Nation Mar 25 Supreme Court tests EPA’s limits on mercury air pollution The Supreme Court heard arguments over federal pollution mandates. The EPA says its limits on toxic contaminants like mercury in power plant emissions are vital to human health, but energy producers are arguing the EPA didn’t take costs into consideration…
Episode Mar 24 PBS NewsHour full episode March 24, 2015 Tonight on the program, we take a look at the crash of a German jet in the French Alps this morning and examine why the crash may have occurred. Also: a newsmaker interview with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, the ethics…
World Mar 24 An avalanche rescue caught on camera In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, earlier this year, an Australian man named James Mort survived being buried in an avalanche while skiing in the Swiss Alps thanks to rescue efforts by his friends, one of whom captured…
World Mar 24 Journalist offers inside look at modern life in Iran Thomas Erdbrink, Tehran bureau chief for The New York Times, offers a rarely seen personal look at daily life in Iran, the first report in a series called Dispatch: Iran.
Arts Mar 24 Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti laments changing San Francisco Ninety-six-year-old Lawrence Ferlinghetti settled in San Francisco in the 1950s, where he opened the City Lights bookshop and publishing house. But today San Francisco is better known as a central hub of the tech boom than of countercultural creativity. Jeffrey…
World Mar 24 Afghan President Ghani: Partnership with U.S. ‘revitalized’ President Obama announced that the U.S. would scale back the pace of its promised troop pullout from Afghanistan, retaining current forces this year. Gwen Ifill interviews President Ashraf Ghani about thawing relations with the U.S., potential changes in how Pakistan…