Aug 03 Hear from the scientists who saw the Ohio algae blooms coming By Hari Sreenivasan For a second day, residents of Toledo, Ohio, are not able to drink water flowing from their taps. The water is unsafe because of an algae bloom in Lake Erie, which is affecting the city and… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Colorado issues licenses to drivers who lack legal residency By PBS News Hour This week, Colorado became the most recent state to begin issuing drivers licenses to people regardless of their immigration status - joining eleven other states and Washington D.C. For more, Ivan Moreno of the Associated Press joins Hari Sreenivasan via… Continue watching
Aug 03 Following 'Rim Fire,' what should be done with the trees left behind? By Xander Landen A year after a California wildfire known as the "Rim Fire" burnt through over 250,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests, environmentalists and loggers are debating what to do with the blackened woodland it left behind. The timber industry believes… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Upwardly mobile: Paraclimbers overcome perceived limitations of disability By PBS News Hour Last month in Atlanta, 39 competitors took part in the first ever National Paraclimbing Championships sponsored by USA Climbing, the governing body of competitive climbing in the United States. NewsHour Weekend visited with some of the athletes in Brooklyn as… Continue watching
Aug 03 Arizona inmate received 15 doses of lethal injection before he died By Xander Landen Documents released by the State of Arizona on Friday reveal that Arizona inmate Joseph R. Wood III was injected with 15 times the recommended dosage of lethal medication before he died. Continue reading
Aug 03 Republicans still don't know what to do about illegal immigration By Charles Babington, Associated Press Despite passing a measure to speed deportations in the House late last week, the issue of illegal immigration still vexes Republicans who have declared their party must resolve the problem before campaigns for the 2016 presidential election begin in earnest. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend | Full Episode | Saturday, August 2, 2014 By PBS News Hour On tonight’s program, new efforts are underway in Egypt to try to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Later, what will happen to the thousands of children in this country illegally now that Congress has recessed without funding a… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch Senate committee to release declassified report on CIA interrogation By PBS News Hour The Senate Intelligence Committee will soon release a declassified version of a 6,000-page report examining the CIA's rendition, detention and interrogation program. For more on this Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington. Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch While Congress lags, what happens next for people caught entering the U.S. illegally? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch Viewers respond to a ban on commercial fishing in Kiribati By PBS News Hour Previous signature stories about a ban on commercial fishing by the president of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati and a profile of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" prompted both positive and negative feedback from viewers around the country. Continue watching