Nov 13 Watch 55:37 PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 13, 2015 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, multiple shootings and bombings explode across Paris. Also: How everyday racism can build to a tipping point, Mark Shields and Michael Gerson discuss the week’s news and the on-screen portrayal of the investigation that uncovered Boston’s… Continue watching
Nov 13 Watch 7:14 News Wrap: Kurdish forces drive Islamic State out of Sinjar By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the Islamic State sustained major losses across territory in Syria and in Iraq, where Kurdish forces drove them from the town of Sinjar. Meanwhile, a U.S. drone strike targeted the IS executioner known as “Jihadi… Continue watching
Nov 13 Watch 7:57 How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful By PBS News Hour National attention has been focused on overt racial tensions on college campuses across the country. But what about smaller, subtle, more persistent forms of racism? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Derald Wing Sue of Teachers College at Columbia University… Continue watching
Nov 13 Watch 6:33 In ‘Spotlight,’ filmmakers take a journalist’s care in retelling the story of church sex abuse By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 13 Watch 16:05 Shields and Gerson on Paris terror attack, Trump targeting Carson By PBS News Hour What’s behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’ latest campaign tactics? Lisa Desjardins reports, then syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including a terror attack in Paris, Donald Trump’s remarks against… Continue watching
Nov 13 What is a microaggression? By News Desk Columbia University Professor Derald Wing Sue explains microaggressions, how they impact people and what can be done to address them. Continue reading
Nov 13 Why you think you want a puppy (but you really, really don’t) By Laura T. Coffey In the process of writing the new book “My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts,” author Laura T. Coffey learned something she didn’t understand when she first got her puppy Manny: When it comes to adopting a dog,… Continue reading
Nov 13 Medicare will spend $9 billion on Hepatitis-C drugs this year By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Medicare spending on breakthrough medications for hepatitis C will nearly double this year, passing $9 billion, according to new government figures. Continue reading
Nov 13 Utah judge reverses order to take baby from lesbian couple By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Judge Scott Johansen had issued an order this week to take the 9-month-old baby from the custody of April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce and said that the child would do better with a heterosexual family. Continue reading
Nov 12 Watch 3:48 Why humble-bragging parents should consider holding their tongues By PBS News Hour It starts innocently: Running into an old friend, a fellow mom, conversation can quickly give way to a humble brag about their offspring’s accomplishments. Author Ylonda Gault shares her views on bragging parents in this NewsHour essay. Continue watching