Aug 14 Watch 3:34 Why Russia could cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine By PBS News Hour Russia said Friday that the country would break diplomatic ties with Ukraine over what it says were recent attempts to sabotage infrastructure in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia two year ago. Last week, Ukraine put its army on… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 8:26 Can this project clean up millions of tons of ocean plastic? By Saskia de Melker, Melanie Saltzman About 9 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year -- enough to fill a football stadium 23 miles high. But a project dubbed the Ocean Cleanup aims to eliminate it with a method that researchers… Continue watching
Aug 14 Four American swimmers robbed at gunpoint in Rio, U.S. Olympic Committee says By Omar Etman Twelve-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte and three teammates were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee. Continue reading
Aug 14 Federal state of emergency ends in Flint as researchers say water crisis in recovery By Michael D. Regan A federal state of emergency issued this year after residents of Flint, Michigan, were exposed to lead contamination in their water supply ended on Sunday. Continue reading
Aug 14 Why Aedes aegypti are so good at transmitting Zika, and other FAQs By Kamala Kelkar There are nearly 200 types of mosquitoes in the U.S., but one of them -- Aedes aegypti -- has been making headlines for transmitting Zika virus more frequently than any of the others have so far. Continue reading
Aug 13 Watch 25:08 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Aug. 13, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this episode for Saturday, Aug. 13, rebel forces in Syria seized control of the city of Manbij from the Islamic State and the National Weather Service issued a flood watch for Louisiana after heavy rains fell on portions of… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 4:22 Why jury trials are becoming less common By PBS News Hour A new analysis of federal court cases published last week by The New York Times shows that jury trials are becoming increasingly less common. In 1997, 3,200 out of 63,000 federal defendants were convicted in jury trials. But by 2015,… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 3:21 What happened to 10,000 boys kidnapped by Boko Haram? By PBS News Hour While the Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram gained global infamy in 2014 for kidnapping nearly 300 female students in Nigeria, the group has also abducted 10,000 boys in the last three years. Wall Street Journal reporter Drew Hinshaw, who wrote… Continue watching
Aug 13 Olympic highlights from Day 7: Katie Ledecky beats 800m record By Andi Wang, Omar Etman Katie Ledecky beat the second-place finisher, Jazz Carlin from Great Britain, by 11.38 seconds. Continue reading
Aug 13 Famed Syrian rescue worker dies in airstrike By Daniel Moritz-Rabson Khaled Omar Harah, one the longest-serving members of a rescue organization in Syria who became famous after video recorded him rescuing a 10-day-old baby, died Thursday in Aleppo. Continue reading