World Aug 24 News Wrap: White House urges businesses, states to mandate vaccines In our news wrap Tuesday, U.S. public health leaders urged businesses and governments to impose vaccination mandates. The Paralympics opened in Tokyo despite Japan's worst COVID surge yet. The death toll in Tennessee's flood disaster was revised down to 18,…
Nation Aug 24 Why moderate Democrats opposed Pelosi's plans for two major spending bills The U.S. House of Representatives is back in Washington for a rare August session. Their agenda is to move forward on potentially trillions of dollars of spending. With a narrow majority, Democrats need every vote. And 10 moderates have been…
Nation Aug 24 Health workers face 'indescribable' mental, physical exhaustion as COVID fills hospitals According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, roughly 60% of frontline healthcare workers said that pandemic-related stress had negatively affected their own mental health — in a poll taken before the delta variant that filled hospitals even more. For more on…
Arts Aug 24 A Brief But Spectacular take on embracing refugees to build a stronger society For the past 40 years, Ruben Garcia has served as the director of the Annunciation House, an organization that works with people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to help people immigrate or determine their next steps after deportation.
Episode Aug 23 August 23, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode On the NewsHour Monday, as the FDA fully approves Pfizer shots for all Americans over 16, we talk with Dr. Anthony Fauci on whether this will help increase inoculation.Then, a firefight at Kabul airport complicates the exit for Afghans desperate…
Nation Aug 23 Dr. Fauci on Pfizer vaccine's FDA approval, approving Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots The Food and Drug Administration's full authorization to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has a number of public health officials hopeful the move will encourage people who had been reluctant to get a shot now. For more on the approval and…
World Aug 23 News Wrap: Capitol Police shooting of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt found 'lawful' In our news wrap Monday, an internal investigation has cleared a U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed a woman, Ashli Babbitt, on January 6th. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used his last day in office to defend himself…
Politics Aug 23 Errin Haines and Lisa Lerer on Afghanistan evacuations, infrastructure debate As President Joe Biden manages the evacuation of Americans in Afghanistan, his domestic policy agenda hangs in the balance on Capitol Hill. To analyze both, Judy Woodruff is joined by Lisa Lerer of The New York Times, and Errin Haines…
Episode Aug 22 August 22, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Sunday, August 22, the latest from Afghanistan, where thousands are still desperately trying to flee, Tropical Storm Henri batters the northeast bringing record rainfall in NYC, more insight into the debate over COVID-19 booster shots, and…
World Aug 22 Haiti latest: earthquake recovery efforts continue as death toll rises The death toll in Haiti topped 2,200 today in the wake of last week’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake.