World Aug 14 Report claims North Korea obtained rocket engines from a Ukrainian factory As tensions intensify between the U.S. and North Korea, a provocative new report suggests the engines for its new missiles come from a factory in Ukraine. Special correspondent Nick Schifrin debates the conclusions of the report with Mike Elleman of…
Politics Aug 14 What Trump didn't say in his response to Charlottesville Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Susan Page of USA Today join John Yang to discuss the week’s news, including President Trump’s reluctant response to the deadly incident white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, plus a new campaign…
Arts Aug 14 A surfing contest where everyone doggie paddles In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, four-legged waveriders take part in a unique surf competition. Special correspondent Laura Klivans of KQED reports, with video by Serginho Roosblad.
Arts Aug 14 Archeologists dig up France's 'mini Pompeii,' a Roman town frozen in time by fire There’s an archaeological race against time underway in France as archaeologists work to save artifacts from a site dubbed as a “mini Pompeii.” This discovery of these 2,000-year-old Roman ruins is being called perhaps the most important of its kind…
Episode Aug 13 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Aug. 13, 2017 On this edition for Sunday, August 13, locals continue to grapple with the aftermath of a white nationalist rally that has been linked to three deaths. Later, looking at the terror threat posed to the U.S. by white supremacists and…
Nation Aug 13 Post-election spike in hate crimes persists in 2017 The Charlottesville white nationalist rally, along with the associated deaths and injuries linked to it, follow a nationwide increase in hate crimes in the past year. Within 10 days of Donald Trump’s election, the Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 900…
Nation Aug 13 Charlottesville mayor blames Trump for violent weekend As locals grappled with the aftermath of a white nationalist rally that left three people dead on Saturday, Mayor Michael Signer wasted no words on denouncing President Donald Trump for what he says is his culpability in the violence. But…
Nation Aug 13 White nationalism is 'ugly continuation of a brutal tradition' In an opinion piece in The New York Times on Sunday after a violent weekend, Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson wrote, “We cannot pretend that the ugly bigotry unleashed in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., this weekend has…
Nation Aug 13 Local gives history of civil rights in Charlottesville Rallies on Friday and Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia that were reminiscent of Ku Klux Klan gatherings shook people who have for generations fought for civil rights in Virginia and across the country. Activist, writer and educator Leontyne Peck with the…
Nation Aug 13 U.S. sees 300 violent attacks inspired by far right every year Despite the nation’s focus on Islamic terrorism since 9/11, homegrown, right-wing extremists have also killed dozens of Americans. Peter Bergen, the director of the National Security Studies program for New America, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the toll of homegrown…