Sep 24 Watch 5:25 News Wrap: EU strikes agreement on migrant crisis aid By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, European leaders came to an agreement on how to process thousands of migrants reaching Greece and Italy, while Croatia and Serbia feuded over the flow of refugees across their shared border. Also, Chinese President Xi… Continue watching
Sep 24 Photos: A city stands still for Pope Francis By Colleen Shalby It seemed like nearly all of Washington, D.C., and visitors beyond waited with bated breath for Pope Francis' first visit to America. Continue reading
Sep 24 Column: What most people get wrong about political Islam By Shadi Hamid “Islamism” has become a bad word, because the Islamists we hear about the most often are those of ISIS and al-Qaeda. Most Islamists, however, are not jihadists or extremists; they are members of mainstream Islamist movements like the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
Sep 24 Kids are getting adopted faster today, and here’s why that matters By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger The amount of time a child in foster care waits to be adopted has dropped dramatically since 2000, an improvement that is no accident, according to child welfare advocates. Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch 36:13 Full video: Pope Francis holds first Mass in U.S., canonizes saint By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 24 Full text of Pope Francis’ remarks to Congress By Larisa Epatko Read Pope Francis' remarks to Congress as prepared for delivery on Thursday and released by the Vatican press office. Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch 5:15 Remembering Yogi Berra, baseball great on and off the field By PBS News Hour Yogi Berra has died at the age of 90. In 1946 he joined the New York Yankees, where he became a linchpin player on 10 World Series-winning teams. But the baseball giant was also famous for his way with words. Continue watching
Sep 23 Watch 4:03 High-flying flips is the trick to keeping away bad feelings By PBS News Hour In a report from the NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs' teacher boot camp, meet a young man who fights his demons with meditation and high-flying acrobatics called tricking. Continue watching
Sep 23 Watch 6:11 Will the pope’s visit to Congress bring a political miracle of unity? By PBS News Hour When Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress, he'll speak from the same podium where Father Patrick Conroy, chaplain of the House of Representatives, delivers the opening prayer each morning. Father Pat joins Gwen Ifill to reflect on the… Continue watching