World Dec 30 News Wrap: Protests erupt in Moscow over Navalny conviction In our news wrap Tuesday, protests against Russian President Vladimir Putin erupted in Moscow after leading activist Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud. Also, the UN Security Council voted against a resolution offered by Palestinians to end Israeli control in…
Education Dec 30 Ebola, Ferguson and Derek Jeter make high schoolers' #MyZeitgeist videos A contest sponsored by PBS Newshour Extra and Google asked students to create a digital mash-up looking back at 2014. Judy Woodruff talks with three high schoolers who entered the #MyZeitgeist competition about deciding what events made their year-in-review videos…
Arts Dec 30 Bestselling authors share their favorite books of 2014 What did our favorite authors read this year? Jeffrey Brown asks novelist Ann Patchett and business writer Daniel Pink for their top recommendations of 2014, including a young adult novel written in verse and a book about humanity’s place in…
Arts Dec 30 Authors Ann Patchett and Daniel Pink talk what makes a great book Ann Patchett, author of "This is the Story of a Happy Marriage" and Daniel Pink, author of "To Sell is Human," sat down with Jeffrey Brown in Washington's Politics and Prose bookstore to talk about the factors that make a…
Episode Dec 29 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 29, 2014 Monday on the NewsHour, the search widens for a missing AirAsia jetliner. Also: The U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan comes to a close, Greece’s prime minister calls for elections, how the ice bucket challenge sparked a year of viral philanthropy,…