World Mar 28 In visit to Saudi Arabia, Obama seeks to heal U.S. rift with key partner It's a tense time for U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia. President Obama visited the desert nation and met with King Abdullah in hopes of reassuring Saudi concerns about the Syrian war, among other things. Jeffrey Brown looks back at recent…
Episode Mar 27 Thursday, March 27, 2014 Thursday on the NewsHour, we take a look at President Obama's first meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Also: The search continues at the site of a mudslide in Washington state, scientists discover new information about kids with autism,…
Nation Mar 27 Washington landslide search teams and volunteers make progress despite mud like wet concrete
Politics Mar 27 President Obama and Pope Francis discuss social issues, inequality concerns during first meeting
Arts Mar 27 Architect with humanitarian focus wins top architecture prize This year’s recipient of architecture’s top award — the Pritzker Prize — has designed innovative structures for people suffering from hardship and disaster for more than 20 years. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban helps his profession focus more on serving those…
Health Mar 27 New research suggests possibility of common underlying biology in children who develop autism As the U.S. government increases its estimate of the prevalence of autism to being one in every 68 children, scientists have announced new research that shows there may be a common disruption in parts of the brain essential to emotions,…
World Mar 27 News Wrap: Philippine government signs peace accord ending conflict with Muslim rebel group In our news wrap Thursday, the Philippine government signed a peace agreement with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group to end decades of conflict. The deal creates an autonomous Muslim region in the south. Also, the International Monetary Fund will…
Politics Mar 27 Debating Kansas' mandate on tighter voter ID enforcement In a recent spate of voter identification controversies sweeping the country, a federal judge in Kansas ordered election officials to help Kansas and Arizona enforce laws requiring new voters to show proof of citizenship. Hari Sreenivasan get two views from…
World Mar 27 Scammers take advantage of Filipino nurses lured by promise of employment in the U.S. Shortages in the American health care system are raising demand for foreign nurses, who can unknowingly face great risk in finding a way to get to the United States. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Philippines about…