Nov 10 Watch 4:44 In Florida, Amendment 4 restores more than a right to vote More than 60 percent of voters in Florida chose on Election Day to restore voting rights to 1.5 million people with prior felonies, amending state policy enforced during the 19th century and upheld until Tuesday. Myrna Perez, who leads the… Continue watching
Nov 10 Watch 6:17 Inside Milan’s Casa Verdi, where musicians retire in harmony By Christopher Livesay When Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi in the late 1800s built a neo-Gothic mansion in Milan, he envisioned a bustling sanctuary for professional musicians who were not earning livable incomes. Since then, Casa Verdi has hosted 1,500 residents and become an… Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch 25:00 November 4, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Nov. 4, what to watch on Election Day and forecasting with Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight. Also, tracking young voters in Utah and why they’re heading to the polls. Megan Thompson anchors from New York. Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch 7:14 How FiveThirtyEight calculates the data of a divided nation By Christopher Booker, Mori Rothman, Laura Fong Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog burst onto the political scene in 2008, when he forecasted the popular vote for president within one percentage point. Becoming a key point of reference during elections, he started a podcast in 2016, and says his… Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch 5:49 Democrats hope young voter turnout will turn Utah blue By Liz Adeola, KUED Utah has the youngest population in the country, according to U.S. Census data, and this election, democrats in the BeeHive state are hoping their voter turnout will be strong enough to decide its political fate. Producer Liz Adeola with public… Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch 1:50 Ask a teenager: What are the 2018 midterms about? By Student Reporting Labs From opinions about gun laws to issues of inequality and immigration tactics, middle and high school students with PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab asked teenagers across the country what are on their minds in the countdown to the 2018 midterms. Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch 4:12 Here’s a national landscape of prominent midterm races By PBS News Hour Early reporting in Indiana may reflect which party will control the Senate. Ten seats in the Northeast could flip the House in favor of Democrats. In Florida, Georgia, and purple rust belt states including Ohio and Iowa, governor races may… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 25:00 November 3, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 3, one week after 11 people were shot to death in a Pittsburgh synagogue, an interfaith call for unity and discussing how Brazil’s far-right president-elect will lead the country. Later, populism reigns in Hungary… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 4:00 Half of female executives have faced workplace harassment By PBS News Hour An annual survey of more than 64,000 workers across nearly 300 companies on issues about gender gaps recently found that one third of women overall and more than half of women in senior roles have been harassed in their careers. Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 4:58 Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil is another big win for populism With a history of racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro was elected president last Sunday of Latin America’s biggest country, campaigning as an antidote to a political class embroiled in corruption scandals. The victory was the latest… Continue watching