Oct 22 Incarcerated women risk their lives fighting California fires. It’s part of a long history of prison labor By Kamala Kelkar As many as 1,600 trained inmates have fought California's recent wildfires, the latest chapter in a long history of prison labor. Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch 24:54 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 21, 2017 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Oct. 21, one of the U.S. soldiers killed in Niger is laid to rest, and Spain moves to dissolve the secessionist government in Catalonia. Also, a look at the number of global deaths caused by… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch 4:04 Pollution causes one in six deaths worldwide By PBS News Hour In 2015, pollution killed three times the number of people as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, and 15 times the number of people killed by war and violence. The study, by the environmental nonprofit Pure Earth and published in The… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch 9:06 What’s behind the Catalan movement for independence By PBS News Hour Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced Saturday he’ll dissolve Catalonia’s government and exercise direct control over the region of 7.5 million people. The announcement is intended to stop the independence movement in Catalonia, which voted to secede in a referendum… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch 3:43 NAFTA renegotiations hit impasse, raising doubts about its future By PBS News Hour The North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created the world’s largest free trade zone 23 years ago. This summer, the U.S. began renegotiating NAFTA in a bid to reduce a trade deficit with Canada and Mexico -- but the talks,… Continue watching
Oct 21 Spain’s prime minister to impose direct rule over Catalonia By Michael D. Regan Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Saturday he would use his constitutional powers to impose direct rule over Catalonia and remove its regional leader. Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch 7:30 Artist William Wegman and his Weimaraner muses By Megan Thompson For more than 40 years, artist William Wegman has been making portraits and videos of his own beloved Weimaraner dogs, which have appeared in countless publications and featured on Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live. This month, he published a… Continue watching
Oct 15 Photos: Four decades of William Wegman’s Weimaraners By Michael D. Regan For more than 40 years, artist William Wegman has been making portraits and videos of his beloved Weimaraner dogs. Continue reading
Oct 15 Hundreds dead after massive truck bomb strikes Mogadishu By Michael D. Regan At least 231 people were killed and hundreds more wounded after a massive truck bomb on Saturday struck Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu. Continue reading
Oct 15 Why reporting from South Sudan is so difficult — and critically needed By Simona Foltyn The war has had a devastating impact on South Sudanese communities, but much of it has remained out of the limelight of international media. Continue reading