Education Feb 27 Texas schools can choose to train and arm their teachers. Here's how it works President Trump, a number of other Republicans and the NRA have ramped up calls for arming teachers. But it's an idea that generating a lot of criticism among educators. Jason Villalba, a Texas state representative and the architect of the…
Education Feb 27 Teachers want common-sense gun reform, not to carry weapons, says National Education Association official What do teachers think of calls from President Trump and others for arming educators as a response to mass shootings at schools? Becky Pringle of the National Education Association joins John Yang to share opposition to the proposal and why…
Nation Feb 27 What mass deportation would mean for Salvadoran families in the U.S. For the Velasco family, life in California feels like an American dream. But having stayed in the U.S. under a program called Temporary Protected Status, it's a dream that may soon end. President Trump plans to halt TPS for hundreds…
World Feb 27 School children are targets in the war in Eastern Ukraine In Eastern Ukraine, children still go to school and play, but the intrusion of violence into their everyday lives has made them the vulnerable victims of a war that's about to enter its fourth year. Special correspondent Sebastian Meyer went…
Arts Feb 27 'Killers of the Flower Moon' author David Grann answers your questions As part of the NewsHour and New York Times book club, Now Read This, author David Grann answers your questions about “Killers of the Flower Moon,” his true crime book on the 20th century Osage murders. And Jeffrey Brown announces…
Episode Feb 26 PBS NewsHour full episode February 26, 2018 Monday on the NewsHour, President Trump puts pressure on Congress for gun reform in the wake of the Florida school shooting. Also: How the NRA shaped Florida's gun laws, China moves to eliminate presidential term limits, American forces aid Somalia's…
Politics Feb 26 Trump says it's O.K. to fight the NRA 'every once in a while' President Trump called again for banning bump stocks during a listening session with the nation's governors, even if it means breaking with the NRA. But in returning to the idea of arming trained teachers, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee urged him…
Politics Feb 26 News Wrap: High court hears pivotal labor union case In our news wrap Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a pivotal case for more than 5 million Americans in public sector unions. The case hinges on whether workers who are not union members should be required to pay dues…
Nation Feb 26 How this powerful NRA lobbyist transformed U.S. gun laws As Florida's legislature begins to consider changes to gun laws in the wake of the deadly shooting at a Parkland high school, the question of whether anything will pass has a great deal to do with the powerful voice of…
World Feb 26 China might make Xi Jinping president for life. What does that mean for the U.S.? Chinese President Xi Jinping may never have to leave office under a proposal to amend the country’s constitution in order to abolish the two-term limit on the office of the president. Christopher Johnson of the Center for Strategic and International…