Oct 19 Watch Slipping through the system: Are mentally ill Americans getting adequate health care? By PBS News Hour Millions of Americans are now eligible for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, including 1.2 million people with mental illnesses. But this particularly vulnerable group may not actually be getting the heath care they need. NewsHour Weekend's Stephen Fee… Continue watching
Oct 19 Sweden steps up search for possible ‘foreign underwater activity’ By Carey Reed In a military move not seen since the Cold War, Sweden stepped up a search for possible "foreign underwater activity" in waters located approximately 31 miles from Stockholm Saturday, Reuters reported. Continue reading
Oct 19 Could this Chicago nonprofit be the answer to caring for the mentally ill? By Stephen Fee, Mori Rothman A Chicago nonprofit aims to set the standard for providing adequate health care coverage to the millions of Americans with mental illnesses. To learn more about the program, NewsHour Weekend spoke with one participant, Ruthie Anderson, who spent three decades… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 18, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Oct. 18, President Obama appeals for calm in the face of the Ebola scare, an expert weighs in on plunging gas prices, and in our signature segment, trying to bring new jobs to coal-mining communities… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch A step forward in ISIS fight? Iraq lawmakers approve Sunni, Shiite ministers By PBS News Hour For more on the Iraq parliament’s approval of Sunni and Shiite ministers, ISIS’s presence in Anbar province and the group’s encroachment on Baghdad, Douglas Ollivant, a partner with global strategic consulting firm Mantid International, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington. Continue watching
Oct 18 Northern white rhino death brings subspecies closer to extinction By Carey Reed Suni, one of the world's few remaining northern white rhinoceroses died in Kenya Friday, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy said, bringing the subspecies population to only six and closer to extinction. Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch 8:38 Will Promise Zone initiative lift Eastern Kentucky’s coal country out of poverty? By PBS News Hour Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson visited Kentucky and declared the War on Poverty, the area of Eastern Kentucky continues to struggle with high unemployment rates, poverty, and the loss of thousands of coal-industry jobs. NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports… Continue watching
Oct 18 National poverty rate drops slightly, but suburban poverty still bleak By Megan Thompson The poverty rate in the U.S. registered its first drop in the U.S. since 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, falling from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5 percent in 2013, but the situation remains bleak in American suburbs. Continue reading
Oct 18 Obama pushes back against calls for West Africa travel ban By Associated Press In his weekly address on Saturday, Obama urged Americans not to succumb to hysteria about Ebola and he pushed back against calls from some lawmakers for a West Africa travel ban. Continue reading