Health Nov 23 How to grow an Ebola vaccine with a tobacco plant What looks like an ordinary greenhouse is actually an around-the-clock Ebola vaccine factory. At a facility in Kentucky, plants are being injected with a protein in order to spur them into producing one of the three antibodies used in the…
World Nov 23 What should we be doing to defeat the Islamic State? Militarily and diplomatically, what can the U.S. and others do to stop the Islamic State? Gwen Ifill gets views from James Jeffrey of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago.
Episode Nov 22 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Nov. 22, 2015 On this edition for Saturday November 22, Belgium’s capital is on lockdown for a second day, as officials say suspects in the Paris terror attacks remain at large. We hear from one woman who survived the Paris concert hall massacre.
Education Nov 22 Massachusetts drops Common Core test, will develop own student evaluations Massachusetts, a state considered a leader in education reform, decided last week to reject the Parcc test based on Common Core standards--a test still used in several other states. Instead, the state will develop its own exams to measure student…
World Nov 22 Bataclan survivor: Attacks in Paris ‘no excuse for racism’ When terrorists attacked six locations in Paris last week, the concert hall -- the Bataclan -- saw the worst bloodshed. Eighty-nine people died there. One survivor was a 31-year-old English woman, who spoke to NewsHour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant in…
World Nov 22 This cartoon is teaching children in France how to cope after the terror attacks Cartooning has been a part of French culture ever since King Louis XIV ruled France 300 years ago. This week, the NewsHour’s Stephen Free visited the editors of a French magazine, who are embracing that tradition in explaining the Nov.
World Nov 22 How the French are burning garbage to heat homes In a little more than a week, a recovering Paris will host world leaders for the next UN climate change conference. They hope to come to agreements on how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Paris itself is innovating one way…