Politics Oct 18 Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Democratic negotiations over Biden agenda, voter views Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including how the Democratic stalemate in Congress is influencing President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, and how voters are influenced by the…
Episode Oct 17 October 17, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Sunday, October 17, American missionaries kidnapped in Haiti as the crisis-hit nation sees a rise in gang violence. Also, why Native Americans are paying huge sums to buy back ancestral land, and the many acts of…
Health Oct 17 Booster shots challenge governments during global vaccine inequality COVID-19 was the number one cause of death for people between the ages of 35 to 54 during some months since the pandemic began last year, according to recent data. Meanwhile, as the Delta variant continues to drive infections around…
Episode Oct 16 October 16, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Saturday, October 16th, the murder of a British lawmaker is now being called a terror attack, infrastructure funding is stalled in Congress but a giant project is creeping forward in the northeast transit corridor, and in…
Episode Oct 15 October 15, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode Friday on the NewsHour, an FDA advisory panel authorizes another shot for some Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine recipients, and David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart analyze President Biden's efforts to alleviate supply chain issues and navigate Republican pushback to vaccine…
World Oct 15 News Wrap: Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 47, wounds dozens In our news wrap Friday, at least 47 people were killed and 70 were wounded in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in the city of Kandahar, attorneys for Nikolas Cruz say he will plead guilty for…
Health Oct 15 FDA panel backs another shot for some Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine recipients An FDA advisory panel on Friday recommended a second booster dose for Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine. Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, and Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean…
Politics Oct 15 Brooks and Capehart on supply-chain bottlenecks, Republican pushback to vaccine mandates New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including President Biden’s efforts to alleviate supply-chain bottlenecks, inflation, the vaccine mandate debate, and the Virginia governor's race.
Nation Oct 15 A Florida sheriff's Brief But Spectacular take on mental illness in county jails Ken Mascara has been the sheriff of St. Lucie County in Florida for the past 20 years. He has seen funding for mental health facilities plummet, and as a result, more and more mentally ill patients end up languishing behind…
Episode Oct 14 October 14, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode Thursday on the NewsHour, a limited supply of global energy sources has led to rising prices worldwide, with winter fuel costs expected to climb. Then, residents of another predominantly Black city in Michigan are told to use bottled water amid…