Apr 11 Watch 3:28 Staying power? How durable are improved relations with Cuba? By PBS News Hour President Obama's and Cuban President Raul Castro's meeting Saturday is being heralded as a new era of diplomatic relations between the two countries. But many obstacles still remain until the two can reach normalized ties. Carla Robbins, an Adjunct Senior… Continue watching
Apr 11 Clinton campaign to center on economic security, opportunity By Julie Pace, Associated Press Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign will center on boosting economic security for the middle class and expanding opportunities for working families, while casting the former senator and secretary of state as a "tenacious fighter" able to get results, two senior… Continue reading
Apr 11 El Salvador set to become deadliest peacetime country in the world By Tracy Wholf March of this year was the most deadly month on record in El Salvador in more than a decade. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch 4:28 Photographer Gordon Parks’ hunt for childhood friends reveals 1940s black life under segregation By PBS News Hour One of the most celebrated African-American artists of his time, Gordon Parks, is the subject of a photography exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that focuses on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s. WGBH's Jared… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 9:02 How San Francisco plans to ‘get to zero’ new infections of HIV By PBS News Hour An ambitious new plan in San Francisco aims to completely end the transmission of HIV, which infects about 50,000 people every year nationwide. In a city where huge strides have already been made in battling the epidemic, public health officials,… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 8:41 Gridlocked by the power grid: Why Hawaii’s solar energy industry is at a crossroads By PBS News Hour In some parts of Hawaii, where many homeowners have installed rooftop panels to capitalize on federal and state tax credits for using solar energy, the local utility company has slowed down approvals of new solar systems, saying that abundant users… Continue watching
Apr 05 Watch 4:36 Nuclear negotiators: What role did other world powers play in talks with Iran? By PBS News Hour The recently concluded nuclear talks with Iran were much more than a negotiation with just the United States. Plenty of other countries in Western Europe and Asia also played a part, but to what extent? Gary Sick, a former National… Continue watching
Apr 05 Review calls disputed Rolling Stone campus rape story case of ‘journalistic failure’ By Daniel Costa-Roberts, Elisabeth Ponsot An independent review of a Rolling Stone article about the alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia student has found the magazine failed in the “reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking” of the now-discredited story. Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch 25:17 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode April 5, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, April 5th, 2015, heightened security at churches in Kenya on Easter Sunday the terror attack on Christian students, a top Obama Administration negotiator insists Iran won't be able to cheat on the nuclear deal, despite… Continue watching
Apr 05 Watch 2:28 What do recent gains in Syria mean for the Islamic State? By PBS News Hour Despite being ousted recently from Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, Iraq, the Islamic State made important new gains this weekend in Syria, taking control of an area near Damascus. Part of what is driving the extremist group's success is the… Continue watching