanistan. Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch International Adoption Becoming Difficult Amid Treaties, Regulation International adoption has been a popular practice for American couples, with adoptions reaching as high as 20,000 a year. This process is becoming more difficult as barriers increase, with international organizations and foreign countries alike enacting increasingly stringent regulations. Continue watching
Jun 26 Court Affirms Individual Right to Own Firearms By Admin, PBS News Hour In the first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch Summertime Memories Revived in Road Trip Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune reflects on old memories relived and new ones made during summertime family road trips. Continue watching
Jun 25 Efforts to Resettle Displaced Kenyans Get Mixed Results By PBS News Hour Despite government efforts to resettle hundreds of thousands of Kenyans displaced from election violence earlier this year, a state-funded human rights group has said too little is being done to address grievances back home. Continue reading
Jun 19 More than 400 Arrested in Mortgage Fraud Sting By Admin, PBS News Hour More than 400 real estate industry workers have been indicted since March in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud nationwide -- a key contributing factor to the country's housing crisis. Continue reading
Jun 19 Fragile Cease-fire Between Israel and Hamas Takes Effect By PBS News Hour The truce between Israel and Hamas took effect on Thursday, with both sides halting fighting in the Gaza Strip. But even as it begun, the truce between the two warring sides is said to already be in jeopardy. Continue reading
Jun 16 Watch Poetry Program Gives Prisoners Unexpected Voice For more than 30 years, poet and professor Richard Shelton has traveled to a high security prison in Arizona to run a program that encourages prisoners to write and read poetry. Continue watching
Jun 13 Watch Young Brazilian Musicians Try to Go Global Linguistic, political and economic barriers stand between Brazil's most popular acts and global recognition. NewsHour special correspondent Simon Marks caps a series of reports from Brazil by looking at the music scene. Continue watching