Nation Sep 12 Bill Clinton celebrates 20 years of AmeriCorps, talks Islamic State strategy and midterm election outlook In the 20 years since President Bill Clinton signed the AmeriCorps National Service Program into existence, more than 900,000 participants have worked on service projects across the U.S. They've tutored kids, aided communities after disaster and fought hunger. The former…
World Sep 12 News Wrap: Kerry seeks Turkish support against Islamic State In our news wrap Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Turkish leaders in hopes of garnering support for an expanded U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State. Separately, the new Iraqi prime minister said France had agreed to…
Sep 12 Clinton: I'm not sure that we'll ever eliminate domestic violence, but America is making headway
World Sep 11 Classified pages of a 9/11 report may implicate key U.S. ally Thirteen years since September 11, 2001, some revelations of a joint congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks remain classified. But some lawmakers argue the secret pages reveal little about national security and a great deal about Saudi Arabia's role in…
Episode Sep 11 PBS NewsHour full episode Sept. 11, 2014 Thursday on the NewsHour, we get reaction and analysis to President Obama’s plan to expand military action to cripple the Islamic State group. Also: the NFL investigates its handling of the Ray Rice scandal and a look at what classified…
Nation Sep 11 NFL investigates how it handled Ray Rice case The National Football League announced an investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller amid new questions about when league officials first saw images of Ray Rice hitting his then-fiancee. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Kavitha Davidson of Bloomberg View about…
World Sep 11 Analyzing potential challenges of fighting the Islamic State Judy Woodruff gets a broad assessment of the president’s plan to combat the Islamic State from former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former State Department official Richard Haass, former Defense Department official Michèle Flournoy and retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich…
Politics Sep 11 House Armed Services chair 'hopeful' Congress will fund president's Islamic State plan On Capitol Hill, President Obama’s call to action against Islamic militants was met with qualified support from Congressional leaders. While Democrats praised the president for his decisiveness, Republicans were more wary, noting the administration’s delay in responding to earlier attacks.