Nation Aug 29 An extremist’s path to academia — and fighting terrorism Jesse Curtis Morton begins work as a counterterrorism researcher at George Washington University this fall. But his path to the position was highly unconventional: until 2012, Morton was Younus Abdullah Muhammad, a Muslim extremist who founded a radical Islamist website.
World Aug 29 News Wrap: U.S. tells Turkey to focus attacks on ISIS, not Kurds, in Syria In our news wrap Monday, top American officials accused Turkey of focusing on Kurdish groups in their military campaign against Syria, instead of on ISIS. Also, in Yemen, a suicide truck bomb tore into a gathering of military recruits, leaving…
Health Aug 29 Did outcry on social media lead to Mylan’s generic EpiPen? After news broke that the price of EpiPen injectors has skyrocketed, the allergy medicine’s maker, Mylan, announced its intention to offer a generic version of the product, to be sold at half the market price of the original. The New…
Arts Aug 29 Painting a vibrant picture of Brooklyn in the tumultuous 1970s “Another Brooklyn,” by Jacqueline Woodson, is not a typical coming-of-age novel. It takes place in Brooklyn in the 1970s, an environment in which drugs were ubiquitous, white flight was on the rise and young girls of color relied on each…
Episode Aug 28 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode August 28, 2016 On this episode for Sunday, August 28, the U.S. reaches its target of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees. Later, human rights groups are condemning Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte for a wave of extrajudicial killings since Duterte was elected into office two…
World Aug 28 Philippines human rights groups condemn extrajudicial killings In the two months since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in the Philippines with a promise to crack down on illegal drugs, police said they have gunned down more than 700 suspected dealers and users who resisted arrest. For more…
World Aug 28 How should media decide whether to publish controversial images? When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in 2005, protesters set fire to Danish embassies. Flemming Rose, the paper’s culture editor at the time, was the target of an assassination plot. More than 10 years later,…
Episode Aug 27 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Aug. 27, 2016 On this edition for Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016, Italy held a national day of mourning as rescuers searched for survivors of this week’s devastating earthquake and President Obama issues an order creating the largest marine preserve in the world. Later,…
World Aug 27 Italy marks national day of mourning after quake As Italy held a national day of mourning, rescue workers spent a fourth day searching for survivors of a devastating earthquake that killed at least 291 since it struck on Wednesday. For the latest, NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay…