Politics Jul 08 Sen. Flake: Obama's proposal would allow migrant children to 'disappear into the population'
World Jul 08 News Wrap: Kerry warns attempts to seize power amid disputed Afghan election could jeopardize aid
Episode Jul 07 Monday, July 7, 2014 Monday on the NewsHour, a new wave of violence stoked tensions in the Middle East as Hamas launched rocket attacks and Israel waged air strikes. Also: Afghanistan releases disputed election results of the presidential election, questions over who is really…
Nation Jul 07 Is hope of citizenship or endemic violence driving migrant children to cross the border? More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained trying to cross into the U.S. since October. Most hail from areas rife with poverty, violence and smugglers. Judy Woodruff gets debate from Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress and…
Nation Jul 07 Is GI Bill benefitting for-profit colleges instead of helping veterans? Veterans can receive the full cost of a college education under the GI Bill, but recently funds from the bill have flowed mostly to for-profit schools, even though veterans’ prospects are often not appreciably better after attending them. Aaron Glantz…
Nation Jul 07 Protests spotlight debate over undocumented migrant children Protests in the Southern California town of Murietta have added pressure to the mounting debate over how to receive a flood of unaccompanied children migrants from Central America trying to cross into the United States. President Obama has called the…
World Jul 07 Afghan election commission to audit polling stations for fraud after releasing preliminary results Afghanistan’s National Election Commission announced that former finance minister Ashraf Ghani is leading former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah in the preliminary results of the presidential run-off elections. The commission acknowledged there had been fraud, and announced it will audit nearly…