• August 29, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    August 29, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Aug 29, 2025 11:46 PM EDT

    Friday on the News Hour, the U.S. ends an exemption for low-cost imports, raising prices for online shopping. Debate and frustration within Israel rise over the ongoing war in Gaza and the continued detention of hostages. Plus, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, we hear from people who were ...

  • WFP's Cindy McCain describes dire conditions after visit to famine-gripped Gaza

    WFP's Cindy McCain describes dire conditions after visit to famine-gripped Gaza

    Aug 29, 2025 10:45 PM EDT

    ... we can do, which is feed and feed at scale, we can stop a lot of this. I also might add I met with some hostage families while I was there. And we seem to forget in all this, certainly millions of Gazans aren't being fed, but the hostages ...

  • In Minneapolis, a series of shootings and the grim realities of a tough summer

    In Minneapolis, a series of shootings and the grim realities of a tough summer

    Aug 29, 2025 04:21 PM EDT

    ... series of state lawmakers in the Minneapolis suburbs in the early hours of June 14. Police say Vance Boelter fatally shot former House speaker Melissa Hortman, 55, long one of the state’s most prominent Democrats, along with her husband, Mark. He also allegedly shot Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman ...

  • Gaza Health Ministry says more than 63,000 Palestinians killed as Israel-Hamas war drags on

    Gaza Health Ministry says more than 63,000 Palestinians killed as Israel-Hamas war drags on

    Aug 29, 2025 01:38 PM EDT

    ... hostages taken by Hamas-led militants almost 22 months ago, roughly 50 remain in Gaza including 20 that Israel believes to be alive. Israel's Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which has organized large-scale protests demanding a ceasefire to return the hostages, mourned the losses and said Israeli leaders ...

  • Updates: Minneapolis Catholic school shooting

    Updates: Minneapolis Catholic school shooting

    Aug 27, 2025 07:12 PM EDT

    The shooting comes 2 months after the top Democrat in the state House was killed The June 14 shootings in the northern Minneapolis suburbs left former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, dead. A state senator and his wife were also seriously injured. Authorities say they were ...

  • Israeli strikes on Gaza 'beyond the principle of proportionality,' says Italy's Meloni

    Israeli strikes on Gaza 'beyond the principle of proportionality,' says Italy's Meloni

    Aug 27, 2025 05:42 PM EDT

    ... it’s likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.Hamas-led militants took 251 people hostage in the Oct. 7 attack and killed around 1,200, mostly civilians. Fifty hostages are still in Gaza, around 20 of them believed by ...

  • Trump administration to host Israeli officials for talks on post-war Gaza

    Trump administration to host Israeli officials for talks on post-war Gaza

    Aug 27, 2025 05:29 PM EDT

    ... details about that meeting, which did not appear on Trump’s public schedule for Wednesday. Witkoff also said the official U.S. position was that hostages — Hamas’ main source of leverage — should no longer be part of negotiations. He told Fox News the talks should instead focus on issues such ...

  • Pope demands end to 'collective punishment' and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza

    Pope demands end to 'collective punishment' and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza

    Aug 27, 2025 04:55 PM EDT

    ... way to weaken Hamas and return hostages, but hostages' families and their supporters have pushed back, saying it will further endanger them. Hamas took 251 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, in the attack that also killed about 1,200 people and triggered the war. Most hostages have been released during ...

  • Here's a look at why it is so hard to end the war in Gaza

    Here's a look at why it is so hard to end the war in Gaza

    Aug 27, 2025 02:38 PM EDT

    Palestinians and many others say that would amount to forced expulsion — and it's a nonstarter for Hamas. The militant group has said it is willing to release the remaining 50 hostages — less than half believed by Israel to be alive — in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and ...

  • IAEA chief gets special police protection over threats as deadline approaches over Iran sanctions

    IAEA chief gets special police protection over threats as deadline approaches over Iran sanctions

    Aug 27, 2025 01:37 PM EDT

    ... secretary-general, is being protected by an Austrian police Cobra unit. The elite unit under the Austrian Federal Ministry of Interior mainly handles counterterrorism operations, hostage rescues and responses to mass shootings. It also engages in personal protection and protection of Austrian foreign representations abroad. In Austria, Cobra operatives are ...