Episode Aug 16 August 16, 2020 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Sunday, August 16, the postal service crisis becomes a voting rights issue, Black immigrants in Maine are disproportionately infected with COVID-19, and the first four-day, virtual Democratic national nominating convention kicks off Monday. Hari Sreenivasan anchors…
Episode Aug 09 August 9, 2020 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Sunday, August 9, questions about presidential powers arise after President Trump extends COVID relief via executive orders, the risk of speeding up the census count, the sixth anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing and protests in Ferguson,…
Episode Aug 08 August 8, 2020 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Saturday, August 8, President Trump signs four executive actions to extend COVID-19 economic relief and defer payroll taxes, protests in Beirut over the government’s response to the deadly explosion turn violent, and why Russia looms large…
Nation Jun 16 America in Black and Blue 2020 America in Black and Blue 2020, a PBS NewsHour Weekend special, offers context for and insight into the widespread protests currently engulfing the nation after the latest display of police brutality against Black citizens with reports from across the country…
Health Mar 01 Washington state coronavirus outbreak ‘a mystery so far’ The coronavirus has now spread to more than 60 countries and more confirmed cases are being reported in the United States. Washington on Saturday reported the first U.S. death from the virus as new cases continue to emerge in the…
World Jan 18 Making NewsHour Weekend: Covering stories at home, abroad and everywhere in between NewsHour Weekend producers Laura Fong and Mori Rothman reported in 2019 on the impact of the U.S. trade war with China on farmers in North Carolina and Wisconsin a year ahead of the 2020 Republican and Democratic national conventions. They…
Nation Aug 04 Mass shootings devastate El Paso and Dayton. Here’s what we know The latest on the two massacres.
Health Jan 20 Behind Purdue Pharma’s marketing of OxyContin In June, the state of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma, which manufactures the prescription painkiller OxyContin, alleging that the family controlled-company misled patients about the dangers of the opioid drug. Now, new details about the company’s marketing strategy…
Nation Jan 19 Trump’s proposal to end shutdown still includes $5.7 billion wall President Trump offered on day 29 of a partial government shutdown what he described as a proposal to end the impasse, but it was one that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had already rejected before his announcement. NewsHour White House Correspondent…
Nation Dec 15 Millions of Americans’ health care under a ‘possible cloud’ after federal court ruling A coalition of states with Democratic leadership is promising to appeal a Texas federal court ruling on Friday that aimed to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act. The case was brought by a group of Republican state attorneys general and…