Apr 24 One year later, mourning the victims of Nepal's devastating quake By Michael D. Regan One year after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake flattened sections of Nepal, hundreds of mourners gathered Sunday in the country's capital city of Kathmandu to pay homage to the nearly 9,000 people killed in the catastrophe. Continue reading
Apr 24 Obama delivers strong defense of international trade deals By Associated Press President Barack Obama delivered a strong defense of international trade deals Sunday in the face of domestic and foreign opposition, saying it's "indisputable" that such agreements strengthen the economies and make U.S. businesses more competitive worldwide. Continue reading
Apr 23 Watch 3:11 The cost of rebuilding after massive Ecuador quake By PBS News Hour Officials in Ecuador say the massive earthquake one week ago today has killed at least 600 people, injured more than 4,500 others and left 25,000 people homeless. Beyond the human cost of the tragedy, Ecuador now faces a struggle to… Continue watching
Apr 22 Watch 53:39 PBS NewsHour full episode April 22, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, new CDC statistics point to an alarming rise in nationwide suicide rates. Also: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe restores voting rights to convicted felons, Shields and Brooks talk politics, how al-Shabab is winning the propaganda battle in… Continue watching
Apr 22 Watch 6:22 Propaganda is effective weapon as al-Shabab makes resurgence By PBS News Hour More than 100 Kenyan troops died in a January attack by terror group al-Shabab. Last week, the group released a video of the operation. As al-Shabab makes gains, is it also winning the propaganda war? Special correspondent Nick Schifrin takes… Continue watching
Apr 22 Watch 8:32 News Wrap: Nations sign Paris Agreement on climate change By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, more than 170 countries signed the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Also, the official death toll from last week’s earthquake in Ecuador climbed again, reaching 587. Continue watching
Apr 22 30 years after Chernobyl disaster, engineers race against a decaying reactor By John Wendle, Scientific American A giant arch will enclose the crumbling sarcophagus before radiation leaks get worse, even as plans advance to turn the area into a nature preserve. Continue reading
Apr 22 Quake-stricken Ecuadorians take refuge in the outdoors By Larisa Epatko Ecuadorians faced more aftershocks this week as they continued to comb through the rubble caused by Saturday’s deadly earthquake. “The situation is just terrible,” said an aid worker helping survivors. Continue reading
Apr 22 Obama meets with Cameron amid Brexit debate By Kathleen Hennessey, Associated Press LONDON — Lending political backup to a struggling friend, President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to Britons to heed Prime Minister David Cameron's call to stay in the European Union and dismissed critics who accused the U.S. president of… Continue reading
Apr 22 Obama's royal holiday: Lunch with queen, dinner with princes By Darlene Superville, Associated Press LONDON — Most people send a card, call, or post on Facebook for someone's birthday, but President Barack Obama went the extra mile on Friday — thousands of miles, actually — to deliver 90th birthday greetings to Queen Elizabeth II… Continue reading