Episode Sep 02 PBS NewsHour full episode Sept. 2, 2014 Tuesday on the NewsHour, we discuss how the U.S. should respond to another beheading of a U.S. journalist by the Islamic State in a gruesome video. Also: the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is on the precipice of spreading even…
World Sep 02 One family’s quest to unite orphaned Chinese girls with a happy home After reaching their fifties and raising their own children, Jenny and Richard Bowen adopted 2-year-old Maya from China after learning of poor orphanage conditions for abandoned girls. Sixteen years later, the Bowens have two adopted daughters from the same region…
Nation Sep 02 Could the celebrity photo hack happen to you? A slew of intimate celebrity photos have surfaced this week after several celebrities’ personal online storage accounts were hacked. Though it is not clear who hacked the accounts or posted them, Apple said that the breach on its iCloud server…
Health Sep 02 The world is ‘losing the battle’ to contain Ebola, health official warns A public health official warned that “the window is closing” to keep the growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa from spreading to other regions. Meanwhile, another American doctor in Monrovia, Liberia, was reported to have tested positive for the virus.
World Sep 02 News Wrap: U.S. airstrike may have killed Somali militant leader In our news wrap Tuesday, the Pentagon confirmed that a U.S. airstrike in Somalia overnight targeted the leader of the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab. It was unclear whether Ahmed Abdi Godane -- the alleged mastermind behind the raid of a Kenyan…
World Sep 02 How should the U.S. respond to Steven Sotloff’s killing? For reaction, Judy Woodruff talks to Charles Sennott of The GroundTruth Project. Then, former National Security Council staff Lt. Col. Douglas Ollivant (Ret.), former Counterterrorism Official Daniel Benjamin and former State Department official Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss how the killing affects…
World Sep 02 Islamic State declares beheading of U.S. reporter Steven Sotloff In a gruesome video, Islamic State radicals purportedly beheaded Steven Sotloff -- a 31-year-old American freelancer who went missing in Syria last year. In the video posted on Aug. 19 of the beheading of James Foley, the militant group warned…