Jan 07 Watch 5:01 What does the market crash say about China's economy? By PBS News Hour The Chinese stock market dropped 7 percent in the first 29 minutes of trading, before shutting down to stem further losses. China’s second major crash in the past four days drove investor skittishness around the globe, including a Dow loss… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch 5:06 News Wrap: Truck bomb kills dozens in Libya By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, at least 47 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Libya by a truck bomb targeting a police training center with hundreds of recruits. Also, dozens of Saudi airstrikes hit targets in Yemen's… Continue watching
Jan 07 France remembers victims of Charlie Hebdo attack one year later By News Desk A year after the Islamic extremist attacks in Paris on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kosher market and on a police officer, France remembered the 17 people who died with a week’s worth of memorial services and plaques placed around… Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch 3:18 North Korea's claim of H-bomb spurs wave of condemnation, skepticism By PBS News Hour North Korea declared on state television that it had made its first test of a hydrogen bomb. The announcement was condemned around the world, including by China, an ally of the North. Meanwhile, the U.S. and South Korea expressed skepticism… Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 8:42 How should the world respond to North Korea's bombshell claim? By PBS News Hour Gwen Ifill talks with former Obama administration official Wendy Sherman and Siegfried Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, about why we should be worried about North Korea’s purported test of a hydrogen bomb, how world powers should… Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 1:03 The 20-year effort to draw a map unearthing Alaska's treasures By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, the U.S. Geological Survey released its first-ever digital map of Alaska, revealing thousands of geological details that can be used to contribute to new scientific assessments of the northern-most state. Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch 8:41 Young returnees start over in Mexico after growing up in the U.S. By PBS News Hour Even before recent raids by the Department of Homeland Security, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants have been deported annually. And those who grew up in the U.S. have found themselves living in what feels like a foreign country. Special… Continue watching
Jan 06 AP: U.S. sees Assad staying in Syria until March 2017 By Bradley Klapper, Matthew Lee, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's best-case scenario for political transition in Syria does not foresee Bashar Assad stepping down as the country's leader before March 2017, outlasting Barack Obama's presidency by at least two months, according to a document obtained… Continue reading
Jan 06 North Korea claims successful hydrogen bomb test, but nuclear experts are skeptical By Joshua Barajas Hours after South Korea officials detected an "artificial earthquake" Wednesday, North Korea said it successfully tested a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb. Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch 54:58 PBS NewsHour full episode Jan. 5, 2016 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, President Obama makes an emotional appeal for background checks and outlines other actions to curb gun violence. Also: A view from Tehran over tensions with Saudi Arabia, New Hampshire grapples with a heroin epidemic, a historic… Continue watching