Aug 25 Watch 3:31 News Wrap: New virus cases down 20 percent since early August In our news wrap Tuesday, some hopeful news on the COVID-19 pandemic. Johns Hopkins University reports new infections have slowed to 43,000 per day nationwide -- down more than 20 percent from early August. Also, Texas and Louisiana ordered more… Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch 9:02 Hutchinson says Trump ‘needs to regain’ blue-collar workers in swing states Throughout the Republican National Convention, we’ll be talking to prominent members of the party. One of them is Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who was scheduled to participate in convention activities but decided to stay home in Little Rock as his… Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch 3:29 News Wrap: WHO doctors urge caution over COVID-19 plasma treatment In our news wrap Monday, the World Health Organization urged caution in treating COVID-19 patients with plasma from people who have had the virus. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the treatment at President Trump’s urging, but top… Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch 5:44 A cultural exploration of face masks during disease outbreaks By Jeffrey Brown, Rhana Natour, Tommy Walters Face masks have become part of our daily lives in a way few would have anticipated only months ago. Yet the coronavirus pandemic is not the first American crisis in which face coverings have played a central role. The Smithsonian… Continue watching
Aug 20 Watch 4:55 News Wrap: Greenland lost record amount of ice last year In our news wrap Thursday, Greenland’s ice sheet lost a record 586 billion tons of ice last year -- more than double the annual average. A new satellite study reported the finding, which researchers blame on a combination of climate… Continue watching
Aug 20 In a COVID-19 world, which generation is coping best? By Grace Birnstengel, Next Avenue Studies show younger and middle-aged people are reeling most during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch 4:14 News Wrap: Soldiers in Mali detain president in apparent coup attempt In our news wrap Tuesday, soldiers in Mali have detained the president and prime minister in an apparent coup attempt. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has faced growing unrest over a long-running Islamist insurgency. In the capital of Bamako, armed men… Continue watching
Aug 17 Watch 3:15 News Wrap: UNC-Chapel Hill returns to remote learning due to outbreak In our news wrap Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has returned to all-remote learning after an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. It was one of the largest schools in the country to bring students back to… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 9:57 NBA commissioner Adam Silver on playing in a pandemic Nearly 10 months after the NBA season began, the professional basketball league will hold its first playoff games. Teams and their staff are playing in a so-called bubble in Orlando, Florida, where they are required to stay. Meanwhile, the league… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 3:23 Remembering 5 lives lost to the coronavirus As we do at the close of every week during this pandemic, we want to take a moment to honor a group of individuals who lost their lives to the coronavirus. Judy Woodruff shares their stories, from a 21-year-old baseball… Continue watching