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…
World Jul 07 Will Afghanistan's election disputes threaten peaceful transition prospects? Jeffrey Brown is joined by Andrew Wilder of the United States Institute of Peace and Nazif Shahrani of Indiana University to discuss findings of fraud in the Afghan presidential elections, how the results will influence relations with the U.S. and…
World Jul 07 Mideast tensions escalate in cycle of retribution for teen killings Hamas fired dozens of rockets into Israel in revenge for the killing of six of its members in overnight airstrikes. Meanwhile, three Israeli suspects in last week’s killing of a Palestinian teenager confessed. Judy Woodruff gets an update from Josef…
World Jul 07 News Wrap: Iraqi parliament delays session amid political impasse In our news wrap Monday, the Iraqi parliament pushed back its next session five weeks, until mid-August, as government forces continue to battle Islamist militants. While Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has refused to step down, lawmakers are at an impasse…
Episode Jul 06 Sunday, July 6, 2014 On Sunday's program, Israeli authorities make arrests for what they believe was the revenge murder of a Palestinian teenager. Later, Hari Sreenivasan reports from the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, on the breadth of what data brokers know about you.
World Jul 06 Authorities move forward on investigation into Palestinian teen's death Authorities have arrested six men they believe are responsible for the revenge murder of a Palestinian teenager. The 16-year-old was beaten and burned in an incident apparently sparked by the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers. Josef Federman of…