Education Sep 15 California school district rewrites menu for student lunches For children across the country, returning to school means eating mass-produced lunches. But Oakland, California, is implementing an ambitious plan to transform their lunch program to provide healthier, locally-sourced food. Jake Schoneker and his student journalists at Media Enterprise Alliance…
Economy Sep 15 How engaging diversity made Xerox a company to copy Xerox, a $22 billion company, is the first Fortune-500 corporation to have a female CEO. Its commitment to a diverse workforce began in the 1960s, when the founder pledged job opportunities for the African-American community. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores…
World Sep 15 Dozens of nations pledge to fight Islamic State 'by any means necessary' Representatives from more than two dozen countries met in Paris to strategize against Islamic State extremists, who have taken over large swaths of Iraq and Syria. France has begun reconnaissance flights to set up its own airstrikes in Iraq, but…
World Sep 15 Stay U.K. or go Scot free? Scotland weighs independence Scots are poised to decide whether to stay in a 307-year union with England or strike out on their own. The latest polls show a Scottish referendum on independence could go either way. From London and the British Houses of…
World Sep 15 News Wrap: Shipwrecks off Malta and Libya kill more than 700 migrants In our news wrap Monday, more than 700 immigrants hoping to reach Europe from Africa and the Middle East were killed in two shipwrecks last week. The death toll reportedly equals all migrant deaths for the entire year of 2013.
Episode Sep 14 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Sept. 14, 2014 On this edition of NewsHour Weekend for Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, British Prime Minister David Cameron says he will make Islamic State militants pay for the beheading of aid worker David Haines. Later, why are so few of America's top…
World Sep 14 Tactic of terror: What's behind the gruesome strategy of the Islamic State? Another video portraying the beheading of a foreign hostage was released Saturday by the Islamic State. What's behind this gruesome strategy? Tom Sanderson from the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the issue.