Episode Jun 24 Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Tuesday on the NewsHour, Secretary of State John Kerry urges Iraq’s Kurds to help prevent the country from splintering and to support political reform. Also: Congress scrutinizes the IRS for emails gone missing, how the “freedom summer” of ’64 changed…
Politics Jun 24 Missing IRS emails prompt cover-up allegations from Republican lawmakers A political fight over the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service escalated when the IRS said it had lost thousands of emails when a former official’s computer crashed. Jeffrey Brown talks to Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., and…
Health Jun 24 I is for infant: Reading aloud to young children benefits brain development A new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that reading daily to young children, starting in infancy, can help with language acquisition and literacy skills. But, the report says, many children are missing out. Jeffrey Brown takes a…
Nation Jun 24 50 years later, 'Freedom Summer' leaders recall pivotal fight against discrimination A new documentary “Freedom Summer” looks back to the deeply segregated Mississippi of 1964, and the young people who came from around the country to lend a hand in the struggle against racism. For a look back at the moment,…