World Jul 05 Could new economic pressure change North Korea's ambitions? When it comes to facing the threat of North Korea, there are no easy answers and few good options. Could new economic sanctions change the trajectory of the country’s? Judy Woodruff gets views from John Mearsheimer of the University of…
World Jul 05 News Wrap: Hamburg prepares for big protests during G20 In the our news wrap Wednesday, hundreds of demonstrators dressed as zombies in a peaceful protest in Hamburg, Germany. The city is bracing for mass demonstrations of up to 100,000 people in the lead-up to this weekend’s G20 Summit. Also,…
World Jul 05 U.S. calls for global diplomatic effort to punish and sway North Korea North Korea's Tuesday missile launch crossed the intercontinental threshold the U.S. had been hoping to prevent. At the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, the U.S. tried to rally the world to punish and isolate the regime. Meanwhile, North Korean leader…
Episode Jul 04 PBS NewsHour full episode July 4, 2017 Tuesday on the NewsHour, what options remain for the Trump administration after North Korea’s latest missile test launch? Also: A court orders the EPA to put an Obama-era rule into effect, farmers struggling with a drop in crop prices, the…
Nation Jul 04 How this remote national park made a mammoth discovery California's Channel Islands National Park is the site of a recent mammoth discovery: a pygmy mammoth skull, to be precise. This report was produced as part of our Student Reporting Labs by students from Etiwanda High School in Southern California.
Jul 04 Can cricket go mainstream in the U.S.? In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, the second most popular sport in the world is starting to catch on in the United States -- with a little help from some devotees who grew up playing it in other…
Science Jul 04 From the wing of a wasp, scientists discover a new beer-making yeast If you enjoy a beer on a summer day, you can thank yeast, the microbes that ferment sugar into alcohol and give beer its character. After innumerable generations of using just two types of yeast, a lab in North Carolina…
World Jul 04 North Korea marks Fourth of July with dramatic test of missile potentially capable of reaching U.S.
World Jul 04 News Wrap: Iraqi prime minister heralds victory over ISIS in Mosul In the our news wrap Tuesday, Iraqi soldiers in Western Mosul advanced deeper into the last pocket still being held by Islamic State forces. Meanwhile, a Kurdish-led militia breached the heart of ISIS's self-proclaimed capital in Syria. Also, Canada will…
World Jul 04 North Korea is making progress developing weapons. What can the U.S. do about it? North Korea claims it successfully fired off a new long-range missile, which someday could put the United States within range of its weapons. What options remain for the Trump administration? William Brangham speaks with Mark Bowden of The Atlantic and…