Dec 23 Watch 25:00 December 23, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Dec. 23, it's day two of the partial government shutdown, President Trump accelerates the departure of Defense Secretary James Mattis and the U.S. envoy leading the fight against ISIS steps down. And later, part two… Continue watching
Dec 23 Watch 15:42 Making NewsHour Weekend: On #MeToo, mass shootings and immigration in 2018 By PBS News Hour In part two of our holiday series "Making NewsHour Weekend," producers Ivette Feliciano and Zachary Green join Hari Sreenivasan to revisit how they approached some of 2018’s top stories, including free speech debates on college campuses, covering a Pittsburgh synagogue… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 25:00 December 22, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Dec. 22, the federal government enters a partial shutdown, the third this year, over disagreement for funding for a border wall. Also, go behind the scenes at NewsHour Weekend as our producers discuss their favorite… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 16:09 Making NewsHour Weekend: From remote Maryland islands to the Salton Sea By PBS News Hour NewsHour Weekend airs only small excerpts of footage from weeks of planning and production. So in our holiday series “Making NewsHour Weekend,” Hari Sreenivasan points the camera on our producers. In part one of four, Christopher Booker, Laura Fong and… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 3:30 Day one of partial federal shutdown: Things go ‘from bad to worse’ By PBS News Hour The federal government started a partial shutdown through Christmas, escalating a showdown over $5 billion for a border wall between President Trump and Congressional Democrats. Hundreds of thousands of government employees were unable to work and the impacts will only… Continue watching
Dec 16 Watch 25:01 December 16, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Dec. 16, a partial government shutdown hangs over a border wall dispute in Congress, and a look at life inside ISIS from a reporter on the front lines. Also, Marshall Islands residents are leaving the… Continue watching
Dec 16 Watch 11:49 Marshall Islands: A third of the nation has left for the U.S. By Mike Taibbi, Melanie Saltzman A third of the Marshall Islands’ population has moved to the U.S., leaving a country reeling from high unemployment and the looming effects of climate change. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports. This story is part of an ongoing… Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch 5:28 Millions of Americans’ health care under a ‘possible cloud’ after federal court ruling By PBS News Weekend A coalition of states with Democratic leadership is promising to appeal a Texas federal court ruling on Friday that aimed to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act. The case was brought by a group of Republican state attorneys general and… Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch 4:34 For decades, Chicago punk rockers embrace their unconventional hobby By Jay Shefsky, WTTW In Chicago, members of a punk rock band called The Bollweevils have been balancing their conventional day jobs -- as a physician, a principal, an electrician and a college administrator -- with their unconventional hobby for more than two decades. Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch 9:16 Nils Lofgren: 50 years of ‘just being a guy in the band’ By Tom Casciato, Christopher Booker, Mori Rothman As we learned a few years ago in the Oscar-winning film “20 Feet from Stardom,” sometimes the best singers in the band are those who are seldom center-stage. They have the game, just not quite the fame. The same can… Continue watching