Jun 27 Watch: Activist removes Confederate flag from S.C. Capitol By Daniel Costa-Roberts The flagpole on the grounds of the Columbia Capitol building briefly stood unadorned Saturday after an activist climbed it and removed the Confederate flag. Continue reading
Jun 27 Supreme Court decisions illustrate GOP’s 2016 campaign challenges By Steve Peoples and Julie Bykowicz, Associated Press For the second time in two days, the Supreme Court struck at the heart of the Republican Party platform… Continue reading
Jun 27 Obama eulogizes Charleston shooting victims, sings ‘Amazing Grace’ By Julie Pace, Associated Press After a string of triumphs, President Barack Obama's eulogy for those killed in a South Carolina church massacre was supposed to bring an extraordinary week to a somber close. But something changed. Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch Can the Lower Ninth Ward ever recover from Katrina? Years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a debate now rages in the city; with so few residents returning to the Lower Ninth, does it even make sense to redevelop the community at all?… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch Ground Zero for climate change in Alaska More than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Alaska’s North Slope is ground zero for global climate change. NewsHour producer April Brown reports the melting ice has opened up opportunity for shipping and other development – industry that could… Continue watching
Nov 10 INFOGRAPHIC: U.S. pensions in peril By Elisabeth Ponsot Tonight on NewsHour Weekend, the debut of "The Pension Peril," a public television initiative looking at the nation's more than trillion dollar shortfall in funding for public employees' retirement benefits. We begin our series with a report from the… Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch Can a Small Maine Town’s Innovation Turn the Tides on Sustainable Energy? One of the big obstacles to clean energy is that most renewable sources are unreliable. A Maine company has installed the nation’s first commercial, grid connected tidal energy project. Water power is estimated to nearly double by 2030 and provide… Continue watching