Feb 08 Forgotten copy of Magna Carta found in UK archive By Daniel Costa-Roberts A rare early copy of the Magna Carta, the medieval English charter that forms the foundation of modern democratic rights, has been found in a Victorian-era scrapbook in Kent County, England. Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch 7:24 Why have anti-Semitic attacks on French Jews doubled in a year? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 07 Watch 25:37 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Feb. 7, 2015 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Feb. 7, world leaders try to defuse the conflict in Ukraine. Later, new jobs and economic hope permeates from Main Street in Mississippi. And, what a search for germs on the New York City subway… Continue watching
Feb 07 Watch 3:44 Humanitarian crisis growing in Ukraine amid civilian mass exodus By PBS News Hour World leaders have been meeting to try to end the fighting in Eastern Ukraine that intensified recently and threatens to become an even broader conflict. Associated Press reporter Peter Leonard joins Alison Stewart via Skype from Donetsk, where pro-Russian rebels… Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch 5:45 National Geographic trains youths to use a camera as cultural passport By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch 6:25 A mother demands better advocacy for U.S. hostages By PBS News Hour Efforts to find and bring home Austin Rice, a freelance journalist who was kidnapped two and a half years ago, have not been fruitful. Tice’s parents are pushing for a new government entity that would be responsible for American hostages. Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch 2:17 Parents of U.S. hostage Austin Tice mount campaign to win his release By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch 5:55 News Wrap: Hollande, Merkel go to Moscow for Ukraine talks By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, leaders of France and Germany traveled to Moscow to try to end the war in Ukraine. Hundreds of people took advantage of the brief truce to flee the fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels. Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch 4:07 No proof yet of Islamic State claims about female hostage’s death By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch PBS NewsHour full episode Feb. 6, 2015 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, the Islamic State claims a U.S. hostage was killed by an airstrike. Also: January’s labor report shows significant growth, the mother of a journalist gone missing in Syria makes a plea for more help, why music… Continue watching