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…
World Apr 30 News Wrap: Two earthquake survivors rescued as Nepal death toll grows In our news wrap Thursday, two survivors were pulled from rubble in Nepal, five days after the deadly earthquake. Officials say the overall death toll has passed 5,900, with no end in sight. Also, Baltimore police finished their investigation into…
Episode Apr 29 PBS NewsHour full episode April 29, 2015 Wednesday on the NewsHour, devastation from the massive earthquake continues to cripple Nepal. Also: Violence subsides in Baltimore but unresolved problems remain, breaking the gender barrier in professional basketball, what a new trade agreement with Asia would mean for the…
Economy Apr 29 What's in the Trans-Pacific Partnership for U.S. and Japan? Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s U.S. visit came at a critical moment in the fight to establish a sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership. An agreement could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in business, exports and profits, but opponents warn it would…
Nation Apr 29 How do we change broken police relations in America? Gwen Ifill talks to Laurie Robinson of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic, and Lester Spence of Johns Hopkins University about the forces driving Baltimore’s upheaval and what’s needed to improve relations between…