Nation Aug 17 'A failure of leadership' allowed widespread church sex abuse, says Pennsylvania bishop A Pennsylvania grand jury report this week revealed disturbing new details about widespread child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Of the six dioceses under investigation, only Erie's Bishop Lawrence Persico testified in person. He talks to Judy Woodruff about…
World Aug 17 Leaving EU without a Brexit deal could cause major disruptions in UK Two years ago, British voters decided in a bitter referendum to quit the European Union. Now the country's imminent departure, possibly without an agreement between the two bodies, could cause chaos. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on how Brexit has…
Politics Aug 17 Shields and Brooks on 'reality show' rules and midterm prospects Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including how President Trump has "politicized" security clearances, the rules of a reality TV White House and why diversity and loyalty…
Nation Aug 17 Viral sensation Flossie Lewis is still a spectacular teacher at 94 More than 7 million people viewed teacher Flossie Lewis's Brief but Spectacular take on growing old in 2016. When it aired, her former students contacted us by the dozen, many to express appreciation for the profound impact she had on…
Episode Aug 16 August 16, 2018 - PBS NewsHour full episode Thursday on the NewsHour, former CIA director John Brennan claims President Trump is trying to silence critics by revoking his security clearance. Also: Newspapers speak out about being labeled "fake news," what happens to unaccompanied immigrant children, the last rebel…
World Aug 16 News Wrap: Omarosa airs secret tape of Trump campaign job offer In our news wrap Thursday, the president’s former adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman is out with another secretly made recording, and says it proves he tried to buy her silence. Also, the Vatican says it feels shame and sorrow over the…
Politics Aug 16 Trump using his unique power to punish and intimidate critics, former CIA official says President Trump's move to revoke John Brennan's security clearance rippled across Washington, and the former CIA director cast it as a disturbing power play. And Brennan might not be the only former intelligence or national security official to have his…
Nation Aug 16 Newspapers speak up about Trump's repeated attacks A free press is central to our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the state. That was the message shared by more than 300 newspaper editorial boards in an extraordinary step Thursday, sparked by a call-out from the…
Politics Aug 16 Who's responsible for unaccompanied migrant children? Senators press officials for answers Since 2012, more than 200,000 undocumented kids have entered the U.S. unaccompanied, without an adult. Last night, the Senate Homeland Security Committee released a three-year investigation finding that once the kids are with sponsors, no one in the federal government…
World Aug 16 Syria sets its sights on the last rebel holdout The war inside Syria has been raging for seven years, with half a million dead, millions displaced and the complicated battlefield dramatically shifted. Now Bashar al-Assad’s army is preparing for what could be the war’s final major battle. Nick Schifrin…