Dec 29 Watch 16:22 Making NewsHour Weekend: Stories of injustice and accessibility In part three of our holiday series "Making NewsHour Weekend," producer and correspondent Megan Thompson and field producer Melanie Saltzman join Hari Sreenivasan to talk about some of their reporting in 2018, from prescription drug prices, to criminal justice and… Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch 4:25 Government shutdown: ‘The people working just aren’t getting paychecks’ On day eight of the partial government shutdown, more federal workers — just 15 percent of whom work in Washington, D.C. — are notified of whether they will be furloughed or required to work without pay into the new year. Continue watching
Dec 29 More health exams instituted for migrant children at border By Associated Press More thorough initial health screenings for migrants, as well as secondary screenings, will be held for every child in Border Patrol custody following the deaths of two Guatemalan children this month, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Continue reading
Dec 29 Military women, female veterans are shifting away from GOP By Hope Yen, Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press Long seen as a bastion of support for Republicans, the face of the U.S. military and its veterans is changing — and perhaps too is their political bent. Continue reading
Dec 29 Nielsen visits Arizona city on 2nd day of border tour By Associated Press Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen went to an Arizona border city Saturday on the second day of a southwest tour following the recent death of another Guatemalan migrant child in U.S. government custody . Continue reading
Dec 29 Trump, Democrats play the blame game in 2nd shutdown weekend By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press President Donald Trump and Democrats are trading blame for the partial government shutdown but doing little substantive talking with each other as the disruption in federal services and public employees' pay slogs into another weekend. Continue reading
Dec 29 2-year-old Yemeni boy whose mom sued U.S. to see him has died By Associated Press Abdullah Hassan died Friday in UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, where his father Ali Hassan brought him in the fall to get treatment for a genetic brain disorder. Continue reading
Dec 28 How the shutdown could affect farmers hit by the trade war The end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for America's farmers. Then the government shut down. Continue reading
Dec 28 Wells Fargo pays $575 million to settle state investigations into fake accounts By Associated Press The bank has been under a cloud since 2015 when it acknowledged that employees had opened millions of fake bank accounts for customers in order to meet sales goals. Continue reading
Dec 28 Trump administration targets Obama’s clean-up of mercury pollution By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press The EPA proposal says the benefits to human health and the environment created by an Obama-era regulation -- credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants -- may not be worth the cost of the regulation. Continue reading