Health Mar 26 House approves permanent fix for Medicare doctor payment For more than a decade, doctors who treat Medicare patients have been threatened with pay cuts due to a faulty formula of how doctors are reimbursed. But in a rare bipartisan agreement, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a deal…
World Mar 26 Yemen chaos takes another sharp turn with Saudi airstrikes In Yemen’s capital Sanaa, people awoke overnight to explosions as Saudi jets bombarded military targets. The goal of the operation, which killed at least 18 civilians, was to drive out Shiite Houthi rebels who have taken over much of the…
World Mar 26 What's driving Saudi airstrikes in Yemen? Yemen has become the latest flashpoint in a long conflict between Tehran and Riyadh for regional dominance. What do the new developments mean for an already smoldering Sunni-Shia split in the Middle East? Judy Woodruff talks to David Rothkopf of…
World Mar 26 How well do we know the pilots who fly our planes? Revelations of the cause of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash have spurred serious concerns over safety and flight protocols, including ensuring pilots are properly trained and adding more monitoring in the cockpit. NewsHour aviation specialist Miles O’Brien joins Gwen Ifill…
World Mar 26 How one Afghan woman rose from dressmaker to policy insider For Kamila Sidiqi, the road to working at Afghanistan's presidential palace began with a bold effort to support her family. While under Taliban rule, when women couldn’t work or go to school, she started a business in her living room.
Episode Mar 25 PBS NewsHour full episode March 25, 2015 Tonight on the program, we examine the charging of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Also: the Supreme Court weighs in on accommodations for pregnant workers and Alabama redistricting, the EPA's pollution mandates, the…