Arts Mar 07 'The Americans' sees a perfect moment to humanize Russian espionage As investigations examine Russia’s role in last year’s election, the highly acclaimed television series “The Americans” has been delivering an intimate, fictional look at the old Cold War and the lives of two Russian spies working undercover in the U.S.
Politics Mar 07 Resistance to House GOP health care bill comes from both sides On day one of the push to sell a long-awaited replacement for the Affordable Care Act, Republican leaders mounted an all-out offensive with help from both the president and vice president. Dubbed the American Health Care Act, the plan changes…
Mar 07 What it's like to curl up inside a rock for a week In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, performance artist Abraham Poincheval knows what it's like to be stuck between a rock and a hard place: For an entire week, he lived inside a boulder at the Palais de Tokyo…
Nation Mar 07 WikiLeaks publishes purported CIA cyber tools for hacking phones, TVs WikiLeaks published thousands of pages on Tuesday of what it says are files about the CIA and its hacking activities. The material comes reportedly from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence and includes a range of documents which describe cyber…
Nation Mar 06 News Wrap: Supreme Court sends transgender bathroom case back to lower court In our news wrap Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court won't hear a case on transgender bathroom use in public schools. The court's action sends the case back to the lower case for further review. Also, North Korea successfully test-launched four…
Politics Mar 06 What's behind Trump's charge that Obama ordered Trump Tower wiretap? President Trump sparked a firestorm with a tweet over the weekend, accusing his predecessor -- without offering evidence -- of wiretapping Trump Tower ahead of the election and asking Congress to investigate. John Yang speaks with Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking…
World Mar 06 Trump administration's new travel ban aims to avoid another legal battle The Trump administration targets a group of mostly Muslim nations in its second try at a travel ban by executive order. But it makes critical changes in hope of avoiding the issues that led courts to block it. The new…
Politics Mar 06 How the Obamacare replacement will test Republicans Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR join John Yang to discuss the origin of and fallout from President Trump’s recent wiretap accusations, as well as how Republican lawmakers and President Trump will have to…
Arts Mar 06 'Get Out' dials up the scary side of race in America A trip to meet the parents in well-heeled, white suburban America -- what could go wrong? The new horror film "Get Out" is about the very real horror of racism. Jeffrey Brown sits down with director Jordan Peele to discuss…
World Mar 06 Is Trump's revised travel ban constitutional? President Trump signed a new executive order that restricts travel from six Muslim majority countries after a first attempt was shot down by the courts. Will the new order pass legal muster? Jeffrey Brown gets debate from Neal Katyal, a…