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.
World Jul 01 Obama order looks to curb civilian deaths in U.S. airstrikes and drone attacks For the first time, the Obama administration has released the number of enemy combatants and civilians killed in drone attacks and airstrikes in some countries. The President also issued an executive order aimed at reducing civilian casualties. John Yang talks…
World Jul 01 Humanitarian crisis looms in Fallujah after ISIS defeat Displaced residents of Fallujah are finding little to celebrate after Iraqi forces finally ousted Islamic State fighters this week. The city is empty — tens of thousands who were held by ISIS as human shields fled to desolate camps —…
World Jul 01 In post-Brexit Britain, xenophobic attacks are on the rise Immigrants and minorities in post-Brexit Britain are living in fear, reporting an uptick in xenophobic attacks that some are blaming on the immigrant scapegoating of the Leave movement. In Hammersmith, a Polish war memorial and a cultural center were vandalized…
Arts Jul 01 How sexual rivalry, fist fights and other shenanigans drove Ernest Hemingway A photo of Ernest Hemingway sitting with a mischievous-looking group in Pamplona inspired Leslie M. M. Blume’s new book, “Everybody Behaves Badly.” It was 1925, a year before Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” hit. The group was a volatile mix,…