World Apr 07 Cambodia promotes motorcycle helmets to halt rise of traffic deaths In Cambodia, motorcycle sales have surged in recent decades, but so have fatalities from motorcycle accidents. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza and Hari Sreenivasan report on how government and traffic safety advocates…
Science Apr 07 How simple tools can shave hours off food preparation in the developing world Kitchen convenience means something different for millions of small farmers in poor countries. A nonprofit in St. Paul creates simple, efficient tools that could save people hours of labor on tasks like threshing grain and shelling peanuts. Special correspondent Fred…
Nation Apr 07 Snapping selfies helped motivate this Pacific Crest Trail hiker In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, Andy Davidhazy hiked the entire Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, and took a selfie for every mile. A time-lapse video of the selfies shows the five-month journey as well as…
Health Apr 07 Fashioning a better Ebola suit with sewing machines and chocolate syrup In the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, medical professionals taking care of patients have been among the most vulnerable to infection. The NewsHour’s Mary Jo Brooks reports on a challenge to design a new Ebola suit that could help prevent…
World Apr 07 News Wrap: U.S. officials charged for 2009 Pakistan drone attack In our news wrap Tuesday, a judge in Pakistan ordered criminal charges be filed against the CIA’s former station chief in Pakistan and its one-time general counsel over an American drone strike in 2009 that killed two people. Also, jurors…
Education Apr 07 How an elementary school moves on after a shooting In 2010, a gunman attacked an elementary school playground in suburban San Diego. Four years later, students from nearby Carlsbad High School visited the school to see how the community is healing, interviewing teachers and students on camera for the…
Nation Apr 07 How a plan for the ultimate tourist experience could threaten the Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon, known as one of the world’s natural wonders, may be threatened by commercial development and mining, according to a new report. Jeffrey Brown talks to Robert Irvin of American Rivers about the most endangered rivers of 2015…
World Apr 07 What drove a small sect to take control of Yemen? The U.S. will speed up delivery of arms and intelligence to Saudi Arabia for the fight against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to the State Department. How did the Houthis rise to stage a government coup? Gwen Ifill learns more from…