• How a Trump-endorsed overhaul would dramatically change U.S. immigration

    How a Trump-endorsed overhaul would dramatically change U.S. immigration

    Aug 03, 2017 12:13 AM EDT

    ... would the changes be? ALAN GOMEZ: Right. It would be incredibly -- it's hard to overestimate just what a drastic change this would be. So, right now, if you're a U.S. citizen, you can sponsor your children, your spouse, your parents, your brothers, your sisters. What this program ...

  • Remembering George Romero, 77, filmmaker who brought the undead to life

    Remembering George Romero, 77, filmmaker who brought the undead to life

    Jul 17, 2017 11:49 PM EDT

    ... 1989 film "Crimes and Misdemeanors." MARTIN LANDAU, Actor: This is what you plan on doing. You're going to hold on to me with threats, right, stupid threats and slander? This is your idea of love, right? ACTRESS: I will not be tossed out. I want to speak to Miriam ...

  • Seattle sticks to Obama-era police reforms amid review

    Seattle sticks to Obama-era police reforms amid review

    Jul 08, 2017 08:20 PM EDT

    ... because we are scared. JOANNE ELGART JENNINGS: Taylor says another frustration is the leniency the law affords police officers involved in fatal shootings like his brother’s. Dan Satterberg is the prosecuting attorney who decided not to file charges against those officers. That’s because police who reasonably believe their ...

  • What happened when this struggling city opened its arms to refugees

    What happened when this struggling city opened its arms to refugees

    Jul 06, 2017 11:47 PM EDT

    ... the thermostat, the plumbing. PAUL SOLMAN: There are also English lessons. MALE: Is somebody sitting to the left of you? FEMALE: Left? MALE: Yes. FEMALE: Right? MALE: Left, right. FEMALE: You have got to shop around. PAUL SOLMAN: Introductions to strange new foods. FEMALE: Celery. We're going to make ...

  • Petraeus: We went to Afghanistan for a reason, and we need to stay

    Petraeus: We went to Afghanistan for a reason, and we need to stay

    Jun 16, 2017 11:56 PM EDT

    ... giving us all this money for our forward headquarters, and then Al-Jazeera is hammering us every day in the news. There is something not right here. And similar frustrations have, again, just boiled over, also, the allegations of support of political Islam. You have to understand that, for the ...

  • Dad pitches Major League Baseball teams on wooing their newest fan

    Dad pitches Major League Baseball teams on wooing their newest fan

    Jun 13, 2017 12:24 AM EDT

    ... up to me, we're having such a good year, we'd go this season, but that would be unfair for Jack. (CROSSTALK) JULIA GRIFFIN: Right, because he wouldn't remember it. PETE VAN VLEET: He wouldn't remember it. JULIA GRIFFIN: Jack wouldn't remember a Houston Astros game ...

  • Think you're too old for a bucket list? These 90-somethings disagree

    Think you're too old for a bucket list? These 90-somethings disagree

    Jun 05, 2017 05:07 PM EDT

    An assisted living facility in New York is helping their residents accomplish bucket list items like flying a plane and completing college.

  • What it’s like to be a veteran of a war that never ends

    What it’s like to be a veteran of a war that never ends

    May 26, 2017 11:25 PM EDT

    Sometimes author Brian Castner asks himself, “How many tours would have been enough to know, deep down in my bones, that I had done my part?” After three tours, Castner got home from Iraq a decade ago. But the war isn’t over; it’s just gone on without him. Castner gives his humble opinion on why...

  • How the GOP health care bill is fueling Democratic opposition

    How the GOP health care bill is fueling Democratic opposition

    May 08, 2017 11:39 PM EDT

    Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR join Judy Woodruff to unpack the aftermath of the Republican health care plan that passed the House, the latest in the investigation into Russia’s election influence, new concerns about the possible conflicts of interest within the Trump administration and how former President Obama...

  • Corporations go overseas to avoid U.S. taxes

    Corporations go overseas to avoid U.S. taxes

    Apr 29, 2017 09:19 PM EDT

    On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced a portion of its tax plan, including a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to a 15 percent. The plan aims to bring revenue back into the country from U.S. companies holding it overseas in order to avoid paying taxes. Newshour Weekend Special Correspondent Patricia Sabga...