Nov 12 Watch 4:36 How a Medal of Honor recipient confronted a suicide bomber By PBS News Hour Retired Army Capt. Florent Groberg was awarded the Medal of Honor for risking his life to stop a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Thirty-two-year-old Groberg is just the 10th living service member to receive the nation's highest military honor for actions… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch 8:29 Feeling burden of migrant crisis, Sweden imposes border controls By PBS News Hour Sweden is the latest European country to impose border controls. So far, the Scandinavian nation has accepted more refugees per capita than any other country on the continent, which has taken a toll on its public services. Special correspondent Malcolm… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch 3:26 News Wrap: Islamic State claims Beirut suicide bombings By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, two suicide bombings in Beirut killed at least 37 people and wounded almost 200 more. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attacks. Also, protests spread across Afghanistan in response to a rash… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch 3:29 Kurdish forces cut off key Islamic State route in Iraq By PBS News Hour American airstrikes hammered Sinjar as the Kurdish Peshmerga ground force began an offensive on the Iraqi town held by the Islamic State. Gwen Ifill reports. Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch 54:22 PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 12, 2015 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, a look at the free speech vs. hate speech debate taking place on college campuses. Also: A culture clash for refugee newcomers in Sweden, empowering students to learn without teachers, honoring a soldier who saved his… Continue watching
Nov 12 Kerry: Islamic State militants 'embodiment of evil in our time' By Larisa Epatko Secretary of State John Kerry described on Thursday the United States' gradual effort to build coalitions and transition out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Kerry said Assad’s intractable civil war gave rise to the Islamic State group, which he called the… Continue reading
Nov 12 Diwali celebrations dazzle Hindu devotees worldwide By Larisa Epatko Millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains all over the world this week celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights and the victory of good over evil. Continue reading
Nov 12 Obama congratulates Suu Kyi on historic vote in Myanmar By Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is congratulating democracy crusader Aung San Suu Kyi for the success of her opposition party in Myanmar's historic elections. Continue reading
Nov 12 U.S. troops could not see Afghan hospital during attack By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. special forces soldiers who called in a devastating air strike on a hospital in northern Afghanistan were half a mile away, could not see the target, and ordered the attack at the request of their Afghan… Continue reading
Nov 11 Watch 7:28 What an ancient boneyard reveals about our earliest global wanderers By PBS News Hour On a years-long hike across the globe, journalist Paul Salopek is following the path humans took after the Ice Age. One of the most important human migration sites in the world is in Dmanisi, Georgia, where people have walked for… Continue watching