Sep 22 Study: Most people will receive a wrong or delayed diagnosis at least once By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Most people will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis over their lifetime, a report predicts, calling diagnostic errors a blind spot in modern medicine that sometimes causes devastating consequences. Continue reading
Sep 22 Your holiday cheat sheet to Yom Kippur By Wendy Thomas Russell Yom Kippur is the last and most important of Judaism's 10 High Holy Days, which begin on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Continue reading
Sep 22 Column: I didn't choose my Mormon faith, but slowly and surely it has chosen me By Cort McMurray Faith is a little like potato salad, or Thanksgiving dressing: everyone has a favorite recipe; everyone is convinced that their recipe is the only way to do it properly; and everyone is horrified by the absolute mess everybody else makes… Continue reading
Sep 22 Out of 30,000 Hollywood film characters, here's how many weren't white By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger Viola Davis’s historic Emmy win served as an important milestone for African American actresses this week, but data suggest that the entertainment industry could do far more to achieve greater diversity in film. Continue reading
Sep 21 Column: Don't confuse forgiveness in Charleston with forgiveness for racism By Andra Gillespie The best way for us as a nation to honor the victims of the Charleston shooting is to do more than just pat ourselves on the back because their relatives took the bold, courageous and painful step of publicly starting… Continue reading
Sep 21 WATCH: America After Charleston hosted by Gwen Ifill By News Desk Join Gwen Ifill for a one-hour town hall meeting that explores the many issues propelled into public discourse after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015. Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch 6:27 News Wrap: Thousands bussed from Croatia to Austria By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, migrants and refugees continued to pour into Europe, but their transit has become more orderly and regulated. Also, more than 50 people were killed and hundreds injured in bombings in Nigeria over night. Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch 7:09 Syrian family resettled in U.S. sees future for their children By Marcia Biggs The Obama administration plans to settle as many as 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. within a year. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs meets a refugee family who fled in 2012 and have begun life over in New Jersey. Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch 1:53 In a turbulent year for race relations, has anything changed? By PBS News Hour Following the mass shooting at a church in Charleston, where do race relations stand in America? A new PBS NewsHour/ Marist poll found that a majority feel that race relations have gotten worse in the past year. Gwen Ifill traveled… Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch 1:58 Pope Francis urges Cubans to put people before ideology By PBS News Hour Pope Francis delivered Sunday mass in Havana's Revolution Square and met with Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Communist revolution. The papal visit came as the U.S. and Cuba have restored diplomatic relations, thanks in part to some behind-the-scenes brokering… Continue watching