World May 21 Is Cuba ready for the big business, tourism that U.S. will bring? U.S. and Cuban diplomats resumed talks to iron out details of normalizing relations after decades of hostility. Judy Woodruff learns more from senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown, reporting from Cuba, and chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner, who has been following the…
Nation May 21 News Wrap: Coast Guard says California oil spill cleanup may take months In our news wrap Thursday, officials say 100,000 gallons of oil may have leaked from a ruptured pipeline near Santa Barbara earlier this week. The Coast Guard and California have called in more crews and gear for clean-up efforts. Also,…
Episode May 20 PBS NewsHour full episode May 20, 2015 Wednesday on the NewsHour, five banks plead guilty for rigging currency rates worldwide. Also: New insights into Osama bin Laden’s personal life and the al-Qaida network, linking the Gulf oil spill to dolphin deaths, how robots are changing the workforce,…
World May 20 Trove of bin Laden papers includes handwritten will, al-Qaida job application New insights about Osama bin Laden -- gleaned from material seized after he was killed -- were made public today, including the terror leader's fixation on attacking the U.S. and what was on his bookshelf. The release follows a recent…
World May 20 Morocco trains female spiritual guides to fight extremism and empower women In Morocco, a school that trains imams to lead prayers in the country's many mosques is at the center of a government program to provide "spiritual security." Here, female students are studying to become spiritual guides, on a mission to…
Education May 20 What do struggling historically black colleges like SC State need to do to survive? Students graduating from South Carolina State are no different from most recent grads: diploma in hand, they look forward to a bright future. But their alma mater’s future is more uncertain. The historically black college is facing mounting financial troubles…
Science May 20 Will your job get outsourced to a robot? It's not just basic tasks anymore: Computers can now do work once deemed possible only by humans. And in some cases, the computers are doing it better. In an economy driven increasingly by intelligent automation, which jobs will survive? Hari…
Science May 20 New science shows Gulf spill is still killing dolphins More than 1,000 bottlenose dolphins have died off the Gulf Coast since 2010, the year a massive Deepwater Horizon spill spewed millions of gallons of oil and chemicals. A new study by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
World May 20 Bin Laden bookshelf shows scholarship of American policy More than 100 papers and videos from Osama bin Laden were released by American officials today, offering new insight into what the terror leader read, wrote and envisioned for al-Qaida. Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation and Greg Miller…
Economy May 20 DOJ gets unprecedented guilty plea by five banks for rigging currency markets Five major banking institutions pleaded guilty to rigging currencies and manipulating the foreign exchange market in a case brought by the Department of Justice and other authorities. The banks were accused of manipulating the world's largest and least-regulated trading market,…