Mar 27 Watch 24:54 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode March 27, 2016 By PBS News Hour Sunday on NewsHour Weekend: Bernie Sanders sweeps the weekend's Democratic caucuses in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Also, are fighters from other countries who are joining ISIS causing rifts in the group? Later, the Cherokee Nation aims to eradicate hepatitis C… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch 1:41 Tennessee discontinues controversial fetal assault law By PBS News Hour Tennessee representatives voted to discontinue a controversial law that explicitly allowed prosecutors to charge a mother with fetal assault for using drugs while pregnant. NewsHour's Megan Thompson reports. Continue watching
Mar 27 Reports: California reaches tentative deal to raise minimum wage to $15 By Michael D. Regan California lawmakers reportedly reached a deal on Saturday to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022. Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch 3:32 Utah establishes first-of-its-kind white-collar crime registry By PBS News Hour In an attempt to combat high levels of fraud, Utah has taken inspiration from the sex offender list, becoming the first state in the US to establish a white-collar felon registry for financial crimes. The Wall Street Journal's Jean Eaglesham… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch 3:26 Are foreign recruits causing ideological rifts in ISIS? By PBS News Hour The U.S. Director of National Intelligence says the number of men who have traveled from their home countries to join ISIS now exceeds 36,000. The influx of foreign fighters may now be causing ideological discord in its ranks. Wall Street… Continue watching
Mar 27 Syrian forces retake ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State By Michael D. Regan Syrian government forces retook Palmyra on Sunday, driving out hundreds of Islamic State fighters who had seized the ancient city last year and destroyed temples dating back to the Roman empire. Continue reading
Mar 27 Women and children among dozens killed in Pakistan park bombing By Elisabeth Ponsot At least 65 people, many of them women and children, were killed by an explosion that ripped through a public park in the eastern city of Lahore in Pakistan on Sunday evening, set off just a few feet from a… Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch 8:52 The Cherokee Nation wants to reverse the ‘silent epidemic’ of hepatitis C By Stephen Fee, Mori Rothman The Cherokee Nation, one of the largest Native American tribes, has become the first community in the U.S. to set a goal of eliminating hepatitis C from its population. Tribe officials plan to screen 300,000 members, whose prevalence of infection… Continue watching
Mar 26 Watch 24:51 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode March 26, 2016 By PBS News Hour Saturday on NewsHour Weekend: More suspects are charged with this week's attacks in Belgium. Also, workers and businesses struggle to strike a balance between wages and tips. Megan Thompson anchors from New York. Continue watching
Mar 26 Watch 11:06 Rethinking wages for tipped workers By Saskia de Melker, Melanie Saltzman Due to low federal minimum wages for tipped workers, many grapple with poverty rates. Seven states, however, pay tipped workers full minimum wage before tips. And with minimum-wage hikes looming, some restaurants are pioneering no-tipping policies, eliminating gratuities in favor… Continue watching