Sep 09 Watch 5:21 From Texas to Florida, toxic sites risk flooding By PBS News Hour The Environmental Protection Agency said last month that in Texas, 13 of the state's 41 Superfund sites -- the nation’s most toxic industrial waste sites -- had been flooded by Hurricane Harvey after the Associated Press reported about them on… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 24:55 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Sept. 3, 2017 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Sept. 3, North Korea conducts its most powerful nuclear weapons test and Houston continues clean-up efforts following Hurricane Harvey. Later, how scientists are working in Hawaii to turn the power of ocean waves into electricity. Continue watching
Sep 03 Are you older than 60 and paying off student loans? Tell us your story. By Megan Thompson The PBS NewsHour Weekend reporting team is gathering personal stories from people who are retired or nearing retirement and are repaying student loans. Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch 6:01 A fashion company is paying to maintain Rome’s Colosseum By PBS News Hour The 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome is visited by nearly 5 million people every year. But maintaining the site, and Italy’s many other ancient treasures, is a large financial burden for the Italian government. Now, it’s relying on donations from businesses… Continue watching
Sep 03 John Ashbery, esteemed and inventive poet, dies at 90 By Corinne Segal John Ashbery, a master of poetic verse whose enigmatic, dexterous work challenged the world of American poetry, died Sunday at 90. Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch 2:43 In west Houston, evacuees eager to start repairs By PBS News Hour More than 39,000 people are still in shelters after Hurricane Harvey brought extensive flooding to Gulf Coast cities and the Federal Emergency Management Agency has received 507,000 requests for disaster aid. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that the cost of… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 4:33 Putting North Korea’s nuclear test into context By PBS News Hour North Korea on Sunday announced that it had conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date since President Donald Trump took office. In response, Trump wrote in a tweet that North Korea continues to be “very hostile and dangerous” and… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 3:59 Surveying toxic waste sites flooded by Harvey By PBS News Hour The Associated Press this weekend found in the Houston area that seven Superfund sites -- areas designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as the country’s most contaminated -- had flooded. After the AP report, the EPA released an aerial survey… Continue watching
Sep 03 Experts defuse WWII bomb in Frankfurt after 60,000 ordered to evacuate By Rebecca Oh Construction workers found the British bomb, which weighed around 1.8 tons, on Tuesday in the German financial capital. Continue reading
Sep 03 Trump raises stakes in escalating North Korean nuclear crisis By Robert Burns, Associated Press President Donald Trump raised the stakes Sunday in an escalating crisis over North Korea's nuclear threats, suggesting drastic economic measures against China and criticizing ally South Korea. Continue reading