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Nation Dec 05

Local community, businesses in the Bay Area band together to aid Afghan refugees

The San Francisco bay area has the largest Afghan population in the US, making it an obvious place to resettle Afghan refugees. But it also has one of the country’s most expensive and competitive housing markets. Special correspondent Mike Cerre…

Nation Oct 02

How Seattle’s Vietnamese community is helping Afghan refugees

The swift fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban and the refugee crisis in the conflict-torn nation is a painful reminder to many Vietnamese-Americans, many of whom were forced to leave their nation after Saigon fell in 1975. Special…

World Sep 06

Taliban takeover threatens Afghan agriculture as farmers fear being forced to grow poppy

As Afghans figure out how to get on with their lives, fears abound that the new Taliban government will crack down on local business and commerce. The Taliban takeover could cripple Afghan farmers in the middle of their harvest, in…

Arts Sep 05

Inside the effort to make music that heals

The power of music to heal—or at the least, promote well-being—is acknowledged in many cultures. But only in the past two decades have the medical and scientific communities joined together in an effort to prove its efficacy — and explore…

Nation Aug 24

Lessons from Bill Pinkney’s historic solo sail around the world

Bill Pinkney chronicled his solo sail around the world as the first African American to do it the hard way — around the great Southern Capes — in his 1992 video diary and documentary. Special correspondent Mike Cerre has his…

Nation Jul 05

After wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rethinking how National Guard members are deployed

With the final military withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, a few state legislators in the U.S. are reconsidering the use of their National Guard units for undeclared foreign wars, like the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly half of the troops…

Education May 22

Older adults are heading to college in pursuit of new opportunities

The age wave of Americans 50 and older has been sweeping across college campuses for both personal and professional reasons. After a lifetime of work, these older adults are now catching-up on missed educational opportunities. NewsHour Weekend special correspondent, Mike…

Nation Apr 04

‘Hate is learned’: Tracing the history of anti-Asian violence in America

The rise in anti-Asian attacks has prompted the Biden administration to expand an initiative aimed at combating anti-Asian bias and violence. But for many Asian Americans, the recent violence also highlights a long history of feeling invisible. Mike Cerre reports…

Nation Dec 13

CARE packages helped Europeans during WWII. Today, they are helping Americans

CARE packages, a box of army surplus rations Americans could buy and ship to the millions of needy and displaced Europeans during the Second World War, are, for the first time in CARE’s history, being used to help Americans, many…

World Jun 09

How Vietnam’s authoritarian government succeeded at containing COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to spread across much of the world, but one country that set out to defeat it has apparently succeeded: Vietnam. Bordering China, where the virus originated, the similarly authoritarian country instituted mass quarantines and social…

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