Episode May 14 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode May 14, 2016 Saturday on PBS NewsHour Weekend, the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe slows as the U.S. steps up deportations of undocumented migrants from Central America. Later, in our signature segment, beyond debt and Zika, a look at the looming…
Nation May 14 Viewer comments on a program offering cash to reduce crime Viewers expressed both skepticism and hope regarding NewsHour Weekend’s report on “Operation Peacemaker,” the California program paying young men who have criminal records $1,000 per month to stay out of trouble. In the latest installment of “Viewers Like You,” Alison…
World May 14 To weaken ISIS, U.S. deploys small number of special ops in Libya As part of a strategy to weaken the Islamic State and support a unity government, the U.S. is deploying a small number of special operations troops on the ground in Libya. Washington Post reporter Missy Ryan who has written about…
Nation May 14 U.S. to step up arrests, deportation of undocumented immigrants Responding to a surge of Central Americans coming to the U.S. in recent years, the Department of Homeland Security has planned a month of raids on immigrants found to have crossed the southwest border illegally. Reuters reporter Julia Edwards, who…
Nation May 13 Top civil rights lawyer says U.S. criminal justice reforms are falling short The Equal Justice Initiative’s Bryan Stevenson has become a leading voice for criminal justice reform, and blames the U.S.’s world-leading incarceration rate on deep-seated institutional racism that goes back to slavery. As some states move to increase probation and parole…
Science May 13 How genetic sequencing can unlock secret DNA mutations — and save lives Every year, thousands of young people who seemed otherwise healthy die suddenly. The reason sometimes is long-rooted, secret gene mutations passed down through the generations. Doctors at the Scripps Translational Science Institute are using gene sequencing and “molecular autopsies” to…
Nation May 13 News Wrap: Pfizer halts sale of drugs used in lethal injection executions In our news wrap Friday, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer -- the last remaining federally approved supplier of lethal injection drugs -- announced it will no longer allow its products to be used for executions. Also, Russian President Vladimir Putin stepped up…
Politics May 13 Shields and Gerson on the Obama transgender decree, Trump's campaign Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the Obama administration’s new transgender restroom directive, Donald Trump’s latest attempts to unify the Republican party and what Sen. Bernie…
Nation May 13 Transgender bathroom battle goes national with Obama school directive Amid the national furor over North Carolina’s bathroom bill, the Departments of Justice and Education on Friday issued a joint directive to all public schools to allow transgender students the use of restrooms that match their gender identity. Although noncompliance…