World Jan 02 News Wrap: Obama announces new sanctions on North Korea In our news wrap Friday, President Obama announces new sanctions on three North Korean organizations and 10 individuals in response to the country’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures. Also, more than a dozen airstrikes from the U.S. and coalition warplanes…
Politics Jan 02 Looking back at the life of unapologetic liberal Mario Cuomo Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo died Thursday at 82, leaving behind a reputation as a “liberal lion” after serving three terms from 1983 to 1994. Hari Sreenivasan remembers Cuomo’s political life, from his career as a fierce Democrat during…
Nation Jan 01 Bishops Consider Stance of Catholic Politicians America's Catholic bishops began a week-long conference in Colorado to discuss, among other issues, whether to withhold Communion based on parishioners' political beliefs. Following a look at how the debate developed in the Diocese of Colorado Springs, correspondent Jeffrey Brown…
Episode Jan 01 PBS NewsHour full episode Jan. 1, 2015 Tonight on this New Year's Day program, we examine the decision by an Egyptian appeals court to give three jailed Al Jazeera journalists a retrial. Also: does raising the minimum wage help the poor, how to keep your new year's…
Nation Jan 01 Journalist given exclusive access shares stories of trapped Chilean miners The 2010 Chilean mine collapse attracted attention far beyond South America, but only one journalist was given exclusive rights to their story. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Hector Tobar, author of “Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried…
World Jan 01 In Soweto Gold beer, a taste of economic freedom Soweto, an enduring symbol of apartheid discrimination and impoverishment, is now home to the first microbrewery built in a black township. Special correspondent Martin Seemungal offers a look at South Africa's rising black middle class and what it means for…
Nation Jan 01 Want to keep your New Year's resolutions? Stop living in the present and focus on the future