World Sep 30 Meet an American citizen fighting with South Sudan's rebels Two years after South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, the world's newest nation became embroiled in civil war. The conflict, cut along tribal lines, has led to a man-made famine, mass rape and a refugee crisis. NewsHour…
Politics Sep 30 After scandal over private flights, who will replace Tom Price? The search is on for a new secretary of Health and Human Services after former Georgia Congressman Tom Price resigned on Friday following a scandal over using expensive private charter flights for official travel. President Donald Trump has named Deputy…
Episode Sep 29 PBS NewsHour full episode Sept. 29, 2017 Friday on the NewsHour, Tom Price resigns as health secretary after coming under fire for using taxpayer money to pay for expensive charter flights. Also: Puerto Rico still waits for help, U.S.-Cuba relations devolve after diplomats get sick, Brooks and…
Politics Sep 29 Price resignation over charter flights amid questions about other Cabinet members' travel Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned Friday after it was revealed that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on private flights for himself and his staff. Similar questions about the use of expensive charter flights have also…
Nation Sep 29 News Wrap: Hurricane Harvey caused potentially dangerous chemical spill, says EPA In our News Wrap Friday, the EPA warned that Hurricane Harvey caused a potentially dangerous chemical spill from a Houston-area Superfund site. The EPA detected high levels of dioxins in the San Jacinto River, which are linked to cancer and…
Nation Sep 29 Why I broke the rule of survival for black Americans Riley Temple was walking his dog around his Washington, D.C., neighborhood where he has lived for the past 25 years when a confrontation with the police made him break the rule that all black people are told to obey in…
Nation Sep 29 What happens to U.S.-Cuba relations amid mysterious attacks on diplomats? The State Department ordered all non-emergency embassy staff in Cuba to leave the island on Friday after 21 workers suffered mysterious ailments, including hearing loss, dizziness and headaches. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Josh Lederman of the Associated Press and María…
Nation Sep 29 Opioid addiction is the biggest drug epidemic in U.S. history. How'd we get here? Every day brings another story about the depth of the country’s opioid crisis. A rise of pain killer prescriptions from doctors and a pharmaceutical industry eager to boost sales in the 1990s sparked a wave of addiction that shot up…
Politics Sep 29 Brooks and Klein on Tom Price's plane scandal, Trump taking aim at the NFL New York Times columnist David Brooks and Ezra Klein of Vox join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the resignation of Tom Price as HHS secretary over expensive chartered flights, the anti-establishment upset in the Alabama Senate runoff…
Poetry Sep 29 Navigating Seattle's ever-evolving streets through poetry How do you capture Seattle’s complications, quirks and ever-changing population? A new digital project is mapping out the evolving city by collecting poems that tell unique stories, from growing up in an affluent neighborhood to memories of homelessness and cold…