Science Sep 21 Man on Mars? NASA’s Maven spacecraft explores the possibility The NASA Maven spacecraft is expected to complete a 10-month voyage to Mars on Sunday. Once in orbit, NASA scientists will gather information about the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Information that will hopefully offer clues about Earth’s climate and the future…
Episode Sep 21 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Sept. 21, 2014 On this edition of PBS NewsHour Weekend for Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, hundreds of thousands turn out in New York City and around the world to demand action to halt climate change. Miles O'Brien explains why a new mission to…
Episode Sep 20 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Sept. 20, 2014 On this edition of PBS NewsHour Weekend for Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, dozens of Turkish hostages held by Islamic State militants are freed. Later, why can't retailers stop hackers from carrying out massive data breaches? And, in our signature segment,…
Nation Sep 20 Should pro athletes be considered role models? Students weigh in. By a two-to-one margin, Americans disapprove of the way the NFL has handled domestic violence incidents involving its players, according to a poll conducted by ABC News and Marist college. The NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs team asked high school students…
Nation Sep 20 How will the NFL move forward following the Ray Rice scandal? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell took the heat for the Ray Rice incident at a Friday press conference. But amid mounting public pressure to answer for multiple accusations of domestic-violence incidents that have spread throughout the league, how can NFL officials…
Nation Sep 20 ‘One hack after the next’: After Home Depot breach, why can’t hackers be stopped? After hackers stole customer data from the Home Depot weeks ago, questions remain as to why retail stores haven't been more successful at protecting their systems from cyber theft. For more on this, Mike Riley, a reporter with Bloomberg, joins…
World Sep 20 Promising Roma crackdown, far-right party gains ground in Hungary Over ten million gypsy, or Roma, people live in Europe today. In the small EU nation of Hungary, a rising tide of right-wing politics has led to deepening tensions with the country’s Roma minority. NewsHour's Stephen Fee reports.
Nation Sep 20 Pot black market still thrives after Colorado legalization Although recreational use of marijuana has been legal in the state of Colorado for nine months, some people are still choosing to buy it on the black market. Critics say legalization has created two systems: a legal market for those…
Episode Sep 19 PBS NewsHour full episode Sept. 19, 2014 Friday on the NewsHour, Iran’s foreign minister weighs in on how to deal with the Islamic State group. Also: Voters in Scotland reject U.K. independence, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba sells its first shares on the NYSE, daredevils get an extreme…
Politics Sep 19 Brooks and Dionne on ground troop debate, Hillary’s chances of running New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including conflict over President Obama’s strategy to rule out the possibility of using ground troops against the Islamic State, what…