Jan 06 Watch 24:27 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode January 6, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Jan. 6, President Donald Trump fires back in response to a revealing book about his presidency and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is disbanded, but is the controversy over? Later, women and their… Continue watching
Jan 06 John Young, NASA’s longest serving astronaut, dies at 87 By Michael D. Regan Young was a vanguard of NASA's space program in a career that spanned more than four decades during which he walked on the moon, commanded the first space shuttle flight and became the only astronaut to enter space as part… Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch 3:28 As Trump defends his fitness for office, GOP shifts focus By PBS News Hour The new year is just days old, but already a controversial new book is making waves for suggesting some of President Trump's aides consider him unfit for the job. This comes as federal investigators look into the Clinton Foundation and… Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 10:41 Boston trains women to negotiate in an effort to close the wage gap By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman Equal wage laws have been on the books in the U.S. since the 1960s, but women still earn about 80 cents for every dollar that men earn, with black and Hispanic women earning even less. While federal efforts to close… Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 3:32 Trump’s short-lived voting fraud commission had no impact on election laws By PBS News Hour President Trump this week dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, a body that was supposed to root out and prevent suspected voter fraud after Trump’s unverified claim that “millions of people who voted illegally” cost him the popular… Continue watching
Jan 06 Tehran University tracks students detained during anti-government protests By Pavni Mittal Tehran University has set up a committee to track the whereabouts of students who have been arrested in anti-government protests in Iran. Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch 24:23 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode December 31, 2017 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Dec. 31, the nation confronts severe cold as the year ends, and the number of journalists jailed across the world reaches an all-time high. Also, meet legendary photographer William Wegman and his dogs. Alison Stewart… Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch 3:57 Police often ill-equipped to handle hate crimes By PBS News Hour Less than half of people who are victims of hate crimes file reports with police, and an even lesser percentage see a conviction. In an attempt to examine the scale and effects of hate crimes in the U.S., ProPublica earlier… Continue watching
Dec 31 Rouhani urges against violence amid anti-government protests By Pavni Mittal In his first speech since anti-establishment protests flared across the country, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said people were free to protest. Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch 5:29 A record number of journalists are behind bars By PBS News Hour For the second year in a row, the number of journalists who are imprisoned has reached a historic high, according to a report issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists. At a total of 260 people, CPJ’s Editorial Director Elana… Continue watching