World Oct 07 News Wrap: Kurds protest Turkish government for protection against Islamic State In our news wrap Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that a Syrian border town would likely fall to the Islamic State after a night of heavy fighting with Kurdish defenders. In Turkey, Paris and Brussels, Kurds protested the…
Episode Oct 06 PBS NewsHour full episode Oct. 6, 2014 Monday on the NewsHour, we take a look at how the Supreme Court’s decision not to review same-sex marriage cases will affect states across the country. Also: A spotlight on efforts to contain Ebola at home and abroad, debating the…
Politics Oct 06 Remembering Lady Bird Johnson's whistle-stop tour for civil rights Fifty years ago, in October 1964, less than a month before the presidential elections, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a train in Washington to stump through eight Southern states -- a gamble to help win back disaffected voters after the passage…
Health Oct 06 Weighing the health costs of high school football The debate over the health risks of high school football has escalated since three student players died in a week. PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs talk to the football team at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia for their response.
Arts Oct 06 Lev Grossman's 'Magicians' series casts spell on adult readers Lev Grossman’s bestselling series “The Magicians” proves that fantasy literature isn’t only for kids, having captured a new generation of readers with new worlds and mature, complicated characters. Grossman joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and why the genre…