Episode Apr 05 Saturday, April 5, 2014 On PBS NewsHour Weekend Saturday, a Chinese ship hunting for Malaysian flight 370 detects an underwater signal that could be coming from the missing plane's black box. Later, in our signature segment, is your tax preparer really prepared? And, meet…
World Apr 05 Voters head to the polls in Afghanistan Millions of voters came out for the presidential elections in Afghanistan on Saturday in the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the Taliban were ousted from power. The scene varied throughout the country with violence reported in some areas…
Arts Apr 05 Subway rider reads original poem Elizabeth Meriwether was approached by Madeline Schwartzman on the subway and asked to write a poem. Here she reads “Outpouring of My Emotion?”…
Arts Apr 05 Subway poetry project connects NYers Madeline Schwartzman’s mission is connect people in what she sees as an increasingly individualized society. Every day as she travels by subway Madeline asks fellow commuters to write a poem in her notebook. Some refuse, some accept, and now more…
Nation Apr 05 Organization offers free tax help The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program is a nationwide organization of tax preparers available to help low-income taxpayers. Last year alone, VITA helped prepare almost one and a half million individual tax returns completely free of charge.
Nation Apr 05 Is your tax preparer actually prepared? Each year about 42 million tax returns are prepared by tax professionals who are unaccredited and unregulated by the IRS. After a plan to regulate them was struck down by a federal court last year, there's more regulation on hairdressers…
Episode Apr 04 Friday, April 4, 2014 Tonight on the program, we examine the March jobs report which shows a boost of nearly 200,000 new jobs but stubborn long-term unemployment. Also: Michael Lewis talks "Flash Boys" and high-frequency traders, Afghan women share stories of surviving abuse, Shields…
World Apr 04 Remembering AP photojournalist Niedringhaus, who found grace in the face of war Veteran AP journalists Anja Niedringhaus and Kathy Gannon were traveling with election workers, soldiers and police in Khost province in Afghanistan when a police commander approached and shot them. Niedringhaus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, was killed and Gannon was hospitalized.