Oct 09 Watch 6:47 How do we improve dialogue about race relations? By PBS News Hour Discussions of race can cause anxiety and tension, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying to engage in productive dialogue. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks to Linda Tropp of the University of Massachusetts Amherst about how we can improve… Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 12:15 Shields and Brooks on the GOP speaker struggle, Clinton’s trade deal dismissal By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week's news, including the Republican search for a new Speaker of the House and Hillary Clinton’s coming out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 6:30 Can dog lovers and environmentalists find common ground in this urban national park? By PBS News Hour The urban, 80,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area is unlike all other national parks: For 14 years, it's been the site of a war over dogs, and whether they can run leash-free in certain areas. Special correspondent Spencer Michels reports. Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 2:03 Scrambling for a speaker, Republicans appeal to Paul Ryan By PBS News Hour With Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy dropping out of the running for Speaker of the House, focus has landed on Rep. Paul Ryan. Though the congressman has rejected the idea, moderate Republicans have come out to say they would support him. Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 5:32 News Wrap: Gun rights protests greet Obama during Roseburg visit By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, hundreds of gun rights demonstrators gathered near the airport in Roseburg, Oregon, as President Obama visited to console victims and families after a mass shooting at a community college. Meanwhile, shooting episodes broke out at… Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 54:20 PBS NewsHour full episode October 9, 2015 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, the Pentagon cancels a program to train Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State. Also: Republicans struggle to find a new Speaker of the House, Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the week’s news, health effects of… Continue watching
Oct 09 Shooting outside Texas Southern University housing leaves 1 student dead By Colleen Shalby A freshman at Texas Southern University, located in Houston, was shot and killed this morning just beyond campus in a parking lot outside of student housing. One other person was shot and is in stable condition. Police said they have… Continue reading
Oct 09 Obama says Americans must ‘come together’ on gun crimes By Kevin Freking, Associated Press The public must "come together" to figure out how to keep deadly mass shootings from happening, President Barack Obama said Friday. But he emerged from a private meeting with family of the victims of last week's shooting in Oregon to… Continue reading
Oct 09 The Pope’s new ‘comedic advisor’ is a rabbi By Alison Moore The Honorary Comedic Advisor to the Pope was announced on Monday... and he’s a rabbi. Continue reading
Oct 09 This viewer mail prompted Judy Woodruff to get poetic By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins At the PBS NewsHour, we get a lot of people writing in to share their thoughts on the show. Sometimes they tell us how much a particular segment means to them, or how much they learned. Sometimes they are more… Continue reading