Nation Jul 02 Nationwide effort gives homeless veterans an honorable burial There are an estimated 39,000 homeless military veterans in the United States, according to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Missing in America project works to locate, identify, and grant honorable burials to those who have died.
Nation Jul 01 In Atlantic City, residents feel injustice of climate change When global warming leads to coastal flooding, low-income neighborhoods can suffer some of the worst effects. One stark example is in Atlantic City, where people living in houses built on low-lying lands were left out of flood-mitigation projects that benefit…
Arts Jul 01 Graphic novel shows life in Nevada's 'doom towns' during atomic testing Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. tested nearly a thousand atomic weapons in the Nevada desert 125 miles north of Las Vegas. The mushroom clouds from those tests were visible from the Vegas strip and became an unlikely tourist attraction.
Episode Jul 01 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode July 1, 2017 On this edition for Saturday, July 1, a nightclub dispute in Little Rock, Ark., leaves over 25 wounded. Later, Atlantic City, N.J., residents on the failed flood-mitigation efforts in low-income coastal neighborhoods. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
World Jul 01 Iraqi forces close in on Mosul, ISIS's de facto capital The Iraqi army is moving closer to taking back control of Mosul from Islamic State militants who captured the city three years ago. U.S. Army forces are joining Iraqi troops in the fight while thousands of civilians, trapped in the…
Episode Jun 30 PBS NewsHour full episode June 30, 2017 Friday on the NewsHour, President Trump suggests Congress repeal Obamacare, even if they can't craft a replacement. Sen. Roy Blunt weighs in on the health care wrangling. Also: Rebuilding a police force in one of the most violent U.S. cities,…
Nation Jun 30 What happened when Camden started rethinking policing to build trust Historically one of the country's most impoverished and violent cities, Camden, New Jersey, has been working to rebuild its police force from the ground up, recruiting officers from its mostly Latino and African-American community. The new procedures aim to bring…
Politics Jun 30 Shields and Brooks on GOP's health care bill gridlock, Trump tweet backlash Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the difficulty Republican leaders are having getting enough support for the Senate health care bill, including tense relations between the…
Health Jun 30 My daughter escaped being a scary health statistic. Here's what I learned. When Elizabeth Silver's daughter was 6 weeks old, she suffered a serious stroke and spent weeks in the NICU. Confronted with damning statistics, Silver began to see the numbers as one version of a story, with room for interpretation. The…