Jul 12 Watch 2:05 Turning 315 billion pounds of plastic ocean pollution into sea-saving art By PBS News Hour At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, a massive exhibit made entirely of 315 pounds of plastic pollution fished from the Pacific is on display. Called "Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea," it features 17 sculptures, from jellyfish to shark. The… Continue watching
Jul 12 You can see Florida’s state-of-emergency level algae bloom from space By Eugene Mason An algae bloom in southeast Florida has grown so large it’s visible from space. A NASA satellite snapped an image of the algal bloom in early May as it festered across 33 square miles in Lake Okeechobee, which… Continue reading
Jul 12 Attorney General Lynch defends decision on Clinton email inquiry By Eric Tucker and Erica Werner, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch steadfastly defended her decision to close the Hillary Clinton email investigation without criminal charges, insisting Tuesday that she simply accepted the unanimous recommendation of career FBI investigators and attorneys. Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Video: Obama honors 5 Dallas officers shot by man out for revenge By Darlene Superville, Associated Press DALLAS — At a memorial for slain police officers, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that a week of deeply troubling violence has appeared to expose "the deepest fault lines of our democracy." But he insisted the nation is not as… Continue reading
Jul 11 Watch 53:24 PBS NewsHour full episode July 11, 2016 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, President Barack Obama is set to fly to Dallas Tuesday to lead the nation in mourning for the five slain police officers. Also: two court bailiffs are shot dead in Michigan, a black police leader reveals… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch 4:01 News Wrap: two bailiffs shot dead in Michigan courthouse, Trump addresses sniper killings By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, there was another fatal shooting of police, this time in St. Joseph, Mich., where two court bailiffs were shot dead by a gunman who was also later killed. Meanwhile, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch 4:37 Police violence protests intensify as Dallas mourns officers By PBS News Hour President Barack Obama will be in Dallas Tuesday for an interfaith service to mourn the five police officers cut down in last week’s sniper ambush. The killings have done little to muffle growing national protests against police violence as rallies,… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch 11:45 San Francisco’s bold AIDS mission is ‘getting to zero’ by 2030 By William Brangham, Jason Kane There’s still no vaccine and no cure, but the medical community is increasingly focused on ambitious plans to bring about an end to HIV/AIDS. The NewsHour launches its series, “The End of AIDS?” with a look at intense prevention and… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch 5:37 Help purge bad cops, black Dallas police leader urges Obama By PBS News Hour These are especially difficult times for black law enforcement officers who, painfully sometimes, see that the complaints that some of their fellow cops are racist are real. Hari Sreenivasan holds a frank discussion with Lieutenant Thomas Glover, the president of… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch 11:05 Is Dallas a turning point in the race and policing debate? By PBS News Hour If any good is to come out of the tragedy in Dallas, it is the expanded national conversation on the need for police reforms. There signs of some progress, but all sides agree much more must be done. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching