Nation Oct 24 Liberian immigrants face Ebola stigma in U.S. While Manhattan is confronting its first Ebola infection, a Liberian community on Staten Island has been following the devastating toll of the epidemic in West Africa. Hari Sreenivasan reports from “Little Liberia,” where he talks to people who have been…
Health Oct 24 Officials try to ease worries about NYC's first Ebola case New York health officials say an American doctor who contracted Ebola after treating patients in Guinea showed no symptoms for more than a week before falling ill. Dr. Craig Spencer has been isolated and his fiancee and two friends have…
Nation Oct 24 News Wrap: NYC police call hatchet attack a 'terrorist act' In our news wrap Friday, a hatchet attack on four rookie police officers in New York is being labeled a “terrorist act.” The suspect, who was killed, was a recent convert to Islam but had no ties to international terrorism.
Episode Oct 23 PBS NewsHour full episode Oct. 23, 2014 Tonight on the program, we look at the deadly shooting in Canada, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged stronger law enforcement in the attacks' wake. Also: how robots and spacesuits could aid Ebola prevention, what Michael Brown's autopsy reveals…
World Oct 23 The obstacles and dangers of reporting on Syria Telling the stories of conflict in Syria and Iraq has become prohibitively dangerous for many news organizations; more than 70 journalists have been killed while covering the Syrian war. While a few international reporters remain in the country, much of…
Education Oct 23 Why did no one flag UNC's bogus classes? For more than 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took credit courses that never met as a class with a professor; a disproportionate number of the students in those classes were athletes.
Science Oct 23 Space-inspired safety gear, contamination-cleaning robots: How innovation could aid Ebola prevention