Dec 23 Watch 15:42 Making NewsHour Weekend: On #MeToo, mass shootings and immigration in 2018 By PBS News Hour In part two of our holiday series "Making NewsHour Weekend," producers Ivette Feliciano and Zachary Green join Hari Sreenivasan to revisit how they approached some of 2018’s top stories, including free speech debates on college campuses, covering a Pittsburgh synagogue… Continue watching
Dec 23 Trump: Mattis out as of Jan. 1; deputy to be acting chief By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Irritated with the criticism and fallout from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ resignation, President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed the Pentagon chief out the door two months earlier than planned, an acrimonious end to a tense relationship that had been eroding… Continue reading
Dec 23 Trump loses U.S. envoy to anti-IS coalition over Syria plan By Susannah George, Matthew Lee, Associated Press Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest over President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Continue reading
Dec 23 SpaceX launches Air Force's best GPS yet, ends banner year By Associated Press A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday, hoisting the satellite into orbit. Continue reading
Dec 23 Profiting off presidency? Trump biz takes hit since election By Bernard Condon, Associated Press Macy’s and Univision severed ties with his brand, mattress maker Serta stopped licensing his name, NASCAR and the PGA booked events that used to be held at his Doral resort in Miami elsewhere, and the TV network that aired his… Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch 25:00 December 22, 2018 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Dec. 22, the federal government enters a partial shutdown, the third this year, over disagreement for funding for a border wall. Also, go behind the scenes at NewsHour Weekend as our producers discuss their favorite… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 16:09 Making NewsHour Weekend: From remote Maryland islands to the Salton Sea By PBS News Hour NewsHour Weekend airs only small excerpts of footage from weeks of planning and production. So in our holiday series “Making NewsHour Weekend,” Hari Sreenivasan points the camera on our producers. In part one of four, Christopher Booker, Laura Fong and… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 3:30 Day one of partial federal shutdown: Things go 'from bad to worse' By PBS News Hour The federal government started a partial shutdown through Christmas, escalating a showdown over $5 billion for a border wall between President Trump and Congressional Democrats. Hundreds of thousands of government employees were unable to work and the impacts will only… Continue watching
Dec 22 Syria sends reinforcements east after Trump's pullout plan By Associated Press The reinforcements arrived after U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he was pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria. Continue reading
Dec 22 Partial government shutdown compounds risks for U.S. economy By Josh Boak, Associated Press The stock market’s persistent fall, growing chaos in the Trump administration, higher interest rates, a U.S.-China trade war and a global slowdown have combined to elevate the perils for the economy. Continue reading