Nation May 01 News Wrap: Christie ally pleads guilty, former aides indicted over bridge closing In our news wrap Friday, a former Port Authority official, an ally of N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges over closing lanes on a major bridge. Also, much-needed humanitarian aid trickled into some of Nepal’s hardest-hit areas,…
Episode Apr 30 PBS NewsHour full episode April 30, 2015 Thursday on the NewsHour, a look at how two neighborhoods in Baltimore, each with different relationships to the police, are responding to the recent unrest. Also: The bipartisan push to fix a broken justice system, returning to Vietnam 40 years…
World Apr 30 Reliving the fall of Saigon with Vietnam vets and journalists As Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, a group of journalists and former Marines revisit the country to remember one of the most significant chapters of their lives.
Nation Apr 30 Perception of the police depends on your Baltimore zip code Two neighborhoods in Baltimore are less than a mile apart, but have vastly different relations with the police. Hari Sreenivasan looks at how residents of the two communities are dealing with the recent unrest.
Politics Apr 30 Criminal justice is so broken, Democrats and Republicans are working together to fix it The U.S. accounts for just 5 percent of the world’s population, but it houses more than 20 percent of its prisoners. Now groups on opposite sides of the political spectrum are working together to overhaul the country’s criminal justice system.
Economy Apr 30 Is it nuts to grow almonds during a drought? The almond, America’s most popular nut and California's most lucrative agriculture export, is also a water guzzler. It takes approximately a gallon of water to grow a single almond. While prices are at record highs due to global demand, the…
Nation Apr 30 Orioles’ John Angelos on how the system is failing Baltimore Gwen Ifill talks to John Angelos, executive vice president of the Baltimore Orioles, about his defense of protesters, the economic factors behind the city’s anger and frustration, as well as why the baseball team closed to the public during a…