Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/on-thursdays-newshour-21 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter On Thursday’s NewsHour… Nation May 20, 2010 5:53 PM EDT VOLATILITY IN THE STOCK MARKET | Stocks fell sharply in the U.S., amid concerns for the euro and the biggest rise in jobless claims in three months. Jeffrey Brown talks to financial experts Nick Perna of Yale University and James Angel, of Georgetown University, for more on the markets. IMMIGRATION DEBATE | After Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s speech to a joint session of congress on drug trafficking and immigration issues, Ray Suarez gets two different views on the immigration issue and the prospects for reform from Luis Fraga, director of the Diversity Research Institute at the University of Washington and Jan Ting, former assistant commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. FIXING DETROIT’S FAILING SCHOOLS | Correspondent John Merrow reports on the progress of Detroit’s public school system, following last year’s tumultuous takeover by the state of Michigan, following allegations of corruption, a $316 million hole in its budget and tumbling enrollment. KOREAN SHIP SINKING CONTROVERSY | North Korean officials have flatly denied accusations that they sank a South Korean naval ship two months ago. For more on the rising tensions over the naval explosion that killed 46 South Korean sailors near the disputed maritime border with the North, Judy Woodruff talks to Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Joel Wit of Columbia University’s Institute of East Asian Studies. Monday’s anchors are Jim Lehrer and Jeffrey Brown. Hari Sreenivasan will have the day’s other top news stories and a look at Web features, including a live video stream of the leaking oil well and real-time estimates of the leak with our oil ticker. Plus, we’ll have an interview with NPR anchor Steve Inskeep from Islamabad about young people coming of age in Pakistan in India. We also have the story of a soccer film festival touring small towns in South Africa and an extended interview with the curator of an exhibit of works by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. We hope you’ll join us. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now
VOLATILITY IN THE STOCK MARKET | Stocks fell sharply in the U.S., amid concerns for the euro and the biggest rise in jobless claims in three months. Jeffrey Brown talks to financial experts Nick Perna of Yale University and James Angel, of Georgetown University, for more on the markets. IMMIGRATION DEBATE | After Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s speech to a joint session of congress on drug trafficking and immigration issues, Ray Suarez gets two different views on the immigration issue and the prospects for reform from Luis Fraga, director of the Diversity Research Institute at the University of Washington and Jan Ting, former assistant commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. FIXING DETROIT’S FAILING SCHOOLS | Correspondent John Merrow reports on the progress of Detroit’s public school system, following last year’s tumultuous takeover by the state of Michigan, following allegations of corruption, a $316 million hole in its budget and tumbling enrollment. KOREAN SHIP SINKING CONTROVERSY | North Korean officials have flatly denied accusations that they sank a South Korean naval ship two months ago. For more on the rising tensions over the naval explosion that killed 46 South Korean sailors near the disputed maritime border with the North, Judy Woodruff talks to Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Joel Wit of Columbia University’s Institute of East Asian Studies. Monday’s anchors are Jim Lehrer and Jeffrey Brown. Hari Sreenivasan will have the day’s other top news stories and a look at Web features, including a live video stream of the leaking oil well and real-time estimates of the leak with our oil ticker. Plus, we’ll have an interview with NPR anchor Steve Inskeep from Islamabad about young people coming of age in Pakistan in India. We also have the story of a soccer film festival touring small towns in South Africa and an extended interview with the curator of an exhibit of works by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. We hope you’ll join us. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now