Dec 24 Watch 6:52 Why it took 36 years to compensate Iran hostage victims By PBS News Hour In 1979, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was overrun by militant Iranian students who took 53 people captive for 444 days. The ordeal left a long-lasting toll and no chance of Iranian compensation. Now Congress has changed that under the… Continue watching
Dec 24 Watch 6:08 News Wrap: Killer storms blast the South with tornadoes By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, tornadoes touched down across five states on Wednesday evening. In Mississippi, which saw the worst of the extreme weather, a state of emergency was declared across seven counties. Also, a record number of people are… Continue watching
Dec 24 Ending HIV may hinge on erasing economic disparities By Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News While life expectancies are approaching the national norm among white, affluent gay men, about 66 percent of the 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States are not in treatment. Continue reading
Dec 23 Watch 54:03 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 23, 2015 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, Iraqi forces push to retake the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State. Also: A look back at the crisis that’s brought more than 1 million migrants to Europe, asking who speaks for Islam amid fears… Continue watching
Dec 23 Watch 8:58 How do we reconcile today’s divergent voices of Islam? By PBS News Hour With the rise of the Islamic State group, there have been questions about just who speaks for Islam and what the message should be. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner talks with Manal Omar of the United States Institute of… Continue watching
Dec 23 More than 3,000 Washington prisoners mistakenly freed early By Rachel La Corte, Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. -- More than 3,000 prisoners in Washington have been mistakenly released early since 2002 because of an error by the state's Department of Corrections that resulted in wrongly calculated sentences for about 3 percent of the prison population. Continue reading
Dec 22 Watch 54:28 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 22, 2015 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, SpaceX makes history by being the first to land a reusable rocket vertically after launching into orbit. Also: A grand jury chooses not to indict anyone in the Sandra Bland case, a year-in-review for U.S. foreign… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 9:21 At the end of 2015, is U.S. national security better off? By PBS News Hour From a national security perspective, is the U.S. better off than it was a year ago? Judy Woodruff gets reflections on the year in foreign affairs from former State Department officials Wendy Sherman and Richard Haass. Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 2:29 How war and peace shaped the world in 2015 By PBS News Hour 2015 was not immune from conflict or bloodshed; there was the Syrian war, the fight against the Islamic State, terrorism on the African continent, the attack on Paris, combat in Eastern Ukraine. But there were major diplomatic agreements reached as… Continue watching