Arts Feb 12 Restoring hope by repairing violins of the Holocaust At a music shop in Israel, a violinmaker has been collecting stringed instruments once owned by inmates of Nazi concentration camps. Largely silent for seven decades, they now speak for horrors of the Holocaust as part of a project called…
Episode Feb 12 PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 12, 2016 Friday on the NewsHour, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders meet for their sixth Democratic debate. Also: World powers strike a fragile cease-fire agreement for Syria, Egypt’s women fight sexual violence through activism, a moment 1,000 years in the making…
Politics Feb 11 Watch the full PBS NewsHour Democratic primary debate Watch Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff moderate the PBS NewsHour Democratic debate at 9 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 11.
Nation Feb 11 News Wrap: Judge orders release of Clinton emails In our news wrap Thursday, a federal judge ordered all of Hillary Clinton's emails from her tenure as secretary of state be released this month. The State Department had received an extension after a previous order to be released by…
Politics Feb 11 What the Democrats need to do in the PBS debate in Milwaukee While Republican presidential hopefuls made tracks around South Carolina, the Democratic candidates prepared to meet for the debate hosted by PBS in Milwaukee. Political director Lisa Desjardins offers a rundown of Thursday’s campaigning, and Hari Sreenivasan previews the debate with…
Science Feb 11 What's the sound of two black holes colliding? Proof that Einstein was right Gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of spacetime -- aren’t just an Einstein theory any more. A team of international scientists announced Thursday that they confirmed the waves’ existence after recording feedback from a black hole collision a billion…
Arts Feb 11 'Billy On The Street' on the art of the ambush You may know him as "Billy On The Street" but there's more to comedian Billy Eichner than meets the eye. He gives his Brief but Spectacular take on the most difficult person he knows: himself.
World Feb 11 What it's like to call the world's largest refugee camp home Established by the U.N. in 1991 to house Somalis fleeing their civil war, the Dadaab refugee camp complex in eastern Kenya has grown into the largest in the world. Some call it a humanitarian disaster, but to its half-million residents,…
Economy Feb 11 In the market for love? Here's how economics can help These days we turn to online dating to give us more options for a love affair or a life partner. But how do you maximize your chances of hitting the jackpot? Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores how the language of…