Nation Oct 04 New 'know before you owe' mortgage rules may ease homebuyers' burden New rules for home mortgages, designed to make lenders more transparent to borrowers, took effect Saturday. The so-called "know before you owe" rules are meant to protect home buyers from surprises at their closing. Wall Street Journal Reporter Joe Light…
Episode Oct 03 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode October 3, 2015 On this edition for Saturday, October 3, 2015, a United States airstrike against the Taliban in Afghanistan accidentally hits a hospital, killing and wounding dozens. In our signature segment, transforming how America's teachers are trained. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New…
World Oct 03 Wildfires in Russia scorch world's largest freshwater lake Raging wildfires this season in Russia have turned the shores of Lake Baikal, the world's largest and deepest freshwater lake in Siberia, into an inferno. NewsHour's Stephen Fee reports.
World Oct 03 Aid group calls for investigation after hospital hit by apparent U.S. airstrike A hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was damaged early Saturday after being hit by an American airstrike, which appears to have accidentally caused significant civilian casualties. Executive Director for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Jason Cone…
Politics Oct 03 Inside the battle over North Carolina's voter ID laws After the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a key part of the Voting Rights Act, North Carolina's Republican-led state legislature passed a new voter ID law and reversed many of the voting procedures civil rights leaders spent years trying to…
Education Oct 03 How a Boston program is transforming the way we train teachers The Boston Teacher Residency, an AmeriCorps service program that recruits future teachers and places them in schools for practical experience is being heralded as a model for training teachers. And other cities have begun to take notice. NewsHour's Christopher Booker…
Education Oct 03 'They don't allow you to fail': In custom classrooms, at-risk students thrive At a New York City high school, a technique called blended learning replaces a portion of traditional face-to-face instruction with online learning. The computerized curriculum has been shown to help at-risk students learn at the own pace. NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan…
World Oct 02 Free Syrian Army fighters say Russia is punishing Assad opponents As Russia launched more airstrikes in Syria, President Obama announced that the U.S. would not use the Syrian conflict as a superpower proxy war. Overnight, the U.S.-led coalition demanded that Russia stop targeting groups other than the Islamic State. Chief…
Nation Oct 02 Why the U.S. has done almost nothing to stop mass shootings The violence in Oregon is one of nearly a thousand mass shootings to have taken place since the Newtown shooting in 2009. For all of the discussion of what can be done to prevent future tragedies, little has changed. What…