May 01 Watch New U.S. H1N1 Flu Cases Increase Slowly New cases of the H1N1 Flu virus continue to spread slowly in the U.S., with the number of confirmed cases at 141 in 19 states on Friday. Margaret Warner reports on efforts to halt the virus's spread both in the… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch WHO Raises Alert Level as Swine Flu Continues to Spread The World Health Organization raised the threat level of the swine flu Wednesday and a child died of the illness on U.S. soil. The CDC's Dr. Richard Besser provides an update on the government's response. Continue watching
Apr 28 Watch Swine Flu’s Spread Prompts New Restrictions in Mexico As the cases of swine flu in the U.S. and abroad continue to mount, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, discusses efforts to contain the illness and defends how the Mexican government initially responded to the outbreak. Continue watching
Apr 27 WHO Increases Swine Flu Alert Level By PBS News Hour The World Health Organization Monday raised its global alert level for the swine flu virus outbreak from a phase three to a phase four, verifying that the virus is spreading from human to human in community-level outbreaks. Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch Prominent Historian, Civil Rights Activist Franklin Dies at 94 John Hope Franklin, a revered Duke University historian and scholar of the African-American experience, died Wednesday at age 94. In this 2006 interview with Gwen Ifill, Franklin reflects on his life's work. Continue watching
Feb 23 Reporter’s Notebook: Cultural Taboos Around Sex Feed AIDS Epidemic By PBS News Hour In his final reporter's notebook from South Africa, Ray Suarez reflects on the entanglement of sex and death in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the challenges of confronting the issues that no one wants to discuss. Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch Arson Suspected in Deadly Australian Wildfires The death toll has reached 166 in Australia's worst wildfires in its history, and police suspect arsons might have caused some of the fires in the southeastern part of the country. A reporter provides an update from Sydney. Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch Death Toll Grows in Australian Wildfires The death toll has risen in Australia's worst wildfire disaster in history, and the extremely fast-moving fires caught many off-guard. Independent Television News correspondent Libby Weiner reports. Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch Salmonella-tainted Peanut Butter Raises Wider Health Concerns for FDA Health officials are examining a salmonella outbreak linked to tainted peanut butter that has sickened nearly 500 people across 43 states and caused more than 100 product recalls. Betty Ann Bowser reports. Continue watching
Sep 11 Watch Military Chaplains Undergo Unique Boot Camp For chaplains to become effective ministers to troops in the field, they undergo specific training about the rules and customs of Army life. Saul Gonzalez reports on how Army chaplains are pepraed to provide religious guidance in war zones and… Continue watching