Dec 29 Watch 6:02 Website that kept watch on D.C. homicides shuts down By PBS News Hour Homicide Watch, an online database that records and tracks homicide cases, was created to document under-reported crimes in Washington, D.C. The site has been praised by law enforcement and the families of victims, but is shutting down in that city. Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch 11:46 Return of the debtors’ prison? Many jailed for inability to pay fines By PBS News Hour Cities across the country are increasingly turning to what are known as private probation companies to collect unpaid fines. But are indigent people ending up in jail because they can't afford to pay? Since NewsHour Weekend's first story on this… Continue watching
Dec 27 Watch 8:43 One family moves on from its sharecropping past in Arkansas By PBS News Hour In the second installment of "Flying Coach," special correspondent John Larson's series on people he encounters while traveling to report on other stories, we meet Donna Hahn, whose family worked as sharecroppers in Arkansas until the Ku Klux Klan drove… Continue watching
Dec 26 Watch 5:13 Conservators shine new light on irreplaceable art By PBS News Hour A series of paintings created by Mark Rothko for Harvard University was thought irreparably damaged by years of sun exposure and removed from view. Thirty-five years later, the paintings have returned, thanks to art historians and curators using digital projection,… Continue watching
Dec 25 Watch 7:19 How Pope Francis’ upbringing shaped his role as reformer By PBS News Hour From his simple lifestyle to his active engagement in diplomacy, Pope Francis has distinguished himself as the leader of the Catholic Church. Jeffrey Brown talks to Austen Ivereigh, author of a new biography, “The Great Reformer,” about the ways the… Continue watching
Dec 25 Watch 6:20 Banning ‘the box’ to give ex-convicts a better chance at finding a job By PBS News Hour Many employers require job applicants to disclose any criminal history, often preventing those with a record from reentering the workforce. But Illinois is one of a number of states working to change this, with a new law prohibiting employers from… Continue watching
Dec 23 Watch 8:28 Soldiers find special bond with dogs trained for war By PBS News Hour Some 2,500 dogs have accompanied American warriors on patrol and in close combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tasks like bomb detection and protection demand dedication to their human handlers, with whom they often form a special bond in the face… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 6:35 What turned off the Internet in North Korea? By PBS News Hour A massive Internet failure in North Korea has many wondering if retaliation for the Sony hack is underway. Just days after President Obama warned that the U.S. would respond "proportionally" to a cyber-attack on the entertainment company, The New York… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch 3:11 ‘It’s wrong’: Shock, frustration surround shootings of NYPD officers By PBS News Hour As the investigation into the two New York Police Department officers who were fatally shot over the weekend unfolds, shock and frustration prevail. The incident tops off months of nationwide demonstrations against police and a public fallout between New York… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch Obama unleashed: President goes his own way in final years in office By PBS News Hour President Obama, in an apparently unprecedented step, only took questions from female reporters during a news conference Friday. It might be a very small example of how the president, often criticized for his caution, is now doing things his own… Continue watching