World Jul 03 What’s behind Venezuela’s economic crisis? Venezuelans are struggling with shortages of food, medicine and other necessities, with increasing finger-pointing at the leadership of President Nicolas Maduro. For more on the challenges facing the country, Nicholas Casey of The New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan from…
Nation Jul 03 Small towns join forces to bridge the digital divide While cable companies provide internet services for the majority of Americans in urban areas, many rural residents have been left on the dark side of the digital divide. According to a report by the Federal Communications Commission, 34 million Americans…
Science Jul 03 Can studying sewage reveal new insights about public health? Big data, which is usually used by organizations to find order within an expanding digital world, is coming to city planning. As part of our Urban Ideas series, the NewsHour’s Christopher Booker takes us under the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts…
Episode Jul 02 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode July 2, 2016 On this edition for Saturday, July 2, ISIS claims responsibility for a terrorist attack in Bangladesh that killed at least 20 people. Later, immigrants in the American heartland are keeping rural businesses afloat. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
World Jul 02 The enduring legacy of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate who spent decades teaching tolerance and and whose writing illuminated the horrors of the Holocaust, died on Saturday at 87. Sara Bloomfield, Director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, joins Hari Sreenivasan by phone…
Science Jul 02 Antarctic ozone hole believed to be shrinking Scientists studying climate change in Antarctica reported this week that a hole in the protective ozone layer of the Earth’s atmosphere has shrunk. The discovery of the hole in the 1980s led to a worldwide phasing out of ozone-depleting chemicals…
Nation Jul 02 South Dakota town embraces new immigrants vital to meat industry As rural America sees its populations shrink, one town in South Dakota is embracing new communities, including Karen people, an ethnic minority from Myanmar. Home to Dakota Provisions - a turkey processing plant that produces 200 million pounds of turkey…
Arts Jul 02 These floating piers let visitors (almost) walk on water For the past two weeks in Italy, a lake has been transformed with floating piers that allow visitors to walk on water. The fanciful public installation comes courtesy of the renowned conceptual artist Christo. NewsHour Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay has…
Episode Jul 01 PBS NewsHour full episode July 1, 2016 Friday on the NewsHour, the Islamic State claims responsibility for an attack on a Bangladesh restaurant. Also: the Obama administration reveals the number of inadvertent civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes, growing fears for immigrants in the wake of Brexit, Mark…
Arts Jul 01 There’s no shame in making summer reading fun Make sure you cover up this summer — with sunscreen. But your chick lit, schlocky novels, and frivolous fiction? No way, says writer Jennifer Weiner summer reading in her NewsHour essay. Embrace the F-word this Fourth of July, she says.